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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, but then that's a very loose meaning of "requires" unicode support if all the people who "require" it probably aren't even going to try to use it even if you support it. Ironically, isn't part of the
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by noirbot 3y ago
You're somewhat right, though I was just parroting the parent comment's example. If anything, you're pointing out what a terrible example it is. If you drop unicode support, that's not "not thinking about your immed
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by noirbot 3y ago
Not at all. There's only a handful of bridges over the river near me that I could use to get to my friend's house. There's only one AC unit in my house that's keeping my house in a livable temperature. A failure in almos
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by noirbot 3y ago
But isn't that part of the poor comparison with other sorts of engineering? If I build a bridge or design a machine, I have a pretty good idea of who will use it and for what, and it's engineered for those use cases, and some reas
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by noirbot 3y ago
I can also tell you that the passport office doesn't check anything very well, at least in the US, as my name on my passport doesn't actually match the name on my birth cert or SSN paperwork. I guess I mis-wrote it when I filled i
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by noirbot 3y ago
I think it's also pointing to something more than just poverty - it's when you're in a situation where potentially everyone you know is in poverty. You're not even passing someone on the street who looks middle-class, le
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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, if you're somewhere where Uber is as available as a Taxi and charging more, then you should be hiring taxis if that's your experience. In my experience, Uber is still a bit cheaper than the taxis I've hired and a bett
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by noirbot 3y ago
I don't think it's obvious that more screening leads to "higher quality" drivers or that customers care. That's the premise of my original post. More screening leading to less drivers feels like it's not a &quo
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by noirbot 3y ago
I don't see how it's a fallacy to accept the parent's premise that Uber should be screening more people out of being hired by them, which then necessarily leads to less people driving for them, and that that would reduce the
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by noirbot 3y ago
Earnestly not trolling, but would that actually benefit the customer? Part of the benefits of a service like Uber is having a lot of people willing and able to drive to/from places all over. If they're rejecting more people and in
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by noirbot 3y ago
I doubt a lot of that is inertia though. Most of those are due to tax/regulatory burdens that make it important to have some idea where your customers/counterparties are physically located. Outside of some inconceivably radical ch
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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, but that's somewhat unavoidable. It's not as if cab drivers didn't discriminate on their fares before Uber, or inflate/make up prices via all kinds of underhanded means. Uber and the like are getting worse, but the
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by noirbot 3y ago
I don't disagree with most of that, and I generally try not to use Uber or Lyft these days, but "replace a crappy service with a crappy service with better UX" is... not a bad business model. Almost every time I've taken
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by noirbot 3y ago
Except I find OrganicMaps to have an even worse version of the problems of Google Maps for the exact reason you say it's good. I mostly don't care about all of the "interesting buildings". I care about the one interestin
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by noirbot 3y ago
Supergiant is pretty close? Bastion, Transistor, Pyre and Hades have all been pretty big hits in different genres and styles. They're consistently high production value in terms of art/soundtrack/writing, but the gameplay var
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by noirbot 3y ago
Are they fully discarding it? Or just replacing it? I actually don't know the answer here, but I'd be surprised if they didn't have some refurb process for removing still-working parts of the mainboard and attached components
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm not sure Linux is the comparison point you want for "handles high resolution consistently with various monitors." I'm sure I could mess around with settings to get any behavior I want, but I've been wrangling mu
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by noirbot 3y ago
Even in the US - my dad used Thinkpads for his work exclusively and they regularly would just overnight him a new laptop and have him return the broken one under warranty. I don't think we ever had anyone come to the house/offic
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by noirbot 3y ago
I really don't see how they're much worse than the average in their industry for almost any of those. Mac Mini, Studio, and Pro all want an external monitor, and that's essentially the same product lines any other company wou
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by noirbot 3y ago
Does that actually mitigate the issues people have with Cloud stuff though? It's still "someone else's computer" at the end of the day. You're still having to deal with the eccentricities of whatever management laye
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by noirbot 3y ago
That's on your notification settings though. You can make Voicemails have a higher notification priority if you want. If you just turn on reject unknown calls and keep up everything else normally, you may have issues, but if you adjust
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by noirbot 3y ago
This is sort of what I mean. The fact that one vendor is bad at security has no particular bearing on if their competition is better, or if there's a more secure option you could run internally. Sure, we've learned that Azure is l
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by noirbot 3y ago
Isn't the issue that, if you switch away from a service after an incident, it doesn't necessarily mean that the alternative is going to necessarily be better? GitHub clearly did things poorly, but is Gitlab or Bitbucket better? Or
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm curious how much listening to recorded music as a single-focus activity was ever really the case outside of concerts or those dedicated to it. I certainly don't remember growing up and having my parents putting on records, cas
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by noirbot 3y ago
It's easy for a high performance culture to lead to a lot of people posturing or over-working themselves. It can be for developer productivity what browsing Instagram can be for your self-image.
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by noirbot 3y ago
I feel like both ends of it can be exhausting. Dealing with other people just not caring or executing poorly can easily burn you out or make you lose faith in your coworkers, but so can having everyone else working late hours and feeling th
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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, but most airports are being used. If you're subsidizing it heavily and it's still a novelty instead of a part of regular infrastructure, then it's a different story. I was checking quick, and Amtrak is claiming that the
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by noirbot 3y ago
The crux of it is "viable" though. It's viable in the same way taking a cruise ship from LA to Miami is a viable form of transportation. You can do it, it does work, but it's more something you take because of the journe
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by noirbot 3y ago
Perhaps? But I do plenty of projects where I'm just paired with another engineer. I'm maybe taking lead, but they're sitting in on all the meetings and helping make decisions when I want someone to check my work. That may be
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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, but you can have plenty of options where there's one responsible person, but you may still want to track another person who's involved. Maybe another engineer who's paired on the project, or the PM who's taking poi

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