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by dmitriid 4y ago
Chose one, or two https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/h... Abuse of dominance occurs when a dominant business (or group of businesses) engages in activity that stops or substantial
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Make no mistake: dialog element is there only because browsers (and Chrome, first and formost) want to remove alert/prompt. dialog was so problematic that the same people that are now promoting it were in favor of removing it entirely.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Or else... what? Or else they wouldn't get Youtube, or get Android, or both etc. > As you say, hardware manufacturers are holding back codec progress. Google: releases several codecs in quick succession Google: uses dominant ma
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by dmitriid 4y ago
They are not "switching youtube to AV1". They are "using their dominant market power to force everyone else to switch first to VP9 and then to AV1, or else" Device manufactures couldn't care less about AV1. And yet,
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Safari (especially on iOS) appears to have become the new Internet Explorer, holding back progress for everyone. The table in the article certainly suggests it. Ah yes. Tables. Let's look at the actual text and text in some linked
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Given that Chrome abuses its market position to ram through and continuously release hundreds of Chrome-only non-standards I view this as a net positive.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
How many of those "actual HTML standards" in the past 10 years are actual standards and not "whatever Google scribbled on a napkin and pretended it was a standard"?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Google released three different video codecs in the span of 6 years, and expected everyone to jump and support them, even in hardware. Now that's abusing market position. Timeline: VP8: 2010 VP9: 2013 Google: we're going to slow
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It states ~72% of music (down from ~88% in 2012) is owned by the big three (not four, after EMI was eaten by Sony in late 2011). It's hard to keep specifying the exact composition of the music scene, and the market share by the Bi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> get peanuts from spotify even for non-trivial number of streams. Define "non-trivial". Easily 80-90% of all plays are by a handful of artists, the absolute vast majority of whom are owned by labels. Even if your non-trivial a
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Spotify pays up to 70% of their revenue to copyright holders. So, your beef should be with them, not Spotify. Which you should already be aware of if you truly are a music producer. However, it costs you nothing to bash Spotify. It may cost
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I can only offer a personal anecdote. In Sweden the only SMS messages I receive are marketing spam and appointments from various places (from my hairdresser to dental appointments). Everyone else is either on various messaging apps (FB Mess
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I've been on MacOS for 15 years now. The iOSification and changes for changes' sake in the past years is evident to everyone. As for incompetence, it's enough to look at the new settings app that they shipped basically unchan
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Windows was demoted to one section of the company’s Surface announcements held as a precursor to the main event. We see this with Windows and with MacOS. MacOS's downfall is the more visible one. The OS is no longer prioritized
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by dmitriid 4y ago
People working on the new UI are not working on other products. These are not the same people who work with indexing, but these could be people who work on decoupling UI code etc. while indexing is improved.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Most of the time if some UI requires you to configure it, it's a badly designed product. With very very few exceptions.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I’m not ordinarily a fan, but VS Code has shown us how good an Electron-based IDE can be yes, if you invest hundreds of millions of dollars and spend hundreds of man years on trivial things like "we can't make terminal output
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Why is VSCode eating their lunch? - People don't know better. That is, they literally have no idea what a proper IDE is and what it does. Hence all the "VS Code is as good as IDEA" comments - It's free. People feel
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by dmitriid 4y ago
According to this: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/airbnb-statistics/ AirBnB has not had a single profitable year, losing 4.5 billion dollars in 2020 (okay, it was the pandemic year). How is it a counter e
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Hmm. Worked for me. If it continues to not work, here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/zwgMhzR
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Pre-IPO investors got their profits and then passed the black hole to foolish stock market investors. Funnily enough, in their IPO filing Uber said they might never be profitable . And still...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I've been telling people for years. All the HN darlings, all these amazing innovative unicorns, and Uber especially, only exist because of unlimited investor money and price dumping. A while back I did a cursory search through YCombina
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Too bad that this trivial problem literally has no solution, right? We literally have no solution to grid scale power storage. Thank god someone on HN knows it's trivial.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Yeah it’s the long production time for nuclear that makes a big difference. Solar/wind/storage can roll out today and start producing energy tomorrow. Ah yes. The magical immediate construction of dollars and windows. Blink,
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You read code much more often that you write it. So, the answer is: yes.
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> but have much greater infrastructure costs than nuclear. And proponents of solar forget that they have to cover large swaths of land with solar to begin with. Some places don't have the luxury of converting land to solar farms
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by dmitriid 4y ago
So far it's been working like a charm :)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I'll add: (only?) Meilisearch is fully multi-lingual. I didn't dive into the various engines, but I was looking for one that would support Russian in a small side-project, and Meilisearch was the only one [1] that had it right the
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by dmitriid 4y ago
1. It's been forever, and because of that: 2. People are never going to migrate from List, and so we: 3. Must do the same exact thing again and again, to ensure: 4. That people are never going to migrate from List
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by dmitriid 4y ago
To my non-native ear it sounds/looks like a word that means anything but beautiful. Basically, what does horgous look like https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791

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