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by xp84 6mo ago
This advice sounds like nonsense. CS has neither knowledge of what layers of enterpriseware has wrapped their links, nor the domains that software uses, nor any control over those decisions by software engineering or marketing (or perhaps e
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by xp84 6mo ago
I can easily see myself failing to catch this type of bug, especially if when you run it locally, the latency on jobs from enqueue to finish is aboue 5ms, whereas it probably fluctuates in production from a few ms to 5 minutes. It probably
903.
by xp84 6mo ago
I think it would distract from the points he's making. The article could be misread as a rant about a bad time he had, when it's actually meant to make a specific point about considering async vs sync transactions and what happens
904.
by xp84 6mo ago
You are very right, though it's difficult for those of us here to imagine it. 20 years ago, people would browse the Web through a 11-inch by 4 inch slit because all the adware toolbars had nearly occluded the whole viewport. Today most
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by xp84 6mo ago
Those disks have been too small to be a reasonable default, and getting even more unreasonable by the day, for a decade, so while I agree that's a great reason to be quite peeved about this move, I'd be mad at Apple even more.
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by xp84 6mo ago
I would confidently state that in terms of hours of enjoyment per byte, nothing can come even close to the 16-bit era. I can't count how many hours of Super Mario World I played. 512 freakin KB. I don't think anything will ever co
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by xp84 6mo ago
I'm not arguing against solar or pro-oil in any way. I meant only to point out that imagining an all-PV future as eliminating conflict over resources would be a mistake. And I was corrected about how much we need China for solar pane
908.
by xp84 6mo ago
I'm sure many are tempted to dismiss this comment, but I think it's actually great. It's incredibly easy to complain about the options out there, really easy to vilify any or all of the parties as controlled by satan/e
909.
by xp84 6mo ago
I think partly because Google and Apple controlled the contactless bits of the phones for many years, the non-OS-makers like WeChat and AliPay made use of the open technology of QR codes. I think theoretically you could build equivalent thi
910.
by xp84 6mo ago
But a QR is a URL. If visiting a certain URL pwns your device, complain to whoever made the device or browser. Not that I like this thing at all. But using a QR isn’t exactly why it sucks.
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by xp84 6mo ago
And Mac
912.
by xp84 6mo ago
Those are good things though? They’re about logging in, on purpose. Not about attesting to Google that you have a proper smartphone as a proxy for your humanity, like this thing.
913.
by xp84 6mo ago
Does it only count as an election if one’s favorite side wins?
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by xp84 6mo ago
Aren't the former coal-mining regions badly impoverished today because we dramatically cut back our usage of their primary economic product? I'm not sure that supports your point. I don't think they are stagnating and decay
915.
by xp84 6mo ago
> "No One Goes to War Over a Solar Panel" Doesn't China have most of the exotic rare earths and stuff that you need in order to build solar panels and systems? I am not anti-solar, but I also don't think China is some
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by xp84 6mo ago
I'm sorry to have offended you. I had to go research all your interesting Greek philosophy terms. I don't think it's too much to ask that someone at least define their line if they are saying apps must ask permission to use d
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by xp84 6mo ago
I agree that the disk usage we're discussing here is especially painful on that hardware, but: > "just to run a web browser" I don't even mean to be hyperbolic here, but 'running a web browser' is almost the
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by xp84 6mo ago
The idea I was replying to suggests "consent" is needed, but apparently just for this one example of bloat. And doesn't explain how normal non-hacker users (99% of the audience) are supposed to judge what "4GB" mean
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by xp84 6mo ago
> things are as centralized as they can be. Interesting evolution: 1980s and before - Centralized computers, thin clients & terminals 1990s - Decentralized computing - rich clients running native code locally, data lives locally, mak
920.
by xp84 6mo ago
> I'm sure the goal was to get some percentage For sure, revshare is standard on those partnerships. Fun(ny) fact: all the companies that started out on Heroku back then are still locked into those Heroku-captive tenant accounts on
921.
by xp84 6mo ago
> It's a waste of time to rewrite the UI and push AI tools when you can't even keep the site lit. This is a flawed argument. There are many designers and frontend engineers there who have zero role in improving site reliability
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by xp84 6mo ago
You're the GOAT of burger preparation!
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by xp84 6mo ago
1. one of the main points of the ACA that hasn't been rolled back is that they can't worry about pre-existing conditions anymore 2. even if they could, it would be pretty illegal, I think/hope, to then be like "Oh, well
924.
by xp84 6mo ago
> capture the cost of the negative externalities sounds plausible, but also at the same time that'll have some pretty bad side effects since the only people who can get by without driving a car are the completely destitute who don
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by xp84 6mo ago
> not automatically granting the wishes of every web site that wants to drain your battery. Pretty sure that ship sailed way back when Flash ruled the Internet, and it's still sailing more than ever today. Browsers are just weird sa
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by xp84 6mo ago
What % of Chrome users (this is the default browser that nearly every 'normal person' uses) do you think is confident (and knowledgeable) enough to answer this quiz: For each, indicate whether it's closest to: 4MB, 4GB, o
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by xp84 6mo ago
The difference would be intent. A nearby comment worries that the endgame is the ODM being used to monitor you and report back. Certainly wouldn't put it past the world's biggest ad company to think of that! And if that is what pu
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by xp84 6mo ago
It sounds like you have a specific number of GB in mind that an app can take up, below which it's totally their business, and above which they need to plead their case, disclose the purpose, and allow me to choose. What's that num
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by xp84 6mo ago
> It's additional software that many users didn't ask for, don't want and will not be aware of You just described 95% of the parts of all software, especially in this era. And think of the Web - how many gigabytes of terri
930.
by xp84 6mo ago
Is that how you do it? I have always used my left pinky. As I try it, unless I'm moving my hands off home row, both Ctrls feel just too far to be confident I'm hitting the right one (and not hitting the modifiers second in from th

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