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by damnyou 6y ago
iOS is the market leader by profit share and by amount of money spent on app stores, as Apple fans like to talk about all the time. In a sane world, being a market leader would mean that shareholder and corporate interests are kept in check
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes, which is why they should be mandated by law to include them anyway. Maybe that will force them to figure out a better security strategy.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Git is a generalized change tracking system. A domain-specific system might easily do better. (I've used Word's change tracking a little and it seems fine, with domain-specific features.)
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by damnyou 6y ago
Can you use that if you are offline, or otherwise have no contact with the Apple ecosystem?
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by damnyou 6y ago
It's actually not, no. A CEO is the public face of a company. This is less true of other C-level positions — Eich as CTO was more ok.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The marginal utility of a dollar decreases as the absolute number of dollars increases. The only way 2.5 million can provide significantly more utility than 500k (i.e not going towards a mansion in Atherton) is if the person making that muc
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by damnyou 6y ago
This would have been more true in 2018 or so but is pretty false now. Many large companies have production systems written in Rust now.
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by damnyou 6y ago
crickets
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by damnyou 6y ago
Thank you for your detailed response. Here are two things you can do today: 1. Be significantly less tolerant towards transphobic comments on this site, such as this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23937722 2. Sen
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by damnyou 6y ago
While some of the incidents in the list are regrettable, much of the list is about trans issues. That's where the game is given up (trans issues are where the game is always given up) and it becomes obvious that the maintainer of the l
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by damnyou 6y ago
This website holds a great deal of power beyond the community itself, so it is appropriate to have some community members represent non-community interests. Many people not in the community believe that Hacker News is no longer salvageable.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm imagining this being said to the principal of a local rural school in, like, Ghana.
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It's only rich schools that buy them, and most places that do would be better off without them.
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by damnyou 6y ago
It's the Android OS that's the differentiator vs an iPhone. As much as I dislike iOS, I do think it is clean.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'll be honest, this sounds like quite a set of workarounds when one can just... get this phone.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Have you tried Pixels? To my taste the photos they take are a couple notches better than iPhones.
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by damnyou 6y ago
There are some advantages to vertical integration like iOS has. For most of my friends, the disadvantages vastly outweigh them. As a simple example, you can't use uBlock Origin or another ad blocker with Firefox on iOS.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yeah but the big thing with iPhones is that they run the iOS operating system. Some people seem to think it's good, but almost all my friends (a mix of tech and non-tech people, mostly working or middle class) prefer Android. As do I.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Lawns are really bad for the environment in many ways. A front yard that's all native plants both looks better and produces a healthier local ecosystem.
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by damnyou 6y ago
What you're describing is pretty close to a Zojirushi fuzzy logic cooker, which has a greater tolerance for mismatched rice/water ratios (and most importantly sings a tune when done!)
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It isn't, but it should be more democratic.
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by damnyou 6y ago
> You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office. If your only opportunity to make friends is at work, that's a really bad situation and it should be a very hi
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by damnyou 6y ago
Opacity means that the blame for any "fake news" rests solely on Apple for not being clear enough.
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by damnyou 6y ago
People on feminizing HRT.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Use a configuration management system or simply have a custom clone script that users can curl | sh.
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by damnyou 6y ago
This is the sort of thing that a configuration management system like Ansible does. Consider deploying one to all managed devices. Git itself is not the right place to have it because of the security issues with it, but if you can run Ansib
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yeah. it's white Christian nationalism. Manifest destiny and all that.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Online arguments are not meant to change the minds of the people participating in them, they are meant to change the minds of people reading them. But, as I said, higher order effects. Google Mariel boatlift.
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50% of the US population descended from Native Americans? Wow.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The idea of a lump of labor is one of the oldest fallacies, and is a mark of a very small, closed mind that is unable to consider higher-order effects.

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