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by paledot 3y ago
"A nice operating system with a mediocre text editor built in."
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by paledot 3y ago
The use of surge pricing encourages their definitely-not-employees to turn on their servers and relieve congestion, dontcha know.
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by paledot 3y ago
Rust is capable of UTF-8. It is not capable of not UTF-8. Any sequence of bytes that is not a valid UTF-8 string cannot be represented by the String type.
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by paledot 3y ago
Not a UX designer, but I would try worsening the UX of B/I/U/size operations to make users more inclined to reach for the formatting style picker instead. I would also heavily optimize the process to edit styles, so changing
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by paledot 3y ago
Ironically its default encoding is base 55. I figured if you're going to use emoji you should at least use the size of the space to maximize the numbers of bits per grapheme beyond what is possible with ASCII, but apparently not. Which
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by paledot 3y ago
Which is a commentary on the UX of the feature, not on the users.
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by paledot 3y ago
Guaranteed they already have the data they want.
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by paledot 3y ago
> The vehicle headunit will refuse to flash a partition that isn't signed by the private key held by Polestar. Pulls double duty to prevent someone from flashing a malicious update, as well as corruption detection. And of course pre
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by paledot 3y ago
I would be quite happy if we had a word for the language of France that was distinct from the adjective. It's not uncommon that I need to pause and clarify (typically "French people", that is, native francophones vs. resident
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by paledot 3y ago
This is super interesting, and I appreciate the level of detail and thought that went into your response. Some I'm willing to accept, like hot/cold being distinct from pressure being distinct from pain. (Spinal cord injury, for in
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by paledot 3y ago
Because nuance is valuable? "GDPR is good" doesn't remotely address its strengths and failings, nor the conflicting incentives and motivations that produced it. I agree that there's no room for home-team mentality here,
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by paledot 3y ago
No, but points for a solid attempt. Senses are input (to the body), not output . Glove controllers are just output via movement, just like keyboards and touchscreens. True, part of what makes them cool is that your proprioception more or
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by paledot 3y ago
Okay, but unless you're suggesting a computer interface based on proprioception, I'm not sure that that's relevant to the topic at hand. I too would be interested to see an enumerated list of over 100 senses.
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by paledot 3y ago
> But isn't the door property of the customer? Not anymore. Now I get to pay $5/mo for IFTTT integration, after paying the premium for the WiFi-enabled version of the same device.
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by paledot 3y ago
I would be surprised if any of them had the first idea what you were talking about, and they probably don't even work for the manufacturer. Even if they do, their feedback is extremely unlikely to make it back to product, and even le
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by paledot 3y ago
Ah shit, I had plans to reverse engineer the opener too. Thanks for saving me the time, anyway. Next option is to try to reverse the opener button, but I've already determined that it's not a simple "short these two connector
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by paledot 3y ago
I'm genuinely curious how total ad spend on YouTube compares to total spend direct to influencers. I presume the former is substantially larger, but by how much I have no idea.
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by paledot 3y ago
Oh yeah, when I first encountered them, my mind went to a Black Mirror-esque future where security cameras identify me as a high spender or stressed buyer and jack up listed prices according to what some neural net figures I'm willing
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by paledot 3y ago
Yes, but this tracker did not offer any such things. The only reason the mean ratio of active members was > 1 was because of the steady stream of users being banned for low ratios.
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by paledot 3y ago
There's a whole ton of bluster in the torrent community. Bittorrent is a simple protocol, to the point of being naive (and therefore a fun toy network app project). Clients identify themselves to the tracker by user agent; there's
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by paledot 3y ago
My wife sustained a minor head injury when the weight of her new work-issued MacBook Pro caused her wheelchair to flip over backwards when she stood up momentarily. (It was hanging from the backrest.) MacBook Air is not an option currently
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by paledot 3y ago
> rogue execs What is a company if not a collection of people? I fail to see the difference between "rogue execs did it" and "the company did it", except for who gets thrown under the bus.
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by paledot 3y ago
Letters which are sorted separately from what we'd think of as the base characters in English (they appear at the end of the alphabet, as W X Y Z Æ Ø Å, with C often omitted in Norwegian). By contrast, my French dictionary has énorme
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by paledot 3y ago
Also, French has no other character that takes an acute accent. For the same reason, ç isn't typed with a dead key on French AZERTY.
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by paledot 3y ago
Yeah, fair enough. At some point my ex-employer wised up and implemented kill switches on purpose instead of by accident.
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by paledot 3y ago
Agreed. For all of the hate PHP gets, the state of their respective docs was a big pain point for me in trying to learn Python after years of writing PHP. However, the PHP docs, especially for older, less-used functions, are riddled with su
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by paledot 3y ago
Unions have provided an immense amount of value to your personal life, and for millions of people. (Even if you've never been a member, unions are both a product and sustainer of the overall labour movement that you have definitely
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by paledot 3y ago
It is indeed insane, but there is some value to leaving coarse feature flags in production. I've seen outages resolved by flipping a feature flag that was accidentally left in production months after deployment, where without it we wou
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by paledot 3y ago
FWIW, "First Nations" is generally the preferred term in Canada. But the relevant law is the Indian Act, not the Indigenous Act or the First Nations Act.
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by paledot 3y ago
Well, if Boris Johnson said it, it must be true. It was his radical honesty that cost him the Prime Ministership, after all.

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