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by snazz 6y ago
That's true; that would be the better solution. Requesting a refund before deleting the app would give the user an error message telling them to delete it.
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm glad that Apple can't remotely delete apps from my device. It would be somewhat dystopic if they had that capability.
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by snazz 6y ago
What fate are you referring to with Snapchat? I’m pretty close to the target audience for both Snapchat and TikTok and nearly everyone I know (edit: close to my age) uses both.
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by snazz 6y ago
I feel like old stuff always feels way slower than I remembered when I revisit it years later. I couldn't believe how slow of an iPhone I lived with when I booted my old one up recently. Plus, most of modern Excel's apparent slown
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by snazz 6y ago
Targeted advertisements like the ones built into Firefox's new tab page are the exact kind of thing that privacy-conscious people like to block. When I recommend Firefox to a less-technical friend or relative and suggest that they use
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by snazz 6y ago
GPT-3 guesses the next word or words after a given input, allowing it to write articles that make at least some sense. Translation of a textbook (especially math) would be way out of its wheelhouse.
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by snazz 6y ago
The latter. I'm having trouble finding an unbiased benchmark right now, but Safari is quite a bit less of a battery hog than either Chrome or Firefox.
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by snazz 6y ago
By default, the Firefox new tab page has ads and sponsored content, which neither Chrome nor Safari have. This "feature" certainly decreases trust in Firefox as the more privacy-friendly option, although it's easy to disable
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by snazz 6y ago
In the case of Gmail, you’re also their customer if you pay for it via G Suite. My support experiences with Google have been very good in that situation.
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by snazz 6y ago
Yes, user agents are a mess (see this comment for non-Apple examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23910637 ). They're not a good way to detect features as a web developer.
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by snazz 6y ago
It mentions Proton support in the linked article, so Linux should work fine.
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by snazz 6y ago
Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).
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by snazz 6y ago
Open it in incognito/private. Then it'll work fine.
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by snazz 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure where the comparison comes from. CGI usually meant one script per page, which only bears a slight resemblance to microservices. It doesn't really have anything to do with service encapsulation or API consistency
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by snazz 6y ago
Yep, I think you're right. Apple needs to put permissions on things like the clipboard for all apps. I certainly don't support the CCP, but extending that distrust to TikTok is somewhat illogical when there is no good evidence of
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by snazz 6y ago
Project Zero researchers don’t take bounties, to my knowledge.
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by snazz 6y ago
I've seen mixed messages as to the infectiousness of the virus with regards to asymptomatic carriers (or those with hardly-noticeable symptoms). Can anyone point me to some recent research that clarifies this? It seems like the most im
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by snazz 6y ago
I don’t disagree with the premise of your comment, but some active people do find technology useful. Lots of my runner friends find their Apple Watches extremely useful. As a cyclist, Strava provides motivation (primarily peer pressure thro
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by snazz 6y ago
Also not an iOS developer, but I think that apps enter a “suspended” stage when you close them or press the power button to save battery life. If you look at apps’ crash logs, you can see that they are occasionally killed by a system proces
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by snazz 6y ago
Now that even iMessage supports threaded discussions (in iOS 14), I think it would be great if Discord added this too. They’re very nice when there are multiple overlapping conversations and you don’t want to break off into two separate cha
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by snazz 6y ago
I’d argue that LÖVE is more appropriate for most games and similarly approachable. That said, lots of people already play Roblox, so it’s a good option for people who want to go from being consumers to being creators.
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by snazz 6y ago
It’s unfortunate that Lua makes some strange decisions, but the powerful functionality totally outweighs the weirdness (metatables are especially cool). I really like Lua, especially for game programming with LÖVE.
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by snazz 6y ago
In my personal experience, the Reddit comment-hiding system only gets triggered for particularly horrible comments, not just controversial ones. It must take into account the upvote-to-downvote ratio.
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by snazz 6y ago
> I don’t think you’re right about that. Groceries, supplies, movie tickets, restaurants, fuel, transit, medical & dental resources, rent, and so on are all much more expensive in the city. The fraction of things you get on Amazon or
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by snazz 6y ago
The default New Reddit experience does hide heavily downvoted comments.
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by snazz 6y ago
I intentionally don't have a sync passphrase set because I'm guessing that it makes passwords.google.com unusable. Is that true?
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by snazz 6y ago
It might have been possible to curb the spread of the virus without drastic economic shutdown measures. Japan, for instance, was able to avoid such a drastic lockdown. However, Japan is not the US; it is very different in terms of geograp
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by snazz 6y ago
Encryption that can only be unlocked by the "good guys" is fundamentally not how encryption works. 'JoshTriplett explained it better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23704928
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by snazz 6y ago
Yes, but many are. This app in particular needs an email address that is actually checked.
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm also interested in the stories of people who have had lasting effects from COVID-19. I'm guessing that those stories also suffer from a bit of selection bias.

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