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by imbnwa 5y ago
I'm guessing this is why the 13'' MBP continues to exist. It and the Air service the two levels of consumer device, grandma, grandpa, students, adults who just casually browse just need an Air; adults or students who need to
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by imbnwa 5y ago
AMP was a clear signal of the extent to which mobile web development was seriously flawed that Google had to go to major content publishers and say "look, your frontend is trash and nowhere near concise enough on mobile in either layou
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Indeed, the former corrective is more what I wanted to get at. I wanted to point out that the "you can be anything if you put your mind to it" narrative is doubly harmful as children very much observe the contrary in reality but n
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Oh I agree, and I hope my wording didn't convey some sort of unbound ceiling if you just "put your mind to it". I more wanted to point at the first bump in the road .
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Nah, Madison is very explicit in The Federalist Papers that the masses are a bunch of idiots. They were merely expressing the outlook of bourgeois British culture with its strong ideas of class, which doesn’t disappear in America until the
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by imbnwa 5y ago
>What people are obsessed with is the idea that someone's "good at" something as an inherent trait, as opposed to skill being learnable and, therefore, transferable I use to coach high school policy debate in a major metro
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Early in its life Facebook Engineering marketed React as "you probably don't know what you're doing with the DOM and incurring all sorts of performance issues with your hand-written Backbone View code, let React do that for y
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by imbnwa 5y ago
People really don't realize how much of a clusterfuck is prevented by Apple's platform lockdown, like, my god its another level of quality in my experience and I was an Android user for most of my life. Even those things that can
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by imbnwa 5y ago
What exactly is the "false mainstream view that can never get corrected"? I'm likely out of the loop to some extent, but WRT, e.g masks, that was retracted and corrected; vaccines prevent transmission/reception, that was
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by imbnwa 5y ago
The problem is that OOTB Chrome, the market leader, comes with search set to Google. Even if they were required to present a choice on first startup after install, most people wouldn't bother changing it. This makes controlling the br
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by imbnwa 5y ago
The keyword was ‘correlated’, thanks for the anecdote though
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by imbnwa 5y ago
>But in this case, they were surely unaware, and merely saw a film with a harmonious ending. I guess my questioning revolves around how exactly they interpreted the rest of the film, which doesn't let up on the anti-capitalist, anti
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Changing the ending is the least interesting thing about this IMO. More interesting is to observe the simultaneity of the CCP allowing Fight Club to be released at all in China (it was not previously available with the original ending, as
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Use it on desktop myself, big fan of having a vertical tab bar implementation that isn't garish to look at on macOS. And thank god I found Orion, I was using Adguard on desktop and was thinking about enabling their HTTPS filtering beha
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Kinda wish we had some WASM results here
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by imbnwa 5y ago
This seems eerily related to this[0]: >According to proponents of the new model, it’s not the management-by-stress techniques employed by profit-focused hospital executives that are driving the labor exodus from health care. The problem
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Been listening to a lot of lesser known 80s pop like The Time and Five Star and, gods, its like we've just largely given up on writing damn good hooks and melodies in exchange for vibes and soundscapes (of course not speaking for all
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Such a needlessly extreme example, sometimes it might mean just working on the backend after doing nothing but frontend for your career, sometimes it might mean not assigning a feature of a certain complexity to the person you know likely g
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by imbnwa 5y ago
This post reminds me of a job description I saw on LinkedIn, an excerpt of which went something like: "We will not be engaging in discussions around architecture and design. You will be expected to complete the assignments given to you
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by imbnwa 5y ago
If you're minimizing challenge for your software engineers, you're making worse engineers over time
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by imbnwa 5y ago
"Division of labor is an extremely mature state for a society. Aiming prematurely for it is counterproductive. Rather than try to imitate more mature domains, start from scratch and see what this domain ends up needing." This is m
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Yeah I lot of this thread is arguing against a strawman
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Windows 7 was the pinnacle of Windows’ UI
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Amazon has the rights atm and even tried making an American version that really really sucked and had nowhere near the cinematography and editing chops of the British version
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by imbnwa 5y ago
Netflix needs to fire and retool their current content production leadership; they're killing their product. They then need to stop allowing their productions to be written by inexperienced writing teams (Cowboy Bebop suffered from thi
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by imbnwa 5y ago
We talkin Peaky Blinders and The Last Kingdom? Anything else?
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by imbnwa 5y ago
>I think it's really that people like categorizing scales and learning new names for things, which also drives people's fascination with modes, which is totally out of proportion to how much you'd actually want to use them
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by imbnwa 5y ago
When I review the list of original series that came out in 2021[0], the only thing I was interested in watching, watched to completion, and thoroughly enjoyed in 2021 (excluding children's programming) was Arcane and Black Summer (I kn
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by imbnwa 5y ago
You'd be surprised how much Brazillian Portuguese phonology you can learn from watching MMA where Brazilians have had a big impact since the outset.
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by imbnwa 5y ago
As a self-taught, highly agree almost all intro material I was coming upon back in 2013/14/15 was basically just a reference throwing concepts at you without a context that was incrementally increasing in complexity to guide you.

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