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by concinds 10mo ago
This isn't the same as bigcorps offloading their compliance costs to open-source ""vendors"". No one's obligated to do anything. The disclosure window is meant to address a tradeoff between giving the dev a cha
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by concinds 10mo ago
You can't monetize a browser. They have to keep trying to create new products, but they inevitably fail. Pocket, FirefoxOS, Persona, all dead. This new stuff will fail too, because Mozilla has no USP and no way to create a best-in-clas
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by concinds 10mo ago
A "functioning market" doesn't prevent oligopolies. Oligopolies are natural and optimal (desirable) in many industries, if not most. That's where regulations come in.
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by concinds 10mo ago
The EU has an extremely fragmented digital internal market, laws that suck for startups in most places, worse capital markets and funding mechanisms (and related laws), and doesn't have a Silicon Valley. It also underinvests in R&D
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by concinds 10mo ago
Safari uses OS frameworks but they're called from Safari subprocesses and counted as part of Safari.
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by concinds 10mo ago
I think it’s a mistake to put even teen social media use in the same category as screens for young kids, and I suspect most problems are from the latter. 3 things should be studied: screens for kids (regardless of app), short-form video fo
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by concinds 10mo ago
You’re the one bringing the conversation back to superficials (blaming society and stuff you have no control over) instead of digging deeper. You don’t need to be rich or stay-at-home to talk to your kids or read books to them, which an inc
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by concinds 10mo ago
Harm is a spectrum, but being able to sit still, and not harm yourself and destroy things, is a skill kids need to learn and using an iPad for that can stunt their growth.
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by concinds 10mo ago
Significant emotional neglect will put you in the 1st or 2nd decile of emotional health. It can make you a total train wreck. I don’t think every bad thing needs to be abuse.
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by concinds 10mo ago
> But some have a hard time doing it since it is a great babysitter. We should be clearer on what it means. An iPad will satisfy their need for stimulation but not their developmental emotional and social needs, nor their fine motor skil
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by concinds 10mo ago
Meanwhile “normal” (neglectful) parents give iPads or internet-connected computers to 5-year olds. They never stood a chance.
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by concinds 10mo ago
Apple clearly has a problem. In recent months there have been a number of reports online of people getting locked out of their Apple ID/iCloud, the appeal getting denied, and Apple refusing to disclose why or reverse it. Generally thos
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by concinds 10mo ago
(2) needs to be nuanced, since we're talking about cancer. Medicare has very good coverage. And EU cancer care can have high out-of-pocket costs. 80% of young European cancer patients report financial difficulties as a result.
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by concinds 10mo ago
That's a great comment and I agree.
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by concinds 10mo ago
It feels like courts are not doing a good job promoting "competition". - Apple shouldn't be able to charge for external payments, come on. - Force prominent disclosure of refund policies. Epic Games doesn't allow them fo
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by concinds 10mo ago
We could move past all the unproductive, polarized online arguments if everyone accepted that: 1. Programmer skill and talent are not enough to achieve similar security properties with memory-unsafe languages as with memory-safe languages.
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by concinds 10mo ago
The ChatGPT Mac app especially feels much nicer to use. I like Gemini more due to the context window but I doubt Google will ever create a native Mac app.
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by concinds 10mo ago
I'm guessing they mean Gaza, and that the author is pro-Israel. Which really undermines their point.
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by concinds 10mo ago
I doubt it has 100% bioavailability. Anyway, I don’t trust the low “recommended” amounts.
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by concinds 10mo ago
Meanwhile, my daily 5000IU Vitamin D pills were recalled by some authority in Finland for “excessive dose”, and since it appears that a recall anywhere in the EU will apply to the whole EU, I was given a refund and presumably won’t be able
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by concinds 10mo ago
The human brain works with nonrepresentative shapes perfectly fine, otherwise companies wouldn't emphasize logos so much, often without even their actual name next to the logo. Again, you don't even need to know what a floppy is o
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by concinds 10mo ago
UI designers should prioritize clarity and discoverability, not minimizing "tediousness", "length" or "noise". Menus group together related functions so you can find them, and splitting them would harm that. Th
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by concinds 10mo ago
I hope so too, and I agree on the colored icons for pro apps. Mac user for 20 years, also using Windows on and off, and I've always liked the menu icons on Windows. A move away from minimalism that makes sense. The fact that they'
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by concinds 10mo ago
Other built-in Tahoe apps have more consistent indentations and far more icons. The Safari team (not the WebKit team, the people building the app wrapping it) just phoned it in with the menu icons. They also somehow disabled the Tahoe windo
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by concinds 10mo ago
> It also makes me think about the classic Save icon: the floppy disk. That was certainly descriptive at its origination, but is it still so? This is a pet peeve of mine and it feels like some cargo cult within the UI design "field&
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by concinds 10mo ago
I use those LLM "deep research" modes every now and then. They can be useful for some use cases. I'd never think to freaking paste it into a paper and submit it or publish it without checking; that boggles the mind. The probl
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by concinds 10mo ago
Yeah. Notice how they emphasize how the "one-time" spend on contractors will save them money. Never includes the cost of the lack of institutional knowledge, or the impact on quality, maintainability, etc. Money brain. For a trans
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by concinds 10mo ago
No, I really don't think so. You used to have to build your own house and stable. Dig up your own well and carry water from it. Shower maybe twice a week (usually just once). Remember, you're doing hard physical labor in the sun a
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by concinds 10mo ago
"Saves 15 million" on license costs, but how much will be wasted on the contractors involved, the lost productivity for state employees (especially the ones who depend on Excel, who will be converted too per the announcement)? And
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by concinds 10mo ago
Also, I'll let everyone in on an open secret. Apple's real goal isn't even the 30% from the Mac App Store. Their vision is to build a library of games that run on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and potentially Apple TV and Vision. You ca

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