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by perardi 6y ago
Yeah, I am an old man, and in my dotage, I was definitely thinking of the early desktop Chrome era, where it had more features…and now that I really dredge my memory, it was seemingly the time of never-ending ActiveX security exploits. Mobi
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by perardi 6y ago
So, if browser diversity is important, how do we keep it? We’re at the point that Firefox’s market share is quite small on desktop, and effectively zero on mobile. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_brows
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by perardi 6y ago
OK, yes, the Pokémon Home dance is…a tad complex. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/pokemon-home-guide-transf... But still, they finally have what appears to be a canonical place to store Pokémon, and it’ll be a littl
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by perardi 6y ago
Yup, that's what I'm getting at. It's not an easy 1:1 translation. It was nice for games like Pokémon; easy access to the inventory, little mini-games on the touch screen, stuff like that. It obviously blew right up in their
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by perardi 6y ago
> I'm honestly surprised Pokemon is still around. I'm honestly surprised baseball is still around. The first game came out in like 1839, and it was initially addictive because it was easy to play. But each season is basically a
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by perardi 6y ago
I wonder what the game plan is for offering these games in the future. The dual-screen setup obviously doesn’t map to the Switch, so it’s not just a simple eShop port like you’d have for an old SNES game. I am mostly thinking about Pokémon.
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by perardi 6y ago
If someone is calling me, without texting first, I assume that either (a) my boss wants me immediately, or (b) someone is in the hospital.
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by perardi 6y ago
Huh, the email service that everyone uses to buy “research chemicals” via Bitcoin attracts a shady audience? Shocking.
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by perardi 6y ago
Phone calls are rude. They are a Priority 0 interrupt that you must immediately deal with. Which has become extremely frustrating with the volume of spam calls on my 437 area code—to the extent I had to install a phone spam blocker app. I h
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by perardi 6y ago
I can’t get to their status page, which would seem to defeat the purpose of a status page. I wonder if a static page on Netlify would comply with their privacy stance.
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by perardi 6y ago
Not quite , but they are finally making the Phone notification a standard notification, and not a giant screaming blocking full-screen YOU WILL PAY ATTENTION NOW modal view. https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/22/i
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by perardi 6y ago
If you prefer something that’s not Facebook: https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1306344728745644033 I don’t know if we will get a report as to what happened, but Tutanota is frequently used for…perhaps not en
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by perardi 6y ago
Mm-hmm, and despite my skepticism, I am also tempted. What’s your experience with the theming engine? I use Hugo for my static site generator, and I doubt there’s a theme for that particular flavor yet. (I severely doubt my ability to craft
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by perardi 6y ago
Oh I get that’s the market, I just hope said market is large enough for them.
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by perardi 6y ago
I love native Mac apps, I love Panic…but I’m not sure what this gets me over Visual Studio Code, besides a Preferences pane that isn’t inscrutable. I’m not sure there’s enough of a market on the Mac for another commercial code editor, as we
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by perardi 6y ago
It's baffling. Like you said, GM will use its own technology. So they bought 11% of Nikola for…edgy CEO shitposting on Twitter? GM can definitely build a good electric vehicle. They cannot seem to market a good electric vehicle—see C
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by perardi 6y ago
Sorry, going to need you to expand on that. Individual states in the States have far less regulatory power than nation-states in the EU.
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by perardi 6y ago
Yup. That was also the Mac clone era of Apple. There is none of that DNA left.
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by perardi 6y ago
Besides the screaming anti-trust issues they’d run into, that’s not really Apple’s business model, is it? Selling IP to other companies? I get they would want to control their own ISA, but I can almost imagine them creating their own, versu
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by perardi 6y ago
Regardless of the consequences of selling to Nvidia…that’s not a great exit, is it? They bought ARM for $32 billion, and they are getting $40 billion for it? With all the money sloshing around in the debt markets, I figured they’d get a bit
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by perardi 6y ago
> Compare the size of these companies, in their time, to the Soviet-scale bureaucracies of Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Google. At the risk of being flippant: lol. “Soviet-scale bureaucracies” and “size of these companies”. The Bell Syst
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The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of Covid-19(slate.com)
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by perardi 6y ago
A bit of disambiguation to make clear I wasn’t talking about Polaroids.
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by perardi 6y ago
Most of my experience with film was long ago, and mainly through those execrable disposable cameras my family used when I was a kid. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_camera ) I doubt there is a single indoor ph
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by perardi 6y ago
Or, as briefly mentioned in the article, use Halide, which outputs RAW files, which you can then edit in your app of choice. (Nice thing about iOS: it outputs Adobe DNG files, which is a standardized format, and broadly readable by a bunch
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by perardi 6y ago
I know I should defend the common user…but c’mon, if you’re going to write an article like this, maybe spend like 5 minutes figuring out why the camera is “struggling”. Broadly, the camera is doing the right thing here. Nobody developed the
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by perardi 6y ago
In a scenario where the thermoplastic would melt? I imagine there’s industrial-grade 3D-printing material, but if they’re in such a time crunch to get these out the door for Q2, it was probably quicker to just send an intern to Home Depot.
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by perardi 6y ago
…an electric car? Unless there’s a V8 Hemi option for the Model Y I’m not aware of. And anyway, this is seemingly taking the place of a plastic part, and if the heat exchanger wasn’t melting the factory-spec plastic, I imagine it’s not hot
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by perardi 6y ago
I am pretty lucky that I only have to transfer money to between 2 countries that have heavily linked banking systems (US -> Canada), but I am not entirely sure what Bitcoin would get me in terms of transferring money. The fees are quite
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by perardi 6y ago
I guess it’s reasonable to worry that Spotify is creating a sort of algorithmic filter bubble where it just delivers you more of what you want…but man, the Discovery Weekly feature just works. I have, weekly, discovered a lot of artists I w

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