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by bluk 2y ago
In a different blog: https://workspace.google.com/blog/sheets/new-innovations-in-... "Building on improvements like smooth scrolling and expanded cell limits in Sheets, today we’re announcing that we’ve doubl
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by bluk 2y ago
Were you using a Cloudflare tunnel for your origin?
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by bluk 2y ago
The DMA did not mandate that they decouple their commission structure. That is Apple’s interpretation of the DMA which seems to change every few weeks so far. PWAs on home screens were disallowed and then allowed again. Apple looks like the
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by bluk 2y ago
I don't think so, at least not as a consequence from this case if Apple loses. Antitrust cases are usually very limited in scope. Microsoft's loss required many actions (documenting Active Directory and other protocols/format
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by bluk 2y ago
> It is by no means unfair, immoral, or unethical for a company to prefer and promote their own products. Unfairness is at the heart of so many antitrust lawsuits (whether successful or not). Anyone old enough to recall Microsoft in the
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by bluk 2y ago
Cloud game streaming has been recently allowed worldwide under a few conditions ( https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=f1v8pyay ). Forcing Apple to allow third party payments without Apple's cut would improve mark
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by bluk 3y ago
As much as I like Swift, the tooling has been and still is subpar. Swift package management is barely viable. You have to use Xcode. You can try other IDEs but LSP equivalent features are at the most basic level. Xcode is the kitchen sink o
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by bluk 3y ago
I don't believe Apple has released empirical data, but Apple has optimized phone charging built into recent versions of iOS (Settings > Battery > Battery Health and Charging). It will stop at 80% and then resume charging to 100%
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by bluk 3y ago
Samsung, OnePlus, and other phone manufacturers have all been accused of throttling phones and have acknowledged the throttling and/or released patches to give more user control. You can google "<manfacturer name> throttling
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by bluk 4y ago
Amongst others, probably referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nwLilQy64 and https://www.cultofmac.com/125180/steve-jobs-was-originally-d... Whether it's revisionist history or not, ther
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by bluk 4y ago
I don't know if most people consider skeuomorphic designs obsolete/outdated, but the costs would be far greater today compared to when iOS was only for a handful of different resolutions for the iPhone and iPad. Not only do you ha
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by bluk 4y ago
As far as the Coinbase marketplace, it may have “seasons” but the margins from fees will probably shrink over time regardless. A recent episode from Crypto Critics’ Corner ( https://anchor.fm/cryptocriticscorner/episode
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by bluk 5y ago
For most people, I bet it's more of a marketing term. When people hear "contactless", they might think that someone can steal your credit card number or charge you just by being in the same area.
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by bluk 5y ago
Cloudflare renews ".com" for $8.57 USD/year (if anyone is looking for cheaper; not sure if they are the cheapest). Namecheap seemed to have the lowest price for ".io" for a while.
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by bluk 5y ago
I've pair programmed using a shared server for a couple years. Both of us ssh'ed into a server and used a shared tmux session and primarily used vim to edit code. Having a chat program on the side to share links or other info we w
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by bluk 6y ago
FWIW, for the process_item function, I've found writing it like: struct Item { value: u32, } fn process_item(input: Option<Item>) -> Option<Item> { input.map(|mut item| { item.value += 3;
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by bluk 6y ago
I agree that it was ridiculous and to be on guard for these shenanigans. 100%. Today though, BMW is not charging a “subscription” fee and much more importantly, all of their iDrive data is provided for free with free software updates. And y
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by bluk 6y ago
If you're going for the HomePod (vs. the HomePod mini), buy it only if you have Apple Music or iTunes Match. It's really not worth it otherwise. I have a Google Home, Google Home mini, and an Echo Dot (got all of them for free exc
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by bluk 6y ago
https://www.cars.com/articles/wireless-apple-carplay-and-and... lists 2019 model cars with Wireless CarPlay. I've driven one and tried out the wireless CarPlay, and it works more or less like the wired version (no
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by bluk 6y ago
Having worked at a payment processor, if you are a medium to large business, you can cut deals with payment processors for a much lower fee. They are very competitive, and of course, Apple would be a special customer given very generous ter
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by bluk 6y ago
Yes, https://support.1password.com/command-line-getting-started/ for various platforms/architectures.
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by bluk 6y ago
One other minor correction is that Amazon walked back on banning TikTok explicitly on their company devices. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/10/21320196/amazon-employees...
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by bluk 6y ago
I don't know if you tried reading The Swift Programming Language book ( https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/TheBasics.ht... ). It's a fairly quick read and has brief explanations with simple
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by bluk 6y ago
The one that involved the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. which led to riots in several of the nation's cities that eventually (but directly) led to the Civil Rights Act of 1968 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by bluk 7y ago
The key quote in the Verge article is: "Carolyn Wang, communications lead for Verily, told The Verge that the “triage website” was initially only going to be made available to health care workers instead of the general public. Now that
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by bluk 7y ago
Regarding the Apple's FileVault bit, are you referring to the recently disclosed Intel vulnerability ( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05/unfixable_intel_csm... ). Did FileVault ever use this Intel
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by bluk 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what laws which govern bias and fairness are you referring to? I tried searching for some, and the closest I found was the FCC fairness doctrine which was revoked ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fai
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by bluk 7y ago
I think another way to view this is, while Swift could be performant, but idiomatic code in practically any other language may be utterly wrong in Swift. For instance recently this nested data structure "issue" was brought up (aga
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by bluk 7y ago
I've pushed a few admittedly minor backend services in Swift to production. It is ok. You basically have one viable non-Apple OS platform (Ubuntu) to deploy on. This means that your basic Golang service is a 10MB Docker image while it
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by bluk 7y ago
Related to this, I wish more of Hulu's financials were made public. They have essentially concentrated on growing their ad-supported subscriptions by cutting the consumer price and doing subscription bundle deals with others like Spoti

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