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I really don’t think feeding more money to their flagrantly incompetent and greedy management right now is at all the best course of action if you want to see them do well. The abs…

> This tactic of elevating your pet issue by linking it to a hypothetical catastrophe seems a bit unserious. I definitely have to agree. Seeing papers with such blatantly clickbait…

I think you're being needlessly confrontational and defensive. There's no need to make personal accusations about my ability to do research.

I think you're massively exaggerating the stability of running unsupported versions of Android on old devices. > and literally any 10 year old android phone can run not just the la…

I'm sorry, but cloud based speech recognition in itself would already be a red flag, even if Mozilla was doing it in-house. Outsourcing it to Google though? I feel like a company a…

Ah, my bad...

Frankly I don't think Intel's track record affords them the privilege of having good faith be assumed with something like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce i…

I find it somewhat absurd that this idea of Trump refusing to concede to Biden is gaining so much traction in the public discourse. I believe a much more dangerous and practical co…

I'm not German, but I'm in favor of reducing light pollution in general. I like being able to at least kinda see the night sky.

Ah, 1999.

Thanks, that's good advice. I do oftentimes get arrogant and overestimate my ability, when I get the game dev itch. As with anything, there are some things you can only learn from …

> although games also lost their luster for me on the intervening years... Yeah. I still like writing small games from time to time, mainly just to serve as programming exercises o…

That all rings pretty true for me. I wasn't a fan of math as a kid, or anything I associated with school really. I got into programming through Game Maker, because video games were…

People need to be really careful when sharing papers like these and repeating their conclusions without the appropriate disclaimers. That's always the case, and especially during a…

And if you still insist on having an app, you should be using a third party one anyway. The official one is simply not a good experience in my opinion. Although now that I think of…

A couple of the less debilitating yet still somewhat annoying downsides I've found: If you have the "restore previous session" option enabled and have grown accustomed to Firefox r…

> Once a social platform is around long enough, it becomes the thing that old people use (since its original users grow older with it) I think this is true, but it's worth also con…

I seem to remember reading something about a year ago about uBlock Origin being a security concern (like harvesting user data or something). Am I misremembering?

I'm really happy to be using Firefox again. I had abandoned it in favor of Chrome around 2014 because of how sluggish it had been getting. They really got it together with the quan…

Anecdotally I can say this has been the case for me. Particularly when the lockdown first started. I think it’s because my daily routine changed dramatically all of a sudden. I had…

The fine (and others like it) is a meaningless gesture. Unless companies like twitter start getting fined in amounts that aren’t pocket change to them, there is literally no incent…

I leave my Adblock off for youtube a fair bit of the time. Not for any sense of ethical responsibility to help content creators, but because of how entertaining I find their failed…

I had 1Password recommended to me by a friend, but the lack of Linux support was a deal breaker. Now I've settled pretty comfortably into a different password manager. Even if the …

> A courtesy not afforded to the largely not-rich, not-white general prison population. This claim seems to be unsubstantiated and in fact blatantly false... Please take the care t…