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by schnable 5y ago
That would make sense as to why they kill of products, in attempt to reign this in. In reality, killing products is still pretty uncommon even for Google. Just today, I logged into Google Calendar on my iPhone and the mobile UI looked like
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by schnable 5y ago
Ay my school in the early 2000s, we had on-campus fiber to the desktop--we had to buy fiber PCI cards for our computers--and no security whatsoever. I don't remember how fast the connection to the outside world was (fast enough for hea
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by schnable 5y ago
It's all fun and games until some clever developer uses this error code in a production system and the client developer or SRE folks have no idea what it means. Have also seen error code 420 used this way.
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by schnable 5y ago
Did they lockdown travel into the state like NZ did?
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by schnable 5y ago
I wonder if that holds up for remote workers outside of dense metros who don't have to commute.
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by schnable 5y ago
Apple does a lot of the ML and personalization stuff on user devices for privacy reasons as well, keeping your data out of the cloud, and that is a good thing.
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by schnable 5y ago
Hadn't heard of Jevon's Paradox - thanks.
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by schnable 5y ago
Right, I don't get what atoms have to do with it at all. Today, I can buy an iPhone for $1000 that's a phone, camera, encyclopedia, game console and more and more. Just 30 years ago this would have required a lot more atoms (inclu
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by schnable 5y ago
I don't disagree, but worth noting that the Atlantic does publish a decent number of heterodox viewpoints, more than other center-left publications.
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by schnable 5y ago
The US government has many tools at its disposal - sanctions, tariffs, supplier policy, etc. But culturally we can do a lot more. Western filmmakers, actors, and athletes should not censor themselves (or allow themselves to be censored) to
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by schnable 5y ago
Old article (2017) that misses the point of JWT entirely.
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by schnable 5y ago
Then they would pay no taxes.
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by schnable 5y ago
This is the problem for journalism today as well - a desire to push a particular narrative over reporting of facts
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by schnable 5y ago
They don't operate a marketplace for third party merchants.
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by schnable 5y ago
It's institutional decay. Pumping money into a decaying institution doesn't fix it. Other actions are needed.
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by schnable 5y ago
I dunno, Safari uses a ton less memory and CPU on my MacBook Pro.
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by schnable 5y ago
Ditto for credit card number entries. I use Dashlane to copy my CC info out of, and if that doesn't work, there is a good chance I'm not buying on your site. Maddening and pointless. I agree this is probably product managers, but
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by schnable 5y ago
> For example, one of the reasons that soccer/football is popular worldwide is because it's very cheap. Is it not so in the US? No, but culturally soccer is played by middle class white people, not poorer people.
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by schnable 5y ago
Text form, with emojis!
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by schnable 5y ago
If the fully onboarded employees are all WFH, what good will bringing in new hires do?
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by schnable 5y ago
True, but visits to far away intra-company campuses I suspect to be highly curtailed across the board when remote communications has been shown to work well.
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by schnable 6y ago
> An actual `window` global with familiar browser APIs This doesn't seem good?
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by schnable 6y ago
> A brief search returned the web API URL path that returns a JSON structure A brief search of what?
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by schnable 6y ago
Personally, I don't have a problem with a service using aggregated usage data to improve their algorithms, even if that is technically "tracking" me. It's the selling of personalized segment data that bothers me.
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by schnable 6y ago
They are better IME - I use DDG but still need to switch to Google for many searches to find what I'm looking for.
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by schnable 6y ago
He mentioned another one as well.
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by schnable 6y ago
Amazing story. Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running and if anyone actually knows it still is. > I was able to find the drivers on an old ftp site. Wonder what FTP site this is and how he
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by schnable 6y ago
Reminds me of an old job writing Windows desktop software. Our flagship app was big and bloated, and it had a long load time with a nice splash screen to distract the user. We later created a light version for a specific use case, and the p
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by schnable 6y ago
Anything similar out there for Asciidoc? Currently using the VS Code plugin.
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by schnable 6y ago
This can really screw up your cache hit ratio.

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