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by mrastro 3y ago
Agree. Plus OP may be severely underestimating the complexity and expense related to developing a new fully featured browser. JavaScript engine, CSS rendering engine, supports for dozens of additional add-ons like WebGL, sandboxing, WASM et
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by mrastro 3y ago
Why would this keyword be treated any differently than any other? Apple already gets ~36% of any Google Ads revenue that comes from an iPhone [1] [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-13/apple-ge
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by mrastro 3y ago
If we (North America) had more walkable streets a lot of these problems would be solved: grocery stores are easier to place in population centers a short distance with less car and more foot traffic and you can rent a car for occasional &qu
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by mrastro 3y ago
The agreement also prevents Apple from making its own search engine. I suspect if they did that and made it the default, lots of people wouldn't change it. Defaults are powerful.
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by mrastro 3y ago
They have different plans. Flexible is 20$/month + 10$/gb and unlimited for 50$/month. Unlimited with some extra for 65$/month.
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by mrastro 3y ago
Why is it inevitable that men will never be loved by another human? Given the gender ratio is approximately 50%-50% , that promiscuity decreases with age (so pickiness decreases), I'd expect that anyone (barring the small % of severely
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by mrastro 3y ago
I strongly disagree. Splitting finances allows each person to be responsible for their own money and avoids disputes over whether one person is spending more than their fair share. For me doing the exact reverse works better, most of the fu
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by mrastro 3y ago
Without logging in some features are restricted. Most notably allowing viewing of videos that might be graphic (e.g. involve sensitive topics) you must prove you're 18+ by logging in.
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by mrastro 3y ago
I've used this script for every new install of Windows and it makes the experience quite a bit better: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater . 17k stars on GitHub so lots of people agree.
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by mrastro 3y ago
Tons. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/29/h... among others. He literally live tweeted about the something related to FOX News segment as it was happening.
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by mrastro 4y ago
Fully agree. There is further discussion to be had as to why the pipeline is so male-dominated. Societal labeling of programming as male, inherita of being so male dominated for so long, and stereotypes around women interacting with people
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by mrastro 4y ago
Maybe some. But a lot of the right to repair movement is just fighting companies like Apple or John Deere actively preventing tinkers and 3rd party repairers from fixing devices they supposedly own. Apple preventing computer repair folks fr
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by mrastro 4y ago
This is a difficult question based on how you measure qualifications and performance but I guess this was good enough to convince the judge. Congratulations to the lawyers for their 32m dollar payout. Interestingly Google also was found to
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by mrastro 4y ago
Contrarian opinion : to the extent this matters (which is not much), the acronym is fun and more memorable. You'll remember SLIM, even if you forget what the individual words it stands for, because it's a single word. Being memora
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by mrastro 4y ago
What industry is it?
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by mrastro 4y ago
He mentioned he was a SWE though.
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by mrastro 4y ago
Maybe it'd work for certain languages and phrases but many words/phrases have imperfect translations across languages and the same sentence could map to multiple valid translations.
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by mrastro 5y ago
I agree with what the EU is doing at a high-level, it doesn't make sense that Apple releases a new adapter so frequently when better open standards exist (USB C vs their proprietary thunderbolt). It seems short sighted to tie the legis
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by mrastro 5y ago
After being threaten by LinkedIn: "LinkedIn told hiQ in 2017 to stop scraping LinkedIn's public profiles or face liability under the anti-hacking law." I think it's fair to say LinkedIn is the instigator in this case.
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by mrastro 5y ago
Yes, it's estimated to be 26.73% in 2019 [1]. [1] https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2...
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by mrastro 5y ago
It's unlikely their code is hosted on GitHub because the hackers wouldn't want to leave such an obvious trace there. I think you're right that unless there is evidence code is hosted there, the judge wouldn't authorize a
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by mrastro 6y ago
They won't. Allowing APKs is useful from a legal point of view because it allows competitors to theoretically distribute their own apps (unlike Apple). It's why Google has a stronger defense in the Epic Games' case than Apple
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by mrastro 6y ago
2 million is only 0.025% of 8 billion. It's a bit of editorializing to call it "broke" but donating such a huge percentage of his net worth is commendable and he will be living a relatively much more modest lifestyle.
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by mrastro 6y ago
Side loading, ability to access the underlying file system, have their applications like iMessage work across platforms, have better support for cross-OS applications are a few that come to mind.
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by mrastro 6y ago
Memes often have at least a grain of truth to them and the US military budget is no exception. ~3.2% of US GDP is spent on the military compared to a worldwide average of ~2.1% [1] That means, even relative to other countries , the US is sp
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by mrastro 6y ago
Any app that requires lots of direct DOM manipulation (which are pretty rare cases). Think making use of html `canvas`. Though there are nice libraries that abstract the ugliness like react-canvas, it would lead to less reusable code than t
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by mrastro 6y ago
There might be no practical uses for this but it exemplifies programming as some sort of self-referential Ouroboros-type art. I think it's cool.
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by mrastro 7y ago
I can empathize that GitHub has to abide by laws more stringently now that it's part of Microsoft but oh boy does it's automatic flagging system need work. One day I was randomly permanently banned because a hacker starred some of
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by mrastro 7y ago
They obviously don't store their passwords in plaintext. It would be terrible practice even if their incentive is just to save their user info in case of a breach. They just hash common variations of the password (e.g. missing the last
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by mrastro 8y ago
It was initially rejected, this new revised bid was accepted.

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