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by sjwright 6y ago
Correct. It’s confusing because most other man-suffixed superheroes do not have hyphens (e.g. Superman) or the hyphen was removed prior to hitting mainstream culture (e.g. Batman).
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Pressed on by your certitude, I tried googling it again and yep, you definitely can't. https://twitter.com/kaleidoscopeapp/status/34193087090041651... (But you can when dealing with merge conflicts? Wow. Quit
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by sjwright 6y ago
Really, how? I've got a Kaleidoscope merge open right now and I can't edit text. Is there a mode I need to toggle or a button I need to press? I've looked through all the menu items, preferences, all of the toggle switches in
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by sjwright 6y ago
I haven't found a diff tool for macOS that is as good as WinMerge from fifteen years ago. Kaleidoscope is fairly close but you still can't merge individual lines from a block of changes, and you can't make up for it with manu
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's a fair perspective, but there are also many essential or mundane aspects of life which don't lend themselves to competition. Local roads, for example. You can have companies compete for contracts to perform the work, but ul
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The most straightforward example I can offer is my custom mark-up parser for formatting text. I wrote this parser in Javascript where it runs live in the browser, but when the final text is submitted it's parsed on the server side for
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by sjwright 6y ago
It’s great for web development when I want the same code to run client side and server side.
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But Government is owned by its people, who are effectively shareholders of a corporation.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> The basic argument against the estate tax is moral. It taxes virtue – living frugally and accumulating wealth If you have the means, there’s nothing moral about living frugally. Spending money creates jobs and strengthens the economy.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And we can thank the anti-nuclear green activists for the waste disposal problem too. There are numerous ways to minimise waste (reprocessing, breeder plants) which have been lobbied against. And there have been good waste management option
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by sjwright 6y ago
Given how critically successful the Model 3 is, maybe more companies need to start building their cars in tents too. (Or maybe... just maybe... the construction method of your factory walls doesn’t actually matter so much?)
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by sjwright 6y ago
We’re running out of beach and construction sand, which needs to be somewhat coarse to be functional. Desert sand particles are too fine, alkali content is too high, and is generally full of contaminants.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It's not just cookies, it defines pretty much all aspects of a browser's security between websites. It sets the boundaries for cross-site scripting. It limits the scope of SSL wildcard certificates. And it's used to determine
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by sjwright 6y ago
Ew, god no. I think Apple should be allowed to offer us their idea of a good product and let the marketplace choose between that, Google Android, or other competitors who believe they could do better offering open source Android. The idea o
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The difference is that Google’s sideloading experience is intentionally full of warnings and hurdles. Do you really think that if Apple had a court ruling against them they could get away with that? No, Epic (et al) will be very clear about
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by sjwright 6y ago
Given the performance of iPad Pro graphics, I could easily see the Apple GPU being competitive with AMD’s graphics in thermally constrained scenarios.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I can also easily imagine AMD in the Mac Pro, but only as an accelerator rather than to drive displays. (And I’m also predicting Apple will have more FPGA programs ready for the Afterburner card. This accelerator may even be the distinguish
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by sjwright 6y ago
It makes sense to focus on the GPUs with the highest price per area of die. And remember that the larger the individual chip, the more of the wafer is lost to part failures. So for this rumour to be plausible, AMD’s better GPU tech would pr
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by sjwright 6y ago
It turns the app into a service which might require an ongoing fee, which is revenue.
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It hasn’t killed the album, it’s just changed the rules of the game for marketing “popular” music by reducing the power of radio and increasing interest in the long tail.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Why is this on the front page .... Likely because it was mentioned in passing in the most recent Linus Tech Tips video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwkiU6GG-YU&t=273
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by sjwright 6y ago
Interesting how I'm being voted down here, but nobody wants to disagree with anything I said. Is what I said even remotely controversial?
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by sjwright 6y ago
What Apple needs is to invest in reviewers that are also good developers who can then spend half their time reviewing apps and the other half developing tools and processes for improving the review process.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Fewer than 1% of the apps in the store will have any effect whatsoever on Apple's hardware sales. Easily 99% of apps are long tail products that don't influence prior decision-making. AS for margins, once you factor in Apple'
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by sjwright 6y ago
In my opinion, legitimate competition between App Stores would make the iPhone strictly worse for myself and for everyone I know that owns an iOS device. For me, the mandatory app review process is the big differentiator between the iPhon
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by sjwright 6y ago
As a consumer, I'd rather Apple sometimes do a bad job and sometimes piss off developers than do nothing. I'm certainly not saying that Apple is doing a good job, but for most end users, the alternative is strictly worse.
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Honestly given how weird the imperial system is I’m genuinely surprised that miles can be expressed as an integer of feet. Was half expecting a 7/16th at the end.
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And once you have large scale, revolutionary techniques can follow.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If they can establish the supply and demand for recycling using non-revolutionary methods, revolutionary ideas can be developed and progressively swapped in as they become feasible.
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Apple have been exceedingly clear about their App Store policies for a long time. And they’re not so out of step with Google, Sony and Microsoft stores. What true nature is being revealed?

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