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by kemayo 3y ago
This is a pretty direct response to the WSJ's iPhone theft story from last year[1], which was focused on people managing to shoulder-surf your passcode while you're in a public place, steal your phone, then use your passcode to re
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by kemayo 3y ago
Since it sounds like you're asking when you should quit to focus on a startup... to avoid potential legal troubles, the answer is before you started working on the startup (or certainly before you launched the startup). Ergo it'
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I have absolutely no idea whether it'll flop, but this is interestingly different to what Meta is doing. The intense focus on AR rather than VR is legitimately a whole different experience. This particular product this year cannot po
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by kemayo 3y ago
Won't allow what? All the Safari features this article is talking about are already present on the Vision Pro, and they've also already been improving their PWA support in recent macOS/iOS releases. The questionable bit is wh
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's a word with multiple meanings, though admittedly the one you mention is the most common modern one. Presumably, given that it's a journal and about medieval studies, it's a reference to speculum literature: https:/
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by kemayo 3y ago
I felt a lot could be covered under "etc", I'll admit. :D
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Leaving aside the potential for a critique of capitalism as a whole... it depends on what you compare it to, right? (Or, I don't get upset at the existence of business class, but I do get upset at excessive nickel-and-diming with fees
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by kemayo 3y ago
This is the same strategy that Apple pursued for dating apps in the Netherlands, after a court there forced them to allow third-party payments a year or two ago. Their argument is that the 15/30% is a general fee for use of their infra
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by kemayo 3y ago
You're wrong about that last bit. Kindles still don't support just dropping an ePub into their storage -- you have to convert to a supported format first, either manually (or through Calibre), or by using the Send to Kindle serv
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Yeah, and that's needed even in cases where there's supposed to be an objective standard! In cases where it's explicitly subjective going in, "we might flip on appeal" can be pretty terrifying.
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The problem with "I know it when I see it" definitions is that there's an inherent lack of consistency, in that two different judges aren't guaranteed to reach the same conclusion. For instance: fair use of copyrighted c
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Heh, you're quite right, I just saw "Ontario, CA" and made a bad assumption. :D
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Are you implying that this is some sort of PR plant by Apple, or just saying this is the kind of thing they'll definitely be bringing up again later in actual PR?
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The flight was from the US to Canada. It's very plausible that the cell plan doesn't have international roaming. EDIT: per replies, this was entirely wrong, it was a domestic flight
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by kemayo 3y ago
Yeah, I own a Honda Fit, and buying a sub-$20k subcompact car for daily use and being willing to do short-term rentals of something when I need to ( very rarely, the Fit has a lot of cargo space for its size) has been an excellent trade-of
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by kemayo 3y ago
You can't (unless there's a trick I don't know) change the width of the scrollbar when hovering over it. However... you can keep the width constant and have the apparent-width of the scroll thumb be determined by transparen
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's not about the cost of transcoding; it's an ideological stance about open / royalty-free formats. e.g. there was a pretty strong consensus about not supporting MP4 back when the WMF asked whether it should be allowed, mos
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's not about Mickey specifically, but rather about what it represents. The entry of new works into the commons was shut down for a long time, with Disney keeping Mickey under copyright being viewed as the main driver for the lobbyi
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by kemayo 3y ago
There's a lot of user interface issues in playing an older game. Not so much the graphics -- people like "pixel" styling in modern games, though generally at much higher resolutions and with better color palettes than in old
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by kemayo 3y ago
To pedantically correct a thing you said, SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) was an adventure game engine, and was used for early LucasArts titles (absolutely no Sierra games!). ScummVM is a program that bundles a lot of
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by kemayo 3y ago
A lot of the audience probably is the nostalgic. But also, there's quite a few genuinely good games in there, and also some very foundational ones. The tendency towards cartoony graphics and a plot/humor focus means that in some w
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by kemayo 3y ago
What tends to rub people the wrong way in situations like this is hypocrisy. Google hasn't claimed to be a virtuous nonprofit, so people accept it when they do shitty things. The Mozilla Foundation is an ideological nonprofit, so peo
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by kemayo 3y ago
There is not, unfortunately. Apple has an extension for Chrome ("iCloud Passwords") that lets you use the keychain passwords there, but nothing for Firefox. It's less-restrictive than it used to be, since the extension used t
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by kemayo 3y ago
> Defaults are powerful. This is true, though the current dominance of Chrome is evidence that a lot of people will switch. Chrome isn't the default browser on any desktop, after all, and yet a majority of non-technical users have d
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by kemayo 3y ago
"Large cars let me ignore speed humps" sounds exactly like prioritizing the occupants of the car over the safety of others...
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Sure, you could design a system where it's more complicated, but Sid Meier didn't. In the video he's talking about Civilization Revolutions, in which combat is just "attacker's Attack stat vs defender's Defense
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They're talking about ratios of unit-strength, which correlate directly to odds of success in a battle, not to numbers-of-units or anything more fuzzy like that. Given which, 20:10 and 2:1 have identical odds of success.
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by kemayo 3y ago
For what it's worth, in the streaming music players category, Apple Music does shuffle as you want it. Probably because it is an old(er) media player, just with a streaming service bolted on. (i.e. if you tell it to shuffle, it'
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by kemayo 3y ago
Apple's saying that the import ban will hurt them in ways that can't be fixed, and so it makes sense to stay it until their appeal decides what's going to happen. It's why this stay is only for ~2 weeks, because that&#x2
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by kemayo 3y ago
To get to a retrial you'd need the case (or a part of it) thrown out, in which case the ban should definitely be invalidated until the new trial happens. Generally an appeal like this is just a short pause while they work out whether

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