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by dpark 11mo ago
> People still do this while home alone, you’re attacking a straw man. Maybe? You’re making blind assertions with no data. I have no idea how frequently the average person sits in front of their 60” TV by themselves and watches a movie o
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by dpark 11mo ago
> People watching their tablet on a couch in from of a 55+” TV with a surround sound speaker system says on some level it’s a better experience. It’s a more private/personal experience. Turning on the TV means everyone watches. >
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by dpark 11mo ago
No one says the experience of watching on their tablet matches the experience of watching a movie in the theater. But this isn’t the point. TVs are furniture. People generally have a spot where the TV naturally fits in the room regardless o
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by dpark 11mo ago
Rear projection TVs always looked like garbage. They were just the best option at the time. There’s a reason no one sells them anymore. > What matters is the premium over a normal TV and how long it lasts. I think what matters for this c
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by dpark 11mo ago
> Screen size makes little difference for an individual they can just sit closer This is silly. Most people don’t want to sit in a chair 3 feet from their TV to make it fill more of their visual area. A large number of people are also no
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by dpark 11mo ago
55” TVs have been available for decades but not affordable. I purchased a 60” plasma TV about 2 decades ago but it cost about $2500 dollars. Now I can pick up a 55” 4K TV from Best Buy for $220. The widespread affordability of large screen
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by dpark 11mo ago
Why is forced introspection good for managers but not for ICs? I’m not saying that the extreme “I do nothing except act as a sounding board and tell my team to solve their own problems” is a good approach. But pushing people to solve their
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by dpark 11mo ago
Fine. You said most people you know.
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by dpark 11mo ago
You obviously did not claim autism as a superpower. Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition. > most people that I know, including myself, say that we are "somewhere on the spectru
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by dpark 11mo ago
Sure. If your hair is breaking off at the same rate it’s growing it’ll be a stable length. I have no idea if that happens though. It seems farfetched that hair would actually be splitting that’s aggressively unless it’s visibly very unhealt
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by dpark 11mo ago
I don’t think this is relevant to that at all. This “pulling” is inside the skin still. But I am also pretty confident that hair does not stop growing because of split ends. That feels like an “old wives tail”.
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by dpark 11mo ago
In fairness I’ve seen humans make that mistake. We had a complete outage in the testing of a product once and a couple of tests were still green. Turns it they tested nothing and never had.
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by dpark 11mo ago
Being a billionaire seems to be a prerequisite for being a modern supervillain but most billionaires probably don’t qualify. There are 125 billionaires living in New York City alone. Batman is a billionaire too in comic lore.
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by dpark 11mo ago
Because they escape or cannot be captured. Not because there’s no will to lock them up. But this is really not my point. Billionaires == Supervillains is not a commonly held view outside some echo chambers.
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by dpark 11mo ago
I would agree that government run stores falls into the communist playbook. Despite the communism boogie man, though, I don’t think supporting a couple of communist policies strictly makes a person a communist. Trump sent a bunch of governm
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by dpark 11mo ago
What does this even mean? Are you trying to imply that the only problem with Thiel’s apocalyptic beliefs is that people are writing articles about them?
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by dpark 11mo ago
He’s a socialist. Painting all socialism as “evil communism” is reductive and dishonest.
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by dpark 11mo ago
> In NYC, billionaires are like supervillains. This is absurd to the point of being cartoonish. No one treats billionaires like supervillains. How many billionaires are in supermax prisons right now in New York? > Nobody particularly
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by dpark 11mo ago
It’s naive to believe these are not connected. Wealth buys power.
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by dpark 11mo ago
I’m surprised that those little fans can push more air than a box fan while still being quieter. But I guess each of those 5 little fans cost as much as the box fan so maybe my surprise is unwarranted.
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by dpark 11mo ago
This sounds like you take slights toward Apple weirdly personally.
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by dpark 11mo ago
I don’t remember Windows 8 being particularly transparent. Windows 8 is remembered for the start screen with the modern tiles.
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by dpark 11mo ago
This is such a bizarre response to me saying Google was not part of the founding WHATWG group. It’s like you want to have an argument but don’t have anything to argue about. “Oh, yeah? Well they paid Hickson’s salary. And the WHATWG doesn’t
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by dpark 11mo ago
For Firefox to win back significant share, they need to do more than embrace fringe scenarios that normal people don’t care about. They need some compelling reason to switch. IE lost the lead to Firefox when IE basically just stopped develo
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by dpark 11mo ago
Okay. So putting it together… If the user agent does not support JPEG XL, then you cannot use it. “Nobody is stopping you from using jpegxl” except Google.
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by dpark 11mo ago
Your statement here amounts to “you can serve JPEG XL to other browsers, just not Chrome”. Yeah, that’s what I said.
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by dpark 11mo ago
Literally the WHATWG founders wanted to focus on web applications, which they said web authors were asking for, and they got voted down. Google was not involved in the founding of WHATWG, though certainly the WHATWG vision was better aligne
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by dpark 11mo ago
This is a vacuous statement. No one is stopping me from using JPEG XL in the same sense that no one is stopping me from using DIMG10K, a format I just invented. But if I attempt to use either of these in my website today, Chrome will not re
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by dpark 11mo ago
There’s something not quite right about saying one member of an oligopoly should be forced to follow the dictates of the other members of an oligopoly. I don’t feel like this actually solves anything. I feel like Mozilla would end up being
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by dpark 11mo ago
> all sorts of things that the community wants, like JpegXL, XSLT, RSS/Atom, Gemini (protocol, not AI), ActivityPub, etc. What “community” is this? The typical consumer has no idea what any of this is.

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