raydev

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by raydev 4y ago
> The price has gone up dramatically, well above inflation, at least where I live I grew up in the US and have now lived in Canada for more than 15 years. Unless your country has VAT or other import taxes, you can easily just take the US
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by raydev 4y ago
Memory is designed to be used. I guess if I'm memory constrained I can close it, but it's never been the source of any of my day-to-day problems while coding.
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by raydev 4y ago
As a chat client that facilitates communication with my coworkers, I don't want to limit it to a tab in Chrome. Chrome is an app that I close often, I can't recall a time I've wanted to close Slack.
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by raydev 4y ago
I leave it running continuously for weeks on my Mac, with no issues. It is currently using 700MB across all of its processes (5 by my count). Doesn't seem like that big of a problem. I understand it used to be a much larger problem. Ma
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by raydev 4y ago
Funny timing on this, here's Google confirming it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/google-exec-suggests-insta...
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by raydev 4y ago
> Twitter claims 5% of daily active users are bots You also left out an important piece: 5% of their *monetizable* DAU. Not just DAU. But you're right, Elon's been convincing the public that Twitter has made claims they never a
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by raydev 4y ago
They did release promo, the first trailer came out in 2019. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flURw76_UCU You can see they had settled on June 2020 as the release date, but, you know what happened next. That rele
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by raydev 4y ago
Counterpoint: young people are spending more time searching within apps like TikTok/IG/Twitter, and not using Google at all
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by raydev 4y ago
> It's not the "EU's cookie banners", it is the advertisers' cookie banners It's the EU's cookie banners. Despite the EU's best intentions, the end result is worse. It was a naive move and we'
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by raydev 4y ago
I don't know how to convey to you that people just accept worse UX until a better alternative is shown to them. Boiled frogs.
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by raydev 4y ago
> There are plenty of ad blockers for Safari And none of them work as well as uBlock Origin on Chrome. Trust me, I tried. I even paid money to try a few extensions out on Safari in the hopes I would get a better experience, but even that
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by raydev 4y ago
I was there. Someone should've made a nice, readable interface for it.
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by raydev 4y ago
Would you say "you may or may not catch the common cold" as well? I'm trying very hard to imagine any 2+ year old person living in a western country who wouldn't have caught the cold. "May not" seems dishonest
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by raydev 4y ago
> relatively harmless due to vaccinations and previous exposure This year's dominant strain was significantly less lethal/debilitating for unvaccinated people as well. The restrictions are still reasonable in hindsight, especia
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by raydev 4y ago
First you'll have to show where Twitter made that claim. Your phrasing here has been Musk's phrasing on this subject, which is interesting, as it's a different metric than what Twitter files publicly with the SEC.
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by raydev 4y ago
> When Burger King "bought" Tim Hortons in 2014 ... the whole experience went to pot I hear a lot of people say this, but I see no difference between BK Tim Hortons and Wendy's Tim Hortons in the years before.
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by raydev 4y ago
Not sure it's 7x houses, but it's big enough to make me wonder how states like Texas are going to keep up over the next 5-10 years, with its absurdly low population density and love affair with trucks. Texas struggles to get elect
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by raydev 4y ago
Happy to see more mechanical keyboards with a low profile. I dont understand how enthusiasts use the typical wrist-bending tall keyboards all day long.
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by raydev 4y ago
More use case: - I play games using a separate, even smaller, keyboard. Easy to pick up my wireless work+everything else kb and toss it somewhere out of the way - Sometimes I like to recline my chair way back and continue typing with the ke
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by raydev 4y ago
> You can get a cheaper no-fuss mechanical keyboard from reputable brands with respectable components for far less than this logitech keyboard is being sold. This actually looks decently low-profile, what are similar reputable brand keyb
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by raydev 4y ago
Unrelated to the content of the email: Can we please get a better UI for mailing lists? The text is too small for me to comfortably read, so I used Chrome's zoom feature. But once I zoom in, the text wrapping is completely static so I&
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by raydev 4y ago
> It is nowhere near Standard/Caltech/MIT in competition Source?
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by raydev 4y ago
> That means that 20% of the posts that I see, as a lurker, are generated by bots I don't see how you can arrive at this conclusion. It depends on who you are following, with some additions by the algorithm (unless you use the chron
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by raydev 4y ago
The people who create content do it in such massive amounts that this never seems to be an issue.
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by raydev 4y ago
> We all remember when facebook.com became unreachable and they had to use a saw to get to the server? No one remembers that, because it didn't happen. It was misreported, but the correction never went as viral.
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by raydev 4y ago
But that would compile and run, and you'd still get garbage if you tried to access str later, correct? In Swift you are not allowed to declare a variable without assigning some value or nil to it before the current scope ends.
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by raydev 4y ago
What is the average person actually storing on their iPad, though? Photos taken with the iPad, maybe? I think for most people it's just an expensive, nicer Chromebook. Everything they want to consume needs an internet connection anyway
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by raydev 4y ago
Not sure what you're responding to. My point is that you can get a BA and go sit at a decently cushy desk job for 60k-80k/year in many parts of the US. Nursing might pay a bit more but at much greater cost to one's health. &g
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by raydev 4y ago
> Nursing is a well paying Only in a vaccuum. It pays far worse than other jobs at the same rate given the effort and stress the job entails. > don't they get more leverage on what QOL and wages they can demand ? Sure, but it nee
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by raydev 4y ago
So a new wave of people can see how unusuable it is. I guess I'm not shocked that Mastodon has improved so little since I joined 6 years ago. - The very first instance I joined within a few weeks of launch stopped existing within a yea

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