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by mirkules 5y ago
Open plan offices are unpopular partly because the C-level suite tries to sell the idea that they are somehow superior to offices. Everyone knows it's a way for the company to save money. Being lied to, on top of feeling miserable in a
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by mirkules 5y ago
I used to work for a Motorola-owned company. Digital Six Sigma brings back a lot of “belt training” memories
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by mirkules 5y ago
You raise a valid point, and certainly then this product is not right for me due to their pricing and the features I’m paying for but never using (like Android and Ubuntu support). It comes down to what value it provides to me for what I ne
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by mirkules 5y ago
Maybe I’m just too old-school, thinking that when paying for software it’s yours. Way too often, automatic upgrades silently break my existing software, take away functionality or introduce new bugs. Anyway thanks for showing me KeePassXC,
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by mirkules 5y ago
Thanks, I haven’t tried that one before.
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by mirkules 5y ago
Major releases of MacOS and iOS happen once a year. And most of the time they don’t break existing applications (iOS 12 notwithstanding). Almost everything from early iPhone OS to 12, and from 12 onwards worked ok, even with major resolutio
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by mirkules 5y ago
Subscription models make sense for something that needs to stay evergreen. Why does a password manager need a subscription? My password should never touch a 3rd party’s server, I don’t need extra features, I don’t need a login, I don’t ne
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by mirkules 5y ago
You would be naive to believe other companies don’t do this or eventually will not do this. In the same way I was naive to believe Apple was different from others and cared about user privacy.
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by mirkules 5y ago
I have been saying this for years now. The gov’t is basically outsourcing violating the constitution to companies. Free speech? Just have Twitter, Facebook and Google censor unacceptable speech. 4th amendment? Have the private sector violat
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by mirkules 5y ago
One way this hair-brained Apple program could end is to constantly generate an abundance of false positives, and try to render it useless. For those old enough to remember “Jam Echelon Day”, maybe it won’t have any effect. But what other re
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by mirkules 5y ago
If there is concern there, use a reader without javascript or an online converter from PDF to another format.
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by mirkules 5y ago
My question is, who has funded this feature all the way from PoC to product ? How did Apple calculate the ROI on this feature? It’s not like end users are tripping over themselves to have all their photos scanned. Does Apple just have gobs
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by mirkules 5y ago
“Think of the Children” and “terrorism” are two of the most used excuses for overreach, usually reserved for governments, but apparently for some companies too now. Why is it Apple’s business to stop crime, regardless of severity or type? H
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by mirkules 5y ago
You can be selective about it. There is GPS to tell you where you are, microphone to tell you how many people are around, motion sensor, light sensor to sense if you’re in a pocket, etc. It doesn’t have to be constant, it could even be on d
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by mirkules 5y ago
It’s also not inconceivable to access the camera live and perform recognition live on feeds. It’s not even that expensive to do that anymore.
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by mirkules 5y ago
Luckily, there is no shortage of philosophers, especially on the internet.
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by mirkules 5y ago
I'm really curious from those folks who have this feature if it is actually useful (and why), or if it's really just a novelty?
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by mirkules 5y ago
Amazing. It reminds me of the car company that built rain detection in their car and turned on your wipers so you don’t have to. I don’t remember which manufacturer it was but their ad was hilarious “think of what you can do with that extra
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by mirkules 5y ago
It’s not just about a game of chess being moderated. It’s about silencing legitimate speech that you disagree with, whether it’s on a factual level or other motivations. Perfect example, coronavirus being manufactured in a lab rather than o
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by mirkules 5y ago
So instead put power in the hands of giant companies because regular people can’t be bothered to not get hot-and-bothered by reading something they don’t like? What makes these companies so morally pure? The only way this can make sense - e
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by mirkules 5y ago
It's funny that you should mention War Games, because the only way to win this battle is not to play at all. Why are we so hell-bent on restricting speech and burning all these engineering hours trying to moderate something that cann
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by mirkules 5y ago
From the Congressional Budget Office: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-02/56975-Minimum-Wage.... The second point, in the first paragraph: > Higher prices for goods and services—stemming from the high
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by mirkules 5y ago
Because if everyone raises their prices, the wage increase then effectively makes no difference. If everyone raises wages, they have to raise prices. For the restaurant, this means they have to charge more for the same service, and they hav
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by mirkules 5y ago
There's always treads, or even the rocker-bogie wheel system, as on the mars rovers.
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by mirkules 5y ago
Your phrasing is very interesting: "consider who that person is since they died." It's interesting because you refer to the dead person in the present tense, "who it is," not "who it was". Yet, in the fo
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by mirkules 5y ago
I don't see any way this could go wrong. But in all seriousness, would this replace or augment current IR detection of survivals in natural disasters? Searching from high up might not be the most ideal position to search from - this co
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by mirkules 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. But the reddit hypersensitive and hyperbolic mentality is seeping out of reddit - any mention that even suggests that contrary belief is wrong or misguided is met with a strong response that discourages further dis
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by mirkules 5y ago
It’s being flagged right now because frankly it is deeply popular to hate rich people, especially in this political climate. Since this article raises an unpopular, opposite point of view, it has been flagged.
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by mirkules 5y ago
It might help to have a strong definition of “native”. The problem is that the definition changes slightly from person to person. In my opinion, “native speaker” should mean “a person who is completely fluent in a language and formulates th
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by mirkules 6y ago
This is waaay too ambitious, and you are right, it would lead to poor quality works. If you wanted to write, record, mix and master something meaningful, even one song a day is stretching it. However, for writer’s block, I’m part of a disco

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