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by sjwright 5y ago
The original iPad was a first generation product; its status as a minimum viable product was only clear after subsequent product cycles.
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by sjwright 5y ago
I suspect that new iMac design has been in the can for years, waiting for the technology to catch up. And it’s a consumer device anyway; the real test will be whether the “M1X” serious iMac is inflicted with arbitrary thinness or if it will
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by sjwright 5y ago
The original iPad was, in terms of compute specifications, a minimum viable product. The M1 Macs are not—they are the combination of a mature platform with a mature silicon chip. Given the sheer volume of M1 sales there’s no chance they’re
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by sjwright 5y ago
Wherever possible, they've done exactly that—so how is that a criticism? Case in point is the end-to-end encryption of iMessage. Or the at-rest encryption of iOS devices. In other instances where Apple does have access to your data, th
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by sjwright 5y ago
> Even more cynically, you can say it's private from their competitors. I've heard this from a few people recently, but I don't understand the implied criticism. What should Apple do here? Keep my data mostly private but
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by sjwright 5y ago
Replaceable batteries were superseded by batteries of sufficient capacity for 99% of users. (And for the remaining 1% I'm sure the non-Apple marketplace has fantastic, no-compromise solutions.) Remember when it was impressive for a lap
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by sjwright 5y ago
This is true. Our hearing is well tuned for utility in a pre-modern context. They just don't have anything remotely like the precision of our eyesight, which can judge things like the straightness of a line, or simultaneously compare t
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by sjwright 5y ago
I am not confusing the two. In a band-limited signal, the Shannon-Nyquist theorem mathematically proves that the sampling rate is the frequency resolution. It also proves that when a signal is band limited, discrete time sampling can be a
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by sjwright 5y ago
For me bedsheets are their own wash cycle, so there’s nothing to stack them with. I just carry them upstairs and dump them into the blanket box when they're done. No need for a basket. But let's say your washing process is differe
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by sjwright 5y ago
> 128k MP3s Twenty years ago, such files would have been barely listenable. Ten years ago, this would have been tolerable but obviously compromised. Today, with the best encoders, 128k MP3s are shockingly good. Certainly not perfect. But
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by sjwright 5y ago
The crucial difference is that compared to our other senses, our ears are really, really, astonishingly shit. They can be highly precise in one context and ludicrously imprecise in another context. And they lie. They often tell us we&#x27
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by sjwright 5y ago
And more stress on the speaker/tweeter drivers. Of course, when you look at these high resolution recordings, the amplitude of material above 20kHz is piddling. The amount of harmonics/overtones in acoustic instruments is minuscul
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by sjwright 5y ago
I believe you are sincere. But I think that if you were able to run a sufficiently rigorous blind test (note: precise level matching is critical ) you'd surprise yourself.
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by sjwright 5y ago
> It definitely sounded different, I heard things in songs that I've listened to for years that I've not heard before. That usually means one of two things— 1. the frequency response of this new system is different, changing th
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by sjwright 5y ago
Again yes, that’s exactly my point. They are double dipping on the good will; first as an employee perk, second on their corporate annual reports.
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by sjwright 5y ago
I never understood the need to fold bed sheets. Crinkled sheets simply aren’t a problem I’ve ever had; you barely notice the difference once they’re stretched over the bed and pillows. I have a blanket box at the end of the bed; I just shov
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by sjwright 5y ago
That’s my point. The donation is financially a corporate donation, but is being marketed to the employee as a perk of their employment. That it’s “their” donation.
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by sjwright 5y ago
And then the accountants probably tabulated them as corporate donations. So were they gifts from the employee or not?
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by sjwright 5y ago
Not every website requires retention of every person in order to survive. In my case, my website is better because my user base is tolerant of a bit of jank. I consider it a win whenever someone leaves because of trivial crap.
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by sjwright 5y ago
Exactly this. I have no desire to develop against the most bleeding edge target. Thanks for explaining this better than I could.
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by sjwright 5y ago
It's no matter; I'm not here for the points. Personally I find it hilarious to be down-voted for stating plain facts about my own (demonstrably effective) development process.
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by sjwright 5y ago
You do realise that my “about” is a joke, right? Regardless, I’m self-employed and my website makes enough money that I can spend plenty of time arguing with people on the Internet. Your admonishments certainly aren’t going to be my undoing
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by sjwright 5y ago
HTTPS is necessary. QUIC is not. It’s going to be a long time before any site requires QUIC in order to work.
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by sjwright 5y ago
I just don’t like the idea of having my own devices conspire against me to compromise my own privacy.
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by sjwright 5y ago
As a web developer I don’t test in Chrome—I develop against Firefox and sanity check using Safari iOS. Therefore my site is explicitly optimised for Firefox. Chrome users might experience issues. Or they won’t. I have no idea.
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by sjwright 5y ago
Unless your primary workload is media encoding or rendering in Blender, those benchmarks are just as artificial as the truly artificial ones. Most people’s performance workload is dominated by media consumption—not media creation. But the l
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by sjwright 5y ago
No worries, I'm pretty sure I was unclear before. Though I must admit I'm not entirely sure how or why "libertarian wet dream" UBI is so objectionable. Is it because libertarian UBI might not be so generous? That it&#x27
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by sjwright 5y ago
To say one's ability to think rationally is severely hindered, suggests impairment in (for example) considering short term versus long term priorities, or being overly impulsive, or being overly controlled by emotions. Whereas "cr
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by sjwright 5y ago
I think I may have been unclear. When I said “it eliminates the significant time wasted in maintaining welfare entitlement” I’m talking about the time wasted by poor people as they continuously jump through hoops in order to prove they qual
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by sjwright 5y ago
Calling UBI a "libertarian wet dream" is unnecessarily reductive. Personally I try to shy away from using any partisan labels to describe any policies because they are rarely (if ever) necessary. And their meaning rarely translate

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