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by untog 6y ago
Thanks, I suspected as much. I'd contend that I've done neither of those things but will instead take it as an opportunity to re-evaluate my choice in even spending time here. Time to sign out, I think.
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by untog 6y ago
How is it helpful to post an example of a buying guide for over the ear headphones? It solves the exact problem the OP pointed out: that they don't know what to buy and don't want to spend the time researching themselves. It gives
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by untog 6y ago
You're asking what's wrong with wasting money?
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by untog 6y ago
Perhaps paranoia on my part but this opens them up to deprecate that support whenever they feel like it.
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by untog 6y ago
> nor do I want to invest any time learning about headphones https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-over-ear-hea... ~ 5 minutes of reading time and done.
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by untog 6y ago
No doubt Apple will have made a great product but that doesn't oblige you to buy them! What would the Airpod Max bring you that your existing Airpod Pros don't? What problem will they solve? It sounds like you're just buying
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by untog 6y ago
C'mon. Just because there is one C++ app without remote exploits doesn't mean all C++ apps are immune.
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by untog 6y ago
> They should then think again about their choice of using teams. What percentage of Teams users do you think have a choice in their use of Teams?
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by untog 6y ago
The OP is asking for more detail than “not enough”, though: “Can it escape the Chromium renderer sandbox? Or is that sandbox disabled?”
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by untog 6y ago
Like I said, there was a vocal minority. Did you forget that he was widely mocked for being so dismissive of an obviously very impressive product?
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by untog 6y ago
Oh, for sure. It’s going to be a big deal to use techies and represents a huge shift in terms of who holds the power in processing. (that said, the vast majority of PCs won’t be able to use it!) But entire industries (e.g. ride hailing) wer
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by untog 6y ago
> Appreciating the iPhone is largely done in hindsight. I’m sorry but that’s definitely not true. Yes, there were a vocal minority of folks who said the iPhone was nothing special but the mass market response was huge and it was herald
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by untog 6y ago
I doubt that very much. The iPhone was a true revelation: in user interface, in form factor, in the things it allowed you to do. The M1 is amazing but it doesn’t compare. Performance (both raw and thermal) is a big boost but it’s not going
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by untog 6y ago
I was a little confused by this part because MS is already happy for Office to run everywhere, in browsers. Given the in house expertise that’s given us VS Code I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see an Electron powered Office app suite in t
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by untog 6y ago
NYC can already do that: it's not uncommon for express lines to be shut down overnight for work to be completed, for example. (the entire system is shut down overnight right now anyway)
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by untog 6y ago
Info from the MTA here: https://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/new-full-year... I regret to inform you that the NYC subway has many more problems than you experienced. Before the pandemic I traveled betwee
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by untog 6y ago
As someone living in NYC I can attest that the local/express lines are great. But I'd kill for 95% reliability! The on-time performance in NYC is somewhere around 80% and likely to get worse with the huge budget issues NYC will
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by untog 6y ago
This notion always makes me laugh. Which is better, Google Maps or the old MapQuest pages that had arrows and reloaded the entire page when you wanted to move the map? I know which one I prefer.
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by untog 6y ago
That's a lot more overhead. For one it requires you to spin up an entire JavaScript engine! I don't know if it was ever implemented but the beauty of doing this at the HTTP level is that (for example) it could be built into the
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by untog 6y ago
Do people often refer to 'bleaching' when they use BleachBit? I've never heard it used.
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by untog 6y ago
Of all the places to use that absurd made up concept of "bleaching a server"... Hacker News ain't it.
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by untog 6y ago
One big annoyance for me is that every song I play now shows up in my YouTube history. For me, watching videos on YT and listening to music are activities I do in two very different contexts, mixing them together in a list serves no purpose
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by untog 6y ago
It feels like a trope to even say it but it amazes me how badly Google have handled the transition from Google Play Music to YT Music. For me YT Music is an inferior experience in every single way.
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by untog 6y ago
I doubt they care. What I suspect Salesforce realised long ago was that they don't need to appeal to their end-users, they just need to appeal to the managers in charge of signing contracts. In that regard, Slack is a fantastic fit. Sa
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by untog 6y ago
I'd say that I'm amazed Google hasn't come up with a competent Slack competitor yet, but then it's "Google" and "a messaging product", the two are like oil and water.
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by untog 6y ago
> Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-di
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by untog 6y ago
You've misread. > © 2020 Wyze Labs, Inc Amazon, Alexa, Echo Spot and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The page is copyright Wyze Labs. Separately, those other terms are trademarks of Amazon.
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by untog 6y ago
When it comes to their webcam: absolutely yes. You can get the exact camera they sell on Alibaba. That said, the software on the Alibaba versions is awful. I think their business model makes sense here: buy commodity hardware, make your own
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by untog 6y ago
It's against Apple's T&Cs, though. If you're doing it at home by yourself, who cares. But a company that's interested in automated testing etc. isn't going to see it as an answer.
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by untog 6y ago
I’m not sure that’s true when factoring in performance. Every time I’ve tried to animate SVG it’s been an absolute CPU hog in a way Flash never was. Not saying we should stick with Flash but I don’t think SVGs are a complete answer today ei

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