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by K0nserv 5y ago
I wrote a Twitter thread[0] on this topic in response to Alex Russell's recent blog post on how Safari on iOS limits the web[1]. My point is: yes it's problematic that Apple prevents any browser diversity on iOS(by not allowing ot
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by K0nserv 6y ago
On Writing Well[0] is one of the best books I've read. I'd recommended it to anyone who wants to improve their writing. 0: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53343.On_Writing_Well
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I wrote a blog bost[0] about the idea of The Stalactite Developer about a year ago. I like this metaphor better than T shaped and I have applied it effectively throughout my career. 0: https://hugotunius.se/2020/01&#x2F
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I don't see why my health in particular matters when there are olympian athletes who are entirely vegan and additionally many who are vegetarians. You seem to be implying that a plant based diet would not support a an active and health
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by K0nserv 6y ago
This is the PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.02479.pdf I couldn't understand how to find it on the linked site. Maybe the submission URL should be changed?
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I think that if this was done slowly with a tax that increases year by year(like the Australian tabaco tax) and with some of the money being invested in lab grown meat reasearch we'd get to the lab grown meat future much faster. I supp
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I'm neither a vegan nor a vegetarian
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Another excellent use of the tax money from this could be subsidising non-meat foods which makes more food cheaper. Anecdotally my own experience switching to a diet with less meat is that food costs have gone down.
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Probably one of my own more controversial opinions is an extreme tax on red meat, not unlike the Australian tax on tobaco. This seems entirely possible in particular because tobaco is fraught with the issues around addiction which isn'
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by K0nserv 6y ago
It is far from rock-solid. It's shockingly bad in fact.
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I don't know how well that would work. For example, my understanding of Rust's bounding checking for slice indexing is that often the compiler can prove it's not needed and the check is optimised out because of the type syste
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I think it's really interesting to compare the web to apps in this regard. In fact I wrote a blog post about this as a response to "The Great Divide"[0] a few years ago. The core thesis of mine is that on the app side of thin
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Does that follow? Surely as Bitcoin becomes more and more valuable there's more and more incentive to mine and the more entranched it becomes more important to defend against 51% attacks become. It seems to me that what has happened hi
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Fair, it seems like noindex is the better way. It doesn't really matter what the exact technical details are, the point is that Google respects your wish to not be indexed if you express it. The law as written is extremely draconic bec
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by K0nserv 6y ago
With what? Linking to companies that have explicitly opted in to being linked to? robots.txt exists, Google respects it
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by K0nserv 6y ago
If you stop collecting IDFA and don't replace it with some other device identifier you are fine. If you create a new identifier i.e. some sort of fingerprinting you still needs user consent for that via the AppTransparency framework.
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Consider the position of someone who believes bitcoin adds zero(or even negative) value, but consumes astronomical amounts of, often dirty, electricity while the world faces a climate emergency. Further, since this is a technical forum, all
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Two things can be bad
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by K0nserv 6y ago
No that's not correct, in fact this comment and the two sibling comments are both wrong. Quouting from NPMs documentation[0] for npm install > This command installs a package, and any packages that it depends on. If the package has
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Their TrustPilot reviews[0] are a fun read now. This feels like an excellent example of the Streisand Effect[1]. I guess we'll see how suffers more, the man or the firm. 0: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.summ
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I found at least one instance of that in my own research. Do you have the link to that submission?
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by K0nserv 6y ago
That’s against Apple’s guidelines, violations of which will get your app kicked off the only distribution channel on iOS. We’ll have to see how this shakes out in reality, but as a deterrent it’s pretty strong.
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I'm sure the designers who work on GDS[0] and its design system do. You are probably right that most don't, they should in my opinion. Of course you are also right that good teams will work together on this. I think the best desig
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by K0nserv 6y ago
That might be the way many companies work, doesn’t mean it’s correct. Design is more than how things look, in fact how things look is secondary.
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What has happened in that scenario is that the designer has failed in their job. Unfortunately it’s up to engineers to catch this, which they often don’t
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I'm definitely not a fan of Google, in fact I've gone through quite some pain to de-google my whole life. That said, the proposed Australian law is nothing short of laughable. Not only are they requiring Google to pay the news org
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Intent matters, simply collecting data to support the features you are providing is not inherently bad. Collecting data for third party ad targeting on ther other hand... See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684491
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by K0nserv 6y ago
That doesn't follow, Apple provides 6 different purposes for collecting data linked to the user: * Third-Party Advertising * Developer’s Advertising or Marketing * Analytics * Product Personalization * App Functionality * Other Purpos
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I was chatting to someone on Twitter about just that and I had previously noticed the absence of Google in the data set so it's on my radar already. I'm curious to see what shakes out from their submission.
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Author here, I fetched the data set for the US app store and from a cursory look it does look worse than the original data set from the UK store. I'll write a follow up blog post, so if you are interested follow me on Twitter or use my

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