crispinb

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by crispinb 7y ago
Well I don't know about faster than 5G, but for my rural location it's a lifesaver. I get a steady 60Mbps down, 12-15 up, which is just a tad better than my previous 0.3Mbps ADSL. It's kind of amazing and is literally what en
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by crispinb 7y ago
You are reacting, not responding.
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by crispinb 7y ago
What a splendid story. Good on him.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It was your invocation of Microsoft's move I considered desperate. You're still studiously avoid mentioning any actual PWAs. I'm someone who wishes PWAs would take over, as I dislike all the OSs and don't want my usage h
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by crispinb 7y ago
The Microsoft example seems a bit desperate - they bombed in mobile so of course they're seeking cross-platform refuge. But are PWAs being used that much for real? Beyond just installable web sites (ie. full offline support with servic
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by crispinb 7y ago
And? Is this related to my comment? [edit: I ask because I didn't construe the OP as asking for opinions on the merits of the different platforms, but rather what would be best for them to learn as a mobile app beginner. Of course eve
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well it's only an impression I have. I'm not seeing much use of PWAs in the wild, and there seem to be fewer articles touting them, but that's just my sample. If what you say is true, I'd be pleased.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I think if you are starting mobile app development, learn the basics of the 2 main native stacks (iOS, Android). Preferably learn one of them well. A couple of years ago I might have suggested web (PWA's) as a third kind of 'na
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by crispinb 7y ago
Ah I see, thanks. In which case it's true if only by dint of tautology, but in any case isn't pertinent to the point at issue (whether "Very few" older folk can so work).
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by crispinb 7y ago
I've no idea what E() means.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Isn't this thread fragment all anecdotes & unsupported generalisations, on both 'sides'?
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by crispinb 7y ago
No I don't have examples to hand. Search isn't something I'm interested in really - it's just a kind of commodity to me that I want to get out of my way. The trend is entirely clear for my search usage though - I just do
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Very few people can do 40 hours of physical labor when they get to be 65 years old I don't believe, from what I've seen, this to be remotely true. Most (not al) of the tradies & labourers I know in their 60s and 70s are v
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by crispinb 7y ago
When trying DDG again for a while, my use of g! gradually increases as a necessary tactic to surface what I'm looking for. When it gets to over about 80% I go back to using Google again with a sigh.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'd say "shut up, climate scientists". Not on the science, but on this simple-minded superstitious view of political 'choice' (which, incidentally, completely ignores all science related to choice, human cognitive d
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by crispinb 7y ago
I remember reading a thread about this issue on Discourse's own board, and it was clear the continuous scrolling was non-negotiable "because modish", regardless of user preferences or experience. > I'm curious how mu
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by crispinb 7y ago
Not being used by social media, I don't come across infinite scrolling much. But where I do it's most annoying. Discourse: how dare you take over my ctrl-f keyboard shortcut.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I have definitely had jobs where it would have been possible to do this. Largely due to clueless management, endemic to Australian business in my experience. It's such an old boys club, any duffer in a suit with a red enough face and s
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by crispinb 7y ago
Militaries don't have magic, they just tend to have lots of money. Foreigners' deaths are profitable for capitalist sociopaths, and good for election prospects of political sociopaths. Now, divert government money from death indus
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by crispinb 7y ago
Let's not forget the far-right Aus government, which targets companies and technologies it considers on the wrong site of its superstitious culture war against sustainability.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Aha, cool. I shall give Stack a try. I see there's a trial on the ms store. Agree 'FancyZones' is pretty undercooked at this stage. Promising though.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I hadn't seen Stack before. Have you used it & would you recommend?
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by crispinb 7y ago
I think it will be very useful. Even just being able to retrieve the Win + arrow keys from the bizarre Windows Snap 'feature' will be great. It's not quite ready for daily use yet. Behaviour across multiple monitors I've
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by crispinb 7y ago
> If everyone did that, the biggest problems would be solved Any solution to a problem that starts 'If everyone did ...' is the deadest of expired ducks. Global ecosystem collapse is a systems issue of vast complexity. While we
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by crispinb 7y ago
> What do you think a reasonable thing for them to do is? I have a hard enough time figuring out what a reasonable thing for me to do is. Deconstruction is always the easy part. One thing we can be certain of at this stage is that '
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well this is how capitalism is supposed to work - the creation of disvalues to motivate consumption. You degrade environments so people have to buy posh housing to insulate themselves from physical reality. Etc. Ultimately (social media) yo
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by crispinb 7y ago
FFS. The apotheosis of disaster capitalism. Fiddling while Rome burns while demanding a hefty appearance fee.
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by crispinb 7y ago
OK, well said. If I jumped the gun a little, it's due to my acute (& perhaps too raw) sense of how a narrow focus on individual responsibility frequently serves to protect the very systems that are being subject to criticism. I can
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I urge anyone who is using dark patterns in their software or business models to take a step back and think about this ... It's a complex systems problem, not one of great men losing a grip on ethics. Regardless of their individua
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by crispinb 7y ago
One possibility is that the timing is usefully different with Electron - the products were out and getting traction (and presumably in Slack's case revenue) long before the performance hacks were conjured. I don't know if the tota

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