havernator

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by havernator 5y ago
It could fragment the Apple software ecosystem. Since a non-fragmented ecosystem is what I want, I don't like that. Add more stores and my choice to buy into a unified platform is at risk.
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by havernator 5y ago
Pointing out one bad thing doesn't change a bunch of other good things, nor does adding more app stores seem like a useful solution to the problem raised.
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by havernator 5y ago
Then choose something else? I mean, lobby for the change if you like, but you're eliminating my favored choice if you succeed.
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by havernator 5y ago
Right now, ~100% of the software available for iOS has to follow Apple's rules, offer a consistent and safe payment method, and install through the App Store. I assume you think that would change, else why have other app stores. That&#
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by havernator 5y ago
It’s mostly been desktop I’ve seen have this issue (including macOS). Maybe the UI is better on mobile so click-yes-to-make-the-annoying-popup-go-away-oops-now-you-get-push-messages isn’t an issue.
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by havernator 5y ago
I hope they never enable it. Watching people in my life “use” that feature, I wouldn’t be surprised if well over half if web push messages are sent to people who don’t know how they got enabled, or how to disable them (they just clicked awa
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by havernator 5y ago
Sorry for being rude by taking your question in good faith. Won’t do that again.
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by havernator 5y ago
> books only last, what, 30-40 years. I have little pulp paperbacks that are older than 40 years, and those are about the least durable books around. I expect finer books to last 100 years and as many readings... and to go on to do it ag
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by havernator 5y ago
> I absolutely in no way can see even a path to understanding how it is demeaning to talk about things people did in the past, that were deliberately ignored or buried, because of their gender. Not the parent, but a common take on pieces
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by havernator 5y ago
Read quite a bit of that one, didn’t see anything bad. It’s in Standard Internet Tone but pretty mild. Having to couch everything in the gentlest terms and preface any snark or impolite observation with a paragraph of disclaimers so people
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by havernator 5y ago
It’s a bit more subtle than that, which is why it’s tricky quoting verses out of context. The question arises in this one “who’s ‘he’”? The previous verse has an answer: > 15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel
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by havernator 5y ago
Not gonna lie: I’d been waiting years(!) to catch a relevant post for “photos of dull stuff in public” on the front page early enough to post about that and probably have enough people see it that I’d get that link. Thanks!
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by havernator 5y ago
Malaria in North America and England is covered pretty well in Mann’s 1493 . There are a couple kinds of malaria, one more resistant to cold than the other. No doubt the indigenous Americans had it bad, to put it mildly, but reading the ac
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by havernator 5y ago
Once found the site of a a Russian travel photo blogger who’d been almost everywhere and had a particular fondness for fire hydrants, street signs, bollards, trash cans, and so on. It was weirdly fascinating, I must have looked over dozens
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by havernator 5y ago
In ~2018 I briefly used an old 4GB MacBook Pro for work. It was only untenable longer-term because I needed to run two electron apps or many-hundreds-of-MB-memory tabs at a time, sometimes.
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by havernator 5y ago
I guess it just seems like there’s a lot more state than with file systems I’m used to dealing with. In fact, since journaling became normal, most just have two states (from the user’s perspective) whether powered on or off, mounted or un
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by havernator 5y ago
Can you? I was under the impression that without an “export” beforehand, you can’t.
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by havernator 5y ago
I want to like ZFS, and am using it, but however good it is at not losing data while in operation, the UI feels like it’s designed to make you wreck your data. I guess I just need more practice, but not being able to just rip a drive out an
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by havernator 5y ago
Hard disagree. If you’re not leveraging the features of your SQL database to make your life easier, your queries faster, and keep your data consistent & valid, then you probably didn’t need SQL to begin with. Which, yes, is a common sta
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by havernator 5y ago
Assuming the main thing you want out of it is the Cypher language (surely that's the main thing?) it looks like there's nothing like that. https://www.opencypher.org/projects None of those appear to be a SQLite-li
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by havernator 5y ago
Maybe, but some don't and are only there because 99% of the school-quality/house-price/distance-to-work sweet spot is in winding-road McMansion neighborhoods, so that's basically the only option.
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by havernator 5y ago
Weird. Macports is the one I was always having to edit packages for to un-break them, with a totally normal installation. Seemed like their packages were poorly-maintained. Must have gotten better I guess.
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by havernator 5y ago
I switched to Brew back in... oh, 2012 or 2013, I think, because I was sick of MacPorts breaking itself horribly during normal operations (installing/uninstalling) every 3-6 months. Brew’s huge package selection, rare breakage (sometim