thejohnconway

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by thejohnconway 2y ago
"Let go" is a horrible euphemism, like the employee wants to go, but is being prevented from doing so. I'm setting you free employee! Enjoy your no job and no money! Reminds me of Bill Lumbergh in office space, "so if yo
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Slight nitpick, longer posts require a simple server code modification. Most clients handle longer posts just fine (at least I haven't come across one that doesn't), because servers with longer character limits are common in the F
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Going to start calling people in the Northern Hemisphere "podians".
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Which “system”?
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
You can’t avoid these corporations if you want to remain active on the internet. They keep shadow profiles. They sell and share your data from one service to another (I stoped using Facebook for example, but Netflix shared its watch data wi
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I’m curious about the rewards/tokens aspect. Is this done using cryptocurrency (you mentioned bitcoin, urg, upthread), or something else?
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I think you misunderstood, 30 years from piston powered to jets that are still being flown today. The F15 was introduced 27 years after the end of WW2, where all the fighters of consequence were piston powered.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Updates break thing tha used to work. My mouse situation drives me crazy, and my Wacom Cintiq stopped working a couple of months back. File management is starting to be a problem.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
As unhelpful as this answer might seem, I think the answer is damn the SUVs, full bike ahead. Nothing will change until there are cyclists on the roads, then it starts to snowball. I’ve seen it happening here in London (UK).
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
If Macs too far down that road I’ll move to Linux for my desktop computing. It’s already getting annoying.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
How does that differ from just setting the images to be inline-blocks? Was it justified?
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I don’t think there’s much of a misunderstanding here. There are historical reasons why CSS was so weak on layout for so long, but there’s always reasons. To understand what was missing look at what they’ve added (flexbox and grid). I don’t
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I think it does, they could turn out to be like phlogiston or the luminiferous ether.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I don’t think there’s anything postmodern about it…
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I think it's true of some of the other Apple examples that he's put lines over, they look optically correct.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
"CSS" (not sure what you're referring to here, the standards bodies?). Endless articles from the mid 2000s kept saying tables bad, here's how you layout without tables. All of them used floats for layout, not display:ta
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Here's how you do it, make everything so poorly in terms of fit and finish that it becomes hard to find things that are perfect (or even good). Embrace the aesthetic.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
That used crates, but yes I think it way quicker per ship, because ocean liners in particular wanted fast turnaround times. A lot more labour was involved, obviously.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
Scale and throughput. Ships used to have cranes on deck and unload this way (look at pretty much any ocean liner, they had cranes on the forded for cargo). Containerisation improved throughput considerably, but added to latency. There is no
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
A combination of Covid, and the security situation with Ukraine and Russia perhaps.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
Well, low-level Nazis often said they didn't know the scope. The question is whether that is plausible given your position.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
Ah, that might explain why he doesn't know how bat software was in the 90s!
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
While I am frustrated by the state of modern software, this article fails to acknowledge what has got better. My daily software used to crash several times a day in the late 90s/ early 2000s. Hope you saved your work, because here’s wa
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
It’s so strange they do that, given that Siri doesn’t have good rep!
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
Than what? Not the average.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
All the local self-checkouts where I am in London are just scan and go, no scales.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
I hope they give up on the App Store as a significant income stream. It's a terrible strategy tax, and pretty gross and un-apple-like (the old Apple anyway). Everything is "free" except for predatory in-app purchases, so you
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
People will start animating with JavaScript through canvas or other hacks (like rapidly changing the img src to play frames manually). Not sure if this is winnable with the all-powerful JavaScript sitting there nearly always available.
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
I agree, I’m not on Apples side in this stuff, and actually think the App Store strategy tax is killing Apple as a worthwhile company. I wish they’d just dump the whole thing. But the monopoly of Chrome is getting to be as bad as the IE6 da
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by thejohnconway 3y ago
Yeah, and what they’ve done here will result in a Chrome monopoly everywhere. They needed to break Chrome before going after Safari and Apple.

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