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by r-w 5y ago
File format support is baked into the OS. Apple actually makes static linking very difficult for exactly this reason--so they can reliably introduce support for new file formats on OS upgrade, rather than some apps needing to catch up.
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by r-w 5y ago
That's government by the majority, not the whole. Democracy is “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state” (OED; emphasis added).
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by r-w 5y ago
Won’t do much against my $5 pair of scissors!
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by r-w 5y ago
I don't think either of has met someone who engages in actual torture, but I imagine they rarely, if ever, “give up”.
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by r-w 5y ago
This is fantastic!!! Also: no love for fish? ;)
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by r-w 5y ago
Or, in keeping with the spirit of the post: think long-term and give the battery a chance to rest, then read it later :)
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by r-w 5y ago
> Is there even a subset of hardware configurations for which this is the case with Linux? That's not how cross-platform, cross-application software works. Linux is used for everything. Every other change for power efficiency will g
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by r-w 5y ago
Don't use Plaid. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/fintech-firm-plaid-...
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by r-w 5y ago
I was just thinking of that! It definitely presents some difficult UI challenges though… May I ask your thoughts on resolving those?
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by r-w 5y ago
> Obviously we have to design for the majority. That isn't obvious to me. Why remove things that were helping the minority and not hindering the majority?
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by r-w 5y ago
Great to hear, he really deserves it.
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by r-w 5y ago
I wonder if Rust is any different. I wouldn't know.
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by r-w 5y ago
Or more aptly, a car with reins.
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by r-w 5y ago
I have never seen "swell" used that way. I thought you were saying your battery was making the entire casing swell.
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by r-w 5y ago
Hm. Maybe that's because the concerns must be balanced differently for different applications?
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by r-w 5y ago
We're talking about small, quick operations supporting a synchronous, interactive user interface here. When it comes to performance, asymptotics aren't everything.
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by r-w 5y ago
> I just use DuckDuckGo these days Then w.r.t. quality of results, you're just using Bing: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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by r-w 5y ago
Read this comment from up the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552078
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by r-w 5y ago
> I believe a search engine that ignores results based on superficial and aesthetic qualities like "modern web design" would be even worse in that regard I think you may be confused. No one's trying to replace Google here.
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by r-w 5y ago
I was going to write a response, but this comment I found further down the page sort of communicates my perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552078
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by r-w 5y ago
Hence, “plausible”.
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by r-w 5y ago
Filippant?
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by r-w 5y ago
But I mean come on, they're Microsoft. If they really wanted filesystem access to be efficient across systems, we'd have it by now. Although convenient, I doubt that's on their list of primary motivations for doing this.
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by r-w 5y ago
This is the problem with having the public and private key be the same. Anyone should be able to access your public key, and anyone you deal with should be able to ask you to use your private key to verify your identity. The problem is when
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by r-w 5y ago
Third paragraph from the bottom in the post you're literally commenting on :)
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by r-w 5y ago
Brave Search supports !bangs ;)
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by r-w 5y ago
Going back to MB’s article: > what all bullies crave: the silence of their targets.
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by r-w 5y ago
Who’s “we”? Everyone has their own standards, and they’re in their right to stick by those standards. It’s whether “we” accommodate those standards that makes the difference.
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by r-w 5y ago
Why don't we just not yell at each other?
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by r-w 6y ago
No one is happy about this but the scammers.

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