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by spronkey 8y ago
Ain't no SD card slot on the 2018 Air.
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by spronkey 8y ago
To me, iMessage on the Mac is almost a sad indictment of just how little progress has been made in computing in the last 2 decades. It's a feature that was obvious back when we were all using Nokia 3310s. Connect phone and computer a
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by spronkey 8y ago
IMO this is why Chromebooks are taking over education.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Not a chance IMO. One major reason why native apps work is platform integration - both from an HCI perspective as well as a technology one. PWA and WASM will never be able to achieve these things.
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by spronkey 8y ago
I'd wager that Lightning is a substantially more durable port than MicroUSB in terms of insertion cycles...
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by spronkey 8y ago
It's not quite that simple though, because plenty of high profile apps have gone through large rewrites from native to Electron. Skype is probably the biggest offender here, taking an app that was actually quite good and turning it int
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by spronkey 8y ago
Fuck Apple. Just another snippet to add to the "Apple hates consumers" pile.
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by spronkey 8y ago
You have to live somewhere though, and in NZ cities rents are high enough that they prevent many renters from saving any money at all. So, no, supply and demand theory kinda doesn't stack up when it comes to housing.
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by spronkey 8y ago
What they're actually doing is increasing the difficulty for local buyers by increasing demand and pushing up prices, and taking money away from them while simultaneously lining the pockets of existing property owners. Foreign owners a
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by spronkey 8y ago
In addition to the issues around lack of industry familiar wtih apartments, many native NZers don't want to live in apartments as it doesn't fit their culture or way of life.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Yes let's all blame Intel for producing the fastest and most powerful 45W TDP processor ever, that has literally no rivals. How dare they.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Depending on how heavily coupled the legacy codebase is, "Simple refactoring" really may not cut it. I mean, you can write a bunch of pinning tests, then try to prise out various bits and pieces, sure. But what if all the stuff yo
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by spronkey 8y ago
You're completely right. I was on the fence as to whether it was sarcasm or not, decided not based on "I agree.". Well done, internet intention interpreter dolessdrugs.
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by spronkey 8y ago
I agree that there is a bit of a cyclical nature to the homogeneity of music, but the homogenisation we've seen in the last 15 years has been unprecedented in modern times. It's not just the genres, it's also the people invol
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by spronkey 8y ago
I get the same rush if I fire up older hardware. Installing some random old OS onto real hardware is still as thrilling as it ever was. Far more thrilling than having Windows 10 invade itself onto some modern soulless fucking lounge bar. I
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by spronkey 8y ago
I can't stand Medium or understand at all how it has become so popular. Facebook is constantly trying to outgrow what it should be, and the more it does this the less nice it becomes. Twitter I have little issue with though, amazingly.
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by spronkey 8y ago
This times many. Sports, activity interest groups fill the void a little. But there's so little downtime as an adult these days it's a chore.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Protip: stop caring. Just post it and own it. Everyone makes mistakes, and the sooner people realise that in this modern, lose your job because of a twitter post society, the better.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Well said. The thing I miss the most about the early 00s is the IM networks. I still have a few close friends that I chat with regularly, but so many have just ditched the idea of chatting altogether. Sitting down after dinner and having a
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by spronkey 8y ago
Pretty sure plenty of things are objectively worse than they were before. Being able to afford a house in most western cities, for one.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Music is, in the last 15 years, demonstrably homogenising though (in regards to what could be considered mainstream). So at least in that regard it's arguably much worse than it was 15 years ago when many different genres were alive an
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by spronkey 8y ago
Is it just me or are the conclusion recommendations in this article all completely reaching? I would hate stores to implement half of the recommendations. Swiping my smartphone on entry?! I'd prefer to shop at the distributor's wa
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by spronkey 8y ago
I agree around the desired outcomes regarding readability and side effects, but it's not like other languages can't be used in this manner. If you're an OO-ist and you design good interfaces with good contracts, the 'mil
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by spronkey 8y ago
I hope that it's only a matter of time before people start turning their pitchforks at Apple, Microsoft, maybe Google et al who are the perpetrators of the majority of this platform fiddling that stops software from working.
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by spronkey 8y ago
[To play devil's advocate:] which were often cracked and released as warez...
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by spronkey 8y ago
They're not stuck supporting it. The original purchase can come with an amount of support. If the user needs more, they can pay for more. This is how software worked for multiple decades before subscriptions came about.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Yes. This. But don't forget compatibility updates. Underlying platforms change all the time, it makes sense for users to have to pay for these updates outside a certain time period.
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by spronkey 8y ago
You're absolutely right. I use over 400 tools. I'd be completely broke if I had to subscribe to them all.
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by spronkey 8y ago
So, you have a perpetual license to use the latest version of the software that you paid for? Perfect. ... But JetBrains attempted to explain why this doesn't work with the subscription model. And failed IMO, but regardless.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Ugh, this trend of 'cloud sync' is highly annoying. Let me put an encrypted file on something that resembles a filesystem. If I want cloud sync, I'll put that file on Dropbox/OneDrive/GDrive/Whatever else. It&#

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