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by spideymans 6y ago
Apple makes billions of dollars off of Safari search rights, so I think you're right about Chrome
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by spideymans 6y ago
>Financial services, airlines, oil majors, media, pharma, auto, etc. Those are the industries that need breaking up. Great. Break up Google, in addition to those industries, as well.
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by spideymans 6y ago
Other messaging apps have the same features as iMessage, but not the same user experience. For example, WhatsApp has a pretty massive spam and fake news problem, and Facebook messenger is significantly slower and applies a high degree of co
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by spideymans 6y ago
What's app has a pretty massive spam and fake news problem. It's an unfortunate side effect of WhatsApp's ability to forward message to your contacts. Users will forward fake news to their contacts, those contacts will then f
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by spideymans 6y ago
They care because the green bubbles indicate a severely impaired user experience. For example, multimedia may not work, and even if it does, its typically very poor quality.
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by spideymans 6y ago
It's trivial to use software to automate spam on more open web-based platforms, such as Facebook Messenger. This is a lot tricker with iMessage, where only authenticated Apple devices, with a unique identifier, can connect to the servi
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by spideymans 6y ago
Vendor lock is real, but would that not be rendered moot of other players could offer a superior user experience? Especially when you consider that Facebook, Google and others have a far larger base of potential users than iMessage. As far
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by spideymans 6y ago
The iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro all have upgradable components. The portables are generally non-upgradable however
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Poolside.fm is the chillest place you should be hanging out(theverge.com)
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by spideymans 6y ago
> Apple has its own problems with the URL bar -- they keep the domain but drop the rest of the URL. Not as bad as replacing the domain, but not great. You can view the full URL in safari for iOS by tapping the URL bar. In Safari for Mac,
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by spideymans 6y ago
If banks could secure their web portals to the same degree as their mobile apps, they absolutely would. “Portal A (web) cant be as secure as Portal B (mobile), so don’t bother securing Portal B” isn’t an acceptable security model. The banks
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by spideymans 6y ago
Yes but prior large pandemics have had triggered losing lasting social and economic changes. Things won’t necessarily go back to how they were before. Only time will tell
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by spideymans 6y ago
You’re vastly overestimating the competence of the average computer user. There’s a sizeable minority of people out there that don’t know what file extensions are, and even if they do know about them, they might not understand how they work
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by spideymans 6y ago
Thinking about my first job, and how I constantly needed to lean on my coworkers for help for the first month or two. In a work from home setting, where I'd need to instant message them, constantly requesting a video chat or whatever,
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by spideymans 6y ago
For a lot of people, especially in this industry, the bulk of the social interaction they get is through coworkers. Wouldn't be surprised if permeant working from home exacerbates feelings of loneliness and other mental health issues.
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by spideymans 6y ago
The barrier to making TikToks is much higher than for Instagram posts. It takes hours to make a decent TikTok; it takes second to make a decent Instagram Story post. For that reason, I see TikTok as more adjacent to YouTube than Instagram.
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by spideymans 6y ago
There's been widespread claims of dropping quality in iOS updates nearly as long as iOS has been around. I don't doubt that there's been issues with software quality (that'll be true in any organization), but I suspect t
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by spideymans 6y ago
I’m still stunned at how bad Windows search is. They’ve been trying to get this right since they begun development of Windows Vista nearly 20 years ago. Meanwhile in OS X land, their 16-year-old search implementation has always been so good
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by spideymans 6y ago
There’s another side to this issue too: Professors themselves are often optimizing their content for testability, rather than for providing actual, functional lifelong knowledge.
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by spideymans 6y ago
It's a CDN... but for food
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by spideymans 6y ago
That’s not the implication of the title, that’s merely how you’ve decided to interpret it. We can recognize an idea is good while also recognizing that it has faults.
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by spideymans 6y ago
> Sidewalk really pushed the technology angle way too hard, and it was a clear overstep– most of it wasn't necessary for any sort of quality of life improvements, but many of the ideas like wooden 'skyscrapers' and de-prio
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by spideymans 6y ago
Sad for who? It’s not as if Toronto needed this development by any stretch of the imagination.
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by spideymans 6y ago
> "Consumer CPU" refers to non-server application PCs. Workstations, desktops, laptops, and DIY. Personal and professional use (including enterprise purchases, so the full fleet of corporate laptops at any company are included)
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by spideymans 7y ago
> As a student initially at a high ranked university, I found I got a better education by switching to a much lower ranked university. That’s interesting. I’ve consistently heard the same sentiment from ex-students and alumni of certain
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by spideymans 7y ago
Why is there such a fixation on university rankings in the United States? Postsecondary rankings don't seem to matter as much in other Western countries.
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by spideymans 7y ago
Menu bars are still alive and well on the Mac, but only as a design holdover from a previous era. Really appreciate how the menu bars on the Mac centralize all application functionality, while also surfacing keyboard shortcuts. Would love t