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811.
by shrimpx 6y ago
I wonder if this is related to Twitter easing some security restrictions to enable wfh for Covid. As in for example get rid of an IP whitelist which would have been too cumbersome to maintain with everyone wfh.
812.
by shrimpx 6y ago
To extreme anti-populists, democracy is synonymous with mob rule.
813.
by shrimpx 6y ago
It seems wrong to go in the direction of telling intermediaries to blacklist and curate traffic. The right thing is to develop a scalable way to notify sources to take down the content.
814.
by shrimpx 6y ago
The issue is that people generally don’t think “I’m using this in exchange for google recording and selling my data”. They mostly think it’s free. My dad mostly thinks it’s free, mostly because he believes in the law and doesn’t think googl
815.
by shrimpx 6y ago
The gap in your reasoning is the assumption that giving them your data is an exact and fair payment in exchange for using their service. We actually have no idea how much data is worth, because these companies have created a culture that si
816.
by shrimpx 6y ago
I use it heavily 10+ hours a day and the only problem I’ve had is my windows are sometimes resized when I wake it from sleep. Bug related to using an external monitor.
817.
by shrimpx 6y ago
No intention to be snarky but stability high ground from someone using windows with wsl2?
818.
by shrimpx 6y ago
Antitrust suit rumors are swirling and Google is more and more boldly manifesting its despotic tendencies, as if in defiance.
819.
by shrimpx 6y ago
I agree but it isn’t a general solution. “Allowing conversation” is what Facebook did in 2016, letting people attend fake rallies created by fake Facebook groups disseminating fake facts.
820.
by shrimpx 6y ago
File extensions have terrible usability. People changing the extension expecting something to be fixed is a classic misunderstanding. Many people do this every day, decades into personal computing.
821.
by shrimpx 6y ago
For (2), allowing conversation as a general solution seems tough at scale, e.g., targeted misinformation campaigns on fb and twitter.
822.
by shrimpx 6y ago
Btw the idea that you can hire talent from some podunk town for half the price is an oft repeated trope that I’m pretty certain is not true. It’s not a buyers market out there. High end talent doesn’t grow on trees in villages. Forgive my t
823.
by shrimpx 6y ago
UberEats is suffering from some brand confusion. "It's Uber but for food." "It Ubers your food." Lots of ordinary people didn't bother to understand what this service does, even though they use both Uber (for r
824.
by shrimpx 6y ago
The top shell and the bottom shell are thin aluminum but the rest of the laptop is plastic. The bottom assembly is a plastic body screwed into a thin aluminum shell. Unfortunately I don’t have a link but there are reviews on YouTube where p
825.
by shrimpx 6y ago
I don’t know a good option. Currently I own a 15” mbp 32G, best compromise I could find when upgrading from my 2015 13” (I strongly considered a dell xps 13” at the time but the build quality and trackpad were a no go for me). If I were to
826.
by shrimpx 6y ago
I’ve been dreaming of a 32G 13” for years but now that it’s here I wish it were 64G. This for me sums up the problem with the 13” offering. Attractive form factor (for me), always 2-4 years behind on specs. Apple apparently thinks that smal
827.
by shrimpx 6y ago
The xps is a plastic laptop with a plastic hinged small trackpad. The mbp trackpad alone is worth the extra money. I keep a laptop for 4-5 years. It’s not worth interacting thousands of times a day with an outdated subpar input device to sa
828.
by shrimpx 6y ago
It’s really not dynamic vs untyped, but the extent to which the language design chooses to coerce a value into a given type instead of raising a runtime type error. Python is guilty of this too with its truthy values, e.g. `if []` — an empt
829.
by shrimpx 6y ago
Betting it’s anyone who swipes left and sees the default news widget, assuming they haven’t deleted it.
830.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Most software engineering is yak shaving in the sense that your high level goal is some business domain feature like “process a payment” but you spend most of your time in far detached language and os primitives, fighting idiosyncrasies in
831.
by shrimpx 7y ago
No code/low code is reinvented over and over as trends/paradigms enter their late stages of consolidation. Yes it implies “something more” in that these new tools function in the modern world.
832.
by shrimpx 7y ago
A dumb consequence of the axiom of choice? The reals are like a membrane with no atomic pieces. You can move in either direction infinitely and you can zoom in infinitely without reaching any “Planck unit” so to speak. So what does it even
833.
by shrimpx 7y ago
The cynic in me wants to say that such a language doesn’t lend itself to static analysis. As soon as you can do great things with static analysis you can build those features into an IDE, therefore causing the “pure text editor” to feel cri
834.
by shrimpx 7y ago
These prices are horrendous. I bought some GoNovation Demi buds for $40 and they are ipx7 with aptX and sound amazing with great battery life. No way in hell these pixel buds are 4.5x better. Apple Google and Samsung are using propaganda to
835.
by shrimpx 7y ago
I had a nexus 5, nexus 6p and pixel xl 1 before switching back to iPhone. The nexus 5 and pixel xl were both great workhorse phones. I switched away because I was sick of googles software ecosystem but the hardware was decent. However the 6
836.
by shrimpx 7y ago
That choppy frame by frame scrolling interaction is hilariously bad.
837.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Btw this same issue exhibits in python with threads. If you spawn an async computation in a thread and an uncaught error is raised, the thread disappears silently, leaving you with a callback that’s never called or a future that’s never res
838.
by shrimpx 7y ago
I’d trust an institution that’s gone through a federal investigation or two way more than an equivalent institution run by Billy Bob who lives in town and is on nobody’s radar because his operation is too small to affect things at scale.
839.
by shrimpx 7y ago
Unemployment insurance pays people more money to stay home than they would make working a job that exposes them to covid. Hence these businesses can’t find people to hire and they have to shut down. I think the small business sector will pr
840.
by shrimpx 7y ago
From that list, I’ve used balsamiq, XD and Figma. Balsamiq is good if you want to convey the big picture design layout without design details. I used it for a long time with significant success. XD lets you get detailed. XD is remarkably si

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