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by ldrndll 6y ago
Sorry, I didn’t see your reply until now. I didn’t make my point very well, but essentially I believe that Apple has found a positive spin for the fact that they decided to reduce their input costs by removing the bundled charger. They did
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by ldrndll 6y ago
I think the issue is that you haven’t understood the issue, and just proposed using Rust. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Rust, but seeing people blindly suggest it as a panacea gets frustrating for people. The reality is that when pe
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by ldrndll 6y ago
I'm fairly certain the parent was being sarcastic. I completely agree, if it was about the planet and not just saving money on their BoM they could (should?) at a minimum have included a discount voucher for a USB-C charger.
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by ldrndll 6y ago
I bought and sold my MX3s having had this exact experience, and have been waiting for Apple to release over ears so that I could have the same seamless experience I have with my AirPods Pro. The number of times I’ve had to pull my laptop ou
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by ldrndll 6y ago
If it’s any consolation the battery life on my 6 month old 16” MBP is also 3-4 hours when I’m doing work. The CPU is an absolute dog, and the fans kick in under the faintest of loads.
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by ldrndll 6y ago
Careful. I opened a Facebook account to help my wife with administering FB ads for her business. Everything was fine, until I went through and locked down my privacy settings, and within 24 hours my account got suspended.I had to provide a
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by ldrndll 7y ago
The number of things wrong with this makes me despair. 1. Africa is a continent, not a country. 2. Some countries in Africa DO have 5G deployments, including my home country of South Africa. In the news recently is a possible link between B
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by ldrndll 7y ago
Yeah, perceptions like that are really hard to shake, because those people are likely all using Google Maps. I found Apple Maps used to be less reliable than Google Maps, but would still use it. For places that I wasn't sure of, I&#x27
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by ldrndll 7y ago
I assume their point was that it is both hostile and incidentally uses JSON, not that its hostility results from using JSON.
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by ldrndll 7y ago
You are still able to run unsigned (and now unnotarized) software. It requires holding down a single key when first launching it. I’m pretty sure the trade off here - to prevent the average, relatively uninformed user - from downloading a
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by ldrndll 7y ago
I assume this refers to having an Apple Developer account, which is USD99 a year. Some of the points may be valid - support costs versus expected revenue, etc, but mostly these points seem really weak. The headlines feels like it should be
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by ldrndll 7y ago
Yeah, exactly this. I mostly take photos of my kids using Portrait mode on the iPhone. People often comment on how good the photos look, and I’ve done nothing special beyond switch to Portrait mode.
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by ldrndll 7y ago
I believe the difference is that the Linux kernel itself is not that big a project. Windows is a lot more than just a kernel; it’s more akin to having the source code for an entire Linux distribution in one repo.
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by ldrndll 7y ago
No, I'm sure you're not the only one who has thought this. However, the apparent irony disappears quite readily when you examine the differences, the most important of which: If you want a laptop but don't want to pay Apple p
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by ldrndll 8y ago
For a company like Apple who a) tries to differentiate on engineering and b) has ridiculous amounts of money this is an entirely unforgivable policy.
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by ldrndll 8y ago
As of iOS 12 HomePod can set multiple timers too. edit Also, I completely agree. I wish there was a HomePod Dot type offering. I've been sprinkling HomePods throughout the home, but it's expensive and also obtrusive in places wh
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by ldrndll 8y ago
I feel the need to mention, since I've found someone that worked on gov.uk, that I think it is an absolutely remarkable accomplishment. I'm not from the UK, but live and work here (and thus have needed to use the gov.uk website pr
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by ldrndll 9y ago
It's probably worth mentioning that this is from October 2014.
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by ldrndll 9y ago
Out of interest, where were you doing OCaml work in DK? Issuu?
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by ldrndll 9y ago
Can you explain why this is?
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by ldrndll 9y ago
Or as in the case of the current elected president of the United States, not paying taxes is "smart". The hypocrisy of worrying about someone "stealing" maybe £30k a year in benefits in order to support a very average (l
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by ldrndll 9y ago
> some of these people "go away" because they have died For anyone thinking this is hyperbole, one recent case[1] was of an anorexic woman found dead in her freezing cold flat because she couldn't afford to run the heating
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by ldrndll 9y ago
The sad reality is that clamping down of the sort they've done (eg sanctions for missing a single jobseeker's meeting) seem far more likely to punish those unfamiliar with the system than those who have made a habit of abusing it.
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by ldrndll 9y ago
Funnily enough, I had 100mbps fibre when I lived in Africa. Now that I live in the UK my best option is 12mbps ADSL.
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by ldrndll 9y ago
Came here to say the same thing. I have travelled on BA 747s and didn't enjoy the experience (which was a disappointment to me, as I had fond memories of flying on the 747 as an early teen). The Lufthansa 747-8 stood in stark contrast,
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by ldrndll 9y ago
Any reason to believe they'd actually do this? Apple are one of the few companies that seem to genuinely value customer privacy[1]; They make their money selling your products, not selling your personal information after all. If this w
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by ldrndll 9y ago
In South Africa we have stop orders and debit orders. Stop orders are for an amount agreed in advance. Debit orders allow the payee to debit your account for whatever amount they choose, obviously with the proviso that they have to produce
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by ldrndll 9y ago
I'm not so sure that's an appropriate heuristic here. The problems they faced were partly a result of scale[1]. Most companies with scaling problems of the same magnitude as Uber have engineers competent enough to correctly handle
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by ldrndll 10y ago
As soon as I started reading this comment I was thinking "I worked at a company that did the exact same thing!" Ha ha, small world :)
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by ldrndll 10y ago
I think there's some middle ground that could be found here. For arguments sake, how about: 1. A drug company can charge whatever it wants for a drug until some predefined multiple of the cost of developing the drug is recovered. 2. Af

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