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by wharvle 3y ago
> You expect me to believe that no competition is able to take a slice of that? IMO they don't have competition. Nobody's actually directly attacking them at the specific thing they do. I really, really wish they did. The c
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by wharvle 3y ago
> And of course, Apple's contributions to and early support for USB-C were also industry-leading. And still on the... bleeding edge. Most of the USB peripherals one can go buy right off the shelves at, say, Target are still USB-
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Settings -> Messages -> Tap the "iMessage" toggle so it's off. Don't even have to scroll to find it (at least on mine).
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... I wonder if the Maps app itself plays some role in providing Location services. That'd explain why they'd privilege it for location data, but not other first part apps that use location (why wouldn't they do that with
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Oh, I thought they had it there too. Nevermind on that part then.
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> including getting teens to bully other teens for an out-group bubble color Whose messages turn green or blue depending on protocol in use in a given (potentially group) thread in Apple's Messages? [EDIT] The up-and-down voting pat
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by wharvle 3y ago
For SMS? Maybe, but that's just a basic phone feature. An old Nokia also only offers one way to send SMS. It's just part of the phone-bits of the phone. And didn't Signal used to be able to send and receive SMS on iPhone, any
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by wharvle 3y ago
Quality of security aside, I'd be curious which encrypted messaging apps have the highest quantity of (encrypted—some support unencrypted, also, as Messages does) messages flowing through them in a given day—for, say, US users, as that
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by wharvle 3y ago
In my perfect world the bad practices Apple's resistance of which are a core thing that makes their products attractive—would be outlawed. Totally destroyed, eliminated from the market. Then they'd go after Apple (yes! Please!
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iOS’ webkit-only requirement, whatever else one might think of that rule, is the only reason anyone still cares about or builds for any browser engines other than Blink. The rule has (by accident) been more beneficial to Firefox than harmfu
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That... very much depends on the 2-year-old. Maybe true on average, IDK.
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He's not that bad, he tells actual stories, kinda, he's just the laziest plotter in the history of script writing. "They throw Kirk off the Enterprise! And... uh... Old Spock just happens to be there! Like, right there! B
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by wharvle 3y ago
Good children's programming often presents characters somewhat older (in affect, if not truly in age, e.g. Big Bird) than the target audience, to act as role models. You don't want a typical 3-year-old to look to a typical 3-year-
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by wharvle 3y ago
There are lots of extremely-cheap kids TV shows on places like Netflix or D+[1], many of which (on Netflix) are imports from e.g. Turkey with bad dubbing, that have plots so inane it's hard to express just how inane they are. Everyone&
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I know it's a little thing, Daniel Tiger's very-heavy autotune on all the singing (and there's a lot of singing) drives me nuts. I'd be shocked if Fred Rogers would have been OK with it. Young kids should hear natural si
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by wharvle 3y ago
The letter lays out succinctly and plainly how they matter for workers and the company, and offers fairly measured steps that might be taken to mitigate that, which include simple stuff that doesn’t ask to muzzle Elon like just making it
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“Please increase your costs and inconvenience for this product category double-digit percentages, in order to send a message so tiny nobody will notice” Consumer action is notoriously ineffective. It’s a well-studied thing in poli-sci and e
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If you work with other people or will ever onboard someone to the project (including your future self) static types save time. Lots of it.
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You should be documenting most type info at least at the function/method signature and data structure definition level anyway. May as well do it in the most-useful format possible. This is what gets me about “even modern relatively-low
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Yeah the main benefits are reducing bugs in developer write-run-debug cycles, and acting as machine-readable documentation (including to generate tooltips and autocomplete). The “cold shower” doesn’t check those.
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All of life “beneath” humanity basically lives in a 24/7 horror movie, as far as I can tell. Humans only do so part-time.
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The real trouble was that most of the flight crew ordered the fish.
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To be fair, I don’t think they’d have gotten a single one for $5k or less, and only got that price by buying the pair, and I think the new model years were about to arrive or just had. But they were new cars!
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I guess primary sources are less cool if you aren’t going to read them and go in with a made-up mind. I was prepared to see a hysterical and inappropriate letter that at the very least didn’t fit the spirit of discussion of improving wo
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Yeah, that’s what they did. Maybe it was closer to 2010? Wouldn’t have been earlier. Dealerships do sell under sticker with some regularity. Or they used to, LOL. [edit] after some googling, I think they were two-door base-model ( very bas
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by wharvle 3y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk... The whole (internal! Until leaked) open letter is near the bottom of that article. Wasn’t paywalled for me. Reading it cleared up the noise
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How are people surprised or decide it must be a conspiracy or personal vendetta when the media cover a powerful person who routinely acts like a complete lunatic in public, and the coverage ends up (gasp!) slanting negative?
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… and then, right after telling ex-customers to go fuck themselves and not to come back , when asked what the plan was to replace that revenue, to offer nothing and say it “will kill” ( Will ! Kill!) the company, but you’re ok with that be
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Electric drier plugs aren’t always conveniently located (and some won’t have any—apartments and certain types of assisted-living sorts of situations might not). Normal outlets take forever to charge. Days from, say, 20% charge to get to ful
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by wharvle 3y ago
The term of the day for the GP is “negative externality”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

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