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by SllX 3y ago
Nope, just broke for no apparent reason after working perfectly fine for years and continues to work on the desktop. By this point in time, I've been cynical of Google for longer than I was a fan, but every nail that strikes at the hea
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by SllX 3y ago
That got removed. The math didn't math, and I assume the editors had no more luck than I did trying to independently verify it.
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by SllX 3y ago
Apple has an excellent relationship with Disney, but they're still two separate businesses with different interests that only align in some areas. Disney and Epic also have aligning interests. That said, I would like to see how much eq
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by SllX 3y ago
No, you’re right about X. My recollection was off by a year too.
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by SllX 3y ago
That doesn’t sound right. Do you mean the Google Street View cars? Those weren’t self-driving and Google didn’t start work on that front until Sebastian Thrun joined Google X in 2009.
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by SllX 3y ago
I’ll believe that when they stop destroying search. Google Cache’s death has been widely reported but the custom date filter just plain stopped rendering on my iPhone and iPad last week. There are some kinds of queries which really only fun
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by SllX 3y ago
Because it was a really fun action RPG with camera control issues, that then got fixed in Kingdom Hearts II (actually sooner with Final Mix Plus I think but most people weren’t importing that). It started life as a collab, and it took on an
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by SllX 3y ago
Small correction although you’re mostly right: m4p is the FairPlay encumbered file extension and unencumbered AAC audio files are (by default in iTunes) m4a.
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by SllX 3y ago
I mean Netflix has been losing to “just buy it in iTunes” for me for years. I don’t watch a lot of movies, but when I do, it usually can’t be found anywhere to stream so I just buy it. Their UI sucks, they don’t want to integrate with the A
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by SllX 3y ago
> Revenue for a company and GDP for a country are at least broadly comparable. It’s really not. One is a figure that a CPA (or whatever your country’s equivalent is) signs off on, reports, and is stored in or flowed through the reporting
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by SllX 3y ago
> Better to compare corporate revenue which is typically 5% or less of market cap for FAANG. I wouldn’t even bother with that much. You’re comparing international corporations’ reported revenue with one measure of one country’s general e
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by SllX 3y ago
Archive.org is great but its always better to have more options. This is another nail in the Google that was cool.
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by SllX 3y ago
It is a term, the term I’ve always known that is synonymous with a pedestrian crossing, and I guess it’s regional?
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by SllX 3y ago
For the number I fill out in a week, Google should be paying me for the labor. Please, spike that price as high as you like. In fact go ahead and reduce the free allocation to zero while you’re at it.
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by SllX 3y ago
You’re overplaying the hundreds of years part. While the first wristwatch dates back almost 200 years (developed for the Queen of Naples), pocket watches were the rule until World War I, when they were mass produced and marketed at soldiers
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by SllX 3y ago
I gotchu and I understand what you mean, just assisting with clarity because it is more fair to say "Mac OS X has continued the lineage of NeXTSTEP" than it is to say "Mac OS X is basically NeXTSTEP." Think about everyth
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by SllX 3y ago
A fairer characterization would be to say it is in NeXTSTEP’s lineage. Not only had a lot changed by 10.0, but at this point Mac OS X has been under development (and forked into multiple OS projects several times over) more than twice as lo
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by SllX 3y ago
You're such a kidder. Nobody would be that dastardly.
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by SllX 3y ago
Actually I think the real reason is even lamer. The iPhone is their baby, and the iPad is decidedly not. It’s a good business, it’s a big business, and they sell a lot of them, but in terms of revenue it has never really exceeded the Mac an
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by SllX 3y ago
Not a highlight in English history as it was a rather bloody time.
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by SllX 3y ago
A tip I picked up from Gruber is if you want your phone to stop incorrecting you on certain words, add them to your Text Replacement dictionary (including capitalization variants). This works for certain choice words in the English language
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by SllX 3y ago
> well yes. That's part of the rub. You'll pay $100/year even if you never launch an app so that makes sense. That's the cost of using Apple's SDK. You don’t need to pay Apple $100/year if all you want is Xc
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by SllX 3y ago
Well, no, it’s $100/year for the developer fee plus the 15-30% you paid to Apple if you charged money anywhere, which in the US is now 12-27% if you subtract Apple’s payment processing portion and soon in the EU this new complex sche
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by SllX 3y ago
Not sure how you got from my separation of unit from developer program Point A to your BYOOS Point Z. The developer program ≠ the operating system. The phone at least in the case of iPhones is the hardware unit plus the software (the operat
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by SllX 3y ago
That should be easy for Apple then. They bill developers for the developer program (tools, APIs, entitlements, etc.) and sell users the phone.
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by SllX 3y ago
Yeah, except the text matters a whole lot more than the intent because that’s what you’re going to read and reference when determining how to comply. If the intent is just for Apple to roll over and show their belly, they’re not really ob
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by SllX 3y ago
So I’ve got to ask, is malicious compliance a real actionable legal theory or is it just something that has been written about but never prosecuted? It reads like one of those buzzwords that doesn’t actually mean anything useful in a the co
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by SllX 3y ago
I would actually give Microsoft more credit. Most of what annoys me about Excel on a Mac is because it’s old, like maybe the oldest piece of software still running on the Mac that was written for the Mac and I’m including Apple’s own softwa
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by SllX 3y ago
You’re preaching to the choir but the issue is that a lot of people “reject” it, and it is still an active part of American jurisprudence.
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by SllX 3y ago
Yeah, but wait till you hear about qualified immunity.

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