FreakyT

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by FreakyT 8y ago
Agreed -- it seems ridiculous that there's no meaningful crackdown on antisocial behavior. If laws regarding public drug use, loitering, etc. were actually enforced in a meaningful way, I think we'd see some actual improvement.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I definitely recommend doing this! UX-wise, I do wish that Chrome surfaced the option a bit better. Seems that a "never ask me again" checkbox, or even a shortcut to the relevant settings page, would be a nice touch.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
And let's not forget everyone's favorite: > This [literally any object imaginable] contains materials known to the State of California to cause cancer.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
The property rights one always bothers me; it seems to me that if you're right where a necessary transport link needs to be, you should of course be fairly compensated, but ultimately you shouldn't have any say/choice in the
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I also was really hoping the new iPhones would finally make the switch to USB-C; it's ridiculous for them to continue putting Lightning ports on anything at this point, considering how they've gone all-in on USB-C on their Macbook
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I think parent is taking issue with the weird "Apple is smart!" opening narrative, which seems to imply that Apple came up with computational photography, as opposed to it simply being a general industry trend.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I've seen something like what you describe in stores; I believe it was this brand: https://www.drysoda.com/dry-sparkling/
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Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post?(nytimes.com)
3 points by FreakyT 8y ago|0 comments
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Agreed -- in addition, a shorter term like this fixes a major issue with using "life" specifically, which ends up unintentionally creating an incentive to murder the creator.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I dunno, my experience was that JQuery mobile was slow, bloated, and glitchy. Perhaps it was simply ahead of its time, and 2011-era browsers couldn't keep up with it, but either way I much prefer using its successors.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I specifically remember Snow Leopard doing one thing in particular wrong: it totally screwed up exposé. They removed the dynamic window positioning/sizing[1] and replaced it with a weird grid based system[2] that poorly utilized screen
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Yeah, this article is apparently blaming Google for the crime of...having APIs. Everything described here would also be possible with IMAP. The actual news story that this is based on (which, for some reason, is completely ignored by this
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by FreakyT 8y ago
In terms of their computers, there has absolutely been a decline in quality, but in terms of their other product lines (and you specifically mention phones), I don't really think this is correct. I mean in terms of phones, the iPhone X
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Yes. Think about it this way: if having Autopilot on requires the same amount of attention/effort as having it off, then there would essentially be no point to the system whatsoever. The entire idea is that the system takes over some o
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Agreed. While on the whole, I definitely can see the argument that AirBnB needs more regulation, in this particular case it seems more like a classic case of "established players using the law to shut out competition" than "c
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin with Chrome and didn't get any such warning -- seems to be working fine.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Interestingly, in Chile (and possibly other South American countries, perhaps someone else can weigh in) you can already buy Chinese car brands at dealers. I was told that BYD vehicles are the cheapest option but also have terrible reliabil
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Agreed, the current logo seems like it was designed in the "Web 2.0" days. "It's a shield! Look at how gradient it is!
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by FreakyT 8y ago
So glad they changed print to a function; the old syntax looked so out of place.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
It would definitely be a good direciton to go in, but I suspect a major potential problem for Spotify will be the possibility that the major record labels pull their tracks off Spotify in retaliation. This was less of an issue for Netflix a
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by FreakyT 9y ago
> The real reason is that they don't consider reducing housing prices a good outcome. I think this is the key. If you're a property owner, any outcome that reduces the value of your property is naturally a negative outcome.
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by FreakyT 9y ago
> "tech is nowhere near to make self driving cars feasible on scale" To be more specific, Uber's tech is the one that's nowhere near feasible. According to recently leaked data, Uber's self driving system is
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Hard to say; it's entirely possible he was "joking" at the time. It's also completely possible (and this is my belief) that he eventually drunk his own Kool-Aid and came to genuinely believe that Facebook really was abou
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I feel like sentiment toward the iPod HiFi is less "hate" and more "why does this exist" . It was a perfectly solid piece of hardware, but Apple tried to enter a market that was already saturated (iPod docks) with a f
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by FreakyT 9y ago
Exactly this—a particular anecdote from the biography describes his motivation. Apparently when the HP Touchpad failed, Steve Jobs viewed it as a tragedy more than a triumph: > "Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they t
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by FreakyT 9y ago
It's pretty sketchy, yes, but it seems to me that Apple has always done even worse equivalents to those things. When will the EU hammer come down on them?
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I'm guessing the parent comment is referring to the state of the "built-in" Android apps. Any AOSP app that has a Google app equivalent generally stopped being updated when that Google app equivalent was released. The AOSP mu
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I assume the upcoming changes you're talking about are the new "structured styles", which I think are overall a good idea. Ultimately, though, the key remaining question will be if they can balance the need for customization
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I think MySpace ultimately represented the final form of the essentially unlimited customization of the early web. The terribleness of MySpace pages was, I believe, the catalyst that pushed the design trend in the opposite direction, result
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by FreakyT 9y ago
I already find Google's handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they already have a chat product called "Hangouts". There is definitely no ch

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