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by eridius 8y ago
What was the HFS driver hung on?
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by eridius 8y ago
How does an hourly minimum wage work given that Uber and Lyft drivers get paid for doing trips, not for idling in their car waiting for rides? Does this minimum wage only apply to times when I have a fare? That would mean the real hourly mi
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by eridius 8y ago
> Because I am operating squarely within the specification, designs, and intentions of the technology. No you aren't. The intent is "Give Google the complete text, put up a paywall for everyone else". The fact that the t
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by eridius 8y ago
Wouldn't a strict volume check be better in general? If I'm physically closer to one HomePod but something is in the way, obscuring audio, then I probably want to talk to the HomePod that's further away but unobscured. Or to
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by eridius 8y ago
But that's the thing, it absolutely is a gendered issue. Woman simply do not manspread. A lot of men do. And the real problem is men do this without even consciously realizing it . This is why raising attention to the issue is impor
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by eridius 8y ago
I believe it uses the same logic that Handoff does to determine what your "active" device is. If the "active" device hears the Siri request, it responds. Otherwise I think it prioritizes HomePod. If multiple HomePods hea
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by eridius 8y ago
I would guess most companies are not in the business of selling their user email lists, but rather, shared the user's email with a third-party company that provided some service, and that third-party company then sold it.
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by eridius 8y ago
What makes you think that the technical ability to do something confers either the legal or moral right to do that? Just because it's technically possible for you to trick me into thinking you're Google does not mean it's ok
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by eridius 8y ago
If I choose to serve my IP to Google in full for free, that doesn't mean I'm choosing to serve it to everybody in full for free. Just because you can trick me into thinking you're Google doesn't give you the moral or the
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by eridius 8y ago
> In technology the ability to do something absolutely is the right to so do unless you have already agreed otherwise. That's just plain wrong. There's nothing special about technology that means you get to throw all your exi
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by eridius 8y ago
AFAIK nobody's done a study to determine what percentage of the population has chromosomes that don't match with their expressed sexual characteristics (either primary or secondary).
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by eridius 8y ago
No they can't. Gender is a social construct. But they can't tell that for physiological sex either. Humans have a whole host of secondary sexual characteristics, most of which are more important than genitals in determining how ot
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by eridius 8y ago
Speaking as someone who used to be a man... that explanation is complete bullshit. Whoever told you that was lying. Men can clamp their legs tightly together without even any testicular discomfort[1]. The only legitimate reason for mansprea
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by eridius 8y ago
Talking about "the right to do so" is either a legal or a moral judgement, and the parent said this in the context of both a legal and a non-legal (and therefore moral) perspective.
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by eridius 8y ago
Putting bags on a second seat is something that people of all genders do. Manspreading is something that is almost exclusively done by men. What's more, generally everybody recognizes that taking up a second seat with a bag is rather r
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by eridius 8y ago
Why? "The ability to do X gives you the right to do so" is not a moral argument in the slightest. In fact, it is inherently anti-moral, because the entire point of moral codes is "just because you can do X doesn't mean y
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by eridius 8y ago
The penultimate example tripped me up. I was under the impression that arithmetic conversions for binary operators only happened if the types of the operands were different. But reading the standard, and then actually experimenting with cla
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by eridius 8y ago
What gets me is that this affects later languages too. For example, Swift's internal String storage is either ASCII or UTF-16, precisely because it needs to maintain NSString's performance guarantees when bridging to Obj-C. That s
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by eridius 8y ago
Not just binary compatibility, also API compatibility. All of the performance guarantees of NSString are based around the internal representation being UTF-16 (or ASCII). Similarly -[NSString length] is defined as the number of UTF-16 code
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by eridius 8y ago
Rust explicitly set out to have an excellent built-in package management solution. They tapped Yehuda Katz early on for this.
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by eridius 8y ago
Maintain has multiple accepted usages. But I'm not interested in playing word games. > They shut down Reader because the codebase was dated, and there were few engineers left on that team. It was a reallocation of resources. And w
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by eridius 8y ago
I thought we'd abandoned the practice of writing articles that start by bragging about the author's "Apple fanboy" cred, followed by comparing Apple to a religion. I can't possibly take any article seriously that st
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by eridius 8y ago
Wasn't MS already in the middle of dealing with antitrust litigation as a result of bundling IE with the system? I can absolutely see them not being able to avoid more antitrust litigation if their only real desktop competitor died.
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by eridius 8y ago
Not at all. They could have actually put effort into it. The problem was that they didn't maintain it. They let it languish, staying exactly the same for years, good enough that nobody wanted to compete with a free product but not ac
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by eridius 8y ago
It was a close call. For a number of months there it looked like RSS was going to be well and truly dead. The fact that my comment is being downvoted tells me that people here have a shockingly poor memory for this sort of thing. And heck,
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by eridius 8y ago
Probably the most obvious example is when Google almost destroyed the entire RSS ecosystem with Google Reader.
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by eridius 8y ago
I was under the impression that Go's regex library was RE2. Wasn't RE2 originally written by Russ Cox?
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by eridius 8y ago
And besides all of the work Apple does to develop and maintain the APIs and frameworks that apps use?
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by eridius 8y ago
Why does an online presence require an app? Most "online presences" still don't have them and do just fine.
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by eridius 8y ago
You're absolutely right, I meant to write "data races" there.

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