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by pwinnski 4y ago
Do you mean like this? https://github.com/easylist/easylist EasyList updates frequently, many times each day, as the commits to that repo demonstrate.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They're offering a text file. Presumably with an If-modified-since header, although it's hard to check now. There is no approach you can describe that doesn't run afoul of the described badly-behaved browser app which willful
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Error messages should definitely be written with a target audience in mind. For Wix, a blogging platform, the target audience is usually decidedly non-technical. For many of the tools I use, more technical detail would be welcome. Then agai
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In the case at hand, where an environment variable isn't set, how exactly should the code fix itself? Human interaction is necessary, which is the reason the log message should spell out what the human needs to do. If I'm starting
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yes! There are people who don't read formal documentation but do read logs, after all. If the advice is the same over and over again, then yes, give the advice over and over again. I wouldn't want to assume that someone has read e
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Your vocabulary reveals your opinion more than anything else, but to be clear: how law enforcement works is exactly how it is working. A search warrant was executed as part of a criminal investigation, and while the target of that warrant w
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apple charge cables used the industry-standard USB-A for many years until they switched recently to the industry-standard USB-C. They have never required a proprietary charger block, not in the 15 years iPhone has existed. They have always
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They supply a USB-C->Lightning cable, but nothing into which to plug the USB-C end of things.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My recently-purchased iPhone came with just such a cable. You are confidently incorrect.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You're picking a subset of even the CPI basket of goods, but still the answer is yes[0]. The linked chart currently only goes to 2021, but 2021 was down almost 13% from 2020, and I have no expectations that 2022 will be any different.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In retrospect, GE's move into finance with GE Capital, while contributing heavily to the bottom line, ruined GE. I get that Apple has a lot of money that needs managing, and I'll probably sign up for this myself, but I do fear it&
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Referring to "TARP/PPP" is misleading, IMO. TARP disbursed $440 billion in exchange for assets, and received back $443 billion to return those assets[0]. It made a small profit for taxpayers. PPP is... not that. 0. https:&#x
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That was FaceTime, not iMessage, and FaceTime ran into patent issues which Apple lost in court, repeatedly, and so had to be reengineered in way that made it not work as an open protocol.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Amusing.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Fortunately, external USB-connected Blu-ray drives are pretty cheap[0]! 0. http://www.pricegrabber.com/blu-ray-external/products/?sort=...
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The price is too high for me. But I already have an external blu-ray drive that connects via USB, and I don't ever need audio beyond the headphone jack. Those who do can use the USB-C ports for that. Maximum flexibility via USB, withou
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by pwinnski 4y ago
1. ...a variety of competing manufacturers who are either running a single operating system with a single defendant, or are a rounding error in market share, profit, or any other way one cares to slice it. 2. Setting Google as the default,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is one of the best reasons I've ever heard for not running iOS. I completely understand why Apple won't allow it from a third party: that's a security and privacy nightmare. I even somewhat understand why Apple hasn&#x
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In terms of units, no, but in terms of profit... I think the reason parent leaned on that sub-group is that it is easy to move a lot of units at the very low end with minimal or even negative profit, and that was definitely Samsung's (
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by pwinnski 4y ago
To be more clear, I hope: Comparing seconds-since-epoch "now" to the same from a year go: timezone doesn't matter so long as I'm consistent. Pick UTC, pick CDT, pick nothing, just do the same thing both times. This is th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
With current sanctions, Russia can still earn money selling fuel to the EU, sure, but they have trouble spending it! They are already using more older missiles, having gone through the majority of their newer ones at the beginning of th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Did you mean for this comment to be on the post about the Dvorak keyboard in iOS 16?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
When I spoke of inferior experiences, I was referring to the Pine Phone, not the Pixel 2. I'm sorry that wasn't clear! That said, the iPhone 8 is still supported by Apple (probably for the last year), while the Pixel 2, like the P
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I am not suggesting that the bus service is essentially for daily life in HK, just that it is remarkably efficient for getting from Sai Wan Ho to Central and back again, for example. It's efficiency would amaze more US residents, who&#
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This seems just like kicking the can down the road, pretending that time zones don't matter because you don't want them to. If I'm comparing system time one year ago to system time now, that's a duration, and the timezon
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I really appreciate seeing people committed to the open source or free software causes so much that they accept very clearly inferior experiences. I also really appreciate seeing that for some people, there are limits to just how inferior
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I deleted my Facebook account years ago, and don't use it ever. But that's a really bad way to determine the important of Facebook, for two reasons. 1. You've assumed that the only purpose of Facebook is posting, so a user
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yes, let's introduce commerce and spam to a system in which people already expend a lot of effort against spammers seeking fake internet points. Please, no. Let's stick with a site that is mostly populated by people internally m
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> A Unix timestamp is a difference in time, not a time point. It's a number of seconds. It's a duration, not an instant, which is why it doesn't in and of itself need a time zone attached. The number of seconds since what,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
At $15/month, it would take longer than a typical school year to beat.

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