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by mantap 7y ago
Generally there is an expectation in business that mistakes made by the business are to the benefit of the customer. For instance, if you order 3 croissants but the bakery puts 5 in your box and seals the box, and then you walk out the shop
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by mantap 7y ago
The display is an example. I have bought an iMac in the past, I regretted it because if anything goes wrong it's a non-standard form factor and it's expensive to fix. I would happily pay more money for an ATX case with standard co
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by mantap 7y ago
If a regular display breaks, you can replace it. If the display in your iMac breaks, you have to spend $$$ to repair it. And maybe apple will tell you that it can't be repaired. All-in-ones are fine as low end machines but I would neve
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by mantap 7y ago
One of the dirty secrets of mathematics is that not all axiomatic systems are equally successful. There is a kind of survivorship bias whereby axiomatic systems that are "interesting" are studied whereas axiomatic systems that are
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by mantap 7y ago
washingtonpost.com is going in my hosts file.
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by mantap 7y ago
Of course there are people and companies willing to spend 5 figures on a workstation but most of them want Nvidia graphics. When you are paying tens of thousands of dollars you don't want to be stuck in Apple's weird AMD-only wall
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by mantap 7y ago
And who is? Who exactly is buying $13000 workstations with AMD GPUs?
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by mantap 7y ago
That's only if you are making a browser and want to distribute it. There's no way that Google is going to mail howlers to end-users who use widevine with chromium forks.
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by mantap 7y ago
Unfortunately it is unbearably slow on MacOS.
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by mantap 7y ago
And the US doesn't engage in mass surveillance or war? I'm all for sanctioning countries that don't respect human rights but if the US is really suggesting that then they should be careful what they wish for.
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes _if_, but many websites have moved on to client side rendering because if done right it delivers a better user experience for the 99% of users that have JS turned on, because there is no latency between page transitions. Sure, passive c
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by mantap 7y ago
Apple docs were never great. They were just better than average in an era when documentation overall wasn't that good. They have always had the broken links, public APIs that are undocumented, crucial information that only exists as a
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by mantap 7y ago
In my experience regular people in the UK are generally sceptical of US geopolitical policy, especially since the Iraq war. It is only British politicians who want to jump into bed with the US at every available opportunity. Not because the
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by mantap 7y ago
Surely JS engines are also optimising React-style code. e.g. the article says that react style code does a lot of unnecessary object creation (e.g. map) but if that is now a common pattern then JS engines can do a lot to optimise that away.
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by mantap 7y ago
Google controls the internet. They control the most common browser and OS. If Google ever were to feel sufficiently threatened by countries such as UK attempting to build a great firewall of their own, Google could simply start offering a &
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by mantap 7y ago
Only the end needs to be metal. In fact it just has to look metal. Wrapping with kitchen foil would probably have the required deterrent effect. It would also look hilarious.
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by mantap 7y ago
Closures are objects that can participate in cycles. And the lifetime of closures is very hard to track statically.
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by mantap 7y ago
The distinction is academic if you don't have the ability to change the URL.
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by mantap 7y ago
Children live in a more violent environment than adults do. As an adult I have never been physically assaulted, yet in school I was assaulted all the time. If an adult were to be assaulted by a random stranger, there's a good chance th