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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Just remember that during the “growth” company apparently delivers useful goods and services (otherwise people wouldn’t pay it money). In the process company might increase customers’ standard of living and productivity which in turn causes
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
This somehow almost feels me with awe even thought I am somewhat a cynical person. It’s another level of demonstrating how intricate life is, how powerful evolution can be and how incredibly well-tuned our (Earth) environment for these sort
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
“Dummy Display Plug” sounds like something from Neon Genesis Evangelion. :)
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Are they though? They are no better than placebo. But are they better than doing nothing? And if they are, what are the alternatives? “Placebo effect” won’t work if you just tell the patient “we are giving you placebo”. So the industry stil
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Yes! One of the most relevant and useful projects!
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
> …universally hated butterfly keyboards. Not true. I would choose butterfly over a wobbly one (e.g. 2019 Macbook Pro). > Nobody wants a dongle. Not true. I do agree that an SD card slot is convenient to have. But I have no significan
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Yes to the physical keys instead of touch bar!
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
> Fix it. Where? I’d wanted to repair the most popular electric kick scooter in one of the Northern European countries for couple of years and I couldn’t find any place to do it (I asked all the sellers, sent lots of emails to different
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
I am seriously thinking why no reputable laptop manufacturer would start a crowd sourcing campaign to make a modern laptop which resembles the 701C as close as possible. I would back it quite likely (depends on the price/performance ra
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Another of those subscription apps? That’s ridiculous when people build simple weather, calendar app or a text editor and expect users to pay dozens of euro every year for them.
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
I am not sure why are they allowing it. Meaning why aren’t services completely isolated? Isn’t it obvious that in an intertwined environment those things are bound to happen (as in “question of when, not if”)? I understand, in smaller compa
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
I got bullied out of conversation by angry mob (downvoted). But I think, I’ll still provide a clarification. (Fun fact: people in angry mobs are always righteous.) I was not saying that change is not needed. I am just saying that (total) el
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Too bad EU population is a drop in a sea and it’s already in some parts quite environmentally conscious (if not to say “friendly”).
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
I would also recommend checking out Testcafe or maybe some other alternatives (I read recently about a project called Playwright which at least “on paper” looks promising). I’ve used Testcafe on couple commercial projects (including one for
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Another take. I think that one of the forces that promote “monopolization” on the internet at least might be the issue of trust. It’s harder to trust “smaller” (or less known) businesses on the internet and vendors on platforms like Ebay, E
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
It’s a good question. I am not sure I see a lot of reason to eat it except to support the movement (“create demand”, “vote with my wallet”) and maybe to occasionally blend-in with non-vegans (“Look, I can do the same thing as you without mo
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
It’s not obvious for me why wouldn’t they install better cameras. For me camera system is one of the most important parts of a smartphone specification. Don’t those makers realize that there are people for whom those things are important?
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
One of the amazing games! At some point I really wished there were a remake (that would be as close to the original as possible just with updated graphics, etc.). Though there are games that borrow some of the mechanics I still think MoM ha
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Finally there seems to be more widespread realization that large society-influencing corporations could be intrinsically not-such-a-good thing!
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
I am surprised why it took school system so long. And despite the apparent collapse of traditional education, it is surprisingly resistant to change. I would also include some works from Demoscene, some newer electronic music (at least from
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
That’s a very good point!
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Great-great analysis! We need more of those exposing apparent lack of understanding of basic principles of usability by designers of many modern products. My instinct is to tell them, “Read The Design of Everyday Things at least, please!”
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
“When surveying computing device owners we found that an average abacus user reports 14 problems in the first three months and a laptop user reports 18”.
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Why was this downvoted? I’ve been using Safari for a long time because of its relative resource efficiency and nicer design. But lack of good ad blocking and this annoying glitch in Youtube are the two problems that really make me consider
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
I hope, they’ll fix the annoying problem in Safari that when pausing/unpausing a Youtube video it skips half a second or so of audio.
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
“A step-by-step guide on how to revert your civilization from color-blind progress-loving one to witch-hunting ideologue-driven bloviating and virtue signaling one”.
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Nicely said! I myself prefer the small-businesses’ products. Like several-person organizations that provide “underdo the competition” or “do one thing and do it well” type of software. But I agree on how “bureaucracy” and political games in
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
One of the most influential and interesting articles to me that I share with all the developers with whom I think I can have an interesting conversation (and it influences some quite a lot)! I remember there were some comments: > Are you
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
Great concept but to me does not make that much sense. Because there are no extra keys. So what is the point of having re-programmable keys if you’ll have to reprogram the keys that you are already using? Function keys are not so useful as
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by beyondcompute 6y ago
“Fake it till you make it” is precisely how it will be solved

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