postmodest

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by postmodest 2y ago
I suspect that without Jobs, Apple is dead by 2002. Turned into an arm of, like, RIM. Then Google comes out with the Android phone and it's all over for everyone including Microsoft.
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by postmodest 2y ago
Isn't that the SmallTalk model, but everyone decided to use C++ instead?
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by postmodest 2y ago
This is the same issue as Prop 65, and while we can all say "oh the law is bad" the real problem is _corporations are lazy_. Instead of making sure their products are safe, they just say everything is unsafe, because they know con
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by postmodest 2y ago
The circular reference is because em and ex are relative to the font size of the surrounding context, and you need to pick a physical (or derivable-from-physical) unit for the root context. em and ex always refer to the M and x height becau
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by postmodest 2y ago
"We can cut costs if we sell to a few whales and not a broad audience"
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by postmodest 2y ago
Apple's competitors lose the PR war if they don't post to social media!
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by postmodest 2y ago
Restaurants are thin margin business because wages for consumers haven't risen either, even as boardmember payouts have skyrocketed.
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by postmodest 2y ago
"Surge pricing in effect" for non-tippers.
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by postmodest 2y ago
[poop]
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by postmodest 2y ago
And yet they let through `.email` ...what?
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by postmodest 2y ago
If Qt had just made peace with the GPL back in the 90's, we wouldn't have this problem. C.f. Motif/BSD.
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by postmodest 2y ago
What she's describing is the acquisition of our ability to turn experience to story through the tool of language. Imagine a time when you were nearly black-out drunk. You were conscious, but you only existed in that moment; you lacked
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by postmodest 2y ago
"We can't make headway with real media outlets so we'll partner with tabloid journalism!"
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by postmodest 2y ago
I suspect several of your examples are very likely the result of I18N considerations. Some alphabets/ideographic languages are denser than others. So text areas are set for the compact-est common denominator, and icons are unlabeled fo
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by postmodest 2y ago
Outrage that a company whose foundation is "laundering IP by running it through a complicated obfuscation engine" has created a product that is largely based on a critique of its own nature? The only way they could've been mo
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by postmodest 2y ago
Who designs the training set for your putative "fact checker" AI?
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by postmodest 2y ago
Let's not forget the loss of tax revenue, the loss of grain imports from Vandal-occupied North Africa to support large urban centers, and the rise of local Christian Nationalists in the rural areas who dismantled the administrative sta
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by postmodest 2y ago
Fuji Heavy Industries would like a word about pianos, guitars, trumpets, and, if we're honest with ourselves, everything else on that press. Though the tone of the ad was still... Orwellian: imagine a hydraulic press, stamping on human
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by postmodest 2y ago
That model of visual-memory-centered skeumorphism died in the 90's. Because for a majority of people, they get no benefit from persistent visual placement of content, or visual differentiation of documents, and can't cope with the
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by postmodest 2y ago
They dropped any utility that switched to GPLv3 because of v3's infectious patent clause that would've put their patent portfolio in danger.
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by postmodest 2y ago
Except now the cops know that 1) this is indeed your phone and 2) you have just tampered with evidence and 3) that evidence is juicy
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by postmodest 2y ago
Our SMS-to-Internet microblogging app startup is hiring full stack developers.
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by postmodest 2y ago
In my life, it's that the only people with room to have large wooden furniture were the Boomers and their parents who could afford to live in 2.5k+sq foot houses. My whole apartment couldn't hold the furniture from my parents livi
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by postmodest 2y ago
Are we really playing whataboutism for the banded iron formations from 3.7Gya? Are you going to mention the Siberian Traps next? My dude, civilization almost collapsed several times due to like, one volcano. Imagine a 20% increase in global
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by postmodest 2y ago
Man, Fuck Ted Faro.
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by postmodest 2y ago
Could Pet Rocks Be Conscious? I mean, really. I feel like having a method of sensation and an ability to react to those sensations is a fundamental basis for "consciousness" and if you can point to the sun or the Local Cluster&#x2
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by postmodest 2y ago
> It bothers me deeply how much of C ethos can be boiled down to, "We can't be bothered to learn to type at a reasonable speed" "My computer is a LITERAL TELETYPE, so I will enshrine typographical parsimony in every p
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by postmodest 2y ago
...because their "disks" all have hardware ECC?
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by postmodest 2y ago
ZFS expects to have a huge cache, and defaults to 50% of memory, separate to any other fs cache. For advanced features, it requires a certain amount of cache per TB of storage. For single-disk non-checksummed, non-deduplicated storage, it&#
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by postmodest 3y ago
Dave's got bought by the Wonder Bread folks after Dave had a bit of an episode that shook up the company, IIRC.

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