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by thewebcount 3y ago
I'm no more a fan of this than I was of Google trying to shove Chrome in my face any time I used to visit any of their properties with a different browser. These 2 deserve each other. For now I just avoid both of their products.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Thank you! That is very helpful!
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I think it's worth it, but I just like watching TV. It ends with a sort-of cliffhanger (a relationship cliffhanger), but it's not a surprising one.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I get why some residents want this, but won't the result be that criminals will do one of the following: - Remove their plates before committing a crime - Use stolen plates - Make fake plates and put them on other vehicles and have fri
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> small minority of people who are opposed to reCAPTCHA It's not so much that "people … are opposed to reCAPTCHA", but that for some they can't make it work.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Not to mention that you may not have a choice. I've seen government sites have this shit on them. We're quickly approaching the satirical society of the movie _Brazil_.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
But I don't want any of those companies knowing which websites I visit. I only do business with one of them, and even then, they have no need to know what I'm doing outside of interacting with their sites. These companies have eno
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I've probably mentioned this story here, but my first job out of school was working for a nationally known cash register manufacturer, writing front-end software for the cashiers to use. This didn't happen to me but was told to me
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by thewebcount 3y ago
This was a great show I can't say enough about. It really mad me laugh out loud far more than any other show in recent memory. (And in the end, if I recall, both groups of writers learned that the other was actually pretty decent at th
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> how peaceful it is to use their platform. > You can browse without anything auto-playing What? Has this changed recently? I mainly use their AppleTV app, and sometimes their web app. With the AppleTV app, there are a bunch of thumbn
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Really? It was all over the mainstream media 6 months ago after Twitter got bought: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-social-media-twitter-r... https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/tech&#x2
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by thewebcount 3y ago
For me it’s the fact that everything about it seems to be about making the tool easier for the developers who wrote it to write it rather than making it easier for the people actually using it. It periodically tells me that garbage collecti
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I wonder if some sort of "do not call"-style list that the government keeps would do the trick? The government maintains the list so some company can't say, "We never received any notice from them!" and the governme
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I would not expect a far better experience for anybody with more competition. We have that in a bunch of other areas of tech, and it always ends up being a race to the bottom. You end up only being able to c
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by thewebcount 3y ago
The visuals were a lot of fun, but I don’t understand why I, as a viewer/consumer/whatever of this sort of thing, would ever want these things: > Unknown runtime I like to know whether I’m going to have time to view all of some
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I'm not on Facebook, but from talking with friends who have related conditions, that's where everyone is online. You have to be aware that some of these groups promote quackery and others are reasonable. (There are always good int
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by thewebcount 3y ago
While those people certainly exist, what I've seen is a lot of people who are treated like less-than-human because they have minor differences from the general population. You can even see replies here stating opinions that people with
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> dubious 24Hz->60Hz conversion Does that still happen? I set up my AppleTV device to tell my TV to use the frame rate of the media and it almost always goes into 24Hz mode when watching anything on streaming. I thought all services w
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I can kind of understand making it the default sort, but not getting rid of the others. Most users don’t know they can sort the list of things in a folder. They just want to see the thing they just created, or the thing they were last worki
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by thewebcount 3y ago
This is stupid, but if I recall correctly, if you click the close box “x” in the upper left corner of the notification, it will stop asking, but if you say “remind me later” it continues to ask you. It is utterly infuriating that they use t
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by thewebcount 3y ago
This seems like something we’ll get to see play out over the next few years. Given that GM has decided that they don’t care if customers want CarPlay, we’ll see if customers say “No thanks” to buying cars from GM because of that.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
That’s a fair point given what I’ve written above. However, there’s more to it that I didn’t get into. Suffice it to say that I’m not basing that solely on the two interactions described above.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
At the last house we lived in, we were renting. We got a constant stream of real estate agents knocking on our door asking if we’d be willing to let them sell it. So when we got a knock one morning I opened the door and kind of yelled at th
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by thewebcount 3y ago
The results of the Hilbert and Hilbert-like curves look similar to the Robinson’s aperiodic tiling of the plane[0]. In that picture they use squares and rounded squares, but if you did all rounded squares, I think it would look more similar
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I recently went through 35 years worth of cassette tapes to pull off old songs I had written as a teenager and songs I played with bands I was in over the years. I’m so glad I saved it all to digitize. (And glad I finally got around to it
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> It is expected you already know JavaScript before you read this article. Concepts like mapping arrays, destructuring assignment, spreading values, async/await, es6 modules, and more will be used extensively. So in other words, it’
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I tried again in expert mode. I attempted to make my question clearer, and the results were even worse. It tried to write some code, but the code was nonsense.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> The third area of concern revolves around the issue of ad clutter. Over the years, two trends have clearly emerged, particularly in the USA: (a) more television time devoted to ads and (b) shorter ads. These two trends translate into a
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by thewebcount 3y ago
And even humans get it wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson#Lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony#Credits_...
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by thewebcount 3y ago
It seems to have a similar problem to regular search engines when you ask about something niche. I asked a question about writing an FxPlug and it gave a nearly completely nonsensical answer. In fact, not only was the answer nonsensical, it

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