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by poink 1y ago
Correct date handling (including parsing) can be monumentally important. Imagine an app that reminds people when to take their medications, for example
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by poink 1y ago
Narco subs are mostly/entirely submerged to reduce visibility, but they almost all still operate at the surface
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by poink 1y ago
I scrolled through the whole thing on my phone and it was fine
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by poink 1y ago
I got tinnitus as a baby from ear infections and it sucks enough I’m very thankful I cannot remember life without it. That would be torture
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by poink 1y ago
It's not only reasonable the US government should be archiving communications between officials, it should be compulsory. We've already had problems with this re: agents of government agencies like CBP and big bankers using E2EE m
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by poink 1y ago
Yet Apple has reenabled Apple Intelligence multiple times on my devices after OS updates despite me very deliberately and angrily disabling it multiple times
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by poink 2y ago
I think Bernie Sanders is the only current senator I'd expect a random American to know. Murphy might make the top 5 highest profile senators but you wouldn't know him if you don't pay attention to politics at all.
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by poink 2y ago
Adam Ragusea made a pretty good video about this a few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sew4rctKghY
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by poink 2y ago
I don't think they "gaslit themselves," but I do think M1 was good enough a lot of people stopped thinking about hardware and their frame of reference is horribly out of date
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by poink 2y ago
> Backup: an ISP will give one device. Should it fail at an inopportune time, you will be off-line until you get them to issue a replacement. When you own your own hardware, you can buy a second modem and/or a router for emergency b
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by poink 2y ago
Names are hard. I'd say it says more about how little creativity we have in tech company business models
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by poink 2y ago
> Diminishing returns for investors maybe, but not for humans like me. The diminishing returns for humans like you are in the training cost vs. the value you get out of it compared to simply reading a blog post or code sample (which is b
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by poink 3y ago
The board said he was fired for being insufficiently candid with them. Good luck getting a US court to call that defamation.
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by poink 3y ago
This is my biggest problem. I'd be more than happy to pay for a Netflix subscription, but I just don't have time to watch everything that comes out immediately. There are several shows I've watched the first few episodes of,
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by poink 3y ago
I don't expect Netflix to make shows forever, especially ones that don't gain an audience, but if I can't at least be 50/50 I'll get a satisfying ending then I'm simply not going to watch. This attitude makes i
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by poink 3y ago
Last startup I worked for hired a Nepal-based QA person. There was a bunch of calendaring and daily/weekly charts in the apps, and she found bugs in _everything_. I make sure to test with Nepal time whenever I'm testing date/
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by poink 3y ago
> not sure if its possible to have them dynamically build blueprints Not in the base game, but there's a mod for it. Nilaus recently did a short series of videos on YouTube where he used it to make an auto-expanding factory, so you
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by poink 3y ago
> Luckily these people are the minority or there would be no content to begin with There is a whole galaxy of content creators who make great stuff but clearly aren’t making a living directly off content. People like making content for t
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by poink 3y ago
If you’re not going to buy the sponsored product you’re just wasting time and bandwidth by watching the sponsor segment
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by poink 3y ago
The overwhelming majority of game reviews address the content of the games, but there are reviewers that concentrate specifically on graphics performance because the difference between a low end and high end gaming PC can easily be $3k+, an
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by poink 3y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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by poink 3y ago
In fairness, anyone who didn't immediately recognize 128 Grazer as the fattest bear is probably frequently confused :P
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by poink 3y ago
The basic thrust of your argument is equivalent to "Google shut down a product we were paying for at the end of a normal billing cycle, so how could you be mad?" Fair enough, but acknowledging Google will honor basic contractual r
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by poink 3y ago
It's not just "free" customer products. See: Pixel Pass being canceled right before it was supposed to pay off with a phone upgrade. Those people paid significant amounts of money. I don't think GCP is going to shut down
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by poink 3y ago
Disney is a huge tech company in the same way Lockheed Martin is a huge tech company.
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by poink 3y ago
Netflix has caching boxes at every major ISP and has been randomly knocking over their own services for several years to ensure they can recover without significant manual intervention. Even if the customer experience isn't that much b
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by poink 3y ago
This works, but you're quickly getting into more effort than piracy. Valve figured this stuff out many years ago.
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by poink 3y ago
Oh, Jesus! BAMTech! How could I have forgotten a member of the vaunted FAANGB
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by poink 3y ago
The thing for me is that the media companies that thought they could just launch their own streaming services and keep all the money for themselves completely devalued the engineering of Netflix. It was "FAANG" for a reason. Visce
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by poink 3y ago
I'm usually an early adopter for tech stuff, but I'm not interested in this smart home crap at all. The idea that vendors could remotely mess with it is back of mind, but the main thing is that it ~all just seems worse than the st

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