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by smcl 3y ago
Genuine question: why are you focused on just those five companies?
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by smcl 3y ago
Yep I'm with you. But sadly there are plenty of true believers who will always listen to him and will generally nod along in agreement. In this case they'd hold up a picture of a packed subway car and say "wouldn't you r
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by smcl 3y ago
I mean if the car company's owner had publicly tried to undermine ships and said everyone should have an individual yacht or plane instead then, yeah that would be a little amusing sure.
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by smcl 3y ago
He's either being deliberately quite dishonest or is genuinely naive in suggesting that "individualized transport" is an alternative to public transportation. At this point I honestly do not know, he's shown himself at t
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by smcl 3y ago
How can, say, a cleaner tell the prong configuration on a plug when it's plugged in and not visible?
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by smcl 3y ago
> the most advanced legal system and which had recognised the notion of human rights nearly 900 years earlier One which didn't seem to care too much about lives of its Indian subjects apparently.
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by smcl 3y ago
That's fair enough. I'm personally a Firefox user and I suggest my friends use it too.
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by smcl 3y ago
Precisely. It totally undermines their engineering efforts. There are people I know who use Edge willingly, and their anecdotal claims are that it has reduced resource usage over Chrome (somehow, which is weird since it's using the sam
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by smcl 3y ago
I'm sorry but if you're having to ask ChatGPT for whether FOX is biased and are satisfied with an answer like As anchor of "Special Report with Bret Baier," Baier aimed for an even-handed approach as an argument then y
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by smcl 3y ago
Nope, but it does show that you can be completely free of any government involvement and still suck. From what I've seen AJ has had some pretty decent reporting overall and if we're looking at it in terms of propaganda those suppo
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by smcl 3y ago
It is naive to think any news outlet shouldn't be regarded with any amount of suspicion. Bias exists everywhere, if you select a news source and blindly trust it you're going to be misled some day.
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by smcl 3y ago
Has to be pretty embarrassing for the Edge developers that something they've worked on is mostly known as a punchline or an annoyance shoved down people's throats, rather than a product that can stand and compete on its own two fe
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by smcl 3y ago
I mean FOX News and Newsmax are "as independent as possible" in that regard but they're both utter trash, so it's obviously more nuanced than that. Discarding Al Jazeera entirely because they can't/won't
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by smcl 3y ago
Yep I had that too :-)
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by smcl 3y ago
Nah but really the bill wasn't bad enough for that, and honestly I'm not sure that kind of PR move was very common before social media days (total guess). I just remember it because I had to give my parents the difference and as a
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by smcl 3y ago
I imagine everyone who was a kid during the dial-up times has a horror story of being confronted with an enormous phone bill by their parents. I remember mine going mental at me for costing us £40 one month (normal service was iirc ~£10)
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by smcl 3y ago
After the Portal for Nintendo 64 demake was shared yesterday I figured people might also enjoy someone's attempt at doing so for Bloodborne on the original Playstation. It's a really interesting project that the author ended up ta
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Bloodborne PSX: Recreating Bloodborne as a Playstation One Game [video](youtube.com)
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah fair enough, I totally understand. Maybe I just want the world to be less malicious and more chill than it is :-)
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by smcl 3y ago
I've seen this in Czech too - sometimes lastname first but maybe more in old-school things. I think I'm registered with the Czech FA as "McSurname Sean" :-D Also this "reversal" had me confused when we hosted a
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah or even to have a bit of pride. To think something like “this is Google, we can’t release this weird inconsistent UI”
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by smcl 3y ago
It's an interesting idea actually, there's maybe no way to say for certain but I'm inclined to invoke Hanlon's Razor here and suggest that it's down to incompetence rather than malice. However that effect you linked
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by smcl 3y ago
It is very cathartic to see someone as irritated by these things as I am. One thing that stands out to me is how surprisingly often these Big Tech companies seem to appear here. Apple and Google seem to constantly be fiddling with their UIs
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by smcl 3y ago
> Hey we can't pay workers $250/hr without raises prices to above what customers are willing to pay You seem to be suggesting that workers are cartoonishly naive and have ridiculous demands that cannot simply be met. When in re
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah the main thing is - terminology aside - if you can easily bring a nation's rail network to a standstill then that's a bit of a problem.
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't know if it's worth splitting hairs on this. If the Cap'n Crunch 2600 hertz whistle was a hack then this kinda is too.
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by smcl 3y ago
+1 for the Seiko 5. It may by now considered to be a meme watch (I've no idea, I just know it became famous outside the watch community too so it may be considered a bit "normie") but if I didn't buy and get a lot of use
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah I know they don't tend to want to just hand you over low-level access, like an `asm(...)` statement in C (or maybe like instrinsics). But pragmas tend to be a bit less explicitly "mess it up". Like in the case we're
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by smcl 3y ago
Ah thanks! That's interesting but a bit weird to me. That response sounds a little bit like someone who feels like they shouldn't do something and is thinking on-the-fly for reasons they can use to justify that feeling. > W
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by smcl 3y ago
Does Go have any facility for providing hints to the optimiser (like how some C compilers support #pragmas) that could cause the branch-predicted instruction to be used rather than the slower one?

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