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by sssilver 1y ago
Do you have a concrete example of a laptop from 15 years ago that in your view and experience had better design than the current generation MacBook Pro?
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by sssilver 1y ago
Have you seen any viable alternative idea that genuinely improves it?
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by sssilver 1y ago
Great comment. Kind of illustrates how detached they are from actual substance and how shallow their understanding of what bad UX really means.
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by sssilver 1y ago
Another way to say it would be: XMPP is hostile to power efficiency.
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by sssilver 1y ago
Would osmin basil[1] fit the bill? [1] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sa=X&sca_esv=923...
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by sssilver 1y ago
What editor was generally used to draw these?
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by sssilver 1y ago
My understanding is that every employees compensation (from the janitor to the CEO) is basically a function of “how different would the outcome for the shareholders be if this person was replaced with someone else”. Obviously Apple wouldn’t
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by sssilver 1y ago
More like “five richest people in the US according to their tax returns”. Nobody has counted the money of the Saudi Prince, the president of Russia, and a few dozen other characters like these. Intuitively it feels like their wealth would e
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by sssilver 1y ago
Ok but you’ve lost your mission, your tools to accomplish that mission, and effectively your company.
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by sssilver 1y ago
My impression was that this wasn’t how the US worked?
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by sssilver 1y ago
I would say in my case it’s less about OCD and more about, inexplicably, dignity.
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by sssilver 1y ago
As someone who drove both, I vehemently disagree. Stripped of logos, one is delightful, the other just nominally gets the job done. The Mercedes has superior suspension that feels plush and smooth. Wonderful materials in the cabin that feel
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by sssilver 1y ago
A lot of them were built like a tank. Their issue was lack of features, not lack of reliability.
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by sssilver 1y ago
Every company is exactly one CEO away from doing anything none would ever expect.
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by sssilver 1y ago
How do you regulate advertising without severely restricting freedom of speech? Communism seems like the only reasonable way — at least then you’re only restricting your own speech as the entity who produces these things.
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by sssilver 1y ago
Because when you're the sole owner and provider of goods, advertisement loses all meaning. I grew up in the Soviet Union. There was one type of milk on the shelf, it was called "Milk", and I don't remember the label sayi
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by sssilver 1y ago
Am I right that the only truly systemic solution to the problem of ads is government regulation, with communism as its final degree?
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by sssilver 1y ago
So much this. I don’t think we fully fathom how much everything on the Internet has degraded. And we and our children have degraded with it. Like frogs boiling alive in a pot, we never noticed it because of how gradually they increased the
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by sssilver 1y ago
The problem is that it’s extremely difficult for any activity like math, music, or drawing to compete with Minecraft and YouTube shorts.
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by sssilver 2y ago
The problem with building Uber and Lyft isn’t the process of writing the software — that’s been done many times over. The hard part of course is investing the money in marketing and support to match the user recognition and experience that
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by sssilver 2y ago
I am fascinated by this. How do you shop for groceries every two weeks? Doesn’t bread go stale, milk go sour, chicken/beef/pork/eggs go spoiled, and fruits and veggies go moldy in two weeks? Where I live nobody enjoys yesterd
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by sssilver 2y ago
I did mention objects, not numbers. Maybe “symbols” representing concepts. I’d go with “name” for both zero and one — nonexistence and existence.
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by sssilver 2y ago
I’d paraphrase. I’d say that zero and one are the only objects. Everything else is a name. So in a sense math is exploration of the relation between existence and nonexistence.
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by sssilver 2y ago
I now hate YouTube so much because of ads that I wonder which is WORSE for their company — watching the ads or paying for premium, just to take the option that gives them least benefit.
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by sssilver 2y ago
The profit margin is just the shareholders' cut though. What about the CEO salary? What about his secretary? The rent they pay for the buildings they occupy? Going down that path, how much of the operational expenses of private insuran
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by sssilver 2y ago
It's not the easiest language to learn, and in some respects it's one of the hardest. Luckily, tooling is good. It's one of those things where "trying" to learn it doesn't work. You should commit yourself to it
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by sssilver 2y ago
Not really, since I was in management for five or so years with not much code writing. Embedded programming -- never in my life. Swift -- briefly, when it just came out years ago, but modern Swift is extremely different. Rust -- sure, I gue
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by sssilver 2y ago
Small functions, small modules, small codebases. Keep state as contained as possible. Tightly control interfaces and interactions. Know your paradigms. Example: in Rust multi threading it loves putting things in an Arc. You have to tell it
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by sssilver 2y ago
Vulgarly unrelated to the subject — is anyone able to get a scrollbar to appear on this page on mobile? I kept reading and was completely unable to tell how long of a time commitment this read will be and whether I should continue or read i
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by sssilver 2y ago
I promise it isn’t. English however isn’t my native language — I grew up in Armenia, with Armenian as my native tongue and Russian as my first “foreign” language.

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