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by graftak 3y ago
Made a command line app in Go that recursively reads comic book files in a directory and serves them as a Opds spec[0] api so I can read comic books from my iPad using the Panels app[1]. There are more apps like this, but they all weigh too
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by graftak 3y ago
That might hurt game sales fundamentally if they can be completed within that time frame. If there’s gonna be a short timer it should start the moment the app is first opened instead of the purchase time.
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by graftak 3y ago
People got burned on “don’t be evil” once and so far OpenAI’s vision looks like a bunch of marketing superlatives when compared to their track record.
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by graftak 3y ago
People promoting their onlyfans content with suggestive videos.
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by graftak 3y ago
Nobody is stopping you.
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by graftak 3y ago
That’s an implementation error and not inherent to a disabled button.
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by graftak 3y ago
It does not cost $14 a month per user to run yt, they inject their music service into the price even if people don't want or need google music. $5 would've been fine esp. considering they don't produce any of their content an
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by graftak 3y ago
Nobody will download a desktop app to visit a marketing campaign about the future of IOT, watch a sports event, or to visit an online conference. And if they would it would all be electron wrapping a website anyway.
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by graftak 3y ago
I’m under no obligation to watch ads and may filter network traffic onto my network however I deem fit.
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by graftak 3y ago
Rendering 3d VR environments with interactive points of interest, live video players with real time highlight markings and sport standings with graphs comparing parallel games in the same league, having online conferences with 20K visitors
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by graftak 3y ago
Same in Europe where our ‘state-sized’ countries have different taxes but Amazon has no issue applying a 21% sales tax real time when I order from their .de site where a 20% tax is the local norm.
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by graftak 3y ago
That would be a fine argument of Google did not own the long-form general topic diy online video space. Since they do and there are no alternatives they can suck it until they (if ever) improve their business practices.
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by graftak 3y ago
They still data mine every move you make.
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by graftak 3y ago
If YouTube dies another party will take their place and hopefully learn from their mistakes. But YouTube won’t fail because it’s backed by Google and they’ll squeeze their monopoly for all that it’s worth.
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by graftak 3y ago
If YT music is so great they could make it optional instead of making me pay for a second music streaming service that I don’t want or need. I hope they get a big fat EU fine for (illegal here) joint sales.
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by graftak 3y ago
That trickle down fever dream has been on repeat for ages now but still hasn’t come to fruition.
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by graftak 3y ago
There’s no need to have the sort value and the display value to be the same to allow sorting.
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by graftak 3y ago
It is culture alright, the US famed capitalist rule the world culture.
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by graftak 3y ago
Even if you have a big asterix there for that special tax excluded from the price occasion it will already make lives a lot easier. Such a weird hill to die on.
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by graftak 3y ago
It’s on the receipt. And everyone where I live knows what the sales tax percentages are (there are two brackets).
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by graftak 3y ago
Sales tax is always printed on the receipt so it’s glanceable, often it is itemised too as product types might fall into varying tax brackets.
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by graftak 3y ago
That is due to software, not the lid sensor.
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by graftak 3y ago
Safari is faster and uses less memory
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by graftak 3y ago
This is emphasised by that a few may mean 2 or even 1, whereas several should not.
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by graftak 3y ago
Good
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by graftak 3y ago
Email is always pii under gdpr
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by graftak 3y ago
Likely because pine is lighter, more malleable, and probably simpler to create boards from than MDF.
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by graftak 3y ago
By asking for credentials/auth for every meaningful interaction.
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by graftak 3y ago
The TypeScript type system meta programming actually does pattern matching very well, it’s just the underlying JS runtimes that can’t, there is a proposal for it though; https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching
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by graftak 3y ago
What if you want a `switch` instead?

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