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by leeoniya 5y ago
> but it's likely from a liability / legal standpoint sure. but also the same reason mfgs dont want their modded/refurbished/re-sold prev-gen products competing with their new products.
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> I hope this article will inspire people to look at e-bikes as potentially commuter car replacement, to send Bosch and other e-bike technology manufacturers a message that if they won’t supply what people need that they are going to hav
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> We can only blame Rich who got weak but yeah, nobody is perfect. this comment. just wow.
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by leeoniya 5y ago
Safari's slow release cadence (typically tied to OS version upgrades) does leave it more broken and for longer than Firefox, Chrome, Opera and other browsers that are updated more frequently and not tied to the OS. just recently i ran
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Comma-Separated Tree(observablehq.com)
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by leeoniya 5y ago
post it on stack overflow or reddit for feedback :D typically they tell you not to post your solutions publicly, though i don't know why you'd be inclined to respect their wishes after such an experience unless you're dying t
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> there was virtually no predictive power to 'secret test cases' that we ran without providing to the candidate. this brings back some unpleasant memories of a take-home i got from a FAANG. basically i was given a loose spec to
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by leeoniya 5y ago
ah, too many Metas to keep track of in this new metaverse
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by leeoniya 5y ago
is this effectively the closing off of apis that can be used for conducting unfavorable research on facebook's data?
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> I read a story somewhere that claimed that "Captain Planet" had to be edited to feature cartoonishly evil villains, rather than the mundane day-to-day polluters, because they were worried that kids would ask uncomfortable car
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by leeoniya 5y ago
hmm, not sure how many customers would be okay with 7 days of downtime, for instance.
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by leeoniya 5y ago
more likely s/linux/developers, which i suspect represents the majority of linux users
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> In-House Armv9? https://semianalysis.com/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-cent... (discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731 )
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by leeoniya 5y ago
[off topic] wow that scrolling performance is horrible. you'd think sothebys can afford more than just good designers.
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by leeoniya 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
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by leeoniya 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by leeoniya 5y ago
"Given the scale that Twitter is at, a one-in-a-million chance happens 500 times a day." https://www.ted.com/talks/del_harvey_protecting_twitter_user...
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by leeoniya 5y ago
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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by leeoniya 5y ago
maybe cause there's only one way to succeed and many ways to error. 0 success and 1..N are error codes. what is a reasonable alternative? (this isnt the same as 0 false and 1 true)
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by leeoniya 5y ago
sad that you had to create an anon account to make this comment, as this sentiment gets downvoted here without fail.
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by leeoniya 5y ago
s/stupid/brainwashed and/or accept defaults set by an OEM that has incentives aligned with profit
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> But damn. Belief in a petty, spiteful God-man? How can people perpetuate such an idea? Just to scare children? this is something i've always found hilarious. he's all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing. he created us, and now
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> From now on, I can easily see myself upgrading the CPU or the screen on an annual basis how feasible is this, given that sockets and chipsets change every 2 years? also, the ultra low voltage / TDP parts are rarely available for p
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> we could make great hardware and the software guys would just piss it away my #1 annoyance with web dev at-large. you load any web page and your CPU spends 90% of its capacity rendering inefficient, shitty, injected ad code. (speaking
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by leeoniya 5y ago
my employer uses a lot of paid github features, while my projects use none, so moving away would be simple for me, but difficult for them. the real lock-in is no different than any other social media platform: network effects. most people w
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by leeoniya 5y ago
no, but i author and maintain some pretty popular projects and now work for a company that does pay, and also has a massive github and OSS footprint.
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by leeoniya 5y ago
i've opened multiple, detailed support tickets over the years about different UX wtfs they rolled out that removed vital functionality. not one of my complaints has ever been addressed. my last complaint was ghosted after i pointed out
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by leeoniya 5y ago
the typical consumer and business doesnt give much shit about more than their bottom line and nimby. if half the amazon rainforest gets clearcut for palm oil farming, most people in this generation wont be affected by it, why would they sto
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by leeoniya 5y ago
> I feel like people use this as an excuse to avoid making any inconvenient changes in their lifestyle, or rather to avoid considering making inconvenient changes to their lifestyle. i would be happy to only use glass bottles and no more
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by leeoniya 5y ago
you can't easily force 7B people to act individually. you have to regulate at the source (the mfgs). we are far beyond individual action as a viable solution.

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