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by pohl 3y ago
I feel like I remember good old days before the troll culture arrived. I had a 3-digit id, and remember users like Meeept (no offense, whoever you were) being the beginning of the decline. Maybe it's just rose-colored glasses on my par
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by pohl 3y ago
And, before that, 4GLs or Fourth Generation Languages, a term that sprung from a book titled "Applications Development Without Programmers".
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by pohl 3y ago
SCOTUS has already brought us to the place where corporations are people with first amendment rights and, moreover, that money (campaign contributions) qualifies as protected speech, hasn’t it? I agree, it’s bonkers.
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by pohl 3y ago
Is that meaningfully different from Apple’s take?
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by pohl 3y ago
You underestimate the mind’s potential. One can separately consider the tragedy and utility of his wish. (Guiding the reader to do so is kind of the purpose of the story, isn’t it?) As a bonus, doing so opens up delightful phrases like “shi
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by pohl 3y ago
Might be increased incidence of narcissism. Adult bodies driven around by the minds of children.
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by pohl 3y ago
Which part of that is grounds for assault?
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by pohl 3y ago
What's missing, in your view?
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by pohl 3y ago
That's pretty sweet. I tried to work something like that out on my own while I was using this resource to do some spiral iteration on a Tonnetz[1] I was making in SwiftUI. (Janky screenshot[2]) I ended up retreating from that approach
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by pohl 3y ago
I must be getting old, because this is the second major hardware that has zero appeal to me. Why would I want to fold my display? And, before that: why would I not want to use something that conducts electricity to charge my device?
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by pohl 3y ago
In my head December is at 6 o’clock and the year, a circle, progresses counterclockwise. I had no idea it wasn’t this way for everyone.
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by pohl 3y ago
Interesting that you framed this not about how perhaps you and your daughter ought be eligible for some subsidies, but rather about what subsidies you feel should be taken away from others, as if their needs have no merit.
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by pohl 3y ago
Why wouldn’t Swift fit that description?
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by pohl 3y ago
Catalina removed 32-bit support, so Mojave was the last version with it, so Valve has had since October 2019 to get their 64-bit shit together — arguably since June 2018 when Apple informed everybody that Mojave would be the last OS with 32
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by pohl 3y ago
Elaborate on this disconnect, because I’m not seeing it. How is recycling the gold any worse than recycling the frame of an obsolete aluminum watch?
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by pohl 3y ago
Imagine his excitement: after 5 years of marriage, she suddenly gave him the rhetorical ammunition he needed to bring a mistress into the relationship. After all, they were a couple, and since when does that mean only two?
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by pohl 3y ago
Probably should have chosen a valuable but inedible element.
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by pohl 3y ago
“system as a hole” is my new band name.
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by pohl 3y ago
Things can change. There was a time when search was something that Google was good at.
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by pohl 3y ago
Even were it the case that the US military could be used against a US citizen, your observation would still be cold comfort in our world where billionaires can buy politicians. Worse, the Citizens United SCOTUS decision equates such control
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by pohl 3y ago
That works so long as the government still has more power than a gang of bajillionaires with similar interests. Does it? Seems like we're near a tipping point in that regard, if we haven't already crossed it.
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by pohl 3y ago
One can have vague, general concerns about any operating system if one lets their imagination run wild, though, and one doesn't care about the presence or absence of specific examples supporting the suggestion that the "permission
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by pohl 3y ago
The "varsectomy" bug in Chrome isn't the example you think it is, because disabling SIP was not sufficient conditions for it. There were 3 other conditions that had to be met, the most notable of which is that "/&q
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by pohl 3y ago
helpfulContrib, an account that was green just last week, sure seems to post a lot of things that Vlad would like “get out there”.
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by pohl 3y ago
macOS had granular directory permissions way back when it was NeXTSTEP, long before SIP was introduced. Where are you suggesting they disappeared to?
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by pohl 3y ago
Don’t forget that this interoperability was put in place to support a specific engineering goal: to make it possible to slowly (over decades, probably) transition from 4 different languages (C, ObjC, C++, ObjC++) at every level of Apple’s s
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by pohl 3y ago
Wait, so if he does something, and someone accurately reports on that, but the thing he did kind of sucked, then it's propaganda to report on it? Maybe he could, you know, modify his behavior if he wants to go back to the myth-making
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by pohl 3y ago
When hasn't it had a notification for a missed call, modulo whatever bug must be plaguing you?
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by pohl 3y ago
I've seen some analysis that, per hour of flight time, these tend towards the most trouble-free end of the spectrum. Someone will need to run those numbers again, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if, even with this incident
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by pohl 3y ago
Well, no, but how would a good tablet bring them a large enough increase in ad revenue to make it worth the investment? That’s what the difference in business models naturally leads to, right? There’s no indication that Google is trying to

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