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by spanhandler 6y ago
I like all the proposed solutions in that thread involving brandname keyword bans and giving ad accounts time-outs for violations and such when the actual fix is to go back to putting ads somewhere other than inline with search results, and
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I have a suspicion a significant amount of their income comes from exactly that kind of extortion, and (very much relatedly) from tricking people who aren't Good at Computers into clicking ads that they think are search results, not fr
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I think the touchbar would have been vastly more useful as a companion app for iPhone and iPad. As implemented, I can't afford to become used to it even if I wanted to unless I plan to be not just on a Mac, but specifically on a MacBo
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Once you're outside the world of computer nerds and Excel-wizards, it's easy to become the office "computer expert" and to become like 10x as efficient as anyone else on your floor though the magic of knowing a half-doze
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by spanhandler 6y ago
On desktop all of it looks like they either didn't do any styling, so I can hardly tell I'm not looking at unstyled HTML (lots of the static elements) or what they did is pretty bad-looking (everything else). Is this representativ
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'm increasingly convinced that allowing widespread use of automobiles on public roads will be regarded as one of the biggest societal-engineering blunders of all time. Between the health effects (of the cars and roads themselves, plus
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Don't forget rubber tires grinding against asphalt at high speed. Or brake pad dust. We're already at the point we know it's bad to spend much time near highways (say, living within a few hundred feet of them) but haven'
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I think you're thinking I'm in the "ZOMG ban dihydrogen monoxide, it's a chemical!" crowd, and I'm not sure why you think that. Also, yes, I'm pretty sure you'd have a hard time convincing people to l
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I don't think it's at all true that major consumer operating systems have chased performance as even a mid-tier priority for ~25 years, at least. The only major counterexample I can think of is iOS. OSX/macOS probably does th
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah, I don't know of any particular harm linked to it, it just seems like something we'd never let kids do these days just in case , since "apply magical chemical, it fixes everything and is entirely safe!" has a histo
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by spanhandler 6y ago
My mom tells stories about pesticide trucks driving down the street, spraying entire neighborhoods, when she was a kid. Says it happened pretty often. Kids would chase them, playing in the "clouds". Talk about yikes. I do wonder w
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I wasn't joking about how I'd buy Macs if all I did with computers was write & compose English text. I mean I'd get used and fairly low-end ones, but still. The keyboard's that good. Well, not the keyboard keyboa
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I was a late switcher, only after 20ish years of Windows, Linux, and a little BeOS. I now wish everyone else would just copy apple’s layout exactly for their default English keyboard & system shortcuts. It’s way, way better. Let dwm u
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by spanhandler 6y ago
You need a lot of those to write fluently in English, too, thanks to all the loan words and phrases we have. Particularly French, but quite a bit of German, too. Having some common currency symbols available is nice. Enough punctuation to w
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Nah, but that could have been build on traditional methods and properties just as well, without having to re-implement those first. It's not like every component doesn't resolve to an instance of an object anyway. [EDIT] what they
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by spanhandler 6y ago
They're low-level interfaces to a custom property and method lookup table in a language that already has that built-in. I guess it might just be me but I get a little chuckle every time I read/read-praise-about/use them. I du
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> 1. React is a confusing mess of UI/logic mixing. Hooks have shown that Super Serious programming can also be comedy, which is pretty cool.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
One of the goofiest things about JavaScript is how some of its most important and basic features and properties—say, prototypal inheritance and functions-are-objects—fall in the "you should probably never use these in any way that actu
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Never should have had to worry about that stuff to begin with, unless you were actively using it. I’ve read and written way more code that had to wrestle async back to sync than code that’s actually been able to let async happen at the loc
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Oof, I hate it when an IDE/editor tries to "helpfully" present the file tree differently than it actually is.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'm not at all following what tall poppies and getting rid of doctors has to do with my view that we're not likely to choose whether machines start giving us orders, but rather to just find ourselves in that situation and with
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah, I also remember what sold it in the Phoenix/Firebird days, and what got me to insist on installing it for everyone I knew, being 1) popup/under blocking, 2) it was really light and nimble compared to the competition (IE, Net
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by spanhandler 6y ago
How do you figure the '50s? Times we've been more united than we are right now seem more the exception than the norm, to me, since the founding of the country. Hell we haven't even had an elected member of the Federal governm
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'm not sure if I'm just turning into an old man prematurely or what, but "social" sites and apps usually turn too confusing for me to use around their second or third iteration. Facebook c. 2010 was too confusing for me
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by spanhandler 6y ago
IMO it's (human control, at high levels) all over as soon as a major corporation or state finds a way to gain significant competitive advantage by handing over the reigns to machines. Absent sustained, vigorous opposition and punishmen
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Those online recipes with irrelevant life stories before them? Replaced. Oh man. Machines replacing humans writing stories that humans were only writing to satisfy machines in the first place.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Hahaha, I'm glad you were able to take away something useful from an ignorant jerk (me) heckling your paper :-)
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by spanhandler 6y ago
There are some "cute" uses of truthiness checks that work in JS (and, in some cases, weren't flagged as errors by earlier versions of TS) that are probably a bad idea and are trivial to render more-explicit, so better, but do
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Safety aside, I find going back to “guess the source of the meta magical pattern-named method” intolerable these days. Onboarding to, taking over, or pinch-hitting in a Rails codebase is miserable unless it’s tiny and perfectly maintained b
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Right, I agree that we can prove things about algorithms, but it seems that if you define truthfulness such that an AGI can't prove that about itself then it follows it won't be able to prove it about anything more complex than it

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