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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's a completely broken test. The "correct" answers at the end indicate two-digits numbers for "plates" when only a single-digit answer was possible. I, without color-blindness, can't make out any numbers. A c
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Among our alternatives: wear warmer clothes.
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Off the top of my head: if you can change those bytes, sophisticated thieves can change those bytes, and eventually anybody buying a kit on the open market can change those bytes. Also, as I previously mentioned, sophisticated thieves can b
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think you meant that as sarcasm, but... Fry's Electronics closed completely, while Best Buy keeps closing stores and laying people off at an accelerated rate[0]. Local grocery stores are almost extinct, as Walmart[1], Amazon, Kroger,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The age of the company would be relevant if any of the companies were less than five years old. After that, it's irrelevant.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Unemployment is at record lows, and people keep graduating from school every year.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm trying to figure out how you want this to work. If your own laptop is stolen, you're no longer in physical possession of it. So from the perspective of the laptop, some sort of interaction should brick it. What should that int
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That you can't think of a single scenario in which people might want to rely on the previously-uploaded copies of a large binary files is one thing. That you dismiss the several I came up with off the top of my head is another.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If someone posts something to TikTok, it's available within the TikTok app--but also via Chrome or Safari or Firefox, because every TikTok is available via an HTTPS URL. So yes, it can certainly be linked to on Facebook or anywhere els
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Or your computer crashed and you're having to rebuild from a failed backup. Or you're traveling away from your backups and need access. Or you upload from one device and usually download to your archive on another device. There ar
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I personally don't have any trouble with them charging for hosting. I don't even have a problem with them offering paid subscriptions. I have a problem with them restricting consumption to their own Apple Podcasts app, because tha
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Is it Apple Podcasts Subscriptions[0]? I don't use their app (Overcast for iOS is great!), so I wasn't familiar with any of this, but most of their site seems focused on the usual podcast stuff, same as it has been for a long time
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Technically you can listen to them using iTunes for Windows, but it's still absurd. It's a closed system, which podcasting should not be.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is bad behavior, antithetical to the spirit of podcasting. Offering DRM for paid subscriptions, or as an option, is one thing, but requiring it whether the podcast host wishes it or not is not defensible.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Safari is owned by Apple, the richest company in the world and they're beaten by a non-profit(!) who spends ~500 million / yr? How can one of the richest men in the world eat peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, as Bill Gates
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It turns out that the US government can do more than one thing at a time, and they are in fact acting in many cases simultaneously, including insulin. They haven't been "limited" so much in the past as "unmotivated and i
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The hope is that the audience for these posts, generally indie developers building new sites from scratch, will one day be able to shape the existing large sites that can afford to employ the majority of developers. The reality is that the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You are unlikely to successfully hire better developers after getting rid of 7% of your workforce. Better developers will stay away.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm sorry for you losing your job, since it sounds like it wasn't voluntary. I understand why Apple hasn't done mass layoffs, but I'm still stuck on how you know that during the recruiting process. If Apple tries to hi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I am truly torn on this. If Chrome were controlled by an independent company, I would 100% agree. Shame on Apple for dictating the use of the Safari engine on iOS! But Chrome is not controlled by an independent company. It's controlled
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by pwinnski 4y ago
So they can run ads where I can't easily block them, presumably.
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Because Google can leverage their position in other markets (search, video, advertising) to exert undue power in the browsing market. Their browser doesn't have to be better, they can just degrade site performance for non-Chrome browse
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You've bought the company line. I'm sure they'd be proud of you. It's nonsense, but keep shoveling it. People are being laid off who've worked there for 5-10 years, and the company is still incredibly profitable. Th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Recruiters have reached out to you from two different companies. Company A and Company B are both offering compensation greater than you're currently making (which is almost always true for most workers), and you ask questions about th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Fascinating! Thanks.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Wow! So if you go to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia?useskin=vector You see something different from this? https://ibb.co/pKbgw6w Are you logged in, perhaps?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It has already taken multiple clicks for users wanting to read English Wikipedia in a language that wasn't one of the nine in the sidebar. In fact, clicking the "287 more" link at the bottom of the left sidebar in the old des
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by pwinnski 4y ago
On longer articles, you do eventually get to a point where overly-long line widths mean more content fits onscreen at once, but at the cost of readability. Long line lengths are objectively bad for readability[0] and information retention[1
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Old skin, minimum width: https://ibb.co/Pcvn7VP New skin, same width: https://ibb.co/PgxF8hf Old skin, maximum width: https://ibb.co/WsptkCY New Skin, same width: https://ibb.co&
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by pwinnski 4y ago
People keep making that claim, and yet when I ask for example of lying, I never seem to get anything. Just asking for money while you already have money is not inherently lying. You might not like it, but lying involves making untrue statem

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