Joeri

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by Joeri 6y ago
Do newspapers need to know what websites every subscriber visits in order to put ads in the paper? The idea that privacy needs to be conceded in order for a healthy ad market to exist is false.
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by Joeri 6y ago
Heck, you could easily imagine a system where software distributed outside the app store can only access a subset of perms if security is such a concern, and that'd still be less anti-competitive I think this system is called the wor
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by Joeri 6y ago
It also affects U.S. citizens who don’t even have a valid passport and no intention to leave the country. According to the CBP being in the extended border zone is enough to be crossing a border and therefore be subject to a warrantless sea
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by Joeri 6y ago
They don't do it to be evil, they do it to maintain the unique status of their brand. Apple is a luxury brand, like Louis Vuitton, or Mercedes. Their price difference compared to other brands is explained mostly by the value of their b
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by Joeri 6y ago
I usually “scan” with my phone using office lens, even though I have an actual scanner. I think as phones improve the added value of a flatbed scanner becomes smaller and smaller.
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by Joeri 6y ago
Contrary to most people I found this an interesting opinion, if only because it centers so much on SV culture. For those of us working in other countries and in unglamorous companies it has always been a very different kind of culture. Typi
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by Joeri 6y ago
Check the buyer’s guides on r/thinkpad. Typically you’re looking at T or X series, with T giving the most flexibility. T410 to T430 can be had for less than $200 and should be fine for server use. The numbering scheme is Txy0, with x t
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by Joeri 6y ago
They support web notifications in safari in the desktop. Whatever annoyances would be caused on mobile are also present there. I am convinced the only reason we don’t have push notifications on mobile safari is because it would enable peopl
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by Joeri 6y ago
Apple added push notifications to safari, but only on desktop. That tells you that they deliberately do not support this because they know a lot of apps could be pwa’s otherwise.
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by Joeri 6y ago
That doesn’t seem very rational. The goal of all managers should be to maximize productivity per dollar spent. Motivated contractors who are well integrated in teams, don’t need to be replaced often, and generally kept happy are far more pr
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by Joeri 6y ago
I did WFH for a while using my work laptop as work environment and my imac as home environment, which helped with switching modes. But because the laptop was broken for a bit I ended up moving entirely to the imac as a dual use device. To k
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by Joeri 6y ago
Belgium is a notorious tax haven for the wealthy, because of all the tax loopholes that they can use. https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/magazine/47926/belgium-ta...
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by Joeri 6y ago
Isn’t it a bit naive that we ever believed the notarization feature would not be used to blacklist developers for business reasons? I feel like a chump now. It is definitely clear that apple does not have the best interest of me, their cust
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by Joeri 6y ago
I hope Epic doesn’t have a strategy that hinges on a PR win forcing apple to back down, because (A) as this thread is showing there are still a lot of people on apple’s side and (B) apple is usually quite vengeful in these things and will n
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by Joeri 6y ago
If 500 people take 15 seconds to do the google search to convert f to c or c to f because the title only mentions one, then having the poster or editor do it for them saves 2 hours of combined life. Do it for the humanity!
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by Joeri 6y ago
If some students would prefer to take exams and some not, it seems obvious to let only those students who want take the exams. Propose the model’s grades to the student. If they accept it, you’re done, if they refuse then let them do an exa
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by Joeri 6y ago
Same here with a 2009 base mac mini, upgraded a long time ago to 8gb and an ssd. My kids use it for scratch, youtube and homework. My wife uses it for online shopping. The key hardware features are dual cores, 8 gb ram and an ssd (not emmc
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by Joeri 6y ago
Where in the IPCC reports do you find an existential risk to humanity? I’ve read most of AR5 and I haven’t come across it. I’m worried about climate change, but activists like extinction rebellion are far from telling the truth, and the doo
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by Joeri 6y ago
This requirement for there to be a monopoly is a very U.S.-centric view. In the EU they tend to look more towards market distortion, and companies that distort a market tend to get fined. The EU also has some beef to settle with apple for g
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by Joeri 6y ago
So why don’t I owe 30% to apple when I receive a payment through a qr code shown by my banking app? Let’s be honest here, the rules of the app store are arbitrary and designed to extract the maximum amount of revenue from the ecosystem, wit
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by Joeri 6y ago
“What about” is not a valid argument though. If what apple is doing is wrong, no amount of hypocrisy by others will make it less wrong. Anyway, I think platforms need to be regulated to be more open. We need a right to modify along with a r
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by Joeri 6y ago
If you haven’t done any functional programming I can recommend this course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1 The techniques you learn there will transfer to javascript and make you a better web developer.
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by Joeri 6y ago
The thing is, their only option for making a relevant browser is investing in it maximally because users will ruthlessly pick the best browser. If they cut back on the browser, they may as well just put it out to pasture, because that is wh
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by Joeri 6y ago
In any particular glass of water, supposedly almost all of it was drunk by a dinosaur. https://youtu.be/KK64DqpIy0s
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by Joeri 6y ago
If vaccination rates are too low you don’t get herd immunity, and people who are unable to be vaccinated are more at risk.
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by Joeri 6y ago
Studies have found no significant correlation between intelligence and bias blind spot (inability to detect bias in one’s own thinking). Smart or less smart makes no difference in rational behavior. http://careymorewedge.com&#x2F
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by Joeri 6y ago
It is a circle. Society influences facebook, facebook feeds back into society. For example, I’m convinced facebook’s amplification of pro-brexit and pro-trump messages in those campaigns was instrumental in their victory. No facebook, no pr
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by Joeri 6y ago
The conclusions are painted with too broad a brush in my view. People don’t split binary into thrill-seekers and conflict-avoiders, it’s more of a spectrum, and people can exhibit both qualities in different circumstances. In my opinion the
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by Joeri 6y ago
Please don’t equate owning a single home to owning millions of shares. The notion that these types of wealth are all the same and should be under similar rules is toxic.
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by Joeri 6y ago
I found the conflation between training and running models very confusing or even disingenuous. The whole thing about evaluating a model frame by frame with low latency local on the device, that is a good point, but then having that as a fo

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