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by flomo 1y ago
Probably not shown, but reportedly Jobs liked hiring lots of attractive women too. Good for sales.
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by flomo 1y ago
Not to defend the new System Settings, but the old Preferences app was some 1999 iMac CRT stuff. Everything crammed into different tabs and sub-dialogs, (and secret tabs and sub-dialogs), just to "keep it small". Some of the panes
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, thanks, it was a 2780 which runs KaiOS (and not android). I am really disputing the premise that this interface is really in any way easier or "dumber" than an iPhone. It is more primitive and maybe people learned it's
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by flomo 1y ago
He worked for AT&T at the time, right? Those corporate PBX systems had all sorts of crazy features which people mastered by pounding the 12 keys really fast. And he was probably on the bleeding edge of that. (In many places digital voic
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by flomo 1y ago
My parents are seniors. My dad has never had interest in computers, and only used them to the extent he had to. But my mom has mastered the iphone/ipad stuff. > Nokia "dumb" phone I don't think this exists anymore. I
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by flomo 1y ago
Interesting to see an old Unix box with EISA slots .. I would have thought that was "too PC".
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by flomo 1y ago
Thanks, I missed it. (I should note that in my crowd, references to this movie are always super-negative. "The One" gets damned to hell to eternally fight, but never win his battle.)
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, I know, I take the N, it goes downtown, everywhere else you need a bus (or practically, a car). Sorry if that was confusing.
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by flomo 1y ago
Just curious exactly what neighborhood and how long did you live there? (duboce triangle, a long time) I know a bunch of people who live/d out there, they take muni downtown but mostly have a car. Perhaps you could regal in tales of y
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by flomo 1y ago
Yep, me (and my politician Weiner) have some great public transit, so that's certainly true of some places. Those folks that he is up-zoning out in the avenues, they are driving. Different culture out there. Downvote reality to the lef
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by flomo 1y ago
I was posting about specifics.
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by flomo 1y ago
Because developers are going to include the parking so everyone out there can drive where they are going. Which is my point. The "transit" aspect of this bill is total bullshit. If you like cars, and want more traffic, this is for
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, and this is blatant when it is VC startup type stuff. But on the other hand you have say Redis, which seemed to be just some legitimate OSS cool but boring infrastructure for a long time, patches welcome. And then it becomes some VC &
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by flomo 1y ago
Ug. I'm a 'yimby' and a Weiner voter. But his take on San Francisco transit is just like really bad. Pokey streetcars and buses, doomed to fail. You build out there in those blue areas, and they are mostly all driving. My tak
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by flomo 1y ago
IMO some people use RSS as a proxy for the decline of 'blogosphere culture', which was already in decline when Google Reader shut down.
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by flomo 1y ago
Maybe this has changed, but ad scripts used document.write(), which runs immediately (before onLoad or etc). A big reason they are slow.
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by flomo 1y ago
Officially now MS-CFB (i think). OLE2 generally refers to a predecessor to COM, and not just the file format. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
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by flomo 1y ago
Originally I think it was to avoid the applet experience of downloading a large util.jar or etc. (Not that most js devs really care.) However, I suspect the motivation is often social status on GitHub & their resume.
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by flomo 1y ago
Of course you could manually put ads in your RSS feed. What you can't do is use an ad network (3rd party javascript), but if RSS was actually popular, that could be solved.
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by flomo 1y ago
> I have some theories as to why Curious what those might be. I think might not have been so simple as well "Jobs = Le Bad". There might have been some oldskool unix thinking about linking. (Both commercial and gnu.) And *Step
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, it kinda blew my mind when I figured out that DOS was actually correct in that way, and unix was 'cheating' by magically inserting CR into the terminal codes.
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by flomo 1y ago
I will agree with your point, and will also say a lot of the "bad actors" are actually in the house here. So don't take anything on face value. Hacker news has some straight computer criminals, adware types, cryptobros, dub
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by flomo 1y ago
> I think you have a reason for defending Apple. Guilty as charged. My parents had a Windows laptop and all sorts of evil shit was "sideloaded", and when I started reformatting it, some indian 'microsoft tech support'
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by flomo 1y ago
Sorry, I haven't had an Android phone since the original Nexus, so hopefully you can clarify. Could you install some hypothetical 'Meta Store' from the Google Store? Or do you mean more like Meta could just sell their own pho
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by flomo 1y ago
Always fun to interact with some internet Thomas Jefferson giving freedom speeches from his mother's basement. Reality is that people pay a lot of money because they 'trust' Apple (and to a lesser extent Google), but Meta is
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, it's a module in Apache too, it just comes OOB, so 'LAMP' had a cheap routing/rewrite solution. (ASP.net had APIs for that kind of stuff, so that was probably MS's original answer.)
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by flomo 1y ago
Keep in mind one of these third parties would almost certainly be Meta (because users want their stuff), and that would almost certainly be a privacy downgrade.
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by flomo 1y ago
Yeah, IIS didn't have any sort .htaccess type thing for url routing IIRC. Even later on, we had to dig under the hood of asp.net because we didn't want .aspx in our paths.
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by flomo 1y ago
Just fyi, the Mustang was originally marketed as more of a young woman's car, and only certain models are considered to be "musclemen" cars. Rental agencies stock these because they are fun for tourists, so glad you enjoyed i
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by flomo 1y ago
This problem solved itself on my car because it only has a 3G modem.

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