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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Because there's absolutely no downside to telling Apple it can't artificially make its iMessage platform restricted to Apple devices. I am looking forward to Google being able to finally get ahold of my iMessage and hoover it
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I do wonder if a sufficiently clever person could coerce OpenType's Variable Font extension to simulate phosphor behaviour.
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> I don't know why people get so hung up about this. People get hung up on this because they believe that free software somehow entitles them to dictate that others perform infinite labour on whatever schedule, projects, or features
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Why wouldn't you blame OpenAI for creating a harassment campaign against the business based on nonsense?
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Well, when you're more interesting in killing endangered animals to own the libs than you are in running your business, I guess this is what you end up with.
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I feel as though the world would be a better place if we could just eliminate McKinsey.
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I prefer cuts where the benefits flow primarily to workers, rather than billionaires. Weird, I know.
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> We all know this "40 hours" nonsense is just historical happenstance It's not happenstance. It's something workers fought and sometimes died to win against an incumbent 6 or 7 day, 10 plus hour a day norm.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
To add to your anecdote: Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species with a day that ran: Breakfast and a walk; 90 minutes of writing; spending time with his wife reading their letters and a novel; another 90 minutes of writing; and lunch. After
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> christ can you imagine the raw hubris in 1995 to roll this out and inexplicably make it not only uninstallable by the user, but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any attempt to sidestep or evade it would be
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> Ever since then I have not understood why most distros don't switch to this setup. The persistence of GRUB for x86-64 systems is both fascinating and irritating; the original driver for users paying the price of the complexity of
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> Something a bit similar is clinical trial and it is accepted without problem. Clinical trials also have strict ethical oversight and are opt-in. If clinical trials were like Teslas, we'd yeet drugs into mailboxes and see what happ
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Musk stans poison discussion so thoroughly that it becomes impossible for people do differentiate between Paul Verhoeven levels of sarcasm, and the ernestly held opinions of his fan club.
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> in how widely they've missed the boat on EVs. They delivered a well-liked pure EV in the 90s that had a queue of people who wanted one. Chevron bought up a company with key battery patents, sued the RAV4 out of existence, wrote li
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My understanding is that a significant amount of Edrogan's support actually comes from foreign-resident voters - either expat Turks or people with dual citizenship. There are e.g. British and Germans with Turkish citizenship who don&#x
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While I agree that there are, in general, significant differences in positions on these things, this seems like a bad example to choose: after all, US rail workers went on strike over the safety, long hours, and being expected to work injur
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's interesting to me that there's a similar problem in New Zealand with NZ-new and second-hand imports of the same model cars: the Toyota Prius C and Toyota Aqua are the same vehicle, but Aquas that were imported second-hand fro
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The Supreme Court has demonstrated that it doesn't really care about the lawful basis of cases; it's just a question of supplying an argument in the hope that they'll legislate the Heritage Foundation's roadmap for you.
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> but I really just want to get a document near the beginning of the year where the IRS tells me what they believe my taxes owed/returned should be. This is what we have in New Zealand, and it's wonderful; most people simply do
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> Apple tried and failed to make a chipset to replace Qualcomm didn't they? I can't remember whether it was sourcing Intel modems or rolling their own, but yeah, either way they fell foul of Qualcomm's nest of patents: Qua
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> Why anyone would get a Samsung is beyond me. The fact that Samsung is the de facto standard manufacturer in the Android world is very depressing.
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> You would want a USB-C connector so you can drive every device you own with one cable. My car has a lightning dock. Guess I should throw the car away. That's the easy thing, right?
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> I know we are typically against monopolie HN is not against monopolies. Hacker News ardently cheers on browser and adtech monopolies. HN is against anything that limits surveillance capitalism.
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> Apple’s secret sauce is their long-term focus, colored strongly by their many awful experiences being held hostage by CPU manufacturers. This is the key point. There used to be a lot of chip makers and phone vendors in the Android spac
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Look at the people talking about how they're finding the weekly release schedule for HBO and AppleTV is a welcome relief from binging, which everyone loved when Netflix started doing it. But a weekly release schedule was largely an art
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> Can you imagine a manager saying, "I don't agree with these decisions, but you need to do A, B, C." Some of my best managers, on well-regarded teams, have done exactly that. Those managers are doing me a favour by flaggi
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It's funny that all their sales material is very very careful to avoid talking about the reaction and then you read the patent and it's "iron oxide, an oxidiser, and an aluminium can" and I guess if you need to melt tank
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You seem to have confused them for Riot and Epic.
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This was the era when it was normal to have at least one fatality per season amongst the drivers; 1968 had five drivers killed (although not all at Grand Prix). Safety features such as barriers were optional at tracks, and could be straw ba
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Honda made an all-magnesium Formula 1 car at one point. The result was horrific.

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