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by aluminum96 5y ago
This is typically lovely and well-designed Teenage Engineering hardware. I'm sure the buttons will feel great. I'm wary of buying it though, it might end up sitting on a shelf looking pretty like my Pocket Operator.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
I didn't know they were a nonprofit. In that case, my OP is pretty off-topic for this case.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
I had no idea Goodreads was an Amazon service. Frankly, the whole site feels pretty janky. I'm surprised they would have acquired it and then not invested more.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
> a less secure computing experience Citation needed. The web sandbox in most browsers is head-and-shoulders more secure than executing arbitrary native code. Perhaps you meant "private." It's true that the web has develop
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Hardware APIs, such as: bluetooth, MIDI, NFC, ambient light, USB A ton of media codecs. Apple is attached at the hip to the MPAA, and so they only implement standards that generate MPAA royalties such as MPEG and its descendants. Web data s
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Even if iPad Safari had dev tools, you really want to be able to test against chromium. If they ever get serious about the iPad developer market, they're going to have to relax many constraints, including this one (as well as the no-JI
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by aluminum96 5y ago
In addition to being crippled under the hood, as other comments have pointed out, the alternative browsers cannot offer any extra features. Want WebMIDI? Want push notifications? Sorry, you can't have that on iOS, not with any browser.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Microsoft at the time had a virtual OS monopoly (around 90% market share if I recall), and the court found that they were unlawfully leveraging an existing monopoly for advantage in a different market (web browsers). With less than 50% shar
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Apple has almost single-handedly held back the dream of native-quality experiences on the web. Want service workers to perform background sync? Want push notifications? Sorry, you're out of luck on iOS. It's a blatantly protection
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by aluminum96 5y ago
> more permission dialogs is also not what I want Permission dialogs are a small price to pay for enabling entire categories of applications! For example, consider WebMIDI: there are huge number of web apps that use the new standard, ran
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Only somewhat on-topic, but this is the latest in a long line of cases which transfer IP from universities to corporations on various grounds. For a particularly representative previous example, see Stanford v Roche [1], in which SCOTUS fou
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Many people in this thread seem to feel that a Namecheap domain is an inalienable right. On the contrary, a company whose employees are being brutally besieged as we speak has every right to reassess who it does business with.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
> the Russian military bombed Kharkiv with cluster munitions That's a war crime, right? I hope that the field commanders who carried out these orders are brought to justice.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Namecheap is entitled to terminate its business relationship with RU entities, just as you are entitled to do the same with Namecheap. I, for one, will be moving my own personal domain to Namecheap at next renewal. This is a political issue
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Do you have issues with spam filters blocking your emails? I've heard that any non `.com` email is a mess from a deliverability perspective.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
It's really regrettable that "cyberattack" can mean so many very different things, and reporters rarely clarify. Is it a random ransomware infection? Or is it a targeted attack by a national adversary? It really could be eith
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The DEC Alpha had a notoriously weak memory model(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by aluminum96 5y ago
This is slightly off topic -- it's about an old supported microarchitecture -- but Linux still supports DEC Alpha, despite no chip with that architecture having been developed since 2004. DEC Alpha has extremely weak memory ordering.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
> Emotions are coordination systems designed to refocus your entire cognitive architecture towards a specific task This is a really powerful way of looking at emotion. Of course emotion serves an evolutionary purpose, but it's such
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Would you expand this to allow reporting of bots and manipulated accounts? I've seen a ton of false reports about the RU invasion of UA from recently-created accounts this week.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
In this case, since the vacancy rate is a dramatic overstatement of actual units that are likely rentable, the impact of vacancy taxes on supply will be low. A much more fruitful avenue to increase supply would be construction.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
SWEII/L4
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by aluminum96 5y ago
That’s pretty encouraging news if they follow through with it. Things are changing these last few days faster than I can keep up; perhaps this actually will be a historical inflection point.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
I absolutely agree! I love my job, I love my colleagues, and I love being able to work on open source. It’s just really unfortunate that most companies make you “play the game”, instead of just retaining people with actual market comp.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
Yeah. It comes in around the 20th percentile, both on levels.fyi and compared to informal internal data. Edit: I think the reason for this is that I went over a “four-year vesting cliff,” and you really need at least 2 promos to surmount th
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by aluminum96 5y ago
I have lately felt very underpaid, given the current crazy job market for developers. I’m at a FAANG which supposedly pays “market rate,” but it doesn’t seem true in practice. Why play the promo and comp game, spending months or years provi
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by aluminum96 5y ago
I am just describing a preference.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
> The EU will need to dramatically reduce energy dependence on Russia after this This has been clear for quite some time now, but Germany chose to move in the opposite direction by shutting down its nuclear plants. As long as Russian e
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by aluminum96 5y ago
New York and European markets have not yet opened for the week. The futures are roughly a reliable indicator of where the market will open, low volume or not.
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by aluminum96 5y ago
This is a misled effort which is doomed to fail. 1. A healthy nonzero vacancy rate of 5-10% reduces landlord pricing power. Unnaturally low vacancy rates work against tenants, not for them. 2. Did you know that rental properties which have

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