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jwommack
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Comment #35424637
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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Comment #32287811
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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Comment #32287526
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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Comment #29544576
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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Comment #29153245
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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Comment #28621789
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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Comment #28429806
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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Comment #28405982
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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Comment #27680945
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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Comment #27666414
Don’t even need the exact number just the aspect ratio.
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Comment #20087680
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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Comment #16066169
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…