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by perardi 6y ago
And that world is Firefox OS, which we are all using right now, right?
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by perardi 6y ago
If people cared about any of that, truly, deeply, then why is Gmail so dominant? I’ll use Gmail as an example here, as I think it has less network effects than Facebook. Yes, there’s the big damn hurdle of having to have contacts update you
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by perardi 6y ago
It’s arguable that Apple launched without an app store because they were still cleaning up APIs and coming up with a plan. (And, arguably wise, if so. Apple Watch came out with door with an awful development experience.) But, yeah, that’s
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by perardi 6y ago
Machine learning model for analyzing movement data?
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by perardi 6y ago
Directly from the article on iOS 14: “Fonts are now counting for less than 6 % of the size” And I assume emojis are part of that relatively small percentage. (‘Apple Color Emoji.ttc’ takes up 208 megabytes on my Mac, assuming that’s how the
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by perardi 6y ago
Would Steve Jobs’ have been tolerated these days, in a post #MeToo era? Now, I am definitely not accusing him of sexual harassment. But hand-in-hand with that, the culture seems to have shifted towards pressuring bosses of public companies
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by perardi 6y ago
Excellent catch. And that makes some sense. A huge percentage of the country lives in a fairly narrow band near the US border in large cities. With not a lot of driving to other cities. Because they’re too far away.
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by perardi 6y ago
That Andersonville to Uptown transition can be a shock.
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by perardi 6y ago
And Torontonians could make questionable generalizations about Brampton drivers. Though, now that I think about it, residential street speed limits are way lower here.
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by perardi 6y ago
I think you have to go even finer grained than that. Chicago, for example. My old stomping grounds. The inequality within that city is stark. Glaring. The South and West sides are a world apart from the North side.
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by perardi 6y ago
Wow, the difference between the US and Canada is a surprise, in particular the opioid overdoses and road accidents. I am a US->Canada transplant, and the cultural and economic differences here just don’t seem that stark. Yes, there is un
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by perardi 6y ago
Hacker News thinks jailbreaking is for an abstract concept of liberation. Reddit thinks it’s a way to permanently store nudes from Snapchat.
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Intel has access to most of the same machines TSMC has. OK, but, where’s the beef? Intel has been stuck for a long time now. Do we know the management and corporate culture can catch up?
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by perardi 6y ago
Does Intel has a dramatically superior architecture? Tough to tell right now, given the process deficit. And anyways, is this transition entirely about performance? Apple is obviously selling it like that, but it seems like they really want
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by perardi 6y ago
“Binary translation” to be pedantic, but, I agree. I was an Adobe user through the PPC->Intel transition, and that worked OK, though my subjective remembered experience says non-x86 apps felt a bit pokey. (This was a while ago, and I co
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by perardi 6y ago
Sing it. The parent has a reasonable question. A million dollars in a world where companies with no revenue get billion dollar valuations seems like nothing, on the face of it. But a well-targeted million dollars, to a research university,
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Rough heuristic: if it’s a “science” article from the Independent, it’s probably bullshit.
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These machines are Apple’s volume in Macs. The MacBook Air, in particular. And today, Apple gets to tout their best-seller is dramatically faster and has dramatically better battery life. Makes marketing sense to me.
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That WebKit compile time is impressive. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...
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by perardi 6y ago
That being said, there is a renaissance in third party lenses, and their quality as well as their autofocus performance is increasing, fast. While I agree with you, the third-party lenses that have gotten notably better are Sigma’s, which
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by perardi 6y ago
I have a few friends in their late-20s/early-30s who have gotten this. Only one has had to spend a night in the hospital for low oxygen, but overall, I know of 5 people who have been made absolutely miserable for 2 weeks because of thi
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I think there’s going to be a lot of anti-vaccine agitation about this. It’s a type of vaccine that has never been approved and deployed past the research phase before, and it’s going to be super easy to wrap “modified RNA vaccine” in scare
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by perardi 6y ago
Fun, or not-so-fun, fact: Dalmations are severely genetically disposed to gout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_(dog)#Hyperuricemia
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May I bro-science it for a second? I shy away from blaming high-fructose corn syrup as some sort of subtle poison. A gram of HFCS is anywhere from 42–55% fructose, which is the same as what you’d get from an apple. But I think there may be
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by perardi 6y ago
Minor correction: Matthew Yglesias left Vox, not Ezra Klein.
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The iOS Covid-19 app ecosystem has become a privacy minefield(arstechnica.com)
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by perardi 6y ago
I am becoming at curmudgeon at my advanced age of 37, and I feel like macOS, for keyboard-and-mouse usage, hasn’t really improved since Mac OS 10.6. Now, it sure has on a laptop; the touch gestures are nice for switching between desktops, f
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by perardi 6y ago
It’s a little weird, isn’t it? They would have gone to the effort to compile it for 64-bit, at the very least. (I’ve not dug around in the app bundle, maybe it’s just the simplest possible Cocoa app, and it’s a trivial “just click the archi
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by perardi 6y ago
Well…wait, how is that different than having a non-botnet car with a serious defect? Say, all those cars with defective Takata airbags. I guess you’re arguing that you feel safer that the manufacturer can’t remotely disable the car, but I d
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by perardi 6y ago
GM is leaning heavily into electric. This is not the 90s. They are not going to scrap your car.

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