Miraste

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by Miraste 6y ago
Cook hasn't damaged Apple nearly as much as Ballmer hurt MS. During Ballmer's tenure, Microsoft launched the Zune, the various disastrous incarnations of Windows Phone, Windows 8, and the Xbox One (which halved its marketshare vs
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by Miraste 6y ago
I was within two years of the right date on the hippy photo because of the design of the museum direction signs behind them. That clear acrylic and minimal font stuck to a wall style of signage is quite recent.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Before the update, mobile Firefox was so slow for me that using Chrome with no adblocker was a better experience. Now their speeds are about the same. The update was a massive improvement.
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by Miraste 6y ago
"starting in macOS Big Sur 11 beta 6, the operating system enforces that any executable must be signed before it’s allowed to run." This line seems clear that unsigned code is not allowed, although I don't have a Transition K
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by Miraste 6y ago
There isn't a wireless attachment for the Index.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Apple's next move is to disallow unsigned software entirely, Gatekeeper popup or no. They already announced it for ARM Macs [0]. It currently allows adhoc signatures, but I'd be shocked if that didn't go away in the next coup
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by Miraste 6y ago
Unfortunately, Android, iOS, and MacOS are the alternatives non-technical people look at, and they're all much worse about installing software than Windows.
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by Miraste 6y ago
That statement's a little misleading--they only have ~100 million paid users, for whom one would think they'd prioritize support requests.
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by Miraste 6y ago
You can turn them off. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
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by Miraste 6y ago
That's nice, but has nothing to do with whether they're a bad and irresponsible actor.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Apple has just implemented their own version of this in FaceTime in iOS 14.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Companies aren't, and shouldn't be, superPACs. Getting Coinbase to use green energy is the job of government regulations and incentives, not political crusades from Coinbase's management. If the government isn't doing th
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by Miraste 6y ago
I don't understand. They type important legal documents on typewriters? Why can't they rubber stamp a printed one, and what do the shipping volumes have to do with it?
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by Miraste 6y ago
I spend a lot of time teaching non-technical people to use software, and in my experience the two things aren't the same at all. These sorts of users aren't too aware of the invasive aspects of modern programs, but if told, they&#
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by Miraste 6y ago
Devil's advocate: this is true. The people buying this icon pack, and the people who spend time on software customization in general, are a negligible subset of iPhone users. If you're making an app that aims for the lowest common
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by Miraste 6y ago
Consumers can't be made to care about ACR. Giant blatant ads are a different story.
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by Miraste 6y ago
I used to think like you do, and I've increasingly come to disagree. Free speech absolutism was a core belief of the open source and early internet community in the 90s and 00s, which is where I picked it up. The idea was that publishi
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by Miraste 6y ago
> Does costco get some extra benefit if the consumer buys Kirkland from costco ? Yes. Costco positions their store brand as a major part of their appeal. This attracts more consumers to their stores, which A. Increases membership, for wh
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by Miraste 6y ago
Better to cancel the line than supply competitors with better cheaper products than your own store.
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by Miraste 6y ago
> It is widely used for a staggering array of tasks. Is it? What area are you in? In my hobbyist, college, and industry experience I've never seen anyone use emacs for anything. I have seen Vim (or at least vim bindings) a few times
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by Miraste 6y ago
We're talking about different things. I'm sure the LibreWolf team could develop a browser that meets some specifications and renders some websites some of the time. What they can't build is a Chrome competitor. It would becom
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by Miraste 6y ago
You're responding to something I didn't say. GP was talking about memory usage with 500 tabs, with which Firefox will absolutely eat some RAM. Right now I have 200 and it's using 6.3gb.
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by Miraste 6y ago
If you have the ram firefox will eat it, I've seen it use well over 10 before. Chromiums do the same thing, though.
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by Miraste 6y ago
No, it's not. Mozilla has 750 employees (not all of whom work on the browser, but still) and hundreds of millions of dollars and they're constantly struggling to keep up with Chrome. 9 part-time devs cannot do this.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Sometimes they broke other systems on purpose, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code .
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by Miraste 6y ago
It's a mistake to lump the rest of his response under "platitudes." What he's saying there-work backwards from the customer experience rather than forwards from the tech-is the strategy that took Apple from bankrupt to
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by Miraste 6y ago
I probably shouldn't make such absolute statements, they do beg for counterexamples. I'd be surprised if your friend didn't engage in some anti-competitive or employee-exploiting practices, but of course I have no idea.
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by Miraste 6y ago
The people who look at benchmarks aren't the ones deciding that way. It's more like "I heard Nvidia makes the fastest GPUs, I'll buy the Nvidia one I can afford."
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While that's true, Windows 10 search is visibly worse than even Windows 7 search, and much worse than MacOS search. And their fuzzy matching algo for the start menu is deranged.
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by Miraste 6y ago
You can't become a billionaire through honest earnings. The degree is variable but the presence is inevitable, becoming required more the more billions you amass. Of course, you can take the ethical route, but those people don't g

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