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When I lived in Sweden I had an 8-digit pin and biometrics enabled, indeed.

> I think the real problem is Google Play Services. It's far, far too tightly integrated in a way that it just seems like Android was designed to be unusable without. Wasn't the po…

Oh, yeah, the Snowfield itself is secret enough, but getting to the palace afterwards is just a matter of exploration. The teleport is not that hidden. FWIW, after you get one half…

All the speedrunners just kill the guy in the jar to get the medallion: you don't have to talk to him. Also, all you have to do in the Snowfield is to take a teleporter: that's not…

The peasants did not live for long, though, did they? Hard to say if and how the diet contributed, but just because people rarely ate meat then, for example, doesn't necessarily me…

Code review just means you need an accomplice. It makes it harder, not impossible.

Its mere availability is not "encouragement."

I never got the idea from git itself that changing history is encouraged. What makes you say otherwise?

I don't think the internal design is/was that similar. We switched from CVS to git, and were evaluating multiple choices. What tipped the scale in the end was our trust in the inte…

Meh. While I agree that Mercurial had easier to use CLI, there was maybe 1 time over the last 15 years or whatever when I needed anything other than git reset --hard. Although, I s…

The way I remember it was that bookmarks were added because the git branching model became so popular. The "branches" in Mercurial were allegedly not designed with short-lived feat…

Mercurial had an easier to use command line interface. If that's what makes it far better technology, we have a very different idea what makes the "technology" better.

The non-professional flow you described does not require merging in git either. I suppose most teaching resources about git go deep into merging because it was created for distribu…

I got my first MacBook around 2010 because I was tired of fixing suspend to RAM every few Nvidia driver updates on my ThinkPad. Then I paid for a commercial VM to seamlessly run so…

Removing all manifest v2 support is also a code change that can be reverted. Of course, the larger the change, the more work it's likely to require to maintain it in the future.

A typical example for English is the adjective order.

I have to wonder to what extent the strangeness is just unfamiliarity.

Google is not the only provider of Chrome extensions (yet?).

> But because it hasn't become cannon in any group or culture, it's a bad idea in that it doesn't produce human flourishing. I am not convinced that's certain. At best, we can tell…

Rampant misinformation certainly makes it harder to figure things out, but I disagree that it somehow removes people's right to vote for what's best for them or making an educated …

For me, the crisp text was the reason retina became a must.

Sure, but a screen, even a touchscreen, is not mutually exclusive with buttons. My Toyota has both, and after setting up the navigation, I can go the whole way and do everything wi…

It's not separate, but they don't necessarily have to use them like that. They merely can.

I don't think you appreciate how easy it is for the chromium forks to add their own ad blocking. This is simply not a good example of monopoly abuse on Google's part.

Because development costs money. Your "impossible to keep up" here is easily explained by Google simply investing more money in development and thus being able to "innovate" faster…