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by peeters 7y ago
I didn't have a touchbar but wouldn't the escape key have been the easiest non-physical key to reach without looking, due to its indexed location? Or was the problem that it wasn't always exposed by the software?
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by peeters 7y ago
I'm pretty sure at this point if they make a version without the touchbar, they'll market it as a premium feature and charge more. Now with 100% physical function keys!
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by peeters 7y ago
> The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact. That's a pretty bold statement. Git might be almost ubiquitous these days, but if you erased git from the world, the ripples would be m
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by peeters 7y ago
Is there a solution to this in DOM+CSS? I had always wondered, we have the same issue in some of our UIs and I'm never sure if there's some pseudo-class that I haven't discovered that can style overflow without Javascript. N
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by peeters 7y ago
I always wonder about people who see some awful technology in a dystopian sci-fi flick and think to themselves "I want to be the guy that invents that." The ability of people to sprint headfirst toward a shittier world if it mean
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by peeters 7y ago
Interesting, what are they getting at here: > As braille is read with your hands, it is impossible to read and play at the same time, unless you are a pianist. Pianists play with their hands. Are they suggesting you can read with one wh
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by peeters 7y ago
Whenever I think about this topic, my gut says that a service provider's moral obligation to refuse service to customer relates linearly with the customer's reliance on the service in conducting its morally odious behavior. In ot
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by peeters 7y ago
I'm not making an argument. I was saying that they don't agree with your premise, that mirrors are working fine.
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by peeters 7y ago
Well, the motivation as identified in the article is aerodynamics. Side mirrors mess with that. So they would argue that side mirrors aren't "working fine", or rather there's an advantage to removing them.
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by peeters 7y ago
Yeah let's not forget that mirrors are supplemental to begin with and already can fail. The failure mode is that you have to look around you more. As long as a manufacturer can't use this as an excuse to add more blind spots I d
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by peeters 7y ago
Depends on the attack and the vulnerability. The article does say this: > The attacks work when routers use weak administrative passwords and are vulnerable to CSRF attacks. Which implies that a cross site request is being made. So e.g
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by peeters 7y ago
How do you prove a solution without trying it?
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by peeters 7y ago
> Stock prices are set by the profitability of the company. No, stock prices are driven by demand. The most dominant factor in determining demand might be profitability for some investors, but it's one of many (stability, risk, eth
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by peeters 7y ago
Less, but not much less. Around 12 km/s instead of 14 km/s.
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by peeters 7y ago
> We use the DNS because most humans are bad at keeping track of long numbers. I almost feel the need to challenge that these days. While it's absolutely true as far as the original intention went, and is true to a limited amount t
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by peeters 7y ago
> But all the programs you listed and the eq. program are net transfers from rich (and less politically powerful [1]) to poorer provinces. Provinces don't pay tax. People do. They're net transfers from rich people (regardle
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by peeters 7y ago
This is NOT in practice what happens. This way of framing it is popular by separatist segments in Alberta, but it's bullshit. Transfer payments come out of federal tax levies. No province is being targeted for levies. If one provin
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by peeters 7y ago
I feel like nobody is bringing up one of the core challenges that the U.S. has that many countries don't. You just vote for way too much fucking stuff at once. In Canada, our ballots are literally just a list of candidates for a sing
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by peeters 7y ago
The graphics are kind of irrelevant because it's not a gameplay rendering you're seeing. They've listed multiplayer and interstellar travel as notable new features. Looks like colonization will be a big part of it.
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by peeters 7y ago
> One thing though: I hope the modding capability and freedom won't be diminished. There was a video posted alongside with a lot of development interviews and one of them was very specific about mentioning they were creating a platf
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by peeters 7y ago
GoFundMes are still pretty common in Canada, it might not be the same as some European countries but at least here having an expensive illness can still rack up a lot of peripheral costs, like childcare, food, transportation, while at the s
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by peeters 7y ago
For me it varies widely depending on how I hold my hand. If I place them flat on a surface, palm down, fingers together, my ring fingers look longer. If I look at them palm towards me, fingers separated, extended, but relaxed, it's c
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by peeters 7y ago
Most fun bug I've ever fixed is when we had builds time out while running unit tests, but it would never happen on our dev machines. Unless we let it run while grabbing a coffee. Or if we just sat there watching the screen without to
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by peeters 7y ago
> In a capitalist society, something being a right has no bearing on whether you need to pay for it. Right, which is why there are no purely capitalist societies in the world. Every "capitalist" society in the world regulates
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by peeters 7y ago
> it seems like the fault is on society for allowing and encouraging the market to do so in general I agree, but there's no underlying constant that humans act rationally or in their own best interest. I don't think the market
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by peeters 7y ago
Or they just don't think it should be normal for companies to spy on you, regardless of how it's compensated.
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by peeters 7y ago
I don't find it a step forward at all. It's a move toward pricing out the privacy-conscious. Right now, auto insurers in Canada will give you a premium reduction if you let them spy on you as you drive. But what happens when th
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by peeters 7y ago
I hate it, but I think there are definitely uses for the TouchBar. My main issue is the lack of indexing. You really can't use it without looking at your keyboard. I already dislike that the chiclet keyboards have no grouping of F-k
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by peeters 7y ago
Is it possible you were thinking you had to bottom out the keys on a mechanical keyboard? Good switches have a fairly long travel, but it's important to note they're not designed to be bottomed out, they're designed to be pu
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by peeters 7y ago
It was the reason I bought an XPS 13 instead of MBP when I got a new laptop. Wonder how many advocates they lost amongst the professional segment.

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