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by Y-bar 10mo ago
You would do well to avoid 26. I upgraded to be a Guinea Pig for a few colleagues and I regret it. Things like apps and scripts work in the technical sense, but it is worse because the myriad of graphical and interactive issues.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
And it will continue until node_modules shrinks!
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
And once you account for externalities, is it still cheaper?
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
You’ll enjoy ”Saving Lives” by Andy Hertzfied: https://www.folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html > "The Macintosh boots too slowly. You've got to make it faster!"
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Please provide any tangible evidence that progressive taxation and prohibition on discrimination on the basis of race has been catastrophic.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Personally not experienced this. However, continuity camera seems to have gotten more unstable over the past months for me.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Give an example regulation which has objectively been catastrophic and where there has been no clear attempts at amending or improving it.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
> You can also get lower card fees in US if you have a low risk business model. It is only the maximum fee that is capped (along with various provisions for eg transparency). You can also get lower fees in EU, just twenty minutes ago I
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
> always ends up catastrophically. Government intervention like forbidding led-based paints or asbestos in homes? Or government intervention like doing something about the ozone depletion? Government intervention like forbidding roaming
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
> I don’t see it as a matter of defending Apple, it’s really a matter of technical understanding and competence. So do I. And my >20 years in the business gives me the experience and knowledge to see through Apple’s FUD. > […] but
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
They also capped credit card fees at 0.3% in 2015. It also included a prohibition on discrimination against any merchant based on eg size or category of goods sold. And as far as I can see neither Mastercard nor Visa had problems staying in
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Three months ago a commenter here on HN claimed to me that this will be bad for Apple users: > There is simply no good way to make the API public while maintaining the performance and quality expectations that Apple consumers have. If th
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
The man who fancies himself a modern-day Sauron (yes! [1]), who says “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." and who wants to assemble a neo-theocracy by a wealthy elite does something. Some people: “we do not
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
I have never been as happy with Firefox as I am in 2025. Yet… Sometimes my fellow FF users seems to be making a worse advertisement than the ”you should rewrite this application in Rust” does for Rust, and those people have by sheer annoyan
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
The wobbling is the worst part of the hardware on my iPhone mini, annoys me probably more than fifty times per week. Because I often unlock it when it is on the desk I also miss Touch ID a lot, because with Face ID I also have to lean forwa
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Twice in my career have I turned down job offers at companies which I consider unethical. And I will continue doing so. So, yes, I have not and will not be one of them.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Doctors and chemists were paid handsomely by Marlboro Tobacco and Philip Morris. Didn’t make me like the C-suite at those companies any better.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
The commission might have agreed with the timeline. It is unclear. But on the other hand this is not just about the relationship between Apple and the EC. Their understanding might actually have meant that the damage to users and other deve
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
I disagree that the choice is simple. In reality there are only two mobile operating systems where there is any hardware to purchase in my town. These two operating systems are the only mobile devices where my bank (and as far as I am aware
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
When I read that it registered as being a light-hearted observation with a healthy dose of humour, and not an attempt at being rude.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
I too think yearly updates are a bit too much and I too want to keep my devices for a long time. Still rocking an iPhone 12 (mini). But support for newer codecs like AV1 and general hardware refreshes to keep up with the underlying Android
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Over twenty years ago there came a mandate that all places with many people gathers (both residential and commercial housing) should have a EN 54‑21 compliant alarm transmitter to automatically notify authorities in case of a fire. I'm
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
I see many people liking their shield, and with good reason it seems, but is it a worthy ecosystem to buy in to when it has not seen a new hardware revision since 2019?
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
> If you are writing a scraper it behooves you to understand the website that you are scraping. That’s what semantic markup is for? No? H1…n:s, article:s, nav:s, footer:s (and microdata even) and all that helps both machines and humans t
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
> the iPhone always invisibly resizes keys hitboxes using predictions about what key you want to use next. This can't be disabled, and has been part of the iPhone since the very first. Yes. True. > It's a really abysmal expe
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
I have this disabled and the problem clearly exists anyway.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
Frutti di mare is fruit of the sea. Fish is flora. QED.
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by Y-bar 10mo ago
In PHP I don’t think there is a native way to convert E_DEPRECATED into E_ERROR, but the most common testing framework has a quick way of doing the same. https://docs.phpunit.de/en/12.5/configuration.html#the-failo
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by Y-bar 11mo ago
He is literally the primary person at the latest Apple event to introduce Liquid Glass, his face and name is on Apple's promotional material. If he wants to live a secluded life where his name is not referenced maybe he should not agre
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by Y-bar 11mo ago
It’s a veiled endorsement of authoritarianism and accelerationism.

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