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by pwinnski 4y ago
Get a 2022 or 2023 Fiat 500e, a delightful EV. You can't, Fiat stopped selling them in the US. My 2017 is great, though! There are many different cars and trucks and vans on the roads in Europe that don't seem to be available fo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The world, it turns out, contains more than just hammers. The fediverse, it turns out, isn't primarily a messaging service. So yes, if you define X as "a messaging service that intends to connect people across the world," the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I suspect that key to the future of the fediverse is likely to be a more efficient piece of software than mastodon.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think there are some differences that are key. 1. The fediverse doesn't necessarily need to scale to 100 million or more people, and if it were to hypothetically hit a hard limit at 10 million, that would still be fine. Anecdotally,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Far too often people are added to existing teams, as if they didn't believe Brooks' observations about communication. Less often, but much better, are people being hired and put onto new teams, focused on new projects and products
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Why would Apple ever want to replace the engine they develop? I'm not sure that's been considered a priority, or even an option. However, they do release WebKit for use by others, so in that sense I presume there's a certain
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Your own corporation pays corporate taxes that a non-profit does not, and you cannot transfer personal wealth to a corporation without paying taxes on it as you can with a non-profit.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because the charity can expense things you can use without anyone paying taxes on anything. Charity holds a conference at a resort, that's an operating expense. Present are the officers of the company, which is you and your friends and
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Or both. One can certainly despise a particular player playing a horrible game.
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Right, billionaire family charities are almost uniformly horrible, including this one.
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Great example: keyboards are definitely more complicated and fiddly since the introduction of multiple keyboards. Absolutely necessary to support multiple countries, but the tradeoff is real. The sky isn't falling by any means, but iOS
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Time is ordered so that things happen after other things. So first @ElonJet appeared to be shadow-banned or visibility-filtered. Then @JxckSweeney commented on that. Then it appeared that @ElonJet was back to normal. Then @JxckSw
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by pwinnski 4y ago
And every individual is complex, with many opinions on many issues, including some that are probably contradictory. Still, call one national hero a pedophile, and most of your other opinions are suddenly irrelevant, aren't they?
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Per the GP, Toyota is making twice the total profit. They might have to sell more than twice as many cars to do it, but as you acknowledge, for Tesla to make that much profit, their margin would also likely decline. Total profit matters mor
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This doesn't seem possible. Whatever changes Apple will have to make to support drop-in replacements for Siri, a complete elimination of certification requirements for Gatekeeper, and so on, as listed in this very thread, will absolute
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Processes? No. Various parts of MacOS use the WebKit libraries for rendering, but that's a library, not processes.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Perhaps it's less about the judgement of other people, and more about not wanting to contribute to someone they believe to be a bad actor. At my age, I don't give a wet slap about how people view me, but I have never considered bu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apple is blamed by Facebook publicly for a $10 million drop in ad revenue due to a change in iOS policies. Google is not.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Android, macOS, and Windows aren't being blamed by Facebook public for a $10 million drop in ad revenue due to a change in iOS policies, so it's not quite the same fruit.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They're shipping 70k this year as demand rises, which it is mostly doing because of the big price drop between 2022 and 2023. So yes, it appears that they can produce them in volume and make money doing so. P.S. Pretty sure MKBHD isn&#
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Many, if not most, Teslas are bought without a test drive. But if you don't want anyone to make a copy of your drivers license, you have the options I laid out: buy without driving, or be a passenger.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Thanks for the correction! All the better that the original tweet kept it classy, then. :)
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by pwinnski 4y ago
And yet MKBHD notes that a Chevy that sells for $30k matches his own Tesla Model S feature-for-feature[0]. It's easy to quibble about that, of course, but the Chevy costs 30% as much. Hard to see how Tesla is "pulling away" f
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sure, you don't have to test drive a car. Presumably most sellers would be happy to drive and have you sit shotgun without a license.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is a classy response from the Ghost folks to a clear license violation.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The cognitive dissonance required to see a group of people doing a stupid and bad thing and having your first response be "this is the kind of thing the opposite group of people would usually do," it's really amazing. "T
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I already hate the effect ChatGPT is having on the entire internet. I don't want to read a paragraph of machine-generated pablum like this.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Do you know how team dynamics work day-to-day? What the relationship between the product team and developers is like? Who drives new features? How is work assigned and scheduled? How big are teams? What are teams structured like? Is there f
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In the Dallas area, not quite a coast, this trend has been bugging me for roughly a year, and the 2023 models of many cars seem to feature non-metallic colors even more than 2022 did.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
As the article mentions, Pearl Jam tried to solve this one way, and it did not go well. Taylor Swift could theoretically do more shows, assuming she's physically capable, but she's already doing 2-3 shows in every venue on this to

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