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jwommack

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    The M chips make for real bad developer experience when trying to support interoperability. Lots of docker images and other virtualized software just can’t be emulated like it used…

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    There’s a reason they stopped selling Photoshop in non-subscription when the pricing difference was something like this. $699 vs $49/mo. Now maybe $20/mo since they no longer force…

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    Windows updates on older Eee PCs got/gets brutal a few years in. Mostly due to them needing to take up more and more hard drive space. I remember there was a significant security u…

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    Comment #31282852

    They pretty much already had the "Python 3" issue with PHP 6, the unicode PHP

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    Comment #31282806

    They've been doing that since 5.2

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    Comment #31116859

    The primary beneficiaries of this are basically Netflix and Google, no? My understanding is most of these policies have always been targeted at the large streaming services that ar…

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    Comment #30605141

    What's the phrase? You'll own nothing and be happy.

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    Things of possible note: * This is a survey published in 2018 with (survey) data gathered in two months of 2016 * mobility data comes from a different source for each country and t…

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    The bottom end of that range is $125k/yr. That’s within the average of a senior software engineer. It’s not a big leap or, really, hard to get in that context. The article specific…

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    Comment #28636617

    The Stanford study here cites an 11% reduction from ~8% to ~7%. This is purely for surgical masks, it found no impact from cloth. By far most mandate compliant masks even in high m…

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    We’ve been able to write buggy automated software for a very long time. That’s not interesting. It’s also not that interesting that stealing/replicating code replicates bugs. When …

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    Comment #28548995

    Didn’t they get in big trouble for this not long ago?

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    It’s not an additional $20-50 an hour it’s the doubling of their single biggest expense in a sector known for extremely thin margins at a time where all of their supplies are also …

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    The thread following this is a great example of Linux’s fatal issue. 5 different people have 5 different user stories. Public uptake requires ease of use and consistency.

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    It’s slower but, assuming you have control over page content, I’d think the answer is probably pseudo selectors or sibling selectors. The more complex stuff really. Of course if th…

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    Don’t even need the exact number just the aspect ratio.

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    When they did that they were never more than 10% of the personal computer market much less the world. Making products for everyone is exactly how they did it, with universally popu…

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    Comment #17577632

    That does it but also you can find more detailed information on their Github page: https://github.com/teslamotors/valhalla

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    Comment #17034891

    You're making the same mistake a lot of people are pointing out in this thread, you're conflating Daily Active Users with Visits. If this were a decline Daily Active Users it'd be …

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    This is more than a bit of revisionism, or possibly he just didn't know much about the German/Austrian interwar period. It's well documented, and covered in most of the histories r…