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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I think the point is that even if you grant this significant apparent limitation of the premise, it doesn't mean the whole thing is useless. (Nevertheless, the presentation is still incoherent, because it both welcomes and disparages d
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Time zones are a necessary evil, ideally our code doesn't suffer from our petty human concerns. I don't understand this position. The sole purpose of our code is to serve "petty" human concerns. Time zones are certa
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I dunno, I seem to go through Lightning charging cables like water, whereas I've never replaced a USB-C charging cable. That may have less to do with the intrinsic properties of the design so much as Apple's unwillingness to build
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Is this something yet to come into law? I find it very hard to buy the vegetables I want at German supermarkets because they so often come wrapped in plastic sets of three. Even bananas have a substantial amount of sticky tape around them.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> There's laws against bad cars, there's no laws against bad software. There's often privacy/data protection obligations, but they seem to be impossibly difficult to get the courts to pay attention to. If the average
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> I think we should have a clear separation between hardware and software companies. This is how it worked in the old days when the internet was built. I think that's an exaggeration, isn't it? Aside from the old PC industry (s
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I was aware such an ordering was common in China, but thanks for that info about the USSR! It is a more consistent and logical ordering. The other ordering is so confusing that America and Europe have both adopted different mixed endian sch
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I mean yes, I'm aware different countries do address differently, and that a person should not prematurely predetermine the fields of an address on international software. I had asked a specific question, which your comment does not ad
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
The address there is Russia, Moscow, (postcode), (maybe a street name), (some number), (untranslated) Svetlane So it seems to be backwards: The personal name is last, and the country/city is first. Does someone here perhaps know if tha
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
And the fact that it was done successfully doesn't mean it was done quickly. Heads off to the Russian dead letter office, someone eventually picks it up for a manual review and thinks "this gibberish is too hard for right before l
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> then despite what they claim, they should be held legally responsible. I fully agree with this. There is a great deal of distrust in contemporary society, because those who hold the power do everything they can to avoid being held resp
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> You do realise there are probably more habitable planets than there are human beings right now? I don't realise that, for one. It certainly isn't part of the shared knowledge or common sense, so I don't think the way you
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
The security model is wrong. In order to get access to my own data, I have to prove I am who I say I am to someone who doesn't know me from a bar of soap. It makes no sense to blame the user for that.
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Apparently "Burma" is supposed to be pronounced in a non-rhotic fashion, but would it have killed the non-rhotic speakers to write "Bama"? Then the rhotic speakers who form the majority of English speakers would hav
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> I believe the reason is that while Pinyin's X and Q may sound like "sh" and "ch" to English speakers, they are actually different sounds (and contrast with the "sh" and "ch" sounds that also
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
When the Latin alphabet was first used in Old English, Latin w had already come to be pronounced v. The was no need for it in English at that stage, because v was just considered a variant of f. But English made good use of w, and there wer
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
The article is talking about mitigating risk. Unless I missed something, it doesn't restrict itself to Java, so that's an unreasonable restriction when questioning the author's reasoning. But I don't think it destroys th
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Honestly I don't think that was the effect of the comment. The comment seemed to show that every country is a little bit the same - we all think we have our unique problems and our unique institutions, but in reality we're all hum
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> This is all deeply strange to Anglo-Saxon eyes! ... English-speaking countries Is it though? Is it so different than public hospitals and schools owned by the Catholic church? I think there are even hospitals that are half public and h
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I think it's not so different than Australia. I suppose the SES (State Emergency Service) is the equivalent of the THW, even to the point of being set up at about the same time to help in case of a war but dealing with natural disaster
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I don't think the problem with prototype inheritance comes from whether people like creating things by taking something that already exists and modifying it. In fact, people very often use classical inheritance to emulate prototypical
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
I don't think your criticism is accurate. The shared Photos folder on my phone is a bit different than the database of photos Google Photos has access too. But don't get me wrong. I want to criticise the shared ownership model. I
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> they'll take risks that they can't ever repay (and jailing their officers might make us feel better but it can't un-steal your identity). I'm not sure exactly who the officers of a company are (genuinely) but if we&
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> iOS already lets you choose with granularity which photos to allow an app access to as of iOS 14. How does this work? When an iOS app asks for permission to view photos, the user is asked which folders to grant it access to? How does t
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> This only matters if people are otherwise willing to fork over cash for what is currently ad supported. People were paying for Windows when it wasn't ad supported. People are still paying for Windows now that it is ad supported. I
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Oh please do. With something like an audio cable at least there's one end that is purely sticking out and one end that is purely sticking in. But with a lot of other cables there's a mix of inny bits and outy bits and it took me a
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Or that we'll run into yet another law where you're required to pop up a banner saying "This site uses cookies, just like everyone else, lol." Is there any such law? I always understood that to be a widespread misun
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> Criminalization of dark patterns? Criminalisation is actually better than regulation. Regulation is about what you do. Criminalisation takes into account what you did and what you intended to do. One year ago, you followed every websi
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
Sibling commenter identified an alternative as to charge for (presumably a proportion of) ads in a timeframe. That seems to satisfactorily mitigate almost everything: 1. Clicks are not charged for, so increasing clicks does not change the c
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by squiggleblaz 5y ago
> We do somehow need to get back to advertising the old fashioned way rather than this surveillance capitalism arms-race. Old fashioned ads were targeted based on the thing they were attached to. For instance, if you read the sports page

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