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541.
by shantly 7y ago
Jee. Sus. Why? What benefit did anyone think that would have? Better than half the point of using SQL goes out the window if you can’t query across tables.
542.
by shantly 7y ago
> > And there's plenty of "one-percenters" that aren't part of the upper class, most notably tech workers. > You’re going to have to back that assertion up.
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by shantly 7y ago
> The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of society, and wield the greatest political power. (Wikipedia, naturally) If you just me
544.
by shantly 7y ago
Income is not wealth.
545.
by shantly 7y ago
Working for a living is kinda a give-away. In a Fussellian socialized-class sense most tech folks probably come from upper-prole, middle, and upper-middle backgrounds, and the values of the tech crowd itself—the ones it tends to imprint on
546.
by shantly 7y ago
Incidentally, is there a way to disable service workers on desktop Safari? Twitter’s went rogue the other day and started eating a whole core, non-stop. I don’t want or need them. Ever. Hopefully mobile safari doesn’t let developers do that
547.
by shantly 7y ago
Firefox Focus on iOS can block ads in Safari, too, oddly enough. And it's free. It's not uBlock Origin but it does the job well enough I've not bothered to look for any other solutions.
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by shantly 7y ago
"Faster" was one of the huge selling points of FF initially, too. Non-nerds could tell the difference (over, say, IE or Mozilla/Netscape Navigator) even. It was light and lean as hell. Hasn't been the case since well bef
549.
by shantly 7y ago
When I switched Firefox liked to make my Macbook run hot and to trigger frequent system-wide beachballs when it wasn't foregrounded, with just a few tabs loaded. And just having it open killed my battery. This was, like, 2011 I think.
550.
by shantly 7y ago
Hopefully that was intended with the implied restriction "in modernity", i.e. since approximately the lead-up to the Enlightenment, since that'd be a position that could be given a credible defense, at least.
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by shantly 7y ago
> 4) use private APIs to be competitive with Safari on things like power consumption. Uh, if that's the case then I think they're barking up the wrong tree. Just given. How that's going for them.
552.
by shantly 7y ago
> That’s it. If you can provide that, take my money. In the, say 20 years since broadband existed, literally no legit company has offered this yet, for any price. That's because they insist on (and we permit) keeping control of both
553.
by shantly 7y ago
I definitely understand the assertion that if you take too long to experience some piece of media, it harms the experience of it in a not-insignificant way. At the extreme end, it's certainly possible to put something down so long that
554.
by shantly 7y ago
How does UI inform table design?
555.
by shantly 7y ago
Strongly agree. I don't care why they're doing it. That a voyeur is taking creepy photos of me in order to advertise better rather than to get off, or that someone's trying to record my conversations to advertise better rat
556.
by shantly 7y ago
> I loved TFA because of the nostalgia, sure it copied many things. But history itself repeats sometimes. I thought it was a good way to reignite the story by having familiar elements. It's a fun watch, like Abrams' Star Trek r
557.
by shantly 7y ago
Hm. ~$600/yr for a not-great data plan. Call it $200/yr for the cheapest phone that won't make you want to toss it off a bridge or crush it underfoot, if you keep it three years. $800/yr as kinda the minimum to have a ph
558.
by shantly 7y ago
IMO if your data model's still so nebulous that you're changing it so often that SQL migrations are a serious impediment to progress, you probably don't need any real datastore yet. You can usually figure out WTF you'r
559.
by shantly 7y ago
In general it's been my experience that if you try to do stuff SQL could do re: reporting or heavy data work in Ruby or Python or some other scripting language in a web application context, you're in for one or both of "why
560.
by shantly 7y ago
The lack of (or too-weak) safety & consistency guarantees will waste more time than it saved way before 5 years are up. More like within 3-6mo of going to production, if not before you hit production. Even more true if you're dynam
561.
by shantly 7y ago
Huh. I’d call TLJ the first interesting SW film since Empire. TFA was typical Abrams—ok in the moment but brain dead beyond forgiveness as you start to think about it as the lights come up. Lazy writing even by his standards, and I don’t
562.
by shantly 7y ago
If long term's just another 20 years, at the outside, that'll be enough. Short of lots more people getting sick and dying or living with chronic illness, untreated (so, not generating medical bills, and see also: civil unrest), I
563.
by shantly 7y ago
On $50,000/yr? Lots and lots of households are doing exactly that, yes, especially if we're calling that after-tax income. But no, not by spending only 15% of their income per month. More like 100%. It'd take 15% of $50k just
564.
by shantly 7y ago
Rate at which the spending is increasing, that is, not rate at which the rate of increase is increasing.
565.
by shantly 7y ago
I think the whole concept needs to be moved to a companion mode for iPhone and iPad. And maybe Apple Watch. As it is you can’t make it part of your workflow if you use an external keyboard any significant portion of the time, assuming you e
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by shantly 7y ago
> Unexpectedly, on returning to the 2015 MBP, I didn’t suddenly go “omgomg the keyboard is amazing again”. The older style was never amazing compared to any good mechanical keyboard. I adapted to the new keyboard just fine, even though m
567.
by shantly 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that and our 2-3x inflation annual increases in our already-insanely-high healthcare spending are going to lead to civil unrest in the next 30-40 years. On the shorter side for the healthcare spending (no way we can kee
568.
by shantly 7y ago
I notice many C-suite and founder folks have like 10 things with a “-present” date on them on LinkedIn. Seems fine for them. So fine for me too. Or am I actually more important and doing more work for this company than the CEO? Surely n
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by shantly 7y ago
AFAIK those are dying. DLC's killing them. You buy (or rent) the disk, you only get like half the game. The rest can't be resold. Consequently, second-hand prices for disks seem to be dropping quite a bit, outside certain categor
570.
by shantly 7y ago
Otherwise Google will put an ad for some competitor, that many people will take for a search result, in that slot, right?

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