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by planb 6y ago
And this does not even include the horror future scenario in which rogue states burn their oil (which they cannot sell on the global market due to CO2 taxes and other regulations) to directly power miners...
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by planb 6y ago
For a moment I thought Elon Musk had another child...
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by planb 6y ago
That law is a very bad execution on a very good idea. Simply making adherence to a do-not-track header mandatory would have solved the same problem without annoying anyone.
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by planb 6y ago
What? I can’t count how often I accidentally downvoted a post because I can’t hit the correct arrow on mobile!
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by planb 6y ago
No, the app is free and so you can rate it without paying anything. The In App Purchase to make the app usable is 400$/year.
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by planb 6y ago
I can live with that in chat. It's not an email and I can switch the window and later read it all at once. But please please don't send me voice messages like this!
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by planb 6y ago
These are not simply UI changes. Dropbox implements more and more dark patterns that go directly against everything it once stood for. This service used to be a fire-and-forget way to have a local directory that's also online and on mu
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by planb 6y ago
I was talking about the comment I replied to, not the original article. I have no problem with that article or people upvoting it (I did so myself).
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by planb 6y ago
Everyone upvoting this, please read the (now) top rated comment and take a step back to think about how this line of thinking is destroying our society right now. If something fits your world view (Apple is evil) you stop looking for more e
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by planb 6y ago
In my experience it's always python and/or ruby that's causing the failues. As soon as they are fixed, most formulae will compile just fine.
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by planb 6y ago
The article you are commenting on is literally about Apple‘s success being rooted in the integration of hard- and software...
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by planb 6y ago
I tried to open a 300MB file and it gave me the spinning wheel. If there's one thing I would expect of a new editor (and they even wrote their own text layout engine), then that it's designed for large files and incremental loadin
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by planb 6y ago
Aaah, trial versions on the App Store :( I'm still not sure what would be the best way to implement a demo version for an App Store only app - I loathe the "Free with IAP" model. If you want to test if your scanner works with
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by planb 6y ago
I use the hocr feature of tesseract and parse the resulting xml that contains all the text with bounding boxes.
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by planb 6y ago
Hi, developer of a PDF scanning app for macOS (PDFScanner) here. I always toyed with the idea of developing a PDF engine from scratch but the spec scares me. Kudos for being that brave! Just curious: Why did you choose Objective-C for a new
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by planb 6y ago
Are you planning to support the "postpone" feature? This is the one thing that is missing for me when using gmail in Apple Mail.
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by planb 6y ago
Another possible explanation: The developer‘s certificate leaked and was really used to sign malware. Or his github repo was hacked and something evil was added to his code without him noticing. Maybe I’m just rationalizing, because if Appl
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by planb 6y ago
Why would you be willing to bet if you just can google that the transmission BitTorrent client is in fact gatekeeper-signed?
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Trump says he will ban TikTok(edition.cnn.com)
4 points by planb 6y ago|1 comments
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by planb 6y ago
This is so right. But are you aware of any ideas what to do about this? It seems like everyone has just accepted that‘s the way it is now.
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by planb 6y ago
> How is it better than a ring with a chip you'd wear and use for auth? Normal people would actually use it. And this is in fact not different. The phone IS the ring. You just unlock it using your biometrics (and of course, the data
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by planb 6y ago
An interesting spin of the story would be if Apple announced an intel to arm migration kit called "Mignori" next week at WWDC...
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by planb 6y ago
> > The appeal of WhatsApp was free text messages > Except that this is a feature of every messaging app. No it isn't. WhatsApp is a replacement for sms, while other software is (or at least was) always some kind of internet m
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by planb 7y ago
Weather. In the German data, you can see the days with lots of sunshine.
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by planb 7y ago
You’re right but I absolutely see why they are doing this. When I saw all my colleagues in the company list I immediately figured they only have the email domain and I found it extremely useful to see whom I can contact without explaining h
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by planb 7y ago
I had to think for a sec to get this. And this already makes it worse than 3 if statements. Does anyone really find this more readable?
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by planb 7y ago
Same for me - I'm so glad those bluetooth problems have been solved! On Mojave, I had to plug in the lightning cable every few hours to reconnect the trackpad.
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by planb 7y ago
Then we as a society should decide if pricing people differently based on this kind of data should be legal (in my opinion it shouldn't for social insurance). But the probability that you indeed have a risk for diabetes is higher than
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by planb 7y ago
Why is this opinion so underrepresented on hn? I'd like to see more discussions about this rather than just insults and name-calling. While I care about my privacy, this is just a feeling. I have no good answer when people ask me: &quo
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by planb 7y ago
And the third sample is taken directly from StackOverflow...

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