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811.
by burnte 2y ago
> Nobody required USB-C charging for laptops and iPads. Nobody said that happened. I said for phones.
812.
by burnte 2y ago
> Really just drives home how big of a mistake it was ignoring Vulkan for the past decade on Apple's behalf, but lord knows they won't admit that until it's too late. They'll never admit it. They only caved on USB-C b
813.
by burnte 2y ago
> policies that penalized you for deleting followers that are bots or junk followers I'm totally unaware of this, can you elaborate?
814.
by burnte 2y ago
Who do you use in replacement?
815.
by burnte 2y ago
I agree that their products are amazing but having dealt with their sales staff last year and this year, I completely understand why they're underperforming. They're rude, sarcastic, always have a very take-it-or-leave-it attitude
816.
by burnte 2y ago
Not knowing if the remote batteries were dead wasn't a big driver of reproduction a million years ago, mostly.
817.
by burnte 2y ago
Sadly, it long predates COVID, COVID and Trmp just happened to give anti-expert loonies a larger platform and attention. Had people actually been willing to listen and really crack down for a month, we could have saved millions of people. H
818.
by burnte 2y ago
There is an incredible anti-expert mentality sweeping the globe. "I never hear of people getting sick from raw milk!" Because it's illegal. "I never hear of people getting smallpox!" Because we have vaccines. "
819.
by burnte 2y ago
Why are we running this stuff at the edge anyway? Wasn't the point of the web to permit light/thin clients? What problem is this really solving? I feel a lot of these new methods exist simply out of "holy crap look what we ca
820.
by burnte 2y ago
They're fine with that, but there's no room for the port on the top end of the mouse and they won't alter the design in order to fit a port there, and don't want the cable sticking out of the side, so they just screw the
821.
by burnte 2y ago
SpaceSniffer is a much easier to use tool.
822.
by burnte 2y ago
I think you may be wrong on 3, I think more founders want to stay, and investors want a fast exit for big bucks.
823.
by burnte 2y ago
I'm neither defending nor maligning DOs, just stating there's less difference today and they should abandon the old, stigma-filled name.
824.
by burnte 2y ago
Most osteopathic medical schools teach real medicine these days. They should drop the DO label.
825.
by burnte 2y ago
> Doctors are pretty much required to follow Establishment medicine. They're not going to tell you about folk remedies, because it could be malpractice for them. Not in the USA. In the USA doctors can absolutely recommend non-medica
826.
by burnte 2y ago
> Wasn't Apple a serious factor in getting both popular? USB was invented by Intel. Yes, Apple going all in on USB on the iMac was a huge push for USB which had still been languishing on the PC side, slowly adopted but poorly used.
827.
by burnte 2y ago
> Different methods of therapy appear to be equally effective despite having theoretical foundations which are conflicting with each other. The common aspect between different therapies seems to be "having someone to talk to",
828.
by burnte 2y ago
Yes, but you can't point them up skirts, or walk up to their bedroom window (you have to be at the public sidewalk/street). Cell phones already have volume limiters, too: https://www.theverge.com/23729051/ios-
829.
by burnte 2y ago
There are already limits on free speech so that's not a great counter argument.
830.
by burnte 2y ago
> It used to be that when you bought a computer, it was yours. It did your bidding, nobody elses. Security features it had were about keeping other people out, not keeping you out of your own device. Yeah, but when your device can infrin
831.
by burnte 2y ago
> iOS makes arbitrary judgements about the word boundary it thinks I'm aiming at and is about 50% wrong. For me it's closer to 100% of the time because it is incapable of letting you tap one word over, you have to tap far away
832.
by burnte 2y ago
I totally agree, but let's say Jane writes the code, Frank reviews the code and checks it in. You're trusting both of them. Trust can't be eliminated.
833.
by burnte 2y ago
While this is true, I don't think you truly missed my point. This is just being pedantic for the sake of it.
834.
by burnte 2y ago
How do I know if it's an internal error or if I did something wrong? And yes, showing users the internal errors is useful as they can report the issue with the error message, saving developers time in searching.
835.
by burnte 2y ago
With the rapidly increasing number of websites and applications that feel "an error occurred" is an acceptable error message, I'm glad someone is pointing out that failures should contain actionable information, but I'm
836.
by burnte 2y ago
Most people don't think Apple's goal is user safety, most people understand the goal is making it as hard as possible for people to NOT pay the Apple tax.
837.
by burnte 2y ago
> If anything, he has thus far just helped Apple set useful precedents. Yes, the forcing Apple to allow external billing platforms has been a very useful precedent.
838.
by burnte 2y ago
> I'm puzzled why anyone would incorporate code on trust. Really? You can't understand why people do things based on trust? Do you trust no one?
839.
by burnte 2y ago
I don't even know why this makes news anymore. It's so rare for a game studio to last a decade, most don't, and even successful ones will be shut down after launching a huge title in order to keep more profits for the publish
840.
by burnte 2y ago
> Who do you think you are going to hurt between the less-than-30-person studio or the multinational behemoth? Evidence indicates it hurt Sony far more than the developers. > Are you going to refund the game today then buy it again to

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