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by SllX 5mo ago
To clarify, if this wasn't clear already: Apple Maps at launch was a debacle. It's present day Apple Maps I would be hard pressed to call a debacle.
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by SllX 5mo ago
Not a single one of these really checks out as a point of legitimate confusion. If you’re coming at San Francisco with zero knowledge, are studying a map and somehow identify these somewhat similarly named roads, maybe you could get mixed u
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by SllX 5mo ago
Or the one who wrote the headline sucks at his or her job. Occam’s razor saves you from geopoliticizing lazy headline writing practices.
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by SllX 5mo ago
I don’t know what you’re paying for that you see a $60/year subscription, but if it’s worth the $60/year to you, then you pay it. If it’s not, you don’t. There are two apps I pay for that replace an app on my phone: $15/year
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by SllX 5mo ago
I’m criticizing the title, not the HN submission title. Your other point is fair, but what I’m getting at is that there’s no reason to obfuscate. If Huawei did something cool, and they did, the publication can be more forthright about it ra
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by SllX 5mo ago
I recently switched back to Google Maps after Apple announced ads were coming to Apple Maps, since if the default Maps app is going to be saddled with ads on my thousands of dollars worth of Apple hardware anyway , I may as well use the be
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by SllX 5mo ago
s/Chinese/Huawei It’s 2026. Headlines don’t have to obfuscate brands behind the country of origin.
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by SllX 5mo ago
Generally speaking, Apple should be improving and adding to the base operating system all the time, including new apps. It is better for their users including new users if the phone itself is capable of more out of the box. Where they fall
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by SllX 6mo ago
1993 "socials".
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by SllX 6mo ago
This is a minor detail, but the "AT&T" that bought BellSouth in 2006 was the AT&T formerly known as SBC which bought the husk of Ma Bell and rebranded itself, i.e. the AT&T we have today.
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by SllX 6mo ago
The nation-state is a current living concept that nation-states and their peoples for the most part are incredibly attached to. If you want to convince the peoples of the EU that is an outdated concept that has lived its time, that is a tou
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by SllX 6mo ago
> Would you let one or two cities have veto power over the policy of an entire country? And this is why analogies are bad. A few important details: 1) The EU is not a country. 2) The one-country veto already has limited applications with
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by SllX 6mo ago
No.
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by SllX 6mo ago
I tried it a few different times a few different places about 7 or 8 years ago, and it wasn’t bad when prepared by the right hands… but after that I never ate again. At the end of the day, given a choice between meat and not meat, I’m never
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by SllX 6mo ago
If something gets flagged down that hard, it’s easy to see in show dead. I almost never see anything flagged/dead that didn’t actually deserve it. The moderation here is excellent.
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by SllX 6mo ago
Yes. If you define the market in a ridiculous manner and convince a court to go along with it, anybody can be a monopoly. But the M series are an Apple product line designed by Apple with a ARM license and produced on contract by TSMC for u
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by SllX 6mo ago
So rob American businesses blind, but say you didn’t, but if you did, they had it coming anyway because of an unsubstantiated flimsy moral justification that disregards the purchasing choices of the EU citizenry, businesses and governments?
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by SllX 6mo ago
Or: a guy who is anti-copyright is performing an angle shoot to see if he can get some legislators to bite. The EU taking staunchly anti-American positions and targeting American businesses looking for a way to “legally” rob them blind is p
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by SllX 7mo ago
Because it’s essentially propaganda. By conflating “Not Implementing something Google did” with “Intentionally Crippling”, they hope to pressure Apple by through either the general public (the PR game) or through Government mandates (the lo
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by SllX 7mo ago
Kagi Translate does not support arbitrary unfiltered and open-ended language input for websites. I tried before commenting.
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by SllX 7mo ago
They need to do this for websites. This would save me a lot of time translating politicians into… something else.
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by SllX 7mo ago
Isn't LibreOffice still an integrated office suite like OpenOffice.org was? I never bothered installing it, so I'm genuinely asking about that one. But Google Workspace would probably count as a fully integrated suite.
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by SllX 7mo ago
Well iWork too. Before that, AppleWorks/ClarisWorks, but yeah, there's things like OpenOffice.org/StarOffice/LibreOffice/NeoOffice which are pretty much all the same lineage (StarOffice and its derivatives). Zoho&#x
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by SllX 7mo ago
Don’t confuse the social justification with the actual purpose of copyright law just because it’s written into the US Constitution that way. America didn’t invent copyright law.
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by SllX 7mo ago
That is still the meat and potatoes of copyright law.
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by SllX 7mo ago
Well no, it’s about legally gating the ability to copy so the original author doesn’t have to compete in the same market to sell his own book with every other bloke with a printing press and a copy of the book. Everything else is an adden
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by SllX 7mo ago
*suspending Not repealed. But yes.
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by SllX 7mo ago
Gruber has also had it for a week at most by the time he published his review. It’s enough time to run some tests, not enough time to properly review what it will be like to actually live with it. I like the guy, but I also understand the l
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by SllX 7mo ago
> Why doesn't America deal with political questions using their political process? Since 2022 we do. But it’s through the political process of the States. This has made a lot of people very angry because a bunch of States have got i
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by SllX 7mo ago
A $600 laptop bought new should absolutely still be useful in 5 years. It should be useful longer than 5 years. That people’s standards are so low is a condemnation of the modern computer market.

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