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   by arp242 1y ago

   Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7G-wIm-e8 It is well known that Steve Jobs got his inspiration for the Apple UI from Xerox PARC, but I think we've found the inspiration for the Apple Marketing strategy.
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   by arp242 1y ago

   Incidentally, this came up on my YouTube the other day: How Japan escaped Obesity while America got Fat – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6Wq4KWu7M
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   by arp242 1y ago

   I think the thing is that different people are, well, different. I talked about this a few weeks ago[1], but for me losing and maintaining weight actually is quite easy. I foresee no problems maintaining weight going forward because I man
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   by arp242 1y ago

   > Electric scooters are illegal in the UK Technically they're not illegal, but they are classified as motor vehicles and require a driving license, tax, and insurance. However, no one actually offers insurance, and I guess you'
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   by arp242 1y ago

   Super73's own webpage advertises it as a "high performance electric motorbike". I don't know what the strict legal definition is and I'll take your word for it that "pedals directly connected to a chain" i
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   by arp242 1y ago

   I'll add it – two minutes Turkish. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is on it, which arguably is a better film.
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   by arp242 1y ago

   These platforms constantly ban people for inscrutable reasons without any recourse, except perhaps for "support by media attention". I see no reason to assume this is any different, and that the ban is unrelated to their work on L
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   by arp242 1y ago

   I found [1], which says "For Qualcomm hardware where the USB audio can be offloaded to a dedicated audio DSP for handling the transfers to the USB host controller, this lessens the work of the main CPU cores and can help with power ma
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   by arp242 1y ago

   > If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep. That capability's been available in Android for a while, but no
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    by arp242 1y ago

    It's partly just a numbers game, innit? There are about 5.5 billion on the internet. IIRC about 3 billion of them speak English. Even a tiny percentage being profoundly unreasonable means there are millions of them. Sooner or later you
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    by arp242 1y ago

    > Western developers are obsessing over the latest JavaScript framework or arguing about tabs vs. spaces Most "Western developers" are not doing that; this is a minority. I don't really know anything about Japanese softwar
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    by arp242 1y ago

    The problem with this line of reasoning is that a few bad faith actors can kill any topic on the site simply by showing up and being unpleasant.
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    by arp242 1y ago

    I'll just comment here and say that I support your right to participate in society. I don't think this entire thread is especially relevant here. I don't have a clear comprehensive theory on what justice is (and if I did, it
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    by arp242 1y ago

    Most people do not use a navigation app for most trips (i.e. commuting to work, grocery shopping, or whatnot).
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    by arp242 1y ago

    We don't "need" another $anything. Vapid pointless remark.
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    by arp242 1y ago

    It's not really a fork in any meaningful sense, because rewriting dwm (or any other X11 WM) to Wayland means re-doing almost all code. A "dmw with Wayland" would basically be "if (x11) { x11_code() } else { wayland_code(
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    by arp242 1y ago

    You can use "firefox -ProfileManager". I didn't even know about about:profiles. There is some work on improving the UI: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management Anyway, your claim was
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    by arp242 1y ago

    I don't choose anything; I just use the xterm defaults. Some colours inherently conflict. Blue on white is fine. Yellow on black is fine. Yellow on white is not. White on white is even worse. There are many combinations that don't
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    by arp242 1y ago

    I don't control these applications.
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    by arp242 1y ago

    How would that work with applications that hard-code the background to black (or some other colour, like tmux's green statusline)? If you change the colours to work on a light background then those break. You have to choose what you wa
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    by arp242 1y ago

    Some programs set the background colour and some don't. For example pamix sets the background to black, or tmux's statusline, or ngrok. It's not really possible to define one terminal scheme that always works.
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    by arp242 1y ago

    I don't especially like git. I stuck with mercurial for a long time. But that was ten years ago. Now git is kind of hard-wired in my brain. By and large, it works well enough. It's not really clear to me that Jujutsu offers a sign
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    by arp242 1y ago

    I don't know that much about Putin, but "some hands in Putins rise to power" is not really substantiated by your article. It just claims that the US knew some things and didn't act on them, and provides some weak evidenc
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    by arp242 1y ago

    > if they were abolished the world would be a better place I'm not so sure about that; some actions of the CIA are questionable at best, but the Soviet Union or KGB were not the good guys by any means, nor is Al Qaeda or Putin&#x2
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    by arp242 1y ago

    Just force of habit. Being around such forceful magnets is not a daily occurrence so you don't really think about this sort of thing (for both the wife and husband). I can totally see how something like this happens. I once bought a ca
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    by arp242 1y ago

    You have not actually answered the question. So still an uninformed opinion and you don't know if this is "over-regulation" or not if you don't know the facts. You can write endless paragraphs of ideology and cynicism to
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    by arp242 1y ago

    So every consumer will have to do a full toxicology study before they buy anything? Or electrical safety study. Or whatever. And because the same product can come from different sources (or may change from one day to the next), you will nee
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    by arp242 1y ago

    That quote does continue with "which cause a trip hazard". I have no idea what the trip hazard on that is, or how many children tripped on these types of strings. Do you? It seems to me that any opinion without this information is
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    by arp242 1y ago

    Here's what I wrote in 2019 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592195 ): "The reason for Slack's success is probably because it's a "turn key solution": you register your company, invite y
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    by arp242 1y ago

    The aggressive counter and (baseless) accusations of antisemitism might have something to do with that.