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by Y-bar 1y ago
> farmers watch the wind and won't spray when drift is an issue Do they really? Never seem my neighbours being particularly picky about wind conditions. > the epa requires this in the us and they look at drift before approving sp
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I don’t store passwords in Firefox, nor do I use the ”Save page as”, I have never used the ”Report broken site” feature, and never activated ”Troubleshooting Mode”. I have never needed to configure network settings in my browser, and so on…
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by Y-bar 1y ago
It’s local and it tries to group the tabs based on what seems to be URL and title, and what seems to be a semantic content of the page (eg it understands to group shopping sites together).
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by Y-bar 1y ago
It’s Alan Dye at Apple, he has always been a graphics-trumps-usability guy. The problem is that he has nobody to moderate him and tell him that certain things will not work in the real world.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I remember well. I earned my living for a few years around 2010 porting slow Flash sites to regular web tech. It was hard to translate some functionality, but Flash was definitely slow compared to the equivalent regular website done without
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I am not and have never compared them in the way you say I did. You literally wrote ”Or that it was worse than the performance of doing the same thing in modern HTML+CSS now.” so I had to somehow repsond to that strange claim. Of course mod
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The default, and by far the most common, output from Flash had significantly slower click-to-response and for network latency and for rendering than HTML+CSS is today. You remembering a few optimised instances does not change the reality th
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Lots of people say performance was good, but that seems to be through the nostalgic lens of a handful of cool games. Those did sometimes run really great, but most implementations were indeed very slow. I remember vividly because it was par
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Those tools were awesome. But as formats go, they were awful due to bad performance and more security holes than anything else. I still miss Macromedia Fireworks.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
98% agreed. Sometimes even smart and savvy persons end up doing it, I did once on SourceForge via their confusing buttons. But the virus was a Windows variant and would not run on my Mac. SourceForge has since cleaned up their act so no sha
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I guess it is like the scammers working in call centers and building RAT:s. They surely must have a level of sociopathy greater than the average person.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Thanks for the comedy gold, well worth my time.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
When I replied to the above comment it said _five_ (not nine as it does now) figure budgets. So I assumed something akin to a person helping a community group, minor league sports team, and definitely not a billion dollar public entity. And
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by Y-bar 1y ago
True I suppose. But shouldn’t that be an even greater reason not to flag them? Issues of such importance is quite the opposite of regular bikeshedding.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
A lot of discussion on HN is ideological in nature, it’s just that the context is often Vue or React, or if PHP is good now, or how does SPA:s work in some browsers, or should desktop apps using Electron exist… Humanitarian/ethics cont
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Minimum wage for one adult with one child in California is $16.50/hr: https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/06 Assuming part time work (approximately one day every two weeks) at 10% of the yearly ~2000hr worked per ye
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Asking from a place of ignorance on my part, but does the chemical composition of the satellites versus asteroids/dust have any adverse effects?
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I've been on the internet since the early 90:ies, and this does happen semi-regularly, especially during the last decade. But I have never in my life experienced such situations stemming from an agreeing reflection/interjection du
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Only on the internet will "here's a related example why you might be correct" result in strange discussions like these. Makes me sad.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The point I am trying to make is that Orcas can choose to prey on large land animals when they are in the water and that they are not using the gift as bait. Why do you think I am disagreeing with you?
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by Y-bar 1y ago
They apparently hunt Moose on occasion: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2024/10/22/4-decad... (I know Forbes is not generally the best link, but the author of this article is an actual evo
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> Teams over-engineering their build pipeline, building "platforms" that other teams must use, an unmaintainable and untestable mess. Time better spent elsewhere. This hits home so much! I remember last year when I asked our Cl
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Today I learned that the "USB Charger Law" is some "random 2022 directive"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Equipment_Directive_(202...
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by Y-bar 1y ago
100% in agreement, but then again I often wish I could strip out like 60% of things in PHP Storm such as the database engine, AI stuff, docker integration, VCS client, or code-with-me which I never use and take up valuable interface and res
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by Y-bar 1y ago
What’s the difference? They both follow the same pattern. What am I missing?
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Yup. This is a common pattern for official EU pages to link to the various translations of the actual text using the country code. Another example: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2380/oj
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Again, that has nothing to do with why Apple considers it okay to punish other companies who wants to use those API:s. Apple is under zero obligation to make the API:s easy to implement, it’s just that they cannot forbid anyone from using t
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Then effing let them try? Apple, if you are correct will provide 100% of the best products every time. If it is so impossible, why have a corporate policy to punish competitors who try? They will obviously inevitably fail according to you.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
None of that has anything to do with secret/private API:s and corporate policies forbidding anyone else from using them.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> There is simply no good way to make the API public while maintaining the performance and quality expectations that Apple consumers have. You have no evidence for any of these two claims. From my professional experience it is 100% possi

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