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by defaultname 5y ago
But ads are the problem. Ads are the robbery of your time and attention. On a screen they steal screen real estate, consume CPU cycles, consume bandwidth, etc. And all of the stalking and tracking is a direct consequence of ads themselves,
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by defaultname 5y ago
There are many, many cases where users choose pay options over `free'-but-ad-supported options. The pay options usually have a better/more honest financial model, and more aligned interests with their users. And there certainly is
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by defaultname 5y ago
Fascinating! I'd never noticed this before. Normal television is dominated by those free-to-play gambling sites, and as you mentioned overwhelmingly they seem to use .net. I always wondered how they made money.
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by defaultname 5y ago
In the early days of COVID I was curious what the difference between types of viruses. e.g. how herpes and HIV hides in cells compared to viruses like influenza and SARS-CoV-2. One of those sites clearly had Facebook integration because now
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by defaultname 5y ago
A pretty good percentage of people are just going to remember it as burrito.com. Alternate TLDs are fine for clickable media, but fall apart in print form.
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by defaultname 5y ago
Having AMP controlled and intermediated by Google was always a bad thing. It tainted what ultimately was a good effort, which is taking the enormous scope of web technologies we have now and winnowing them back down again for optimized pu
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by defaultname 5y ago
Predicting that they're going to charge a "bananas" amount for "hosting and distributing apps" -- ostensibly on the basis of the cost of all of these "free" users (where free means paid enormous amounts fo
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by defaultname 5y ago
Every major app that iOS missed would be a significant dollar amount of sales that Apple would lose. If Netflix or Spotify or PrimeVideo wasn't available on iOS, not only would that be a marketing disaster, it would yield sales consequ
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by defaultname 5y ago
"The rest are ad supported and Apple gets 0% of the ad revenue." The vast bulk of the rest likely signed up elsewhere and aren't free users. I signed up online, as I imagine most people do for most services. I'm not sure
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by defaultname 5y ago
I'm certainly not trying to present medical information on here, and no one should change behaviors based upon what I said. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/08/do-you...
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by defaultname 5y ago
Each virus can only interact with certain cells of your body. COVID and influenza interact with lower respiratory cells. You have to inhale a viral load to be infected, or at least this is the consensus belief right now (and is contrary to
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by defaultname 5y ago
Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but the "torch mobs" have been pretty active as this situation has unfolded. There is nothing "preemptive" about it. The zeitgeist is pretty obvious. As to the "ridicule
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by defaultname 5y ago
I'll be the odd one out and say that I see nothing wrong with their study. There are much more skillful, much better resourced actors who can do what the UMN did much more discretely. I mean, the UMN flaws were egregious and blatantl
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by defaultname 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJigArURZWU (Video of an operating unit) There is nothing particularly unbelievable about the device, and it seems, as such innovations tend to be, quite obvious.
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by defaultname 5y ago
Many of the recipe sites you're finding are likely "food bloggers", so their interest is in being a personality/virtual cooking companion more than being just a source of a recipe. You have misaligned interests, and to b
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by defaultname 5y ago
The orgs that hide their salary generally offer below market (but think they can fool you by telling you that they offer a rebate on fitness plans and other extraneous stuff amounting to mere hundreds per year), or they're trying to hi
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by defaultname 5y ago
Every change you can make in a database becomes an event by this definition. It's just as useful to know when every change happens in your database, and by who. Which is why we have `audit' logs. Usually online logs that can recov
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by defaultname 5y ago
I recently moved my Apple TV to another room (for Fitness+ use) so we started relying upon a Chromecast with Google TV. What a downgrade. It made me remember how horrid AV components often were, where multi-second delays, slow loading, horr
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by defaultname 5y ago
Onboarding is expensive at dysfunctional organizations. Further, the reality that churn is high among better employees [1] offsets the concern. But regardless, going through an extensive vetting process is an illusion. It has extraordinar
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by defaultname 5y ago
"but the real cost of an upfront hire is my time, not money" The most arduous hiring processes are often little more than an illusion of selection, yielding a process that is more the rolling of dice. Most hiring processes hire ba
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by defaultname 6y ago
It's a fantastic analysis, and I am a bit surprised by some of the results. Thanks for doing the work and putting together a great resource. kodablah's point is a valid one generally. A parallel post notes that a developer can&#x2
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by defaultname 6y ago
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/app/smartthings.ht... They link directly to the app. They almost certainly have relevant QR codes in the manuals to go directly to the app downloads. You can fin
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by defaultname 6y ago
Intel has a number of advanced foundries around the world, and they're jockeying for business as their cash cow sees a bit of threat. Every wafer-for-hire foundry is running at >100% utilization so it's basically printing money
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by defaultname 6y ago
I think Siri is intended to be more goal oriented. I use it extensively, with very little complaint, daily- -set alarm -next song -set timer -set reminder (e.g. "Siri set reminder 6pm close garage door") -send message to <perso
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by defaultname 6y ago
You're absolutely right, however let's note that no rational person would conclude that Apple actually infringed on any invention of this patent troll. This case should have gone nowhere, and the plaintiffs should have been sent h
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by defaultname 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-25/the-te... An entire industry has sprung up in Texas specifically around the extortion of actual technology companies -- which almost always exist in other
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by defaultname 6y ago
No, they aren't at 28nm. They're shipping 14nm at volume, have low-volume R&D yields of 7nm, and are building their own EUV process for 5nm and below. Sanctioning and restricting China is most certainly going to be a catalyst
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by defaultname 6y ago
Most of the shortages are in older process chips. Having said that, it is pretty remarkable that Apple has gotten themselves in a situation where a supplier has so much leverage over them. TSMC can set the prices and conditions and there is