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by ratww 5y ago
Yeah. It would actually be pretty cool if web sites and apps were dumbed down for a few things: denying cookies, deleting accounts, contacting support, unsubscribing from spam. With dark patterns those things actually become more complicate
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by ratww 5y ago
I don't think anyone is directly blaming the users here. It is just a fact of life that a sizeable portion of users "accept" dark patterns, and PMs consider that as a sign of success. However I strongly doubt users are doing
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by ratww 5y ago
Mostly because of credit card fraud. Credit card numbers are constantly being leaked like crazy, and criminals have a hard time testing them by hand. So they rely on automating fake purchases on small shops so they can verify the number is
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by ratww 5y ago
Yeah, that's the thing. You can't really fight against results. Putting an annoying modal asking for an email will give you lots of email leads. Sending newsletters will give more returns to the website. Sending desktop notificati
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by ratww 5y ago
Wow, I went trough exactly the same thing. Even the examples were eerily similar: a couple dirty dishes on the sink would turn into an argument. A minor positive comment was an insult that would totally ruin her day. I'm surprised by h
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by ratww 5y ago
Git doesn't require an internet connection. With git you can keep doing backups the same way and store the git repository in flash drives, Dropbox, Amazon Glacier, or anywhere you want. The main difference here is that you don't n
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by ratww 5y ago
My plan is keep learning too. I used the holiday days to work on my 3D renderer and brushing up on 3D tech. I just figured out an O(N) way of applying the shadow-map in post-processing. Now I am implementing Screen Space Reflections, and th
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by ratww 5y ago
> the root problem here is that government workers are not hired or promoted on merit. That leads to people of lesser intelligence being bosses That's hardly exclusive to government work.
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by ratww 5y ago
At the end of the page it seems the university offered some unrequested advice on the second law of thermodynamics. It was dismissed on the grounds of the sun being "eternal" and gravity being an energy that can be "harvested
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by ratww 5y ago
Well, OP didn't really complain about government policy or repression, but rather about hostility. Even if there are no repressive aspects (but I agree with other replies that they do exist!), the behaviour would still be problematic i
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by ratww 5y ago
That might be pedantic, sure, but the point is that extending is not mirroring. For the use cases like the one described in the article, that distinction matters. I'm not questioning the usefulness of the orange dot, but rather the p
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by ratww 5y ago
What separate laptop? macOS supports multiple accounts, no need for separate laptop. And people don't want to buy a completely unnecessary $200 dongle (it's actually cheaper) for something that worked 100% perfectly before. Is tha
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by ratww 5y ago
Nobody is mirroring their desktop...
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by ratww 5y ago
> looking at you, Steam I really don't believe anyone running Steam on their video computer is worried enough or even serious about reliability to use a dedicated video playback card. Sure it would be nice if everyone used a dedic
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by ratww 5y ago
Sure, in theory you are correct. We should seek the more reliable solution. In practice, this is not really a problem for anyone using macOS for small time visuals/performance/presentations, as long as you keep your computer well
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by ratww 5y ago
But the "current" monitor is the one with the GUI and the mouse cursor. The secondary monitor is the one being used for external video. There are even dedicated APIs for it. Are you a macOS user? Your other examples talk about Win
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by ratww 5y ago
Not a problem in practice. On macOS, OS crashes show up on the first monitor, and so do other crash alerts. Also, again, if this is not an amateur thing, the only programs that will be running will be those directly related to the presentat
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by ratww 5y ago
The "prepared" in my post implies that notifications are disabled. Also notifications won't really be an issue for anyone but people using the machine both for personal and professional stuff. In the worse case, you can have
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by ratww 5y ago
This is not really an issue with a machine prepared for live performances or presentations. Until now. Portability is essential for some people, and MacBooks have pretty reliable IO.
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by ratww 5y ago
Great work!
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by ratww 5y ago
Apple is absolutely not forced to choose. They can provide a way to override it. Considering how much they love to boast about this market, I'm pretty sure they'll change it.
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by ratww 5y ago
> Professionals who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a live setup are not going to be using the internal I/O of their Macbook/Mac Pro Why not? The internal I/O is pretty good! Except for this issue, obviously.
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by ratww 5y ago
Is there a line input on newer MacBooks? I thought the jack had just mic input! Also, does anyone knows whether the orange dot shows up when you also use an external USB audio interface? If so this is kind of stupid on the part of Apple. Th
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by ratww 5y ago
Yeah, agreed. As a teen I did an internship in journalism, way before becoming a coder, and crazy stories like those were the bread and butter of newsrooms. :(
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by ratww 5y ago
When I lived in Brazil there was no reliable municipal recycling in my city, and no bottle deposit, so instead of throwing paper, cans and bottles into the common garbage, we just left it properly separated at the door and a homeless guy wi
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by ratww 5y ago
Same. My local Lidl doesn't sell any Glas bottle at all, so that's why they don't take it.
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by ratww 5y ago
Michigan's 10 cent rate is part of the plot of the legendary Seinfeld episode "The Bottle Deposit". In this episode Kramer and Newman scheme a plan to deliver bottles from New York (where deposit was only 5c) to Michigan to c
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by ratww 5y ago
How do you crush a beer bottle? They're always glass, no? Or do you mean the beer can? In this case they can't be crushed, because the barcode has to be readable! A friend tried hehe. If they're not too damaged you can put th
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by ratww 5y ago
> Glass bottles (beer, juice, milk and yoghurt) are "Mehrweg" ("multi-use") There is also a special case of a Mehrweg 1L plastic bottle, used mostly by Coca Cola. It is also sterilised before reuse. > preferably
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by ratww 5y ago
I always assumed street musicians and homeless people were different people

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