Joeri

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721.
by Joeri 5y ago
The whole mentality of 996 goes back to the time when most of the jobs were manufacturing jobs. If you are a garments factory whats the simplest way to increase throughput? Well, make your workers work harder. That doesn’t really work exc
722.
by Joeri 5y ago
Sort of reminds me how I can’t get a digital newspaper without ads, regardless of what I’m willing to pay, or how every cable tv provider in my region has unskippable ads in on demand and (soon) recorded tv programs, regardless of what I pa
723.
by Joeri 5y ago
Do also take into account that the median wage in the US is only around 35K per year. Clearly most americans are not in line for a 6 figure salary, nor will they ever be.
724.
by Joeri 5y ago
Isn’t it rather reductionist to say that the closed nature of iOS is why people buy it? I chose iphone because a string of bugs left a sour taste in my mouth with android, and inertia locked me in. I definitely don’t want this level of lock
725.
by Joeri 5y ago
Microsoft tried and failed to make a third alternative and force competition, spending billions to make it happen. As they found out, app makers don’t want to build for yet another platform. It doesn’t matter whether you make an awesome mob
726.
by Joeri 5y ago
Android does the CSAM image scanning on the server if you sync your photos to the cloud. On iphone if you don’t use icloud there is no scanning. I would call that “same difference”. If you’re running stock android you’re running a closed OS
727.
by Joeri 5y ago
According to musk manufacturing is the hardest part of rocketry as well.
728.
by Joeri 5y ago
I don’t have to watch the coverage to also know they’re not going to talk about the wider context in any useful way. No real insight into why the taliban saw so little opposition, no discussion of how drug money underpins much of their powe
729.
by Joeri 5y ago
Won’t fix can be such a trap as well because it doesn’t make the problem go away but signals to the users “we don’t care so go away”. The issue that pushed me off of android was tagged as wontfix, and doesn’t seem to be solved despite a dec
730.
by Joeri 5y ago
Apple can do anything they want on every iphone, always have, and always will. Whether this feature exists or not changes that in no way, their technical ability to snoop through everyone’s stuff is the same. So far they’ve shown restraint
731.
by Joeri 5y ago
I use syncthing. Open source peer to peer folder sync. There is no cloud copy, but for me this is a feature, and the rare times I want to share a file with someone else I manually upload it to cloud storage (onedrive or gdrive). https:&#x2
732.
by Joeri 5y ago
What is the value in keeping all this stuff around in tabs to look at later? If it is important, you will see it again and it is not necessary to put it on a todo list of tabs to read later. If it is not important it is just more busy work.
733.
by Joeri 5y ago
I may be wrong, but this is how I understand it. The propellers push against the wind. Effectively you’re creating a faster wind by pushing back at it. The energy that drives the propellers still comes indirectly entirely from the wind, but
734.
by Joeri 5y ago
Individual action won’t solve this problem. We need to leave the fossil fuels in the ground, which means switching energy sources, which is not something individuals have much influence on. Reducing energy use at the individual level is goo
735.
by Joeri 5y ago
An ice age is a global temperature difference of about 5 degrees. So we are going to have at least a third of an ice age’s temperature delta in heating, if we do everything right, and two thirds if we do business as usual.
736.
by Joeri 5y ago
Mitigation spending will happen anyway, the focus rightfully should be on minimizing the need for mitigation. By all accounts mitigation costs more than carbon reduction, it is just spent later on. I suppose it all comes down to how much of
737.
by Joeri 5y ago
There are apps that cater to comic book fans, are they promoting the comic nerd divide? What is wrong with a service that caters to a content niche? Separate but equal is only a bad thing when people cannot choose which of the two systems t
738.
by Joeri 5y ago
Well, the market does not select for low quality, it just selects for an attribute that often coincides with low quality, like time to market or low cost.
739.
by Joeri 5y ago
It may just be an attempt to use precise language in an (unsuccessful) attempt to not be misunderstood.
740.
by Joeri 5y ago
This is a problem for historians as well. What you want to figure out is how average people lived, but all the historical texts that survived describe the feats and feasts of the 1%.
741.
by Joeri 5y ago
That's just a set of anecdotes though. Maybe mom and pop stores came in all kinds of varieties, some were better and some were worse. Maybe we shouldn't automatically praise them but maybe we shouldn't also automatically assu
742.
by Joeri 5y ago
Dollar stores are not cheap though, when you look at price per quantity they're usually more expensive.
743.
by Joeri 5y ago
Have you tried to use the windows ClearType Text Tuner to improve the font rendering? Windows tries to take advantage of subpixels to improve crispness but it can cause color fringing which makes text harder to read. The tuner utility helps
744.
by Joeri 5y ago
I had the same problem and used one of the dark overlay tools that the author of the article criticizes to bring it down further than 0% brightness. But that trick also messes up color depth. I've since switched to an iMac, and the nic
745.
by Joeri 5y ago
On top of that, the rich make most of their purchases through corporations, which means that in practice not much would change. With any “fair” taxation scheme you always have to ask who pays less and who pays more. Whenever I dig into thes
746.
by Joeri 5y ago
PWA is the label for “do things like an app in the browser”. Things like easy install on the homescreen, storing a lot of data locally, notifications, nfc, bluetooth, location and camera (in a user-friendly way), … This is something people
747.
by Joeri 5y ago
iOS users have mostly chosen to accept the walled garden. If they hadn’t, they would be android users.
748.
by Joeri 5y ago
I went into this software engineering productivity research rabbit hole a decade ago and came away similarly depressed with the lack of rigor in our field. What I’ve come to believe: - Software engineering is not an engineering discipline,
749.
by Joeri 5y ago
I drag excess tabs into their own windows to group them by subtopic. Too many tabs makes it too hard to track what all the tabs are. When there are more than 2 windows of 10 tabs I’ll move over to collecting and grouping annotated links in
750.
by Joeri 5y ago
The point is that there are very few real world workloads that get it to throttle, and even more rarely will it throttle enough to matter. 99% of use cases are not affected.

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