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by Pxtl 3y ago
The lawsuits vs Google and Apple were about was allowing 3rd-party stores onto your platform, not about hardware lock-in.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
What? Why would devices locked down at the OS-level to only a 1st-party store and only permitting installing through that 1st-party store be hardware-bound? Winphones were bound to the Windows store, but were 3rd-party devices.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished. I'm saying that what Apple does is worse and is punished less.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Name one of those OSes that had a quality phone on the market with a zero-dollar-license OS in 2009. Android was first modern mobile OS to market that would run on 3rd party devices (unlike Apple and RIM). Tizen was 2013. Win phone was 201
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Lesson learned: just lock down your platform like Apple. Corrupted freedom is apparently worse than totalitarian control.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
How many times have people smoking cigarettes been killed because somebody dosed their smokes with fentanyl?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I don't doubt that a workable alternative could be invented (and could improve on the deep flaws in the drug patent system), but it would be absolutely necessary to implement that alternative before removing the drug patent system. &qu
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by Pxtl 3y ago
One thing all these cities with catastrophic street drug use have in common is also bonkers housing crisis. Homelessness correlates pretty tightly with prevailing rents. People end up on the street and do drugs because once you've hit
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I think mRNA vaccines provide a pretty strong counter-argument. And do you know how many heart patients are alive today thanks to apixaban? Before that drug people were taking literal rat-poison as an anticoagulant.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Without drug patents drug discovery would completely stop . I'm not averse to looking at alternative models for providing revenue to the drug discovery and testing infrastructure (the current model of patents is flawed as hell), but i
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Not only that, but the patent system is 100% essential to pharma research. Pharma takes a crapload of time from patent to market because of the many layers or trial safety. There are drugs that just plain miss their deadline -- setbacks d
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The lesson is loud and clear: if you want to destroy normal consumer protections, do it using technologic dictatorship like Apple and the gaming console companies, not through an open platform and then soft power with your vendors. Feels li
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The objects aren't opaque, you can catch them in a variable and inspect it with get-member. I find it very nice to work interactively when developing a script -- call a getter command and either let it out to the console or store it i
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The replies in that are pretty terrible. I'd forgotten how awful the bluecheck-reply slurry was on Twitter since they started selling those.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Imho, being heavily pro-Israel on the first day was perfectly appropriate. They'd just seen a crapload of innocent civilians butchered, and a bunch of them taken hostage. Obviously you can still think that Palestinians have legit grie
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Ugh, I'd been avoiding twitter for obvious reasons lately. I'd forgotten how awful the bluecheck-reply slurry was since they started selling those.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly this is half the reason I use Powershell for everything. Bash-like experience but everything returns objects. It's a messy, hairy, awful language. Consistently inconsistent, dynamically-typed in the worst ways, "two goo
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by Pxtl 3y ago
"AI". Uh, I'm betting rules like that are a simple regex. Like, I was explaining how some bad idea would basically make you kill yourself on Twitter (pre-Musk) and it detected the "kill yourself" phrase and instant
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Still isn't available in Canada. Silicon Valley hates Canada.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> wrong opinion That phrase is doing a lot of work.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
My approach to semver: Breaking.Planned.Hotfix.Publish Breaking is for breaking changes. Planned is for planned changes. HotFix is for emergency unplanned changes. Publish is internal, in the event getting the release out the door took mult
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Then why aren't rents cratering? You think PE isn't renting these homes out? Supply and demand applies here. These equity firms rent those homes out. So as they amass more and more housing, rent should be going down as there are
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Right? Maybe at this point it's mostly historical inertia and they've converged to similar UIs, but the mental brand people have for these companies is very different. eBay is buying from Some Guy. AliExpress is buying from a sk
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes. I'm quite tired of hearing "it's not our fault that toys full of lead were sold on our storefront and stored, fulfilled, and shipped from our warehouse in boxes bearing our logo! When we said that we 'recommend&#x
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I tend to agree with Google on this one: https://google.github.io/styleguide/jsguide.html#formatting-... > Terminology Note: Horizontal alignment is the practice of adding a variable number of additional spaces in y
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Hah, I'm a firm "no alignment allowed, indent only" reviewer, so that use case would never even occur to me.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I feel like I'd still want the body on its own line from the signature definition just for readability. And with the parser problems described in TFA, I'd say that parens should be mandatory coding-style enforced by linter. d
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by Pxtl 3y ago
imho the "def" keyword saves it from being too ambiguous, since it's clearly defining a function/method. def [functionname] = [body] seems fine to me. The big flaw (that it can't tell the difference betwee
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by Pxtl 3y ago
"Hey Bing, can you make me a live action version of the Scouring of the Shire as if it were part of the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies?".
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by Pxtl 3y ago
That has not been my experience. I was trying Firefox and their various preview products on my Android once in a while for years. Every time I would bounce because of painful performance and bad scrolling. The latest incarnation... well i

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