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by samtheprogram 6y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I would assume that less devices are using 4G because of the lockdown, at least in the US are similar countries... most people are staying at home, i.e. on their Wifi, right?
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
The iMac competes via its 5K display and having macOS in general. Remember that Apple’s comparable offerings for this tier display were priced at $1299, in the same price range as many 5K displays. The $1800 price point isn’t hard to grasp
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, the other words in GP’s comment, along with his other comment here [1], clearly indicate that you’re right. Unfortunately it looks like 30 minutes have gone by. 1: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
As someone in their mid-twenties, I can confirm. Since a lot of users don't have iPhone's/iMessage, and/or just don't use Facebook/Messenger that much, it's become a go-to messaging platform for those that
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
I had another comment refuting the GP (as you are), but the more I thought about it, I decided to delete the comment. At the end of the day, you have to pay $99/year to publish on the Apple App Store, and on Android, although Google ha
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
No pun intended? :)
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
How does Vivaldi compare to Brave, which is also Chromium-based and privacy focused? Is there a compelling reason to use one over the other, such as the organizations behind them or power user features?
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
The post title: > Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? From GP: > It should be better, but [...] Your comment to GP: > Did you answer the question? Did you add any value to the conversation, like GP did?
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
While fact checking my other comment here, it seems like Samsung has been slow to roll out major version upgrades _since_ Android 8. Have other manufacturers improved in this regard since Project Treble?
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
Phones only getting 2 major software updates (which are released yearly, so 2 years) is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I understand older versions of Android are pretty well supported at least by apps in Google Play. Also what bothers me a
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
AFAICT, given the lack of Java on iOS, applications tend to use less memory than their Android counterparts, which is what has enabled Apple to put less RAM in their phones for years.
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
Anecdotally I remember reading that in Britain it used to be more common for some to wake up in the middle of the night and do light reading, but you’ll probably want to do some more research as I don’t recall the source.
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
There’s way less abstraction going on in Lua app that has a hand-rolled GUI versus an app built on top of a web browser like Electron. Hand rolling you’re own UI doesn’t make it less native — is Ableton Live not-native? Or are you drawing t
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by samtheprogram 6y ago
Didn’t know Gary Bernhardt was working on something outside of DAS. Quality content as always.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
For Google, the Pixel phones?
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
As Gary Bernhardt said, and I quote often, it makes sense when it’s right half of the ass. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnyApKysg4
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Sorry about that, you’re correct — I was missing the context of the parent-parent that was referred to.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
How is iMessage worse versus Hangouts? Is Hangouts even end-to-end encrypted? IIRC it isn’t, neither is Google Chat (a product which is replacing Hangouts from what I can tell), just Allo and Duo.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Anecdotally, most those I know, while unhappy about it, are continuing to play. While I don’t think people are going to defend this, I doubt this will meaningfully affect them in the long-term. It’s easy for companies, after some backlash b
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
The only other app I know of that is this stable is iMessage. Some of the time (literally) Slack gets it right, but other times their notifications are outright broken.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Although I don’t know much about the popularity of Telegram, WeChat has a pretty successful payment system, built into a messaging app. Not backed by a cryptocurrency, but it isn’t that far fetched for something like this to gain traction.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Could you follow up with some examples? Seems to contradict the parent but neither comment provides examples.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Presumably because uBlock's baseline overhead is approximately 1 second. Therefore on other sites there is enough overhead from ads or tracking that it is still worth it to use uBlock.
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Anecdotally, I don't think this panned out. I worked out of a WeWork in August (10 months after the article) and there was no key card restriction on the tap. However, compared to the (different) WeWork I worked at in 2017, the tap see
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
I wish could upvote this more than once. Readability is crucial in code. If you have to through and change the JSON that's being parse and it takes a nontrivial amount of time, that's a big setback. Sure, it's 1.7x faster (in
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
It seems like an elm-lang for the backend -- by that, I am strictly referring to its all inclusive nature. You must use their language, build tools, infrastructure, et cetera. It even seems like you must use their in-browser IDE; though it
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
Apple knows exactly where their money is coming from and is complicit. They don't care, because Google has the best user experience, and their users that do care are power users that can opt-out. As much as Apple cares about privacy, n
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
I was under the impression we did know that Voyager left our solar system -- could you clarify what you mean by this to someone not familiar with these concepts? https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science&#x2F
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
I don't think it's that simple, because the frequency of the shipments and amount of goods shipped would also decrease (although not linearly) since there are less people to account for. If both systems are equally optimized, woul
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by samtheprogram 7y ago
I don't know if "Christ" Lattner was intentional (humorous) or an accident, but I chuckled.

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