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by alacombe 6y ago
> Imo great engineers produce a lot of good to great quality work fast Sounds awfully like the Myth of the 10x Engineer .
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The principle here is good (check if the developer’s certificate is revoked) How is that remotely good ? It makes it easy to bully / blackmail developer to abide to every Apple will and revoke a certificate in pure retaliation, cf
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Apple has always been at the forefront of extreme usability (kids using iPads, seniors sending iMessages) No they haven't, proof: the lack of tactile feedback on the iPhone 7+ is a usability impairments for seniors.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> ... and could access your work product from a different device Provided you have "a different device", which isn't the case of many.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Small attainable goals... The USSR didn't go to full planning of the economy overnight, it was very much gradual, one "reasonable" plan after another.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The idea of banning gas cars 15 years from now is silly. It's not, the goal is virtue signalling, not effective policing. > If everyone had an attainable 5 year goal Sounds like USSR's Five-Year Plans...
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Size won't matter, as the ban will target small cars, SUVs, vans and pick-up trucks that are for personal use. If electric vehicles are the future, then why does the ban only apply to "personal use" vehicle ?
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Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access(jmmv.dev)
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by alacombe 6y ago
Apple online support has probably been my worst experience ever . On something as simple a ordering 2 magsafe power supply, they manage to only send me 1, and had to wait 3 weeks without any communication to finally get the notification fo
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by alacombe 6y ago
And even US based folks might now have an Apple Store within reasonable driving distance.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> It's just buggy, not dead. However there should be a point when backward compatibility should be dropped, if you want to keep maintaining a sane codebase and interface, or force a "better" way of doing things. Not when m
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Because every update usually also moves things forward. Just because something move forward doesn't means it moves in the right direction. > And because they still have the better OS/hardware combo. Do they ? How many brai
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by alacombe 6y ago
which begs the question... Is backward compatibility dead ? People are rejoicing when developer updates their app "fast" to support new OS, but once upon a time, one wouldn't even expect to have to update anything at all , j
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by alacombe 6y ago
What ? Who would ever think they need to update their app to support NEWER OS ? Or are newer generations completely oblivious to the fundamental concept of backward compatibility ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I run a 4k display and a 1920x1080 display side by side, and X is utter garbage at handling it. I'm running 3 physical monitors, split to 4 "virtual" monitors with overall 3 different resolutions and I have no problem wh
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I do not condone violence and at the moment the police seem to be doing most of it. There needs to be a check on that. I guess your opinion then fully depends on where the MSM camera are pointed toward, because you've got to be aw
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by alacombe 6y ago
So everyone carry their own justice ? I'm down for that (CCW holder in a Stand-Your-Ground state), are you ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The idea is to reduce the central militarized force with a plurality of nonviolent support services and unarmed law enforcement New-York inhabitant already thank you, especially given the radical upspike in violence since the NYPD defu
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by alacombe 6y ago
Define "nothing wrong" ? Also, there is now a watchman watching the watchman, but who's watching the watchman watching the watchman ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> you are going to disband the centralized, omnipurpose paramilitary law enforcement entities known as "police departments", redistribute law enforcement responsibilities among domain-specific entities that for the most part ar
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by alacombe 6y ago
> On the other it is not a convincing argument about how you shouldn’t be too worried about the US military Another argument is that the US military is likely to be split in case of direct intervention on US national soil, including in s
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I’d call that necessary or the lesser of two evils Which is literally the very definition of _good_ - "In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possibl
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I mean, there’s no way to look at tens of thousands of deaths and declare it to be a good thing. Yes, there is. It was called the Russian WWII front where the Russians sent to the meat grinder by the tens of thousands held back the Ger
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by alacombe 6y ago
Yet, the US has pretty much been kept at bay from Irak and Afghanistan, go figure... In general, the US army is not equipped for guerilla-style warfare, and especially not on US soil. Local PD are another story on this point, but far less e
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by alacombe 6y ago
> which led to the rise of Trump Trump is just a middle finger to the Democrats woke policies coming from social science university labs and generally more artistic people, which indeed tends to be over representated in the entertainment
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Even on HN, a site that usually is for free speech and discussing alternative theories, Big Tech employees are the largely the same demographic as HN readers, which are a large proportion of would-be white knights, most making $150k or
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by alacombe 6y ago
> ...are you suggesting that progressives have more "dirty laundry" than conservatives in general? Yes. For one thing, if there ever collusion in 2016, it came from the Democrats now established pay-for-play policies, selling U
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by alacombe 6y ago
> it's unclear if I would also have to ground the floor underneath me, or essentially "trap" RF emitting upwards into my cage Your research must not have gone really far if you're still wondering about this kind of qu
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by alacombe 6y ago
> This would be wildly beneficial to the consumer. You'll need some hard proof about that statement, how about you start with a clear metric for "beneficial to consumer". As much as I hate to say this, I really don'
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by alacombe 6y ago
1) amazon is pretty much not making any profit 2) it is a mistake to think about tax break as lost revenue. You can tax 100% everything, then wonder why the "official" economy has halted and whine about "lost revenue" of

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