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by kevincox 11mo ago
I think it is worse than that. Yes they A/B test. But they also have incentive to show how great their new feature idea is. So they are always picking the metrics that make their feature look better and ignoring the ones that make it l
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Yes, I very happily payed for YouTube Premium when it came with Google Play Music. Them turning that off in favour of the awful YouTube Music was the straw that broke the camels back.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Yes. But Python is less popular so it isn't targeted as often.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
I quite dislike the global menu of macOS. It means that you need to switch windows to see the menu for the window, which can result in a lot of tedious mouse movement. But what I absolutely love is the menu search. I would love to see GNOME
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by kevincox 11mo ago
> All vulnerabilities require user interaction (processing a malicious PNG file) What world is the author living in where PNGs aren't very frequently read and written with no user interaction. The web obviously displays PNGs with no
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Yeah, long login sessions makes most login flows excusable :)
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Ugh, I hate magic links. 1. Password managers often don't auto-fill the email/phone field. 2. Have to context switch to my email client. 3. The email often takes a little to arrive. Some services have truly awful delivery time. Th
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Kind of. But where does it stop. Looking at a 24 cent license in isolation does sound silly. But what about when you add up Windows, h265, h264, mp3, aac, HDMI, ... You can't throw in every single feature into a laptop because it is ch
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by kevincox 11mo ago
At they very least it will take time. Rotating is a fairly common operation, even simple photo viewers often have buttons to quickly rotate the image. Being able to do this efficently is beneficial. You can also have other situations where
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Assuming bash is in $PATH. Which it often is.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
It's really an embarrassment to our society that it took this long. And still only by seemingly by reverse engineering with no cooperation from Apple.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Matrix has E2EE support and many clients are pushing it as the default. But it also supports rooms that are only encrypted in transit.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Yes, the purpose is the same but the UX is a bit different.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
So instead you rely on the good intentions of your phone carrier? At least there are N third party messaging options that compete as well as open source/decentralized ones that aren't just run by a single business. But I'd ra
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by kevincox 11mo ago
But it's still tied to your carrier. I'd really prefer to keep my communication disconnected from my connectivity provider. These should be two completely separate services that I can manage independently. I just want my mobile pr
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by kevincox 11mo ago
I think they need to strongly evaluate if they need this level of rollout speed. Even spending a few minutes with an automated canary gives you a ton of safety. Even if the servers weren't crashing it is possible that a bet set of para
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by kevincox 11mo ago
I'm shocked that an automatic canary rollout wasn't an action item. Pushing anything out globally is a guaranteed failure again in the future. Even if you want this data to be very fresh you can probably afford to do something lik
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by kevincox 11mo ago
The optimistic view would be that the people who wrote the agents just weren't familiar with accessibility technologies so they made it work how they are used to working. But the more likely reason is that they realized that accessibil
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by kevincox 11mo ago
I don't think merging is an accurate term here. Merging makes me think you take the union of both. But in this case you have two DOM structures and want to make one exactly like the other. And morphing is a good term because you want t
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by kevincox 11mo ago
My main complaint about GCs is that they only clean up one type of garbage, memory. Maybe you can increase your file descriptor limit and let them deal with some other resources via finalizes. But they aren't tuned for that and there w
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Especially since the lower cost means that we would save more than that 5 cents in taxes. (Well money is fungible so not really, but that money would be spent for some other government service.)
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by kevincox 11mo ago
It's not even just that. Coins are heavy, large and noisy. Bills are way more convenient and cards even more so. If we could solve privacy issues with cards I would say get rid of all bills. Maybe just keep a few $100s in my wallet in
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by kevincox 11mo ago
I wonder what video codecs will have hardware decoding support. Because having this able to support HTPC options with AV1 and h265 decoding would pair amazing to sticking this on the main TV for family gaming as well. I'd be shocked if
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by kevincox 11mo ago
iOS can already attest to websites that they are running in unmodified Safari. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k I guess that isn't quite enough to prevent screen recording but these devices also suppo
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by kevincox 11mo ago
It surely depends on your use case. Testing my Ricochet Robots solver ( https://ricochetrobots.kevincox.ca/ ) which is pure computation with effectively no IO the speed is basically indistinguishable. Some runs the WASM is fa
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Yes, stupidity and bigotry are both problems but they are different problems. It sort of feels like this survey was hunting to find evidence of bigotry and pushed for that narrative. I think it is important that we don't just spin the
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by kevincox 11mo ago
> the saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we’ve ever seen in our data I feel like we need more data. It is possible that people just saying "No" because they don't know what they are, so assume that they are
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Personally I don't mind an offer to subscribe to the newsletter but Substack is way to aggressive. They show the prompt even before I have finished the article (How do I know if I want to subscribe?) and obscure the article (actively w
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by kevincox 11mo ago
The tabs I had to buy for a while could be broken fairly easy by hand. This 1/3 2/3 worked noticeably better than just putting the whole tab into the dispenser.
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by kevincox 1y ago
I would assume that these two use cases are basically completely separate. Auto-translate from C to Rust would serve as a great step to starting a porting project. Now you can incrementally re-write the "basically C" auto-ported c

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