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by quesera 7mo ago
I can't understand why they ever moved away from it. Magsafe on laptops is so much better than any other option: zero force "insertion", convenient breakaway if tripped over causing no damage to either side. Magsafe is fantas
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by quesera 7mo ago
This is non-responsive to my comments. Also, you're being unnecessarily unpleasant in these threads; I wish I had read down further before replying initially, but I'm done now.
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by quesera 7mo ago
Worldwide is not relevant, and mobile-vs-desktop dev is not relevant. Mobile-vs-web dev is probably a better metric. And developed, mature markets only. Anything else introduces the second- and third-generation tech gap inconsistencies.
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by quesera 7mo ago
It's not feigned. I'm astonished to learn how hard people will work for the (seemingly to me) false convenience of doing things on their phone which would be (to me) much more straightforward to do on a more suitable device. So I
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by quesera 7mo ago
In the US, it was a game called "pick up sticks", and it was tedious and sometimes impossible. So, this method is well-named at least! :)
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by quesera 7mo ago
I prefer TouchID over FaceID also. But I'm curious, why does FaceID work less well if the user has poor vision?
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by quesera 7mo ago
The traditional expression of this idea is "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away". The names are different now, but they were always metonymic. And of course, those of us in the Motorola/Apple ecosystem didn't have the sam
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by quesera 7mo ago
I agree that he'd have been blindsided like the rest of us. And I agree that he would have put Apple first. That was never a part of my point though. Jobs had a very strong personality and very strong opinions. Also a good human moral
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by quesera 7mo ago
Which claim? That Jobs was not a monster or pedophile? I'm on absolutely solid ground there. Assuming you mean whether Jobs would intensely dislike Trump, then -- what can I say? You clearly don't know anything about the guy and t
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by quesera 7mo ago
I'm saying that personality-wise, Jobs would absolutely not have any tolerance whatsoever for Trumpism and its associated bozos. Of course Apple would observe US law. But the comment I responded to was calling Jobs a monster and likely
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by quesera 7mo ago
You are very wrong about Steve Jobs. It's easy to be wrong about Jobs, because he was iconoclastic and idiosyncratic. And very very public. And he did some personally, individually, shameful things. Especially in his 20s when he hadn&#
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by quesera 7mo ago
I appreciate your response, and your candor. I'll push back on one point: when I said "contradicts your story", I meant that the headline and the story (article content) are in conflict. So you do have a story/article, a
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by quesera 7mo ago
> My problem is more with governments ... pushing people to ... Google/Apple. It's worse than that. Many municipalities and schools etc only post public notices to Facebook/Twitter or some similarly hostile environment.
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by quesera 7mo ago
I think Hinduism might have a prior claim.
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by quesera 7mo ago
There are still some fun domains grandfathered into the .edu hierarchy, from back in the day when registration criteria was not-so-strict. .mil and .gov have always been too strict for ordinary folks though.
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by quesera 7mo ago
AI loves AI.
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by quesera 7mo ago
This behaviour is also openly acknowledged to have been used in early-Reddit growth hacking. So why not?
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by quesera 8mo ago
In the standard risk assessment and mitigation manner: imperfectly, but with the best information available at the time.
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by quesera 8mo ago
Are you predicting that OpenAI is out of business in 6-12 months? I'm not an AI booster, and I don't see "sustainable" in the current markets, but I'd take the other side of that bet!
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by quesera 8mo ago
In my mental model, the PDF is not a secret and can be stored anywhere -- encrypted, if desired, but it sounds like a public document. The safe combination is a secret, and obviously belongs in secret storage. In this specific example, if I
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by quesera 8mo ago
> adyen is cleaner as a business but it's basically a payments rail. stripe's embedded finance products ... Where in your comment authorship pipeline were these errors introduced?
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by quesera 8mo ago
How do they know what they are not reading if the envelope is still sealed?
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by quesera 8mo ago
But I have three spark plug sockets (two different sizes) in the garage, which happens to be about 75m away from my house. I would walk there to get them. Remember, the question is: “I need to replace a spark plug. The garage is 200 meters
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by quesera 8mo ago
It's an evocative phrase. It definitely means different things to different people though. Teenager vs adult, single vs married, employed vs not. Or how about "Sunday morning"? It's evocative for sure. But very different
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by quesera 8mo ago
My (likely ignorant) understanding was that the non-alcoholic "ale"s and "beer"s were fermented like their traditional versions, but the process was stopped before the ethanol level became significant. Mass-market ginger
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by quesera 8mo ago
No, I think you're right -- "hot dog" started out as a colloquial name for a type of sausage (apparently as something of a joke, because dog meat was sometimes eaten in the area, and it was a low-quality product), and it is n
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by quesera 8mo ago
I think we agree then. I assumed you were arguing for inclusion in a dictionary because its meaning was not obvious.
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by quesera 8mo ago
I think it's more than overlap -- they are the same thing. I.e. AFAICT, all compound words that defy literal interpretation are idioms. And it's that simple. The argument then becomes that idioms should be in the dictionary. Som
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by quesera 8mo ago
OK. But is the meaning any less literally-obvious than "grocery bills" or "electricity bills"? Maybe you don't have "hospital bills". I don't have "landscaping bills", but I know exactly wha
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by quesera 8mo ago
I disagree that "saturday night" ever means anything other than the literal meaning of the nighttime of the day of saturday. You can argue that there's a connotative association with the phrase. Sure. Just like "beach we

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