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by stouset 4mo ago
Yes, to such a stunning degree that I’m having a hard time believing you’re serious. The M1 was utterly transformative. The install base of homebrew is enormous. The proportion who are keeping old Mac hardware around as home servers is minu
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by stouset 4mo ago
If anything, the overwhelming majority of Apple enthusiasts have gone all-in on Apple Silicon. I sincerely doubt those using old Macs as servers are anything but a rounding error.
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by stouset 4mo ago
Toolbars already focus on the most-used actions one wants to perform. A menu contains everything.
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by stouset 4mo ago
As a concrete example, Windows defined the product category. And it is still the most popular desktop operating system in the world by far. Few here would argue that it’s an outstanding product.
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by stouset 4mo ago
This argument would be a lot more compelling if there was literally any company out there with an interest in doing this sort of thing that had even remotely comparable a track record to Apple. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Perplexity, a
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by stouset 4mo ago
For context, a small amount (~2% of subscription fees IIRC) goes to Yandex. The CEO argues that their goal is to provide the best possible search, and that they remain impartial to geopolitical issues. Reducing the quality of their product
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by stouset 4mo ago
We know why it took seven years. For the same reason it took ages for them to replace the 30-pin: Lightning was good enough for what users needed (and was better along some axes), and users had prior investment in an ecosystem of Lightnin
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by stouset 4mo ago
Nothing at all. But they do it because it’s clearly a priority for them and something that’s currently part of their corporate ethos. Would it be better if something forced them to? Probably so! But barring that, having them volunteer to be
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by stouset 4mo ago
Third parties don’t have to do the same. And they won’t.
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by stouset 4mo ago
They can, and if they had thought it was advantageous for them to do so, they would have done so.
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by stouset 4mo ago
And I explicitly do not trust third parties with that sort of access. I am personally thrilled that they don’t and can’t have it.
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by stouset 4mo ago
Apple was literally the first major company to go all-in on USB-C. They shipped entire devices that only had USB-C ports. If anything, I would wager they were happy about it. They were going to have to do it anyway, and it would inevitabl
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by stouset 4mo ago
> there might be 1% of Afghans out there who deserve compassion Did you intend to say the quiet part out loud?
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by stouset 4mo ago
I suspect you are implicitly trying to make the point that a hypothetical afghani neighbor is potentially a violent person. Regardless, my answer is the same. Violent people live everywhere. Many of them are native-born Americans, and are a
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by stouset 4mo ago
All this just to prevent people from using + - * / and ^. Why ?
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by stouset 4mo ago
I’m curious why you say you know some of those things will never happen. It’s certainly possible that if you’re extremely tall you probably won’t fit comfortably in some sports cars. And there are some medical conditions that preclude any k
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by stouset 4mo ago
ICBMs don’t rely on GPS. They are typically self-guided and use a blend of their known launch location, inertial navigation using gyroscopes, celestial navigation (yes, looking at stars), and a few other techniques.
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by stouset 5mo ago
Ironically, cold also trashes their battery life.
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by stouset 5mo ago
The day that Americans open their newspapers to read that terrorist cells operating within our borders undertook a massive operation to plant Bluetooth devices on planes with the name BOMB is the day that Americans stop being concerned abou
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by stouset 5mo ago
The harm of neutering and spaying needs to be balanced with the harm of having dramatically greater numbers of feral cats and dogs, whose lives are often what I will charitably describe as not enviable, and with the problems having large nu
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by stouset 5mo ago
> I make it a point to hold up the whole line What you are doing is the equivalent of paying some poor cashier in pennies while everyone behind you is forced to wait in order to get revenge for some decision made by executives ten rungs
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by stouset 5mo ago
You are dodging the fact that getting a handful of planes to turn around is an act that induces frustration, annoyance, and insignificant costs at best. Not terror.
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by stouset 5mo ago
No, you don’t. You are being an asshole to prove a point. But I am going to assume that you are an intelligent person, and since you are, you know as well as I do that nobody you are treating this way is in a position to do anything about t
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by stouset 5mo ago
I’m glad to hear that that’s not common. From the description GP gave it did not sound like a simple rash. Obviously I am not saying that people should choose to forego treatment to avoid minor discomfort. I am saying that there are thres
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by stouset 5mo ago
Of course it’s never binary. And different people value different things. I don’t think I was clear that I’m not afraid of being simply uncomfortable in my final days, but that there are absolutely medical treatments that can extend one’s l
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by stouset 5mo ago
There has been recent attention on what treatments oncologists choose for themselves when diagnosed with terminal illnesses—having seen firsthand what happens to quality of life for their patients—and what members of the general population
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by stouset 5mo ago
Only because we have labeled anything and everything terrorism these days. Even then this is an extremely lame and ineffective form of sabotage, compared to the kind of prison sentence you’d be risking.
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by stouset 5mo ago
They were bragging that they could provoke this type of response as a result of having flown two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, killing thousands , and causing fear, panic, and self-sabotaging outsized reacti
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by stouset 5mo ago
I am in the enviable position to not be actively dying from an untreatable disease, so obviously haven’t seen things from the other side of this sort of situation. But to me, that doesn’t sound like a life worth living. Obviously different
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by stouset 5mo ago
I’m not saying this as an ad hominem and simply to throw insults, but with the hopes that it will encourage you to change your behavior. The only thing this accomplishes is making you the kind of asshole who interferes with other people t

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