Marsymars

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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> the immediate fix to this is to stop using facebook. Sure, but that relegates my old but perfectly functional macbook to the trash. There's literally no functional alternative to fb marketplace for getting used goods re-used at an
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> IMO you shouldn't get to be in charge of a company just because it became successful. In a macro sense, the prerogative there is really up to the public. Companies only exist in the first place because the public has granted them
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
The immediate fix to this is regulatory action. Facebook has made itself indispensable in a number of areas that are in the public interest and should be treated as a public good for these purposes. Ads are pollution, and Facebook is forcin
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
I'd love to be able to opt out of receiving any calls originating from out-of-country.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
FWIW, Windows dev drives can situationally aleviate a bunch of this pain.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> Any choice of what content to display is an algorithm. You could argue about the language and the meaning of "algorithm", but for practical purposes I'd consider a manually-curated feed to be non-algorithmic.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Asides from what's been mentioned, I'd suggest big touch targets. Because the UI is so slow, it's comparatively painful to miss a touch target, especially if the result of a miss is a UI refresh that then has to be undone b
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> But my advice: do not count on anything refreshing ever. Do not have animations, or transitions. Preload things to the correct spaces, then fill in. Reserve fixed white areas for output, and then fill in with black. (This works much be
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Basically every provider seems to have a similar level of customer support. For banking in particular, I already bank with a half-dozen banks because they have different products/services that are optimal for some specific use cases (i
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
There's precedence for new versions of software being abandoned for older code bases... usually the new version doesn't ship or gets forked relatively quickly though, e.g. the Windows Longhorn reset or the Gnome 3/MATE fork.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> People tend to compare AI to perfection for some reasons, which is not the case with humans. So I mostly avoid commenting on or pontificating about the value or lack thereof of AI, but the problem I have with companies rolling out &quo
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Some years ago I participated in a study where I lied down in an MRI machine and had to navigate in a video game maze. (Custom Half-Life 2 level, IIRC.) Every 60 seconds or so I'd be teleported to a fresh location in the maze and given
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
My 2011 car had an auto-dimming mirror that my 2025 car didn't, so I ordered a replacement auto-dimming mirror off ebay which includes the cardinal direction LED. (And garage-door-controlling buttons.) As a bonus you can even set your
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
I’ve never had one break due to heavy use, but broke one on my work desktop due to forgetting I was wearing headphones and yanking on it when I got up.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Firefox is my main browser, but I use all of Safari/Vivaldi/Edge with some specific configuration for some specific things. Edge primarily just to access MS sites, logging into the browser with MS account makes it easy.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> Why do people use LinkedIn? I used it to follow Lumon Industries. But at some point when I turned on 2FA linkedin locked my ~15 year-old account and demands that I upload ID to a 3rd-party for verification, which I'm not going to
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
If I could give the youtuber cash in exchange for the video, I'd have no problem with that. Watching ads simply isn't something I'm willing to consider. Like if the transaction was "have someone spit in your face and in
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Good as long as you don't want the EME-free version.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
I've found ad-blockers other than uBlock Origin MV2 to struggle with particularly aggressive anti-adblocking scripts. I don't particularly notice, but my wife was getting frustrated last night when she was looking for recipes, an
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
The problem I run into is e.g. if I need to replace the the steering wheel cruise control buttons in my car, a random youtuber doing that is the only reasonable option getting instructions on that, which isn't something a youtube subsc
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Hey now, I use Edge on macOS.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Funny how this has diverged in Canada/USA which otherwise have broadly similar broadcast markets in many respects. The broadcast stations have been gutted of sports content in favour of a couple of specialty channels which are a combin
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> Please remember that they don't have a single person on staff with any military experience or expertise. Do you care to clarify this? This can't possibly be accurate across their entire staff.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> I sincerely don't know how people prefer Spotify over Youtube Music YouTube Music doesn't have desktop apps, so that makes it a no-go for me. (I don't use Chrome, and have no interest in trying to pin a Firefox PWA for Y
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
I do this too. If you use e.g. GitHub you can build this into your PR checks so that any PRs containing docx file changes get a CI bot comment with the diff from the docx.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
> I do not recall ever hearing of an organized effort to ban ads. See e.g. https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Measure_5,_Prohibit_Billboard...
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Ontario and BC do a lot of the heavy lifting there though. e.g. every Canadian province other than those two has better housing affordability than California and most of the other provinces average around the same affordability as New York,
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
The overall design is fine, but I find the writing style of “fully justified with no capitals” difficult to read for something of that length.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
Heck my Google News doesn't even have a tools dropdown or a date filter.
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by Marsymars 2mo ago
And once you’re no longer a small company, setting up any server comes with a pile of bureaucracy. As a dev, I don’t want to set up a server when 80% of the work is filling out SOC 2 change management forms and dealing with crowdstrike. (An

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