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bdhess
·vorige maand·discuss
> Apple doesn't have this problem because they don't even make docks they're so problematic

There’s a Thunderbolt dock built into every display that they sell
bdhess
·vorig jaar·discuss
> Rewriting a critical service like this in another language seems way higher risk than making sure all policy checks are flag guarded

So like, the requirements are unknown? Or this service isn't critical enough to staff a careful migration?
bdhess
·vorig jaar·discuss
> If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are ultimately being disingenuous

Disingenuous? More like realistic.

I mean this ultimately boils down to “is inconsistent with the design of the rest of the computing experience.” People who care about good, consistent design and can afford to pay for it are Apple’s core market.
bdhess
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
What is the check that we need to do for aspiring citizens that wouldn’t interest a lender?

Also, making sure the house is sufficient collateral for the loan is a whole bunch of additional overhead.
bdhess
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655382
bdhess
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
More config options means more to test and support, so more cost. The manufacturers who are buying lower end motherboards/chipsets at scale don’t need the feature. And virtually no consumer installs a PCI-E device, ever.

So basically, it’s an argument to make all computers more expensive, in order to subsidize hobbyists.
bdhess
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Stinky is very qualitative. Maybe you grew up around tobacco smokers and so don’t mind the smell? I hate it.

Quantitatively, marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.
bdhess
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Aka cede de facto authority over international waters to a buncha thugs whose official slogan includes “death to America, death to Israel”. No thanks.
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I doubt you even live in New York.
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
> Isn't your gripe with the Qatari government then rather than the airline?

It’s an absolute dictatorship. The government and the airline are the same thing.
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Your eyes are close together, is there really a benefit in having two?
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Have you heard of email?
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Virgin didn't have to be folded into Alaska. Richard Branson famously didn't want it to happen, but couldn't stop it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/18/branson-says-alaska-air-was-...
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
> In what other industry would the market tolerate such well-understood and severe dangers for users of products for decades?

Transportation. Motor vehicles are a huge chunk of the market despite the existence of less deadly alternatives.
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Fuck this article.

If city council had some nuts, they'd just deny Dolan his permits, and he'd be up shit's creek.

All this blather about any eventual resolution needing to make him whole or happy is pure throne sniffing.
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
The station has hundreds of staircases and dozens of entrances. If you commute into it three days a week and haven't found a path that's workable, maybe the train station isn't the problem.
bdhess
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
If your therapist is telling you that you’re entirely justified in being angry at humans being humans, seems like you should find a better therapist.