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by bagacrap 3y ago
Agreed. I feel the need to learn new things just to keep my learning muscle strong. Sometimes I actually need to learn a new thing, and if I haven't done it in a while, it's scarier.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
And yet the main reason Elon is famous and rich and owns Twitter is because he is a very successful communicator and Twitter's most adept user. I think you will find that the people who work at Ford are, by and large, "car guys&qu
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by bagacrap 3y ago
In addition to that, security should probably be a consideration at the design phase of any feature or product. As in, an internal team should be vetting design and critical areas of the code itself. But the culture there only cares about &
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Sure, but this company's entire mission is enabling human communication, and grammatical non sequiturs just make them look clueless. p.s. it's "every day", not "everyday"
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Hopefully a news item as large as this one will cause them to lose some contracts, at least at the margin.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Size is correlated with resources. Microsoft should have the resources to throw at this problem. Unfortunately the Microsoft approach to software engineering is to set a bunch of monkeys loose on a room full of keyboards, rather than to spe
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I think the difference is what's considered "average". I'm pretty sure the average rural life has always been somewhat unexciting and hard, and that hasn't changed. Now you can compare your life to the urban/mo
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by bagacrap 3y ago
So the UK was a dominant power 90 years ago and now it's a minor player, meanwhile the US is dominating... but yeah, it's the US that's got capitalism wrong. Okay. Perhaps it's your socialized medicine that is causing do
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Poor people in cities are in the same situation.* The geographical distinction is I think a red herring that goes away when you control for wealth. The article mentions wealthy people in Colorado, which is mostly not very urban. *Even rich
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by bagacrap 3y ago
On the other side of the globe? I guess that wouldn't cross my mind. I do like the idea that there are well paid jobs that don't require many years of schooling. Seems good for social mobility.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Is poverty, the amount of time spent in a car, or boredom anything new since 1980? If anything we (they) are less bored, constantly stimulated. Since there has been a large increase in deaths of despair specifically, I'm inclined to bl
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I think the argument would be that they're necessary but not sufficient for success.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Kiss up, kick down
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Google has nearly 200k employees. What's the highest ranking one of them that has said anything about WEI publicly?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
My pixel 5 is still going strong and has plenty of battery. I have noticed degradation, but it's still enough to get through a day or more depending on use. The one thing that eats the battery alive is Instagram, which is great as it g
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I think he means Google phones, ie Pixel. I am not surprised because they've been advertising pixel really hard, and they are good phones. Still, it seems a lot more likely to eat into Samsung than Apple market share.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I don't even know who you think I'm dismissing. Mine is more of a generalized ennui directed at HN as a whole. I don't think Google has actually done anything. The bar for experimenting with new code in Chromium is pretty low
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by bagacrap 3y ago
But the usual HN paranoid anti-Google retort is that Google happily charges advertisers for fake ad impressions. Now if Google cares about real impressions it's still terrible no good very bad evil.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Chrome has nowhere near 95% market share so it would be hard to make the same case against them. Given that it's open-source and anyone can roll and distribute a tweaked version of Chromium (and many have, notably Microsoft), it's
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by bagacrap 3y ago
...and Microsoft has more power than Google at the moment
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Proud Boys would be a good example. Not sure why they have to single out the right though. I guess every periodical has to take a stance on politics. The original source just said: """ Employees worry that, should Signal fail
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I thought you were suggesting chromium automatically scaled the SVG for the various sizes it needs. Are you saying you have to do it manually? That does sound like a nuisance.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
But Chromium is open source. Opera and Microsoft, among others, contribute frequently. Igalia is a consulting firm that takes commissions for Chromium browser work. So the correct statement would be that anyone with enough time and/or
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by bagacrap 3y ago
What do you think is going to happen before it's displayed?
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Posting this link to HN (and then describing some unrelated events of the last decade) is asking for it to be fixed? No, it's just griping loudly about one's pet bug, which is one of a zillion in a project as large as Chromium, ho
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by bagacrap 3y ago
> trend Overreach is a trend? So it will be passe eventually? > global [...] run To where, Mars? (Thought I would complement your utterly unhelpful comment with one of my own.)
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by bagacrap 3y ago
I mean that commenter also didn't fix it in the last ten years. Chromium is open source isn't it? Maybe the commenter is less than ten years old. Otherwise they have as little excuse as the rest of us.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Colleges are rent seeking. Ricardo's law of rent suggests the cost of a college education will rise without bound to offset its utility.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
20,000 USD is objectively cheap for any car. At this point you're just complaining that cars are expensive.
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by bagacrap 3y ago
Wait, regular people are jealous of how middle class kids live?

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