yarcob

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by yarcob 5y ago
I've been an Apple user for more than 20 years, and I really like their products, but every year I am feeling more and more fleezed. It pisses me off that they overcharge on storage and memory, leading to a situation where everyone who
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by yarcob 5y ago
> that your proposed AI trailer likely wouldn't be street legal I see this statement all the time (that legal issues are holding AI back) but I'm pretty sure the legal issues could be fixed pretty quickly if there actually were
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by yarcob 5y ago
Yeah, this benchmark is way too specific. Would be much more interesting to see how different implementations could take advantage of their frameworks. Eg. some frameworks may make it easy to use animations, or they may have reusable compon
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by yarcob 5y ago
Instapaper.
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by yarcob 5y ago
I also can't drink most beer. I sometimes get a hangover and headache from just a single small beer (0.3 liter) I found that I tolerate beers from some breweries better than others (the type of beer doesn't seem to make a differen
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by yarcob 5y ago
I can't talk for all countries, but in Austria the cheapest alcohol you can buy is "Spiritus", and they add something to make it taste bitter. You can use it as fuel, for degreasing, cleaning, etc. You can get pure, food grad
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by yarcob 5y ago
I don't know how people move into appartments where they aren't allowed to drill holes in the wall. This would make an appartement unusable for me. Unanchored furniture is extremely risky and kills infants every year. Yeah, there&
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by yarcob 5y ago
I assume they mean to make sure the people who make the laws don't profit from them. Kinda hard to do in practice.
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by yarcob 5y ago
> A 500% tax on advertising. It’s a zero sum game with no benefit to society. I don't think a tax is going to fix the underlying problem, which is that ad publishers have no responsibility for the ads they show. The problem is that
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by yarcob 5y ago
I just tried with 5 songs and I couldn't get lyrics for a single one. It did show some trivia ("Behind the Lyrics") for English songs but not the lyrics themselves. Could it be that they don't actually have the rights to
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by yarcob 5y ago
Spotify doesn't, and even for Apple Music lyrics are a somewhat recent addition afaik.
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by yarcob 5y ago
Poor performance on Mac was also an issue. Web browsers on the Mac were held back by the fact that Adobes plugin was extremely slow on the Mac, and Adobe didn't care. Apple could write the fastest web browser in the world, but it would
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by yarcob 5y ago
That puts everyones purchases on a single card and is even worse.
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by yarcob 5y ago
Third-pound-burger just doesn't roll off the tongue like quarterpounder.
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by yarcob 5y ago
As far as I understand, you need to change the app store country when you move internationally and have a bank account in another country. To keep purchases made before the move, you need to switch regions.
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by yarcob 5y ago
> I can’t imagine what kind of minor benefit I’d get from using multiple cards and different subscriptions that would make it worth more than easy management. I have a personal bank account, a business bank account for all business expen
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by yarcob 5y ago
> But a couple points strikes me as not accurate I'm talking about my personal experience with Apple subscriptions. Maybe I am remembering something inaccurately, but that doesn't really matter. The only thing that matters is t
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by yarcob 5y ago
1. Because people who unsubscribe might come back again. If it's a hassle to unsubscribe, I'm never going to subscribe again. There are a few of companies that I had poor experience with, and I am never going to buy anything from
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by yarcob 5y ago
There are a lot of Apple apologists who claim Apple's payment system is superior for the customer, but that just doesn't match my experience. I don't subscribe to a lot of services, but I find that eg. subscribing and unsubsc
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by yarcob 5y ago
Let's say you have some code that takes some JSON as input, and then iterates over the elements of some array in that JSON. Since JSON is schemaless, you need to check whether the array you want to iterate over is actually and array, a
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by yarcob 5y ago
I don't think there are any "middle options" that result in a good product. You want a localized app, but you don't want to put the work in. If you add some new text somewhere in the UI, you need to start the app and mak
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by yarcob 5y ago
Oh yes, word order is also a major problem in software translated to German. You can tell when an English speaker programmed something... It annoyed me more than it should that Word for Mac for years had a menu command "Beenden Word&qu
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by yarcob 5y ago
Oops, you are right, now that I think about it it would be weird to see a button labelled "öffne" instead of "öffnen". I just thought that it was unlikely that the verb/adjective confusion comes from German->Ital
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by yarcob 5y ago
In German adjectives and verbs are easily distinguishable without context. The verb "open" would be "öffne" and the adjective "open" would be "geöffnet". So it's unlikely this mistake would happe
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by yarcob 5y ago
Or maybe the translator should get annotated screenshots of the app. Laid out in a story board. If you just hand someone a list of strings to translate, there's no way you'll get sensible results. Also, you should test you transla
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by yarcob 5y ago
The problem isn't only with being outright blocked, the problem is also that some topics trigger immediate outrage and can't be discussed openly. For example, try talking about a need for safe spaces for X, and you will immediatel
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by yarcob 5y ago
What fraction of customers is affected by the issue? That's always the first question I ask myself when I get a bug report. I can't fix every bug / annoyance. My software is already way more complex than I can handle, so I ha
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by yarcob 5y ago
But to the consumer it's not clear what is causing the issue. They might just see that they can eat only organic vegetables. For example, my mom has told me she can't eat bell peppers from Spain because she get diarrhea from them.
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by yarcob 5y ago
The unsurprising result is that naysayers call the change a failure before the first harvest after the change. They "predict" that they will lose 50% of the harvest. Let's not call it a failure just yet and see how this turns
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by yarcob 5y ago
> Horizontal scaling I think the importance of horizontal scaling is overhyped. 99% of PostgreSQL applications are at a size where a single machine can easily handle the workload. To enable horizontal scaling, you need to make so many tr

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