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by bjustin 6y ago
I agree, and even with a selfish motive, this is still a positive move on their part (and Apple's). Companies changing their behavior to avoid regulation is a better outcome than regulation in some cases, including this one IMO.
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by bjustin 6y ago
Jason's reply is an impressive display of de-escalation. The NetGate person's message has a lot of hostility and Jason really doesn't return any of it. Hope NetGate comes around to working with the WireGuard maintainers more
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by bjustin 6y ago
I used OctoPrint on a RPi to drive my 3D printer for years. It was great. I added the RPi camera and could keep an eye on prints remotely, which while leaving home while printing was maybe not a great idea, certainly was convenient.
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by bjustin 6y ago
Interoperability can make a market more consolidated than it otherwise might be. Look at how GitHub dominates the DVCS hosting market. Ben Thompson's idea that social networks shouldn't be able to buy other social networks would b
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by bjustin 6y ago
>the "surface area" of the internet that most people are able to discover and access is significantly reduced due to search engine algorithms On the contrary, Facebook promoting incendiary content because people (angrily) highl
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by bjustin 6y ago
If there is a market for it, presumably some business out of reach of the mob in question will take up the mantle for the money. If there's no money in it, then the market is deciding that the market doesn't want the opinions in q
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by bjustin 6y ago
The ones radicalizing these people are responsible for squeezing them out of public debate. What if these people were going around insisting the Earth is flat, trying to force other people to agree with you, then increasingly lashing out wh
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by bjustin 6y ago
“Free speech” is used by some people, more often alt-right people than others, to mean freedom from consequences. Even criticism is derided as attacks on the “right” to “free speech”. That’s presumably what the original post mentioning this
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by bjustin 6y ago
I think it's a shame these don't support the new MagSafe charger. Plugging a cable into headphones is more of a pain than it needs to be. Charging my AirPods Pro by putting it on the MagSafe puck is really convenient, and makes me
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by bjustin 6y ago
There is value in recreation that gives you benefits, I agree, but there is also value in recreation for its own sake too. Expecting all of your hobbies to give you some benefit other than fun can lead to them all becoming "work".
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by bjustin 6y ago
A report like this is good news, in that we have a single item we can point to that says what the problems are and what we can do about them. The numerous large fires in 2018 and 2020 help make the case for taking the report seriously and u
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by bjustin 6y ago
>What is tolerance? You can't tolerate something if you agree with it. Tolerance means putting up with things with which you disagree. That's an easy one. Tolerance is putting up with things other people do, except when those o
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by bjustin 6y ago
You don’t have to speculate about trees causing fires in the area: the thread eventually mentions a second fire, Camp B, caused by a tree falling on a line. It was subsumed by the first Camp fire. It may have caused just as much trouble if
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by bjustin 6y ago
If we let large numbers of businesses fail, the people who have a lot of money now will buy up their assets and we'll come out with more concentrated wealth in society. I will grant you that the federal government in the US could have
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by bjustin 6y ago
Great, let's be rid of all this nonsense and let the income tax cover inheritance like any other transfer of wealth.
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by bjustin 6y ago
The products I see with a plea like this tend to be difficult to set up or use for some reason or other. I always assumed that they have a higher than usual return rate and are trying to reduce that by asking people to call them for support
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by bjustin 6y ago
I do think more or less any other leader likely would have done at least a little better. But if the same events in late 2019/early 2020 had happened under President Obama in 2015/2016 instead, I think it likely that many people i
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by bjustin 6y ago
Even if the US is in the same situation now as we were at the start of the SIP orders in March, given that many other advanced countries have the virus under control, we should have an easier time getting materials and equipment to deal wit
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by bjustin 6y ago
The sheer number of people likely to come out of this with disabilities or serious-but-not-disabled level chronic problems is really depressing. Just the lung issues (didn't know the term ARDS, thanks for that) will be terrible.
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by bjustin 6y ago
I believe the case about giving money to religious schools was regarding publicly accessible facilities (playgrounds), so it doesn't change anything about funding for classrooms, teachers, etc.
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by bjustin 6y ago
Amazon paying over 1 cent per stream is wild. $0.012 per stream is 666 streams at $8/month. (Now that I look at the numbers, I shouldn't have needed a calculator for that...) No wonder some musicians complain loudly about Spotify&
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by bjustin 6y ago
Companies have some of the same rights as people. Why should we expect companies to be neutral when we don't expect people to be neutral? Governments must be neutral, including armed forces and police, but even then neutrality doesn&#x
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by bjustin 6y ago
The problem with less getting done is that it applies to all levels of government. Want to change your yard landscaping? Nope! Not when your neighbors, town, county, and state all have to separately approve it.
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by bjustin 6y ago
Even recovered people who feel fine can have chronic issues due to the virus. Young, healthy people may come away with serious lung issues without realizing it[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/125343751240
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by bjustin 6y ago
Even if widespread shelter-in-place orders were not in effect, if the virus spread through a lot of the people in a town, you can bet that people wouldn't be going out as usual. Nobody* will be eating at restaurants if they hear dozens
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by bjustin 7y ago
Companies with monopoly power[1] shouldn’t be able to be people without some appeals process. That said, I don’t know what that would look like or if Airbnb even should be subject to it. Other services and hotels are still viable alternativ
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by bjustin 7y ago
It is sad how inconsistent Apple's documentation has gotten. The lack of a list of types that can be used as CALayer contents is particularly bad given how useful it is in macOS applications. But these classes and properties are in the
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by bjustin 7y ago
The author makes some good points and IMO exaggerates the importance of others. One nit to pick: Firefox 70's performance improvements didn't come from using private APIs. They used IOSurface and CALayer, both public API: https:&
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by bjustin 7y ago
160 in the South Bay is significantly better than 95 in Minneapolis, at least. Unless you want to buy a house. I lived in Minneapolis not long ago and the major cost differences were really only housing, gas, and electricity.
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by bjustin 12y ago
SublimeClang [0] does syntax highlighting and even code completion in Sublime Text. I used it for Objective-C sometimes when I'd get annoyed with Xcode. The author has since started another project that will hopefully avoid some of its

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