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by falcolas 3y ago
Counter data point: I maintain a windows 11 PC for gaming, and there are ads everywhere. Most of the ads point back to Microsoft products, but not all. Launcher ads. Live desktop ads. News ads. Weather ads. Settings page ads. Game bar ads.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Define woke.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I can only one-hand my "standard" sized iPhone comfortably with a pop-socket. I love that they make those as mag-safe attachments, as an aside. Otherwise, I'm with you on two-handing it, even with my large hands.
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by falcolas 3y ago
To achieve the generally-considered-ideal "15 minute" urban design without cars or public transit (which is what the parent post is advocating), you absolutely require density higher than "single family separated townhome w
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by falcolas 3y ago
> into more livable, higher density Speaking for myself, but you’re describing hell. I’ve lived in high density urban environments, and moved back to Montana just to get away from that misery.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I found it by accident. Either by noticing the icon changing as I hit modifiers, or by coming across it in a thread just like this one. As noted above, discoverability of this function sucks, so “accidentally“ is about the only real way to
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by falcolas 3y ago
I can type reasonably fine, but anytime there’s a skeuomorphic control (like a joystick) it all goes to hell. The screens are too small and my thumbs too large to get anything resembling accuracy. And so many huge developers are unwilling t
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by falcolas 3y ago
That only exposed their mistaken assumptions. Education doesn’t cause anything; a person’s (or collective of people’s) choices caused the excessive profit seeking. I say excessive because it’s not sustainable. The median wages can’t support
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by falcolas 3y ago
> there are 3 possible actions (as of a decade ago) that might happen according to an set of rules the user can't be expected to know.... At least the icon changed based on which action was going to happen. Knowing to look for that
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by falcolas 3y ago
> the loss of printed instruction manuals Even digital `man` pages would be nice sometimes. Not the watered down "Help" pages. > With more things moving mobile-first, the discoverability of features is just gone. I'm on
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by falcolas 3y ago
As someone on the cusp from X to Millenial, I get mobile fine, but the loss of screen space is why I'll never prefer it. And this is made worse by the natural degradation of eyesight as I get older. I did have to make an intentional ef
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by falcolas 3y ago
When you don't have to struggle to learn the basics of how to use something, you won't develop the mental model of operation you can carry forward. We (Late X, millenials) did have to struggle just to operate a computer. We had to
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by falcolas 3y ago
No, they raised prices because they found an opportunity for more profit that they had missed before. No other forces than greed were required.
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by falcolas 3y ago
They discovered that they could get even more profit than they believed possible before; specifically that customers could bear even higher prices, at least in the short term. This was discovered by pandemic price increases caused by increa
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by falcolas 3y ago
> In economics, inflation is an increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy. ~Wikipedia If profit seeking is increasing the general price level of goods (via a “coincidentally” coordinated raising of prices),
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by falcolas 3y ago
If it doesn't do anything - if it doesn't matter, then why care? I mean this quite literally. Is it worth expending any time or energy on changing habits and tooling when it doesn't matter, and will probably never matter?
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by falcolas 3y ago
In which case any other windmill could only be more meaningful. :) I do get what you mean, and self-closing tags makes parsing HTML a royal pain... but it's been the status quo for decades now (self closing tags were in HTML 1.0 IIRC
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by falcolas 3y ago
The time to rail against self closing tags is long past. No matter how good your arguments and opinions are, it's here to stay (with and without the '/>'). There are better and more meaningful windmills to tilt agains
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by falcolas 3y ago
There is one thing I always point out when individuals are called out as an exception: genetic mutants whose abilities are ideal for specific tasks exist. Runners who don’t produce lactic acid, swimmers with absurdly long arms, and so forth
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by falcolas 3y ago
A human's working memory has never been that big. 5-7 items at a time. Less for those who are also dealing with other mental issues.
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by falcolas 3y ago
That’s basically how dams and reservoirs work. It just requires a lot of space to store water.
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by falcolas 3y ago
That's an issue which can be solved. Consume more location appropriate news. Social media (ironically, when considering what kind of media is bad for you) can also provide decent local news information. Maybe even support your local ne
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by falcolas 3y ago
There are plenty of injustices happening locally against which you can take meaningful action.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Being aware of current bills proposed and being voted on (at local, state, and federal levels) lets you contact your representatives and voice your opinion; lets you impact which bills are passed. This kind of action does have an effect, an
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by falcolas 3y ago
Doesn't even have to be on a rail crossing. Stopping a car in the middle of an 80mph freeway (whether it's the legal or practical speed limit) would suffice.
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by falcolas 3y ago
A lot of restaurants already dislike black patrons, they consider them to be stereotypically "bad patrons". So, I think this will happen much sooner than we'd hope.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Like banning books based on content without context, this will have unintended consequences. But in the more immediate term, I fear for what will happen as traditional restaurants turn their existing biases against serving black people (who
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by falcolas 3y ago
Well, it did say "don't be a bigot." We are past that phase now, it seems.
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by falcolas 3y ago
8.05% Jesus. That's high. For a $100k loan (not unusual for high paying degrees), you'd need to shell out over $650 a month just to break even with interest.
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by falcolas 3y ago
The SC canned AA due to racism, even though AA also applied to gender and disability. So the value of AA for women (and men) and disabled people was completely disregarded. One potential industry to consider, especially considering the site

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