FreakyT

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by FreakyT 6y ago
My first thought as well -- would be interesting to see the C919 flown on more western routes.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
For that price, I could buy nearly 3 of those $15,000 first-gen Apple watches! Note: for anyone wondering why it's so expensive, look at the amount of RAM it has
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I feel like there is a specific issue with the methodology of this and various other basic income experiments: it was time-limited. If one goes into the experiment knowing that the basic income will end after N years, I suspect that may sig
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I loved the "brushed metal" look in 10.3, I remember trying to install various mods to force "brushed metal" onto more applications. You can't really tell from the static screenshots, but Apple put a lot of effort i
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by FreakyT 6y ago
IIRC, several sites actually got fined early on for using unobtrusive cookie pop ups, as it was ruled that people weren’t likely to notice them and therefore they didn’t count as “consent”.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I think if you go too far down this path you end up with a tool that’s utterly incomprehensible to the majority of your user base. Layers may be simplistic, but they’re relatively easy to understand.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
The thing that always irritated me about GIMP is that any functionality gaps between it and Photoshop would always be summarily dismissed as “oh no, you’re just used to Photoshop ”. It looks like it may have been fixed now, but I distinctl
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by FreakyT 6y ago
iPadOS on Macs seems more likely given Apple's trajectory, I'd say.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I'd love to see retro styles make a comeback for other industrial designs too. Wouldn't it be cool to have a transparent iMac-style laptop with modern internals?
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I mean, at least they allow sideloading at all, which is more than can be said for that other App Store ecosystem. Still hoping the EU will force Apple to allow sideloading on iPhones, but I’m not super optimistic.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I can’t comment on SwiftUI in particular, but I’ve found that a lot of things like this tend to break down in most other cross platform GUI frameworks, falling into a kind of uncanny valley, where the experience ends up being either: 1. Nat
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by FreakyT 6y ago
This narrative of false equivalency is dangerous, IMO. WeChat has been proven to be a heavily monitored and censored network. Whatever security failings iMessage and WhatsApp have, they pale in comparison to what's in place for WeChat.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
What you're forgetting is that Germany actually has functioning public transit, while the US doesn't. If you don't have a car, you're out of luck if the DMV is 10 miles away.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Convolutional Neural Network (for example, some more info here: https://adeshpande3.github.io/A-Beginner%27s-Guide-To-Unders... )
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by FreakyT 6y ago
I, too, was initially very confused by the headline.
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by FreakyT 6y ago
Undo Send was definitely a Gmail "labs" feature long before Inbox existed [1]. You're right about the other two though. Nudges are nice. Ridiculous, though, that a useless gimmick feature like smart reply made it in but not a
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by FreakyT 6y ago
By “many”, Google meant exactly two. The snooze function, and an Archive icon that appears on hover. Of all the Inbox features to migrate, those were all we got. I was so disappointed when they dumped me back into what was essentially a leg
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Agreed — Apple’s trying to project a high-minded motivation here, but their real motivation is likely to try and limit web technologies so that companies must still invest in native iOS apps and remain within their walled garden.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
I'm surprised they had to cancel, given that they had already announced the move to an online-only conference. Perhaps they didn't have enough time to get the remote sessions prepared in time. That said, I'm looking forward t
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Indeed -- as far as I can tell the changes are not behavioral, only aesthetic. That said, they do look really nice, and are (IMO) some of the best-looking hover effects I've seen in years, so kudos to Apple on that! Microsoft can'
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by FreakyT 7y ago
The parent comment argued nothing of the sort. It said simply: > "The Chinese Government is squarely to blame for this situation. Could it have been prevented if they had acted responsibly? I don't know" The parent comment
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Ah yes, what this comment section really needed was a healthy dose of whataboutism /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by FreakyT 7y ago
There are probably other legitimate uses of this, but one is dictionary/translator apps. I can copy a word in Japanese, open my dictionary app, and it will automatically open the entry for the clipboard contents without my needing to t
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by FreakyT 7y ago
I think nonlinear electronic media (like a single news site) is an acceptable alternative. What I find particularly beneficial is that, even if one refreshes it too often, the content doesn’t change unless there is something actually new.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Yeah, I really hope that trademark gets revoked, as the phrase has clearly been genericized at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Right, but by using their own proprietary cable, Apple cables (and those officially “approved” by Apple) are the ones that get sold, and the terrible failure rates.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
That applies to the cheapie iPads (not so much the Pros) but even then, there are times I’d rather deal with slowdowns and memory paging than actually losing my data.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
My single biggest problem on the iPad is the way Safari just randomly kills your background tabs. Filling out a web form? You'd better hope that their half-baked tab state saving worked! (Spoiler alert: it probably didn't) It&#x27
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Not necessarily; cameras in general tend to have much worse low light performance than our eyes. Take, for example, the night sky. You can easily see the stars with the naked eye, but try getting them to show up in a photo. You’ll almost ce
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by FreakyT 7y ago
> I think the solution should be an opt-in option. WebGL shouldn't be activated unless the user gives the permission. More permission dialogs just train users to click "yes" on every permission dialog, so it really isn&#x2

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