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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's... Not an experience. Don't know about countries, but in Sweden it's never been a problem to split the bill when you're paying. The waiter will just input whatever's needed into the PoS they bring to the table.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It was totally seamless and far better than handing my credit card to a server to get lost or cloned. In most countries I've been the waiter brings the PoS terminal to you and you pay at the table.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Who has a better notification / messaging system at scale 1. Apple. Facebook. TikTok. It's a somewhat simple problem that at scale is often solved by simply spinning a PubSub channel per user because you no longer care. 2. To
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Counter-point: Tesla is rumored to be working on a phone. How is this a counter point? How exactly doing superficial review of code they've never seen of a social network will help them with developing a phone?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
People also need to realize that none of these solutions have been proven to work at scale.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
See, you accuse your opponents of the tactics you yourself employ. Second, it takes significantly more effort to disprove misinformation and lies than to produce those. Yes, I latched on to just one of the examples because if one is not a v
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by dmitriid 4y ago
One of web's crowning achievements, flex, was available in Qt in early 00s, if memory serves me right.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
One persons high quality content is another person's trash.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You want an API because other apps are better. Let those apps partner with Twitter to allow only humans and not a second order API I want to write a blog engine that posts a summary and a link to my twitter timeline automatically. Do I
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The myth of "omg only html has different screen sizes" is so pervasive, it's mind boggling. Desktop apps have had "different screen sizes" forever. This is called "resize your window in any way you want".
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by dmitriid 4y ago
See, the remain side is interested. That's why they ask: "can you give examples of ridiculous laws". And the leave side... cites laws that cut the use of hazardous materials in electronics. Perhaps you want to return to asbes
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The ever prescient Yes, Minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> the UK is globally important country > Their historical connections to the USA You are parroting brexiteers' talking points who think that it's still the end of the 19th century. Reality is, while UK has (had?) a large eno
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by dmitriid 4y ago
When your largest market is the EU, you abide by EU's laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> But they've only been out of the EU for a few years. Whatever benefits they imagined they would get could not possibly show themselves on a time scale that short. Funny how imaginary benefits that they promised must take at at lea
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Haha. Once a year I fire up Rimworld and sink half a year into it. The human part is probably what does it for me, too.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Depends on the video. In DiabloLOL series there will always be someone breaking down all references second by second. In gameplay and game streaming videos you'll find useful tidbits and hints on how to play a game. etc.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
No, it just feels like a job. And I already have enough of that. I feel that with every single of these factory games from Factorio to Satisfactory, from Dyson Sphere to Shapez.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This would be specifically for tracking cookies (“cookie pop-ups”). Those pop-ups are not "specific for tracking cookies". Because the issue, and the law, isn't about "tracking cookies". The issue, and the law,
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Half of the services out there probably charge you extra just because you don't have to go through their scummy "cancel subscription" website pipeline Or because Apple charges 30% for IAP which is huge when your base p
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I can neither confirm nor deny that :) There was a partnership with Musixmatch for lyrics, but it ended for reasons I don't know (and if I knew I couldn't tell you) https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Win
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It’s clear at this point that the problem is not going to go away without intervention. The industry isn’t going to fix itself. Indeed. The main problem with GDPR is that enforcement has been slow. And that the industry has blamed its
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> for them to take away lyrics _again_ Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but I can't speak directly for the teams handling this. So. Lyrics, and any text that accompanies audio in general (for example, if you try to show audiobook te
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> But that is not how it is being interpreted in practice. No. In practice it's actually being interpreted correctly. What is being willfully misinterpreted is how easily a user can opt-out. Because the industry wants to remain ex
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I'm not suggesting that consent shouldn't still be asked for in cases where it's legitimate, like storing actual user personal data that they provide when signing up for an account, for example. Guess what. In this case
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I have to unplug and re-plug it several times. Or it will charge for a minute and then suddenly think it's disconnected. Take a toothpick, and scrub inside the connector on the Phone side. Most likely there's some dust/l
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Why not? This is exactly what needs to happen. No, it's not. Because there are actual legitimate reasons for organisations and businesses to ask for user's consent. > Either that, or allow cookie consent You keep missing t
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The problem is, the way the Internet and its services are financed, it is pretty much a requirement. It's not. Advertisement can and has worked very well without wholesale collection and trading of private user information. The ne
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It effectively requires the use of pop-ups to "gain consent", it doesn't ban them. Once again: the law isn't about cookie banners . The law is about user data . That is: if you want to collect more data that is st
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Either GDPR should be updated to ban consent pop-ups and simply make “REJECT” the default everywhere That is literally in the law. Article 7.3 https://gdpr.eu/article-7-how-to-get-consent-to-collect-pers... --- start q

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