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901.
by barnabee 6y ago
Depends. Market share certainly does not completely answer this at all. Some Android phones are dirt cheap. If they’re the same price and functionality and you have no cost of switching due to platform lock in, most everyone probably will
902.
by barnabee 6y ago
Honestly this (or, at leasst, prioritisation of parcels over letters and printed paper) is the right way round. If it were practical I'd back an actual and punitive financial tax on sending anything via the post that could be communica
903.
by barnabee 6y ago
Interesting about the average walking distance to a pub going up. My rural friends and family must be lucky as they don't seem to have been affected (and here in London you're unlucky if it's more than two mninutes). I'm
904.
by barnabee 6y ago
As far as I can tell, "zoning" is just a bad idea. There's no such thing in the UK [1] and it still surprises me that it's quite a common approach. (As a kid I thought it was a game device employed to make urban planning
905.
by barnabee 6y ago
This. The value I got out of university was mostly not tuition, but I think overall, (very pre-pandemic) the whole package was worth it. I've learnt vastly more by reading, engaging with people, and doing both before and after univer
906.
by barnabee 6y ago
I’d prefer ads that are not relevant to me because the chance of them manipulating me psychologically into doing something I wouldn’t rationally do is lower. Advertising is the new smoking. We do not fully understand the damage it does to s
907.
by barnabee 6y ago
Reason enough that they should be illegal or at least strictly and specifically opt in, not as part of general marketing consent. If a customer really wants or needs something they’ll go back and buy it. The world doesn’t need the excess co
908.
by barnabee 6y ago
Depends what you mean by “ecosystem”. If you’re at the level of a hobbyist who’s considers a blog post, Hackaday project, or YouTube tutorial about setting up some server or building some type of project part of the ecosystem, then the diff
909.
by barnabee 6y ago
Same. Motor and general engineering seem to be sound but oh so much weak, creaky plastic. It’s a shame there seems to be nothing better in a similar form factor. Clearly possible at the price.
910.
by barnabee 6y ago
> It could be argued that many modern digital natives are really the locked-in inhabitants of digital cities and walled gardens. So true. I am lucky that almost all my programming is for personal enjoyment/growth and have gotten a h
911.
by barnabee 6y ago
Yeah, those details matter. I could definitely get behind “Startups shouldn’t raise money on terms that destroy their autonomy and self determination”
912.
by barnabee 6y ago
This post is either written by someone with no skin in the game when it comes to the advice they’re giving (despite appearing to have swallowed a couple of Taleb books but retained little, oh the pointless irony) or who is massively overgen
913.
by barnabee 6y ago
Buried in the replies is a comparison with iOS’s on device speech recognition enabled, which paints a somewhat (though not entirely) different story: https://twitter.com/BenLumenDigital/status/12657182691908321...
914.
by barnabee 6y ago
Postgres is pretty good at JSON. I think this would work for your example (assuming the implied schema), presumably in PgTyped too: SELECT user.*, json_agg(post) as posts FROM user LEFT JOIN post ON user.id = post.id GROUP BY user.id It&#x2
915.
by barnabee 6y ago
I am building a wifi enabled remote control for my flat with an ESP32 microcontroller, a 128x64 OLED screen, two rotary encoders and a 3D printed case. Planned software features: - detect which room I’m in by strength of various bluetooth d
916.
by barnabee 7y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. It’s clear if you spend time at the right conferences, read the right papers, and talk to the right people that $billions can eventually be saved and risk massively reduced / much better understood and m
917.
by barnabee 7y ago
Because it has been true for every major change since the industrial revolution that the people who saw a new enabling technology trend early and funded/built it won big despite not knowing exactly how it would plays out (and yes, thos
918.
by barnabee 7y ago
Meh indeed. I'll add to the anecdata: I've read more since the lockdown started than I have in years despite being busier than ever. I've also been more productive in work and other projects.
919.
by barnabee 7y ago
I’ll take a look, thanks!
920.
by barnabee 7y ago
I'd like to see a system like this that treats the type system (aka schema) for the data as just more data and puts that under DVCS too. Then I'd like to add a robust security/permissions model and build an OS around it.
921.
by barnabee 7y ago
> by default should cookies only resolve to a single URL, and programmers have to whitelist subpaths? That sounds sensible! I always wondered why the origin and cookie scope isn’t limited to the full URL of the resource that set it and
922.
by barnabee 7y ago
You are 100% right! I remembered that essay right at the end of writing the reply and wanted to mention it, because it’s excellent. Got that totally wrong!
923.
by barnabee 7y ago
If only people with a genuinely good reason made contact it’d be a lot easier. If someone has a such a reason then they ought to be able to explain it well enough in an email, and given that the process of avoidance isn’t automated, it’s mo
924.
by barnabee 7y ago
No, he doesn’t, he comes across as someone who is helping by trying to react to a serious problem in a way that, if we all did it, might go some way to solving it. I wish everyone would/could do something like this. If you send me an u
925.
by barnabee 7y ago
William Gibson. The Bridge trilogy and the Sprawl trilogy, at a minimum. They still feel like maps to the future even now. You have to work at it, the map is not the territory after all, but the realisations about the impact of technology,
926.
by barnabee 7y ago
Some browsers show an icon in the address bar when an app is requesting/can make use of an optional permission or feature. Clicking the icon allows you do grant the extra permission (i.e. allow cookies, enable, camera, etc.) but otherw
927.
by barnabee 7y ago
100% this. Advertising is the new smoking, it's bad for us in ways we're only beginning to understand.
928.
by barnabee 7y ago
This. If a company wants to to be a platform and enjoy certain protections from responsibility for content posted by its users, it should be required to open the protocol and the data and prevented from exercising absolute control over the
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by barnabee 7y ago
It’s not so much “Brexit didn’t cause this” as it is hard to believe that’s the main reason their business failed in the UK (make no mistake, that is what they are admitting, whatever the reason). The comments are quite reasonably identifyi
930.
by barnabee 7y ago
I moved to Monzo as soon as they got a banking license and wouldn’t want to go back to an old bank with branches. Not only is their tech terrible but someone’s got to pay for all those buildings and people.

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