bengale

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by bengale 3y ago
> Rather its success demonstrates how one form of persuasion was more effective than another. This is true. I'm not sure anyone has demonstrated it working the other way though so it seems to be infinitely more effective. It's
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by bengale 3y ago
> European here. I squarely blame the business, and often turn back when hit by a particularly obnoxious banner. You're in the minority. Most people will not think every business is responsible for that, they'll assume they&#x2
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by bengale 3y ago
> Have you never met an Apple user that carried around both Lightning and USB-C cables? Have you ever met someone that just has an iPhone? There are considerably more of them than those carrying ipads and MacBooks and switches and the li
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by bengale 3y ago
Maybe one of the Musks this person doesn't want would build trains. It's another huge undertaking.
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by bengale 3y ago
Great term. Sometimes, I think I must live on a different continent. It comes down to interest I think, for someone with a bunch of devices and online all the time it sounds great when the EU forces USBC through for example. Even though the
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by bengale 3y ago
This is the exact problem though, noone really cares what the law says, they care that now they have annoying cookie banners. They don't blame the businesses for this; they blame the EU. The more of this they layer on the more ordinary
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by bengale 3y ago
> the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". I'd need to be convinced that's true. More regulation was a huge part of the successful campaign to get the UK out o
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by bengale 3y ago
"They were behaving like Elon Musk. And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world." I'm not a fan of his behaviour on Twitter, but the idea that the world does not want more Elon Musks seems insane to me. Theyre no
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by bengale 3y ago
Great car. Suffers from some of the touchscreen-itis but nowhere near the Tesla nonsense. Not even in the same ballpark.
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by bengale 3y ago
I think my BMW X5 has the best middle ground for buttons vs touchscreen. I think in the new one they've moved more towards my i4 setup though which is too far on the touch screen. The X5 has nice push buttons on the steering wheel for
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by bengale 3y ago
There is zero chance of me trusting that, not that the Cybertruck will ever be allowed on European roads. https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-alarmed-cybertrucks-steering-...
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by bengale 3y ago
You're asking me why the real world works like it does. Citizens vote from a handful of candidates that have competing priorities. One of those priorities is going to be supporting the huge companies that support them, even if it'
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by bengale 3y ago
I’m quite sure I didn’t give an opinion either way. I’m also not that interested in how things “should” be. I was just musing that at a certain point there might be political blow back in the US towards a continent that doesn’t have a lot o
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by bengale 3y ago
I wonder how many billions in fines the EU can take out of US companies before they start to get political blowback.
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by bengale 3y ago
Maybe it's a mismatch in requirements. For me, I move it into greyscale to give my monkey brain less reason to want to play with it. The intention when it's enabled is that if I need to set a timer or jot down a note that I don&#x
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by bengale 3y ago
There are a few system options in focus states but not this. I’d like to see them expand it for more of these low distraction techniques.
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by bengale 3y ago
Yeah I don’t disagree. But on the whole I think it gets you a long way towards it without the cons of having two devices for example.
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by bengale 3y ago
Just the greyscale needs a shortcut automation.
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by bengale 3y ago
Most of it is just in focus modes settings: alerts, notifications and things like that. For greyscale you use shortcuts. There’s an automation tab, you set up on a focus mode being enabled then “set color filters on” and then the opposite f
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by bengale 3y ago
You can do a lot of this on an iPhone if you use focus modes and automations. I have a deep work mode that sets a blank Home Screen, turns off always on display, sets the phone to greyscale and only allows notifications from my wife. It fee
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by bengale 3y ago
I thought they were just big usbc dongles that slot into the device? Surprised that's not hot swappable.
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by bengale 3y ago
Which would be fine except the people interested in tech have less ability to spread their message than those that would like to weaken the EU.
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by bengale 3y ago
Fine, almost everybody. If there was any way to verify though, I'd put money on the numbers of people irritated by cookie banners and geo-blocks for websites was enough to tip the Brexit vote. I think the EU needs to be very careful ab
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by bengale 3y ago
No, but a bad decision at this point is going to be tricky to resolve due to the type of user that might end up using it. The only people who might be influenced by this popup are people who don't know that other browsers are an option
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by bengale 3y ago
But this is the argument with the cookie banners again, isn't it? "Surely choice isn't a bad thing", except that everyone hates them and just clicks allow anyway. At least this regulation is only going to annoy people in
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by bengale 3y ago
What role levels are you applying to where you are advocating for a specific direction?
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by bengale 3y ago
Is this how Tado does home WiFi detection for geofencing? Our company has an app that does geofencing and we’ve had no end of issues getting it to work consistently. This would have been useful.
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by bengale 3y ago
> Holmes got 9 years, but her actions had severe real world effects on people. My understanding is she was convicted for financial bits, not harming people.
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by bengale 3y ago
> I paid £1899 for my M1 Pro. The M2 Pro was £2149. The M3 Pro is £1899 again for same spec. Just take a look at the last several years of GBP/USD. Our currency was in the crapper for a while and that impacted prices.
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by bengale 3y ago
I wonder if that's true. You're putting the animal out of its misery in many cases, but for a lot of people in the room you're a key part of one of the worst moments for them. I think of the last one I went though that was un

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