kevincox

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by kevincox 1y ago
Why require proof of work with difficulty at all then? Just have no UI other than (javascript) required and run a trivial computation in WASM as a way of testing for modern browser features. That way users don't complain that it is tak
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by kevincox 1y ago
Of course that doesn't directly help the site operator. Maybe it could actually do a bit of bitcoin mining for the site owner. Then that could pay for the cost of accessing the site.
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by kevincox 1y ago
At that point why not just rent the whole bike and not need to bring the large object onto the plane?
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by kevincox 1y ago
Because even if your phone only breaks every 5 years on average do you want to get a new 5 year old phone because your last one died right before the refresh cycle? Having regular releases means that when you do get the phone you have a rel
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by kevincox 1y ago
On the other hand I much prefer the full-width bump than a corner bump. It helps when holding your phone (a ledge for your fingers) and means that the phone doesn't rock around when used on a table.
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by kevincox 1y ago
That's just an argument for having a more distinctive name.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Because it is what your friends and potential friends are using. It isn't really a noteworthy messaging app other than bring attached to a popular app.
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by kevincox 1y ago
This is a policy problem not a technology problem. If QR code solutions mandated the same policy they would have the same limitation.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah, as someone who just took a trip in China where QR payments are the most popular form it was clearly inferior from a UX standpoint from NFC. The most notable was a data connection. Cell service was pretty good overall but there were a
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by kevincox 1y ago
My password manager will never fill my password into the wrong site. I would need to do so manually which sets of so many alarm bells in my head. With email pasting the number into a random website is the expected flow and there is basicall
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah, Google's Buganizer was the best bug tracker that I ever used. ...and it still wasn't great.
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by kevincox 1y ago
"Optimal" in this context includes time, effort and cost. So the design isn't perfect irrespective of these things, but it is optimal in terms of balancing the effectiveness of the solution with the effort put in.
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by kevincox 1y ago
It seems like the bug was originally introduced here: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/dd98030cb399e962aa605... This is seemingly a well-intentioned cleanup that misunderstood the branching logic. The o
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by kevincox 1y ago
uBlock Origin sync works for me on Firefox
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah, search engines don't which is annoying and confusing. However on desktop you can use keyword bookmarks which offer basically the same functionality and do sync. uBlock Origin does it's own weird thing where you need to trigg
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by kevincox 1y ago
Bookmarks definitely sync with Firefox sync. I have the same bookmarks on all of my devices. Extension settings can sync, I don't know exactly if it is opt-in or opt-out but some extensions do sync on desktop. The mobile situation is d
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by kevincox 1y ago
Compatibility bugs are rare but definitely occur. If a key component of your workflow has bugs it can be hugely inconvenient. For example Slack Huddles blocks Firefox Firefox, if your team uses them regularly it is a big productivity loss.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah the recommended service is awful and not nearly as useful as the one they had is. Which is disappointing because you should be able to recreate the service they had nearly exactly with certificate transparency logs.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yes. They are one of the few examples of a brand that for most aspects of the word have kept quality up.
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by kevincox 1y ago
The main problem is that the average person has no way to evaluate quality. The closest most people get is heaver == built better (which is probably a correlation overall, but not that accurate for any two random products). At the extreme e
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by kevincox 1y ago
Make-work is the stupidest idea. If we want people to have an income why don't we just give it to them rather than making them do work that is useless (or sometimes harmful, see coal) to the public? > There is no free money. When yo
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by kevincox 1y ago
Especially if having that line means only 1% more customers and 19% customers that just buy the small model instead of the other model. And unless you are launching the Mini Pro Max Ultra X you are losing money on that 9% of customers tha
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by kevincox 1y ago
Exactly. If you don't advertise what is good or bad through word-of-mouth and true reviews then the primary method of learning and evaluating productions is paid marketing. As you may suspect the opinion given by paid marketing is not
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by kevincox 1y ago
I think there is a long standing question about what robots.txt is for in general. In my opinion it was originally (and still is mostly) intended for crawlers. It is for bots that are discovering links and following them. A search engine wo
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by kevincox 1y ago
That would be limiting if I can't have multiple windows of one private session. (Although admittedly this is something I do quite rarely)
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by kevincox 1y ago
I see both. I wouldn't want every tab to be separate but I occasionally want to have more than one independent private profile at a time. It would be nice if I could do this. Any sort of ephemeral container tabs option would probably s
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yes, you are right that the lossless format is much more notable but also much less common than the lossy one. It is quite an improvement over PNG which is the only real competitor on the web.
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by kevincox 1y ago
...which overall is a pretty mediocre image format.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Firefox has it implemented (behind a preference on nightly). They just don't want to ship it if Chromium isn't going to because it would cause fragmentation in the web and something they have to maintain forever for a minority of
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by kevincox 1y ago
I think they are. Maybe not directly as you point out but there are lots of indirect reasons that don't seem that far fetched. 1. Using Apple Maps makes the switching cost to other devices (that don't have Apple Maps) higher. 2. H

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