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by tavavex 1y ago
I know many OSes are based on FreeBSD, I assumed that OP implied people who used the actual standard distribution of it, not highly-customized embedded or similar versions. Also, using Netflix wouldn't make one a BSD user just because
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by tavavex 1y ago
I wish that existed too. Not just an event to see how far the human body can be pushed naturally, but also another one to see how far it can be pushed, period. There would still need to be regulation to ensure that people didn't active
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by tavavex 1y ago
Bikes and cars are modes of transport. They're optimal for getting around at high speeds, but when you don't need them, you need to leave them somewhere, they're large and not very convenient. On the other hand, these are sho
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by tavavex 1y ago
Honestly, I didn't even think of BSD. I actually don't know anyone who uses it on a personal level, I assumed it was more of an OS that you had to use for your job. But I guess, given how niche it is for individual use, you'd
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by tavavex 1y ago
There are far more mainstream Linux users (and "serious" business users) today than back in the day, but it still has the highest ratio among all modern-day systems. The statement still holds.
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by tavavex 1y ago
I wonder what he'd say today, if he were to give his updated opinions on modern operating systems. I didn't even exist when this was written, but as far I know, OSes are extremely different today. This was still before MS was even
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by tavavex 1y ago
Again, this is something that's often repeated all over the internet, but there is no source for this, it's just speculation - and fairly unconvincing speculation at that, since it has to go so far in assigning the designers these
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by tavavex 1y ago
I've barely ever tried them, but I've never liked the shaping of any that I have held, and I don't think that the touchpad addition justified the discomfort that it causes in all other use cases. That being said, the whole &q
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by tavavex 1y ago
A Macbook is the only Apple device I have in my entire array of computers and computer-related stuff, so I've got plenty of points of comparison. While Apple's hardware design isn't perfect, all of what you bring up seems wil
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by tavavex 1y ago
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by tavavex 1y ago
The whole story seems utterly insane to me. The fact that Novo Nordisk went back to ask for a refund of $250 they paid for the patent in 2017 shows that there was active intent behind this, this wasn't just some internal disconnect b
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by tavavex 1y ago
> Canadian pharmacies can legally sell it and Americans (and all other foreigners for that matter) traveling there can legally buy it. Well, about that... Aren't all variants of medications like these prescription-only? And in Canad
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by tavavex 1y ago
Much higher than a few decades back, but still effectively zero. Even after putting up X thousands of satellites up into orbit, they still physically cover a tiny total surface area. And the same goes for planes. So two of these colliding w
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by tavavex 1y ago
It's not empty. Do you think I sat down and thought "let's write down a post that looks like something but is actually nothing"? I assumed you'd be able to infer some examples from what I gave you. Sorry it took me
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by tavavex 1y ago
No worries, I did know there was a bit of ambiguity so I wanted to clarify it, just because of how common self-posts are on HN.
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by tavavex 1y ago
The example you gave is the exception, not the rule. Sharing UX among these streaming sites is expected because they're completely replaceable, and you expect to churn through them as they shut down and pop up again somewhere else. Why
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by tavavex 1y ago
The website doesn't seem to be created by the same person who submitted the post. The creator is making updates and replying to people about them in this thread.
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by tavavex 1y ago
Most robot vacuums (at least the ones that use LiDAR, which seems to be the majority) can only capture a very rudimentary plan of your house, that being a 2D image taken at an elevation of ~10cm or so. It will also be obstructed by any larg
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by tavavex 1y ago
If you're an individual or a small business owner who wants to no longer pay for my services, you should be allowed to stop doing so. If you're a megacorp, however, you wield extremely disproportionate power over thousands of peop
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by tavavex 1y ago
> Russia uses a small nuke on a military target in the middle of nowhere Ukraine. ___________________________. Everyone is firing nukes at eachother. While all-out international global war isn't guaranteed in this scenario, I don&#x
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by tavavex 1y ago
I think the argument holds. It's not about how straightforward something is, it's that evolutionary time scales are incomparable to the time it takes to purposefully invent something. The ways these goals are achieved are just too
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by tavavex 1y ago
I think you're tossing around words like "always" or "never" too lightly, with no justification behind them. Why do you think that no matter how much effort is spent, fully understanding the human brain will alway
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by tavavex 1y ago
When people mention a single "British accent", in 99% of the cases it's just a more widely understood shorthand for Received Pronunciation. I don't see how that's bad or wrong, considering how common it is in educat
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by tavavex 1y ago
Did you forget the dozen or so Start Menu ads for random garbageware they started bundling with Windows 10? They didn't shy away from it either, you got all of that even in the Pro SKU. Windows 10 isn't any less ad-ridden than 11.
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by tavavex 1y ago
I didn't even know Unicode had these rounded rectangle symbols. Neat!
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by tavavex 1y ago
Why did we universally decide that this stuff is okay to do for businesses? Is it just because it's legal? Imagine if agreeing to things anywhere else in the real world worked the same way it does with Microsoft. Hi there, would you li
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by tavavex 1y ago
These kinds of articles induce a feeling of deep hopelessness. Frankly, I can't understand how people managed to remain relatively sane for so long, given the circumstances. Being an abusive, smug, deceiving human being that tries to w
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by tavavex 1y ago
Some of the music production UIs seem to feature huge grids of knobs, a pop-up slider would inherently obscure some of the adjacent knobs in some way, requiring you to move the cursor away or click somewhere else to dismiss it. It would cre
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by tavavex 1y ago
Nah, it persisted in many places, in some to lesser extents than others. It feels like in the 90s it was more of a "look, we can make UIs so flashy now!" thing, which then morphed into an actual design philosophy. See for example
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by tavavex 1y ago
That's surprising, I hadn't heard about that. I had assumed that this was a blanket rule that generally applied to these treaties. I wonder how the UK justified it... Also, one other differentiator here is that the man, as you des

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