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by ajross 10mo ago
Again, no such thing. There's no antitrust regulatory framework that recognizes the ability of "small" brands to constrain their downstream markets in ways "big" ones can't. People are getting bent out of shap
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by ajross 10mo ago
> the brands have a closer connection to their customers That's... not a thing though. No such thing as "brand rights" [1] beyond stuff like trademark, which clearly doesn't apply here. In particular there's no
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by ajross 10mo ago
Yeah, this is structurally no different than hiring an assistant to shop for you. The complaint isn't a moral one. It's fundamentally a trademark dispute. Manufacturers of goods want control about how their products are presente
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by ajross 10mo ago
> This also meant that bidders could not edit the specifications. But they can! That's the bug, PDF is a mutable file format owing to Adobe's muckery. And you made the same mistake that every government redactor and censor (u
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by ajross 10mo ago
PDF files are for storing fixed (!!) output of printed/printable material. That's where the format's roots are via Postscript, it's where the format found its main success in document storage, and it's the metaphor
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by ajross 10mo ago
It's hilarious the extent to which Adobe Systems's ridiculously futile attempt to chase MS Word features ended up being the single most productive espionage tool of the last quarter century.
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by ajross 10mo ago
The preemptive "It doesn’t matter what I think or what you think" tells us that you know damn well this wasn't legal or appropriate. I stand by my analysis, you are defending this madness on the internet not because you know
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by ajross 10mo ago
Not like shamelessly branding civil architecture after The Leader is such a big deal, everyone else does it or did it, pretty much. It's just... so embarrassing.
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by ajross 10mo ago
> Java had a leg-up over C++ by several decades in having a concurrency story (at all) in the language. While sort of technically true, concurrent code expressed in high level language was almost invented in C in the 1980's as the
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by ajross 10mo ago
I ask again: what crime do you think she was being detained to prevent? I'm inferring your motivation from your refusal to engage on the subject you claim to be debating.
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by ajross 10mo ago
> That’s up to the agents to articulate and the investigators, prosecutors, judges, and juries to evaluate. Which will never happen, because the suspect is a faceless (literally) body in a morgue. You're just dodging. Because, and
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by ajross 10mo ago
What crime was she " about to commit " then which she needed to be detained to prevent? Sketch for me the indictment you're imagining for which she got executed. You're doing hyper-specific hair splitting elsewhere in
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by ajross 10mo ago
> US immigration has been dysfunctional my entire life and it's only gotten worse during the last 10 years. This policy was instituted in August. Pretending that this is just an evolving norm in a pocket along the line of a routine
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by ajross 10mo ago
> Are you really suggesting that an armed federal law enforcement officer doesn’t have the ability to detain someone that they suspect is interfering with one of their operations? Well, gosh. It's a little rusty, but I'm prett
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by ajross 10mo ago
I don't buy that example about errors at the end at all. The problem the author is trying to solve is to write code that calls a foreign/fixed-API function that is known to return a particular subtype of Error, and wants to extra
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by ajross 10mo ago
> Panic is no excuse for running someone over with your car It is certainly not. Nor is shooting someone in the face. Only one of those things actually happened. It's possible to believe this woman was an asshole and an agitator
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by ajross 10mo ago
> Of course, ICE doesn’t just end up targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. Unfortunate timing of this article going live... Some of that seems quaint now.
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by ajross 10mo ago
I try to make this point when the subject comes up, but IMHO this is a lipstick-on-a-pig solution. The problem with npm security isn't stability or attestation, it's the impossibility of auditing all that garbage. The software is
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by ajross 10mo ago
How can they not be a "broker" when they handled the transaction?! How can they not be a "resolver" when they're the ones refusing to pay based on their own determination? Also, what definition of "invasion&qu
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by ajross 10mo ago
POTUS literally, literally announced that the US had control over all (!) of Venezuela. Now, sure, that's kind of a lie. But (ahem) By The Definition of The Bet, actual control is not required. Only a military offensive intended
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by ajross 10mo ago
Or Apple. Also Microsoft who were the ones bankrolling OpenAI before it started floating on its own equity. In point of fact money to throw at AI development is essentially free, not one of the big players sustains itself on income. Inves
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by ajross 10mo ago
And for the fourth time, it may be a valid "criticism" in the sense of "Does Intel Suck or Rule?". It does not validate the idea that this product release, which introduces the most competitive process from this compa
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by ajross 10mo ago
Again, you're talking about the design of Panther Lake, the CPU IC. No one cares, it's a CPU. The news here is the launch of the Intel 18A semiconductor process and the discussion as to if and how it narrows or closes the gap wi
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by ajross 10mo ago
FWIW: induction ranges have sealed tops. There are no paths to get a high voltage from the AC input to the range top, no matter what boils over, and if you break things such that there is a short the relevant GFCI failsafes will shut it of
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by ajross 10mo ago
I don't see how any of that substantiates "Panther Lake and 18A are just cost cutting efforts vs. Lunar Lake". It mostly just sounds like another boring platform flame.
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by ajross 10mo ago
> I'm not talking about fitts law on phones though, I don't think anyone is. I was , in the comment you responded to! I'm saying that phone-centric UI paradigms completely dominate in the modern world. And by extension,
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by ajross 10mo ago
> cost cutting on Lunar Lake It's... the launch vehicle for a new process. Literally the opposite of "cost cutting", they went through the trouble of tooling up a whole fab over multiple years to do this. Will 18A beat TS
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by ajross 10mo ago
> fitts law Applies only to an increasingly obscure input device. No one talks about Fitts's Law on phones, because it's fundamentally wrong. The "size" of a control assumes you have a mouse or joystick or something
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by ajross 10mo ago
Do you have a cite for that? It's a hamburger menu, which is by far a more common menu paradigm in the modern world. Do you imagine some kind of "casual user" who... doesn't have a phone? I repeat: the menu bar is a
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by ajross 10mo ago
The irony here isn't so much that it's the minutiae of the menu design that's wrong, it's the top-bar menus as a whole are a dead paradigm . Nothing uses them anymore. Leave the mac for a moment and go to your windows

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