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by least 5y ago
It kind of comes down to wealth and the average American is significantly wealthier than the average Indian (or average a lot of countries). Wealth affords you time for things that you care to pursue rather than things you have to. For an A
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> Intel and AMD should consider how much goodwill they may gain by just removing IME and PSP. On a very practical scale; none. It'd make some nerds happy but it's like a subset of a subset of a niche population. > The framew
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> What I said was, if a system of government allows one group of people to turn another group of people into slaves, then it isn't a democracy. By my definition, a democracy does not allow slavery, because a democracy must treat all
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> ...does not satisfy my definition of democracy. You can't just ignore the negative aspects of a system because it doesn't suit your sensibilities. Can you do the same for a system of government you're diametrically oppo
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> Debates are essential in a free society. The alternative to debate is force. Either you convince your neighbour to do as you think they should do, or else you send men with guns to his place. This feels like the authoritarian's wo
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Supposing that all your disabled readers are also all programmers is a terrible approach to developing your website. It was developed a long time ago without any consideration for any of these things and simply hasn't changed to addres
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This isn't surprising given that T9 is predictive and a typing contest would probably not coincide with your typical typing habits, though I am very skeptical that typing by pressing successive numbers on a number pad is faster than T9
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I actually think that as a physical connector, lightning is still better than usb-c. I'm not suggesting that they should keep it around (I long for a full usb-c device life), just that it is a much less fussy connector than usb-c. I do
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by least 5y ago
I really loved my nexus 5 phone from Google until it got stuck in a bootloop and wouldn't charge. It was a a couple weeks out of warranty but they were nice enough to send me another one (with a charge hold) that almost immediately bec
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by least 5y ago
> The learning flywheel: The greater the scale of our learner base, the more we can use insights from data analytics to improve both engagement and efficacy. Iterating on education efficacy is valuable but it doesn't really very muc
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Disclaimer: used to work in military intelligence, do not currently work in any capacity with intelligence community. It's reasonable for someone to be skeptical of any information presented to them and especially when that information
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by least 5y ago
Well the day they announced it was also just a largely unremarkable day towards the start of a weekend but it still turned into a fiasco, so hopefully not.
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> ...never asked why were child safety features not a concern for Apple Inc for the last 20+ years. This is remarkably disingenuous and can be applied to any company who hasn't done any number of things to help prevent any number of
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by least 5y ago
I hope this is a case of Apple delaying it long enough to silently cancel the feature or completely change it to not be on-device scanning rather than Apple delaying it long enough to be well out of the news cycle and silently enable it at
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by least 5y ago
More buttons isn't always better because there's a limited range of motion that is reasonable for someone to type with. Having a number pad on a laptop keyboard reinforces bad ergonomics because you either need to shift your entir
526.
by least 5y ago
Split keyboards have been around for quite a while. You can even see the Kinesis Advantage keyboard featured in films like Flubber and Men in Black and plenty of companies have made ergonomic keyboards. I think there's a sort of hobbyi
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by least 5y ago
> Just because a control convention existed before other implementations, it doesn't automatically make it good. Conversely, just because CUA became the de facto standard in Windows and Linux doesn't make it good, either. They
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> it almost appears that Emacs tries to be different for the sake of being different. Emacs conventions existed long before CUA became the standard and to adapt to CUA would require Emacs to change some very basic and critical conventio
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They are called "user" interface and "user" experience, after all. Any "user" can call it bad and it can be a valid point. It can also definitely be valuable input. But an engineer identifying a design flaw in
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by least 5y ago
> This is the same indirect reasoning as "people like what they used first", which in my case is provably, objectively, false. It's more like someone at some point stops being open to change, which allows some breathing ro
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by least 5y ago
Change for the sake of change isn't necessarily a good thing, but rarely is a change in UI/UX objectively bad, which includes the shift from skeuomorphism over to flat design. The article you've linked has been fairly critici
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by least 5y ago
The comment about it coinciding when they started was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but surprisingly often holds true. My comment more broadly is just pointing out that most people making these arguments are doing so subjectively while framing
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by least 5y ago
Are programmers really UI/UX experts, though? If you said a programmer pointing out how stupid programming is shown in film you might have a point but I really don't think many of these people pointing out their perceived flaws in
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by least 5y ago
> You miss the point. I can buy an x86 machine and run Windows or a FOSS OS or any number of unix clones or hell even write my own OS. From the outset I can say I own the hardware. You are more than welcome to use an x86 machine as your
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by least 5y ago
> Now you're making a pedantic point about a technicality instead of what's happening in real life. In real life people are looking for escalation of privilege exploits that enable them to exploit iOS to allow for installation
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> AntennaPod is equally amazing as a podcast client (I prefer it to overcast switching from the iPhone). I tried installing this on an amazon fire tablet i have lying around. It seems nice but the variable speed and better processing of
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> Nothing except all of Apple's attempts to make that difficult and a bad op sec decision. No one said it had to be easy or advisable. > Would you say you own a adobe acrobat because you paid for it, or would you say you own a li
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> Making CSAM illegal isn't merely about preventing the material from being publicly visible. Having a ring of child abusers privately circulating CSAM outside of clearnet by using Tor or by exchanging thumb drives is just as damagi
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You are allowed to modify iOS Software in this case because it is an exemption to the DMCA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreaking_(iOS)#United_Stat...
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by least 5y ago
This is demonstrably not true. If you rent a home and then burn it down, you are going to be held liable to the owner of the home. In the case of your phone, no one, including Apple, cares if you buy it and then immediately smash it on the

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