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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 The original discussion. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way the Casey individual approaches it. At all. And yes it is simple . If your basic tex
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by bfgoodrich 4y ago
ROFL. Yes, "as a toy". Things that 99.9% of Hacker News (and 99.999999% of the general public) has literally never had a need to do, their absence surely just invalidates it. Hot takes like yours are what make HN a hilarious jok
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
This is an absurdly biased and fact-free recap. Any framing that posits that Google is benevolently "sending traffic" betrays that it should be discarded at the outset. Google (like Facebook and most other "make money on your
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Ads being "relevant" seems like a misnomer these days. In a discussion once about viral diseases there was a discussion about RNA versus DNA viruses, so I searched up various viruses included HIV and Herpes, reading about how DNA
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
HN has always been pretty far to the right. There is a strong Trump contingent. A huge "law and order" (but not when disrupting when laws are "ridiculous and dumb") contingent. On HNs it is normal to denigrate the &quo
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Late to the game? Who is Apple behind? Is this a "finally" kind of thing?
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
The post with egregious errors was also put up on a Sunday afternoon. And while we're all acting conciliatory now, it's pretty remarkable how biased the post was, the author using some clearly erroneous numbers to prove their prio
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Chrome does have the capacity for screen sharing (e.g. Chrome Remote Desktop), but I assume it wouldn't inject any extensions into the window server unless it was actively invoked.
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
"The Intel processor has nifty 256-bit SIMD instructions. The Apple chip has nothing of the sort as part of its main CPU. So I could easily come up with examples that make the M1 look bad." The M1 has 128-bit NEON SIMD, and given
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Again, the iPhones have lightning ports. Almost everyone who buys this is going to be an iPhone users. This is like complaining that the microwave at Best Buy doesn't have a Europlug because you're in Italy and that's what yo
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
The promo for this headset outright state that significant functionality require an iPhone or iPad (you know, oppressively locked down and all). It is over double the price of comparable headsets. No, there was no chance you were ever buyin
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
My mistake. I guess they have even less of a complaint then.
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
"I'm not really what's contrived about the other poster's comment." The guy I replied to 20 days ago here on HN, talking about Apple: "Don't buy their shit. Period." No, they were never going to buy t
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
How does not having one specific standard of charging port (you know -- the one that came when everyone was rolling with the junkpile that was micro-USB) "reinvent a corded headset"? Regardless, this complaint is pretty spurious.
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
If your complaint is carrying a USB to lightning cable -- though you keep jumping to wall warts/chargers and not a 17 gram cable -- yeah, I guess that's a big burden. But your comment seems like it might be contrived to begin with
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
We do know they're serviceable given that Apple has already published a battery service for it. For that matter, Apple has a battery service program for normal AirPods as well. It isn't a service that economically doesn't mak
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
You know that it's only lightning on the headset side, right? That it's USB-C on the other side, though you're free to include any adapter cable you'd like.
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
This circular logic is more disingenuous noise (the userbase of HN is utterly irrelevant given that you're trying to prove your own absurd claim that only HN cares, when clearly the entire developed world cares). How are you not mode
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
If there were any such thing as "tier 2 and tier 3 countries" in any broad sense, I'd say that's quite a lazy and disingenuous transition from "only on HN" and only something the US cares about, to "outsid
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
HN's "bubble"? Absurd. We are talking about the most valuable company in the world, and the M1 release was covered enthusiastically the world over. The notion that it's US-only is absolutely preposterous. Apple is a sign
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
I didn't imply that whatsoever. But given that the US is awash in Chinese equipment and software, using that argument for this pernicious attempt at a ban is foolish sophistry. It is a farcical foundation for a justification. It&#x27
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
At this point, after four years of unprecedented corruption and ignorance-as-official-policy, it's extremely hard to see what the US "stands for". I'm saying that with all sincerity, and it is blatantly clear during th
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
I stated a general sentiment of the trends in web development, where there is an extraordinary amount of work to effectively reinvent the wheel, and then to uninvent the wheel and herald why using a cube is superior, until eventually you
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
There is enormous complexity in the field. But , and this is a big but, 99% of the advocacy and "innovation" is in the easiest, most trivial 5% (rough numbers). That I'm pointing out how absurdly circular this is in no uni
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
It doesn't, but you are welcome to enjoy your own bias in your interpretation.
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Yeah, something like that... Or, and maybe this is just my old man dementia talking, millions of extremely low-skill developers have flooded into the market, primarily building "web apps". An endless procession of "make trivi
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
You pulled this account out -- one that had been untouched for seemingly seven years -- to make these insults? If you can't separate design from Yet Another Trivial Variation on a Theme, that's a you problem. Trying to conflate th
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
Twenty years ago I was the lead architect of a web application -- I'm 48 now, for the ageists who would like to dismiss based upon that -- that was a power generation monitoring and control panel for distributed power across the US. We
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
"Just because you don't think design and layout are not important or difficult" I said neither of these and am not interested in debating a strawman.
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by bfgoodrich 6y ago
One of the reasons I moved away from web presentation projects is overwhelming frustration at just this: There is no other area of technology where there is so much running to stand still: Massive amounts of make-work and "innovation&q

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