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by unselect5917 7mo ago
Again, the ranking from Apple is from today . Not "a couple months ago". And again, it's #1 while reddit is #4. So which is incorrect, Apple, or Wikipedia? It has to be one of them. >Also, why would it be "wishful th
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
Devil's advocate: billionaire driving a beater (I'm not a billionaire, but I drive a beater)
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
Nice! I'm gonna check it out.
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
That's a two year old article and X is the #1 news app today . How can you possibly construe that as "shrinking fast" if two years later it's in the top spot literally today? It seems like wishful thinking on your part
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
>Who needs censorship when you have an algorithm to feed people what you want them to see and you've self-selected for only people who aren't morally opposed to the new site? It feeds you what you engage with, and it changes su
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
It was the censorship. Which isn't gone, but is way less restrictive than it was. And I've actually started seeing bangers (auto) translated from Japanese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese lately, which is fantastic. I don't r
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
The only difference is Americans aren't yet used to them because they're uncommon. You fix that by making them common. It's not like there's a genetic difference in Europe that makes them capable of roundabouts and Ameri
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
Nitpicking: roundabouts that small may be entirely impassible to truck hauling a standard trailer. Personally, I think we could replace a LOT of stoplights with roundabouts. Way better throughput and faster travel for everyone.
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
I don't like paltry sums like this. $300 is a significant financial impact to someone who's barely making ends meet, and absolutely nothing at all to a billionaire. "If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only ex
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
>Twitter's demise I just checked https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts/6009 and X (formerly twitter) is the #1 news app followed by substack, CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio, and coming in at 4th place is
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
>From an actual content perspective Bluesky is fine From a content perspective nothing important is permitted to be discussed there. It's just another hivemind with the exact same opinions as reddit and HN. Completely pointless and
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by unselect5917 7mo ago
I've been at several places that did it. Usually it coincided with a move to the cloud or swapping out the underlying database.
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
"Build one to throw away" comes to mind. You'll figure out what you should have built after it's been used in prod for a while. Possibly years.
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
Passive aggressiveness isn't the opposite of kindness, and worse than directness, but you'll get away with it here because this is just reddit but more pretentious and all the same biases are intact, just more walls of text instea
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
I wrote my comment before I read yours, but it perfectly explains why software doesn't do that. Sadly I can't take credit for the core idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272024
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
This reminds me of a line from REAMDE that I'll never forget. "Writers like having residences." The backstory is they hire two writers-in-residence, who keep making more work and excuses for more work for themselves... so the
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
Thank you!
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
Thank you. There are sane, good ways to build UIs, and after 30 years of programming, my main complaint hasn't changed: "Stop doing what you're doing, and do what I want." Be like TRON, fight for the user. Not the develo
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
If you put machine learning into the loading of a right click menu, I want you to step on a Lego barefoot immediately afterward. Right click menus should be instant. No fade in. No animation. No spinner. And certainly not any machine learni
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
That question has no relevance other than to gin up an ad hominem. Shame on you.
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
I actually don't regret going in and turning "show dead" on so I could see it. Knowing that someone is considered a lolcow is legitimately useful information. It might no be polite, you might not like it, but it is useful dat
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
what's it called? searching Settings for "pulse", "width", and "modulation" all produce no results.
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
Remember when facebook was busted playing silent audio so the app could stay active in the background? I honestly don't think there's a company I trust less than facebook/meta. And it's because the rot is at the top, and
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
My policy for years with facebook has been "post, don't scroll". I also use the brave broswer, ublock origin, and fb-purity extension. It's a tiny thing, and petty but it's better than being facebook's product
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by unselect5917 8mo ago
"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." -Mark Zuckerberg, 2004