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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Time to bring back the click wheel via earring or nipple accessory.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
They halted it because they have a choice now, not because the vaccine is worse than COVID. Did you read the article? Probably not because you’re spouting the same nonsense as antivaxers. Look at the stats and remember this is a pandemic: Y
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I think in some cases either people are stupid or are just unreasonably scared. I discussed this with a family member when AZ side effects started appearing on the news. I tried showing him the numbers (millions of inoculations, few “vaccin
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Reminds me of Google Maps. Me: I want a coffee shop. Maps: Ok let me zoom out and show you coffee shops in a 20km radius. So you have to zoom back in and “Search this area”. But hey the Starbucks next door is not shown, it’s maddening. Goog
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Nah, it’s not because they think you’re an idiot but because this way they can keep you longer in the website. One clear example for me was when YouTube changed the homepage to show random videos instead of the subscriptions. My subscriptio
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Yes people forget how Coca Cola molded Santa’s image.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Oh no you didn’t
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
That's the way to go: Be liberal reporting spam with companies that don't value you. Too many companies think they're being like-supa-smart in having multiple mailing lists so you have to unsubscribe 7 times. First email: Uns
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Untechnically speaking: Arrow functions preserve the `this` in their declaration point, whereas regular functions change `this` if they're called as methods. class Foo { thisCouldBeAnything() {return this} thisIsDefin
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Generally I prefer an app that exists to an app that doesn't exist. Companies that can afford multiple teams are still going the multi-platform way and those who can't, still do it. At the end of the day, you can choose the best a
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
They don't feel off, they are off. But with the popularization of apps, webapps and Electron everyone is accustomed to custom UIs for every app. Does the Spotify app feel Mac-like? Barely. Does it need to be? Not anymore. I think t
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
No it doesn't. You can't prevent people from being a-holes and stealthily pressing 10 buttons before leaving the elevator. The feature as described is as useful as pressing a floor to stop on. Perhaps it makes more sense on smalle
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I literally used that feature earlier today in an elevator in Thailand. The exact method of operation seems to vary among elevators, some require you to hold it, others require more than 2 presses. It's great when you change your mind.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
People often forget how insanely varied life on earth is. Often we see anthropomorphic aliens depicted in media while it’d be so easy to look into the ocean to find any possible shape or life that doesn’t resemble humans in the least.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
No, it's because telcos cartels are illegal in Europe and there are actual consequences. European telcos are no saints at all but they occasionally get fined and things are a little better for a few years. Just as an example, many trie
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Yes there are plenty of photos apps but they’re no Apple Photos and they can’t upload in the background unless you open them regularly. Unfortunately they’re not as convenient. Chances are that they’re one-way syncs too, like Google Photos.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Backups are so personal, complex, and niche that I doubt we’ll ever see Apple opening that up to third parties. Ever. It just won’t happen. Normal people don’t care about backups and Apple makes money through iCloud backups.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
The conversation is about cloud though. Local backups are nice but that means connecting the phone daily to my turned-on computer instead of just plugging it into the wall every night.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
You can’t do backup or sync the Photos.app to a random cloud. The “integration” here is just that occasionally you can save to and load from your server. That’s all.
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All code using array.reduce should be rewritten without array.reduce(twitter.com)
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
To be fair they’ve handled email for decades so if the service really sucked we’d have plenty of reports by now. I think overall we’re past the poor experience offered by early cloud offerings by Apple. Hopefully.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
The two are not exclusive. You can have Apple handle your mail and Google everything else. If anything, splitting mail from “stuff” is a smart move nowadays. Not everything needs to be under one roof.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Regarding the name, search Scunthorpe on YouTube
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I don’t think you can do anything to early my trust personally other than sticking some big brand name in your domain. Anything you say or put on your website still comes from some random server on the web.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Should have been called Sommelier.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I’m always wary of consumer services that specifically target secrecy and encryption. How many of those “lockbox” photo apps are just syphons into the developer’s server? “We’ll encrypt the file, trust us.” This message can only come from a
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I’m glad I can still find funny comments on HN.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
We’ve had ML for many years and I don’t see the output becoming good enough to satisfy developers anytime soon.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Did you just scroll through the article, saw many different examples and called it awfully complicated? Because the solution is just `new URLSearchParams({ text })` and that’s not complicated at all.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
So they’ll be 99% better than themselves. Sounds good to me!

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