WWLink

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by WWLink 2y ago
Apple always made things for the users. Microsoft always made things to sell to corporations. Dell always did the same, and their consumer offerings were always a shallow and shitty shell over their corporate ones (and this is STILL true! T
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by WWLink 2y ago
The imac g5 that followed was such a boring and ugly design compared to the G4. There was no mistaking that LOL. I don't think anyone liked it.
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by WWLink 2y ago
> Every year, you have several headlines in the mold of "X is everywhere and might be killing us"... but never really followed by that "oh yeah, it was really killing us" part. Asbestos? Cigarette smoke? BRUH lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
About as much evidence as there are companies hiring women over men 5:1 lmao.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Maybe they were hiring all the unrecognized talent the other companies were passing up on because the talent happened to be women. Perhaps they offered better benefits or had better outreach? I agree that 5:1 sounds extreme, but you're
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by WWLink 2y ago
Astra drifted on the launch pad before taking off lol
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by WWLink 2y ago
> Blue Origin has an awfully long way to go if they want to catch up to SpaceX Maybe we should just give the whole space industry to SpaceX because obviously nobody can touch them. /s
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by WWLink 2y ago
> I'm not passing judgment one way or another regarding consumer protections here, though I personally find EU more draconian than my preferences and whether they're effective is up for debate (GDPR is a hilarious failure, USB-
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by WWLink 2y ago
Dare I say it, if you convince 60% of the US to communicate on your platform exclusively, you deserve to be hit hard with an antitrust violation. IMHO iMessage should be broken off from Apple and they shouldn't be allowed to run a mess
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by WWLink 2y ago
iPhones are not a luxury good by any means. You can waltz right into an Apple Store TODAY and buy yourself a $429 iPhone SE or a $599 iPhone 14. Boost mobile was giving iPhone 12s away for $99. Virtually every carrier has a free-with 2-3 ye
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by WWLink 2y ago
I'm sitting here with mac/linux/windows machines, and both iphones/android phones....... What malware laden third party bullshit are you talking about? The stuff that is approved by Apple to be in the iOS App Store can b
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by WWLink 2y ago
Apple decided they only care about porn editors. Basically. lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
> I tell it to make a row of widgets and it outputs all the div+css soup (or e.g. material components) that only needs some tuning instead of having to google everything. As someone with a fairly neutral/dismissive/negative opi
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by WWLink 2y ago
Yea, going by the picture that road is VERY incorrectly setup, then! There should be a pedestrian bridge for that kinda road. o_O
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by WWLink 2y ago
I mean, ok? What's the big deal? So you have to drive slowly and carefully and wait for people who are walking and might not be paying the best of attention? I can see how that may be annoying but how many seconds/minutes does it
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by WWLink 2y ago
Eh? I always figured hackernews was full of silicon valley types who listen to peter thiel podcasts on their way home in their stickshift subaru (or FSD tesla).
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by WWLink 2y ago
Most of the websites I visit are selling something or sold me something. For the ones that aren't, I would consider a subscription service. If we're talking about something like an inexpensive web search or a subscription for a fa
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by WWLink 2y ago
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!!!!!
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by WWLink 2y ago
I also learned C by running a MUD, and I'm amazed how many people shared that experience with us LOL.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Linux scanner support is amazing. I have a >10 year old printer/scanner/fax machine that I still use for scanning and faxing sometimes. Getting scanning to work in modern MacOS or Windows is ... an adventure. It's possible
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by WWLink 2y ago
Well, if they find a remedy for why so many people are breaking the law and they aren't breaking the law anymore, the camera can be moved somewhere else. Or, the people who are still getting nailed by the camera are more likely to dese
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by WWLink 2y ago
The 'dumb' part was me being surprised by it :) I forgot to point that out lol.
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by WWLink 2y ago
I should add here that the 'dumb' was my observation and being surprised by it. :)
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by WWLink 2y ago
Traffic cameras should be used to figure out why people are doing what they're doing at a given intersection. A lot of the time they can be used to figure that out, and eliminate the need for them. Like I feel like the standard for tr
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by WWLink 2y ago
> And the user may also not be the customer. Which is why UX and DevEx are so much more difficult. If you’re a person making a piece on commission, what the buyer wants and needs can be different and you can get to the end and they are s
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by WWLink 2y ago
Yea, I was thinking it's like having the electrician do your drywall and like having your plumber install fiber optic cabling and your networking gear.
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by WWLink 2y ago
Is it really that bad software is bad, or that just like building a house, you need a team of different specialists to make your software? If you hire one person to build you an entire house from scratch, you're probably going to have
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by WWLink 2y ago
I think it's still hilarious and crazy that safari/chrome/webkit/blink exploded out of the cute little KHMTL browser called Konqueror in KDE from back in the day. And the root of the whole browser wars thing was microsof
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by WWLink 2y ago
What are you getting at? Is a state government supposed to be profitable? LOL
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by WWLink 2y ago
It's like meat and potatoes, though. Yes you can fill a website up with low effort filler content that keeps your viewers engaged and visiting, but in the long run you also need some solid meaty stuff. A lot of that sorta stuff moved o

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