ElFitz

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811.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Honestly, if I were to make a platform and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed on it and how they should be ranked in it, I’d just shut it all down, even the company if need be, give their
812.
by ElFitz 5y ago
> Gaming console hardware is heavily subsidized by those cuts. I was about to reply with skepticism, but after looking online I found the following and have to reconsider my doubts. This Apple vs Epic trial truly is a wondrous thing htt
813.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Aside from the strikes, another aspect of automated subways is worth considering. Most subway lines in Paris have a few minutes interval between one train leaving and the next arriving. On the automated ones, it sometimes gets down to ~30 s
814.
by ElFitz 5y ago
That’s when I end up glad my country seems so bent on making their own stuff (mostly planes) no matter what. Surprisingly, they’ve even started succeeding in selling those these last few years.
815.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Would definitely be interested
816.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Here, in France, we have a very different take. Everything is crap. By default. Almost everything is "not bad", "fine", or at best "pretty good". You will almost never hear a French person describe anything as
817.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Pretty much what I do, and I find it works quite well, mostly for three reasons 1) I actually give a damn about what I’m writing about, since I had to scrape the brains off of my skull for at least a few hours to figure it out and impleme
818.
by ElFitz 5y ago
We had had a brush with AWS, it’s Lambdas, Step Functions, etc, as well as Zapier and Stamplay’s flow on our first project together. We both came out of it convinced that there had to be a way to make it much easier yet still as powerfu
819.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Funnily enough; the last time I tried something like that I was 25, had barely 6 months of experience, and somehow convinced a friend I had introduced to programming not more than two months earlier. Waaay in over our heads. Since then, I’v
820.
by ElFitz 5y ago
I’d add that it’s impossible to move profiles between accounts. Broke up recently. What do I do with my former girlfriend’s profile? Delete it and make her loose her watchlist and where she was in some shows? Keep it and get that awkward mo
821.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Because we indeed have been proven, time and time again, that people will rarely pay a premium for UX. We will complain about it, mock it, but rare are those willing to pay more for it (or even merely change products), unless the advantag
822.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Feels a bit too 1984 to me…
823.
by ElFitz 5y ago
> if they did and all content is licensed to everyone, there will be nothing distinguishing the different services. Pricing and UX? But even though some companies are incapable of making good UIs, UX isn’t much of a moat. At the same t
824.
by ElFitz 5y ago
It happens rarely, but some only accept a very limited number of domains (ie Gmail, Outlook, etc). They probably see it as some sort of security / anti-spam mechanism.
825.
by ElFitz 5y ago
I ended up giving up on that after one too many websites rejecting my custom domain (which I’m the only one using) on signup. These lazy / ignorant colleagues are annoying -_-‘
826.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Funny thing, regarding the music analogy, The Beatles never studied music theory. Not even the basics (ie reading music sheets). They did however play a lot , and probably deconstruct and analyse many of the cover songs they played at thei
827.
by ElFitz 5y ago
… and so how much they can lend based on how reserves they could get? Or is that unlimited? (Pure curiosity)
828.
by ElFitz 5y ago
True. But the key difference, for now, is that I, again, perhaps mistakenly, believe that their interest still is to make something that serves my purpose well enough for me to want to buy more of their products later. That, in some way, th
829.
by ElFitz 5y ago
> And Apple TVs? Well, that’s at least one company from which I, although perhaps mistakenly, wouldn’t expect that. And being proven wrong would probably make me reconsider my purchase habits.
830.
by ElFitz 5y ago
> Also, a massive thing people overlook is that AWS is fairly well documented. I can Google exactly how to set up permissions on an S3 bucket, or how to use an S3 bucket as a website. > In-house systems tend to be poorly documented, a
831.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Yours is not the comment I was replying to. Perhaps I misread, but the parent seems horrified at the idea that users should get to know they are downloading something and that such knowledge would supposedly ruin native apps adoption. I was
832.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Well, yes and no. You can add any website to your home screen. Most behave like mere shortcuts. Unless the web app chooses to tell you that doing so will make it persist on your device, there’s just no way for the average user to know ¯\_(ツ
833.
by ElFitz 5y ago
Except they already do, implicitly, at least for the download part. Users actively go to their App Store and choose to download an app. They don’t just get something installed, or not, in some obscure part of their device’s storage, wit
834.
by ElFitz 5y ago
> accessing App Store pages in a web-browser just redirects you to the App Store. Not if you are on an non-Apple device. Or access an iOS App Store page from a Mac. The pages show just fine.
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Not American, but I would argue that his greatest contributions weren’t necessarily in exploring the fundamental laws of physics but in making physics more accessible, easier to understand, and more pleasant to study. The fact he got his No
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Sure. It can already be a lot. Some of my worst nightmares come from my own imagination. But we’re talking safer, not absolutely, perfectly safest. Also, how would you compare that to the close-up picture of an Iraqi soldier burned to a cri
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Well, removing audio and images, leaving only text, would make it safer. I, and probably many others, wouldn’t have stumbled upon some of the things I have. They thankfully are now only blurry memories to me, even though merely evoking them
838.
by ElFitz 6y ago
Very good question. Regarding the ad blocker, one thing I definitely can’t wait for are true AR glasses that could act as a real-life ad blocker. Being out in the street doesn’t mean I have in any way agreed to being constantly drowned in a
839.
by ElFitz 6y ago
We could argue on "safest", but definitely the compromise on speed, ease of use and safety that I can think of that I’m the most comfortable with
840.
by ElFitz 6y ago
By figuring and trying out new ways of being instead of seeking to conform to archetypes. By trying out new ways out of repeating situations and creating new behaviours instead of either repeating the same habits or trying to adopt someone

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