handrous

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by handrous 5y ago
Last I checked, iOS users use their phones way more than Android users period , including the browser. That plus (probably relatedly, though other factors are also in play) spending habits are why so many apps choose to go iOS-first, or to
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by handrous 5y ago
I don't think there's a lot of overlap between folks who are very upset with Apple for not making PWAs work better on iOS, and people who hate non-native apps and wish they'd be banned.
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by handrous 5y ago
They use those advantages to compete with other companies and with volunteer efforts . That's another reason I'm not too worried about doom-and-gloom predictions of what would happen if we killed the ads (and spying-fed ML) golde
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by handrous 5y ago
I read that as ironic understatement (though the "logistical" part doesn't seem quite right) but perhaps that's not how it was intended.
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by handrous 5y ago
I was posting about returns on investment, not entrepreneurship. Some entrepreneurs really are takings significant risks, beyond the risk that the huge numbers in their accounts become somewhat less huge. Some are even taking more risk
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by handrous 5y ago
This is similar to why the argument that capitalists are due returns because they take on risk doesn't move me. Please, give me the "risk" of having somewhat-fewer millions in the bank. I'll take on all that risk. For fr
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by handrous 5y ago
My consistent answer to the "if companies weren't allowed to spy on you and do other horrible shit, and if ad dollars dried up, all these sites would go away!" argument is that all those sites have value approaching zero anyw
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by handrous 5y ago
Middle management certainly aren't, that's true, but CEOs often are, or will soon join that group due to their income. It's true that preferential treatment for the C-suite is more a second-order effect, though. A mechanism
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by handrous 5y ago
It gets even worse outside of science. I'm sure most people who've been in the business world long have noticed that attempts to eliminate confounding factors when drawing conclusions are rarely even attempted unless the results
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by handrous 5y ago
To be fair, it's not like we hide who the system's set up to serve. It's right there in the name. Capital - ism.
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by handrous 5y ago
Right, but somehow the "situational awareness" argument doesn't fly when it's a developer working at two places. Then it's all "oh no, you might steal our secrets with your brain", even though that's
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by handrous 5y ago
An allow-list feature would get me to let my kids on Youtube (despite the ads—it'd be really convenient to be able to just use the site/apps) rather than YouTube-dl-ing the videos. Even just a channel allow-list would be huge, b
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by handrous 5y ago
Input latency's one potential convenient proxy for this, once you adjust for display latency. "How long does it take the computer to do pretty much the most basic operation an interactive computer system performs?" Considerin
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by handrous 5y ago
I've noticed that lots of C-suite and owner/CEO startup people have like three to five active business roles on their Linkedins. A fun case of "rules for thee, but not for me" when it comes to anti-moonlighting clauses a
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by handrous 5y ago
My wife's preferred brand of pre-made iced tea recently slightly changed the packaging for their large-sized bottles. Checked, and sure enough, they dropped from 64oz to about 59oz. [EDIT] Oh, and in the case of Everything's a Dol
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by handrous 5y ago
The OS got in my way, rather than the player, trying to use 486 machines as mp3 "jukeboxes" back in the day—"the day" being when high-hundreds Mhz single-core machines were the norm, and 486s could be had at garage sales
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by handrous 5y ago
Ex-(long time)-Gentoo user here. Linux packaging is insane without resorting to something like this. The problem could be fixed but it would require coordinating long-term-stable (like: 5 years, minimum) versions of an entire, fairly large
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, even Linux is crazy-chatty these days. I miss sniffing packets on a home or small office network and being able to follow what was going on without any filters. Now even on a smallish network, all your "idle" devices are spi
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by handrous 5y ago
What MP3 players? Windows Media Player with the MP3 codec installed on your system? I don't recall there being a lot of options for Windows, at the time.
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by handrous 5y ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's also the only of the four most recent Treks (I'm counting The Orville) that's decent. The trailers made it look terrible, but it's actually pretty OK. The Orville's the second-best—holy
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by handrous 5y ago
You don't have to be minimalist to perform well. Like most other software from the era of 32MB-of-memory Windows desktops with two-digit-Mhz single-core processors, it had to be lean or everyone would hate it. That doesn't mean
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by handrous 5y ago
Much that was "obviously" bad in the mid '00s is good now. Mixing markup and style, heavy reliance on vector graphics and drawing things with CSS at runtime. Flash reborn as this sort of thing, but with much shittier creation
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by handrous 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: there are bad examples, just like with any design trend, but the basic layout scheme for most websites for desktop use peaked with the "thin top bar & nav, 2-3 columns, left of which may also be navigation&qu
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by handrous 5y ago
Rice, beans, block American cheese, stew meat, whichever fruits and veggies are on sale, make your own baked goods. People found ways even when prices were much, much higher relative to incomes. Eat-whatever-you-like-whenever-you-like is no
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by handrous 5y ago
I use multiple Macs, plus several iOS devices, behind a pihole, with iCloud. Never seen this. IIRC I do just use the default block lists, or something pretty close, though.
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by handrous 5y ago
Frequent random beachballs made me switch from FF to Chrome ~10 years ago. Somewhat-less-frequent random beachballs made me switch to Safari. Not that I never see them, but that cut them to under 5% the rate I'd been seeing them. Xcode
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by handrous 5y ago
I spent about a minute wondering why someone made yet another software project that I can't talk about with non-nerds (or in mixed company at all , or with people I don't know very, very well and do not work with, et c.), before
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by handrous 5y ago
Yep. The list of things that could make Earth a worse place to live than Mars is very short. A big enough asteroid to liquefy the entire crust would do it, for a while. A "mere" dinosaur-killer wouldn't be enough. Nor would
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by handrous 5y ago
I, for one, think permanent Mars settlement is a dumb idea, but I look forward to watching someone try it.
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by handrous 5y ago
I sometimes pirate things that are on services I'm paying for just because I don't want to have to remember which one has the thing I want to watch, every time I go to watch it, or switch between apps if watching multiple shows, o

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