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Comment #33497634
Frankly it doesn't look like it's ready to be useful. As an example tried "Braze notifications" and the first result was about Brave, then two mildly relevant, and then a long stre…
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Comment #33458527
Overgeneralization detected! I live tiny, and spend less than I used to. I'm not in US though. But I think the general principle is the same everywhere: many of those who come to a…
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Comment #33397377
Guests fiddling with their phones is not QR-dependent from what I experienced. Also, waiters can be helpful, and friendly even when there's no paper menus. In my current city most …
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Comment #33382936
Interesting idea. Though maximally-simple claim doesn't look warranted to me. It feels more complex than most of Forth incarnations.
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Comment #33382900
How's this important for a project which is obviously an experiment in PLs field? You either interested in such things, or not, nothing else applies.
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Comment #33282933
I can easily agree that Mac's touchpad is nice, as many other pieces of its hardware. MacOS however is not as good as it used to be (comparatively), because other OSes advanced sig…
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Comment #33282315
>System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere What's so special about it? The only difference between my Asus with Linux, and Mac in this regard is…
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Comment #33282173
MacOSX UI nowadays feels quite outdated compared to e.g. default KDE. And I don't even like KDE that much.
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Comment #33184679
It's absolutely not like that. Apple extracts profits in a lots of ways, including those which rely on gathering personal data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539762
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Comment #33178201
I didn't like FB well before it became fashionable, but I don't understand your logic here: what is that exactly that you can't entrust WhatsApp to send, but you can trust Apple, o…
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Comment #33084493
I must note switching from novelty to boring phase is a crisis which every growing project will come through once it starts to expand its workforce. I saw it in teams with very ave…
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Comment #33058302
I mentioned history of numbers, and it starts not from PIE speaking peoples, so I'm a bit lost as for what exactly is your point.
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Comment #33045538
I'm a member of multilingual family, and I'm inclined to insist it's not about Germanic grammar cases, because it's true for non-Germanic languages as well.
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Comment #33032496
>If I ask you to count the number of red balls in a bag with only 3 yellow balls, then the initial count in your head is 0, Sorry, no. Humans count from 1. That's just a basic fact…
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Comment #33006401
For example I could prepare presentations with it, or deal with long emails, and write code - all day long. While it was less comfortable compared to full-sized PC, it was normal, …
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Comment #32989361
It's not a point if postmodernism, however. Noting that earthly life is unfair, and humans (and therefore human institutions) are inherently morally fallible predates postmodernism…
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Comment #32817210
"...asking the subject about their eating habits over the last period"
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Comment #32701666
> exist only in your imagination and in fairy tales. I'm afraid, this argument is both wrong (maybe you just haven't been lucky with people around you), and inapplicable (the talk …
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Comment #32604981
Summary: the linked text doesn't answer the headline question. It's more a literary excercise
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Comment #32530268
>Were as Windows has been used to support It's turning things upside down. Windows has been used in remote because it became dominant, not vice versa. It won in enterprise segment …
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Comment #32457814
>the effort of physically going somewhere is high Ok, I realize there's a context for it. Still can't help, but laugh at how low is a "high" mark for physical effort when in office…
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Comment #32448375
We have historical experience which pretty clearly shows that not increasing the price of aggression surely doesn't stop it. Contrary to what feel-good gurus say about "breaking th…
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Comment #32448305
>Do you apply this principle consistently or only when and how it suits you? Of course, I do. Not to say I don't have biases, or that I'm always have an access to 100% correct info…
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Comment #32448273
>if you call something fmt() you start needing to make up equally clever short names for everything else, and it becomes less principled. Not necessary. There's a very sensible "hu…
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Comment #32437761
Can we decide that saving a victim from violence by applying violence to an aggressor is net positive? Yes, absolutely