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by mrandish 1y ago
My understanding is that Firefox on iOS is substantially limited from Windows and Android. Like they can only run uBlock Origin Lite and many add-ons aren't available. Something about Apple policy blocking browser extensions that can r
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> If I honestly thought Android would be any different I haven't used an iOS device for over a decade so I'm not familiar with exactly how it may be different now - but it sounds quite different. Here's how I use media on
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> possible outcomes here seem very wide to me and a good chunk of it being positive. The sheer scale of this makes it nothing like other startups, so the same high risk / high return reasoning doesn't apply. Worse, the 'AI
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I just hope it's very soon. The longer they go on propping up the house of cards, the more it seeps into the broader economy making the inevitable crash deeper and longer.
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> I’d think mayor would be ousted That already happened in SF, although it took far too long. So far, things haven't improved much or, alternatively, have gotten even worse. It depends on who you ask and where they happen to stand o
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I agree it sucks this is necessary but given the situation in that area I'm not sure it's fair to just blame the retailers. It's either increasingly invasive things like this or locking most products away behind glass reducin
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Yes, I did consider writing "4 colors", but thought someone would say "but you could have 16 colors on-screen" citing the early 80s titles which did scanline palette tricks. So, I went with "16 colors" as it
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I've always thought such unnecessary padding was primarily to increase search engine ranking (more topic keywords & more length being generally favored). In today's world, almost no one is incentivized to answer your question
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256 colors? VGA? Bah! You kids with your newfangled graphics modes. 320 x 200 CGA and 16 colors is more than enough. See the linked "8088 MPH" video for proof: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07&#x2F
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I've never met Raymond but based on his posts, I have a fantasy that Microsoft would make him "Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Windows desktop OS. At this point, it's the only thing that might save Windows 11 as a daily
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Some US washers don't but many do. However, US washers tend to not heat water as quickly or to as high of a temp. The video cites two reasons: 1. US power being 110V vs 220v. 2. US dishwasher heating elements being limited to 800 or 10
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I know little about the details puts/shorts etc but just curious... does Burry doing media about his position (after he's got it), potentially help increase the odds of his bet working in a self-fulfilling way or is it neutral for
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> Most people complaining about what I did happen to have “devops”, “cloud engineer”, “serverless guy”, “AWS certified”, or something similar in their bio. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends o
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> Anyone know why Amazon wants AI agents to stop making purchasess For the same reasons Amazon intentionally removed their search box's ability to require or exclude terms and target phrases. More efficient, faster searches for YOU
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> real humans who like em-dashes have stopped using them out of fear of being confused with AI. Yeah, this is me. I've always liked good type and typography. 5 or 6 years ago I added em-dash to my keyboard configs to make typing it
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> You'd think they'd just redact. Maybe that's driven by the long and embarrassing track record of lawyers, court clerks and admins somehow failing to properly redact text from PDFs again and again (eg only covering text w
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> companies play with CAPEX, OPEX, what they call innovation, what they amortize etc. True but most public companies reporting under GAAP tend to play roughly similar games to roughly similar degrees. So these metrics alone may not refle
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Although not many people use the word 'visionary' for business model innovation, I agree it was a crucial element in the iPhone's viability. It's clear the earlier 2005 collaboration with Motorola on the ROKR (aka the &
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I'm not comfortable with the word 'visionary' because it's ill-defined and unscoped. So I don't use that word because I don't think in those terms. This may be because most of my later career was spent leading
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> The ability to be successful is contextual Excellent point. I think most great creative work is due to a uniquely 'right' combination of people, problem, experience and environment being together at an opportune moment.
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> Who was the exact individual that had the vision for glass multi-touch screens and sick gesture like effects (scroll). Like almost all new products later thought of as 'visionary' innovations, the first iPhone built on pre-ex
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> makes me believe in parallel universes And we're obviously in the less cool branch. :-)
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While deep diving into the history of how digital computers evolved from the initial ENIAC era of the late 1940s to the IBM 360 and DEC PDPs of the early 60s, I was surprised by just how much fundamental 1950s tech engineering was driven by
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Yeah, as a teenager I was fortunate to get early formal training and direct mentoring in the 'magical arts' from some well-known masters of the craft. While my career as a full-time performing pro didn't outlast my early 20s,
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> The operating paradigm is wrong there. Agreed. In the U.S., the two-party duopoly is a manifestation of the problem. Neither party really stands for any long-term principle anymore (if they ever did). Although both parties will still s
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This did strike me as quite a small scale crime for all the attention it's getting. I guess the notable part is using a couple celebrity athletes to recruit marks for rigged high-stakes poker games. If you think about it, poker games d
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I don't think it's literally "X-Rays". A couple years ago I saw an infrared transparent table being demonstrated as a product prototype by a distributor of magic props at a conference for professional magicians. I played
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> NY families must have fallen a long way I spent a fun few hours a couple years back deep diving into what has become of the old-school "Goodfellas"-style mob these days. Looking into both media reports as well as posts by &#x
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> Laws need to be written well to achieve good outcomes. This is a critical failure point which should get more attention. Laws (and regulations) are like computer code in some key ways. Early computer code was written assuming it would
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Having lived through the early 8-bit home computer era as a teenaged user and then in the mid-80s working in tech startups making hardware peripherals for 16-bit computers - although not as a hardware designer, here's my perspective. E

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