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by choward 6y ago
I agree. The first thing I think when I see a version is "how old is this?". Version numbers as they are now are completely arbitrary (nobody really follows semantic versioning no matter how hard they try). Might as well encode so
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by choward 6y ago
I noticed this after upgrading my OS and thought something horrible had happened. Turned out to be true but it was intentional by Mozilla. If it's not broke, break it I guess.
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by choward 6y ago
x11 manuals?
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by choward 6y ago
It probably sends your data to their server so you have the comfort of knowing your browsing history is being backed up.
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by choward 6y ago
Apple is a for profit corporation. They are literally the exact opposite of public servants.
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by choward 6y ago
I actually posted my comment from my Android phone. And yes, it is garbage.
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by choward 6y ago
> then you shouldn't use a phone from Apple or Google Because you have another choice...
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by choward 6y ago
> A person is genuinely invested and passionate about privacy...and you call their work garbage. I'm referring to the output of Google and Apple as garbage. You're the one trying to make this personal. I don't really care
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by choward 6y ago
I have lost any remaining respect I had for GitHub. The whole point of git is to be decentralized and this is a great example if why that is important.
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by choward 6y ago
You mean the intro paragraph isn't simple enough? > The Popcorn Linux project is exploring how to improve the programmability of emerging heterogeneous hardware, in particular, those with Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)-diverse c
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by choward 6y ago
I don't mind paying for my music but $18 to download one album is absurd. As much as I dislike Amazon I can download DRM free music for a lot cheaper.
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by choward 6y ago
170 comments here so far because of some syntactic sugar. If it causes this much discussion and confusion it's not worth it IMO. I'm glad none of the languages I use have this "feature".
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by choward 6y ago
> Perhaps you could start with good business and sales books by people with the tax-returns to prove they know what they’re talking about. Classic survivorship bias
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by choward 6y ago
Yes, you're an idiot for thinking a project on GitHub is open source. What a lame use of GitHub. Can I get the minute back I wasted reading that readme?
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by choward 6y ago
Hard disagree. If you are assigning a value that's the result of an expression you might have somewhat complicated logic. Being able to say what you expect returned is very useful. MyClass myVar = something ? SomeFunction() || so
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by choward 6y ago
The scrolling on that site is atrocious. What's up with the "Pixel" branding on the headphones? After the Nexus 6P, I'm never buying another of their phones again. I see "Pixel" and immediately think "not
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by choward 6y ago
> A city the size of SF would be expected to see 5x as many cancer deaths as that in a normal month [1] and 7x as many heart disease deaths This comparison is irrelevant. Cancer and heart disease aren't contagious and don't spr
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by choward 6y ago
Can someone help me understand why a library like this is even necessary? Can't you just wrap everything and treat it like a promise? const aPromise = Promise.resolve(1); const notAPromise = 2; Promise.resolve(aPromise).
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by choward 6y ago
> IANAL, but betting half a million dollars on three hand gestures qualifies as excessive imho. To you it may be, but where do you draw the line though? Is $100,000 excessive? $10,000? $1,000? Tbh, $1,000 does actually sound excessive to
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by choward 6y ago
> Time is one of them, space (or area on earth’s surface) is another, and energy is a third I would combine the last two and call them "mass" and that currency is just an abstraction for how much mass you "own". >
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by choward 6y ago
In the early 1900s they didn't have a lot of the technology we have today. There are things that can be automated away as well as many other logistical optimizations that can be made if you're designing the store as a warehouse in
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by choward 6y ago
You're supposed to tip? I tried Safeway delivery and there was no option to tip. Tipping needs to just go away. It's completely arbitrary.
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by choward 6y ago
App stores are the same thing since most companies with app stores have their own apps. They can decide when the right time is to build their own version of something that's popular and promote it in their app store.
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by choward 6y ago
This alone made me stop reading. There is absolutely no reason for this. It's an extra thing I have to think about when reading/writing code with literally zero benefit. Now people new to the language have extra stuff to learn. La
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by choward 6y ago
> This combination of "Nonprofit" and "Permanent" is an oxymoron. "Non profit" has nothing to do with it. Thinking any service is permanent is pretty naive.
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by choward 7y ago
Or if someone who worked for 411 or a hacker changed the number for the naval base to be one they controlled. Dave could be the CEO of 411 for all I know.
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by choward 7y ago
Same with this: > Vercel strongly connects to the words versatile, accelerate, and excel. It also "strongly connects" to the words "vermin" and "decelerate".
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by choward 7y ago
That's just marketing speak. It doesn't actually explain why they changed their name.
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by choward 7y ago
How so you know if someone is an arch user? > I needed to reclaim my Windows partition and go full-on Arch! They tell you.
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by choward 7y ago
I love how they get one "expert" to say something and that's suddenly a news story. > "I think there's extremely low risk of getting novel coronavirus on a cruise ship," said Dr. John Lynch, who has specialt

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