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by simonh 2y ago
For handwriting sure, but print characters as for a sign would be easier.
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by simonh 2y ago
> The vast majority of people complaining about Apple aren't Apple customers because they don't agree with Apple's business practices or treatment of customers Given that a very large number of these people buy Samsung pro
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by simonh 2y ago
However for Apple to keep making money they need to satisfy their users, so as with all commercial relationships there is a direct commercial incentive that aligns customer and vendor interests. The interesting question is how and why those
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by simonh 2y ago
Which is a limitation of the messaging protocol. Apple has announced they will add support for RCS this year, which should address these issues.
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by simonh 2y ago
Sorry, you think Apple is charging you these carrier fees? Hilarious.
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by simonh 2y ago
If they break the law, sure, if they put features in their products that are perfectly legal but that you happen to dislike not so much.
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by simonh 2y ago
I don't see that removing or crippling an option a lot of users rely on improves the market, or competition. Doesn't benefit the public? Are happy iPhone users that rely on iMessage every day including it's SMS integration no
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by simonh 2y ago
I’m continually astounded by the incredible shoddiness and unfitness for purpose of so many commercial web sites. The more time goes on, you’d think figuring out how to make a functioning web site would become better known, but no. In many
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by simonh 2y ago
British conservative, I think it’s hilarious if sweary, but that’s just Australians. Outside the US conservatism and Trump support are, shall we say, loosely coupled. More British conservatives would prefer a Biden victory to a Trump one (4
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by simonh 3y ago
Let’s sincerely hope there isn’t a region with lower energy anywhere near us. If the vacuum energy here collapsed to a lower energy level you can kiss all current structured matter goodbye.
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by simonh 3y ago
iMessage interoperates with SMS.
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by simonh 3y ago
Boycotting doesn't make any sense, it's not possible, we can't boycott the foundations of our own current economy. It's our economy, we need to take responsibility for it. The fossil fuels companies definitely need more
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by simonh 3y ago
Exxon are not making credible, persistent efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so screw them. However articles like this propagate the illusion that it's somebody else's fault and therefore not our problem. It's our pro
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by simonh 3y ago
Pure guess, but given the high market share of iPhones in the US in that demographic, it may actually be the higher usage of iMessage among young adults that prevented the ascendancy of WhatsApp there. I think this is all stupid. One the on
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by simonh 3y ago
Getting rid of the ISS would leave Falcon/Dragon, and for some missions Starship nowhere to go. Like it or not, for the moment SpaceX is tied to existing NASA projects. Hopefully that will change as the economics of spaceflight rewrite
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by simonh 3y ago
Granted that this is true, FH right now does not have these capabilities and SLS has already done it. For all the amazing success of FH it's completely the wrong vehicle for a mission like this, which is why Starship exists and IMHO is
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by simonh 3y ago
They were venting excess fuel for some time after final trajectory insertion. There's no real question they could have achieved orbit handily.
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by simonh 3y ago
It depends how you look at it. The mission calls for both systems. Making success reliant on two completely different heavy lift vehicles simultaneously, in which the mission fails if either fails, is arguably not de-risking. Yes if only on
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by simonh 3y ago
8 Billion humans linked to 100% of greenhouse gas emissions. I absolutely think companies should be expected to make credible and persistent efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but we are the ones buying their products and ser
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by simonh 3y ago
I think the most objective definition is probably Turing Completeness, but that's a pretty high bar.
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by simonh 3y ago
I think animals having conscious experience seems a reasonable opinion. Many animals display a lot of behaviours we have in common with them, they have similar senses, similar emotional responses, similar social behaviours, even similar rea
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by simonh 3y ago
One of my issues with panpsychism is the question of causation. The behaviours of particles can be entirely explained in terms of physical dynamics, there is no behaviour left that needs explanation. If they do have experience, it doesn’t s
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by simonh 3y ago
It’s a lovely story, but given the pre-existing myth of Utnapishtim, the biblical account is basically Babylonian mythology fan fiction.
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by simonh 3y ago
What if there are invisible fairies dancing on the heads of every pin? I’m not against speculation, it’s an essential part of the process of intellectual investigation, but the extent to which it is worth taking seriously needs to be associ
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by simonh 3y ago
It’s arguably now a fair bit more modern than the US system which hasn’t been meaningfully reformed since the 18th Century. For example the US president is essentially just an elected George III.
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by simonh 3y ago
The (translated) referendum question was “Do you support the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine?”. People can change their minds, but there’s no evidence that significantly happened, or that over 30% of the populations of those r
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by simonh 3y ago
I don’t doubt you, but it’s also true that there is no simple ‘ethnic Russian equals pro Russian/Putin’ equation. Take the Azov Battalion. Yes I know, an unpleasant, even despicable bunch of anti-Russian racists. However before 2022 th
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by simonh 3y ago
There are other definitions of a text file than the opengroup spec, particularly for specific OS platforms. I’m not sure what convention JSON follows. As a spec it’s fine. It defines a text file in such a way that you can easily write code
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by simonh 3y ago
I’m not arguing there isn’t increased inequality at all. There is. But it’s not due to the 2% inflation target. It’s mostly down to the high returns on investments.
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by simonh 3y ago
You’re missing the ‘if needed’. The idea is not that wages will permanently lag inflation, we can see from the figures that this has not been the case. Workers know what the inflation rate is and what it means when they negotiate wages. It’

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