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Drew_··on The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”
No the instructions are clear. Figuring out where the park is just isn't part of the exercise. In fact, by the letter of the rules, it's impossible to find out. Pick any definition of "local jurisdiction" you want and you still don't know where the park is. It is not necessarily in that jurisdiction (or out of it either). It's not necessarily even on earth or in this universe either.
Drew_··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
r/videos gets more natural traffic because it's a default sub. Regardless, making a subreddit isn't some competition. You don't need to be bigger than the subreddit you're forking from.
Drew_··on Don't use custom CSS scrollbars
Safari, Edge and Chrome don't style any HTML elements like their native counter parts.
Drew_··on Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature
What do you think Snapchat built all over their mapping functionality by hand? Of course Snapchat is sharing your location with third parties. They always have been.
Drew_··on Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
Well the web is a much more open platform that surely promotes innovation and benefits everyone. In aggregate, the web and it's myriad of open and free protocols is indeed running circles around Apple. So much so, Apple cannot exist without them.
Drew_··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
This comment sure does seem to have a lot of criticism of language and none for ideas
Drew_··on Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
I find it very hard to believe that an otherwise healthy person can spiral into depression simply by hearing about it a lot.
Drew_··on Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
Well 60 years ago was the 60s and suburbanization only started taking off in the 50s. I don't think OP is claiming suburbanization had this effect instantly.
Drew_··on GPT-4
Sounds like the type of prompt that would boldly give you a wrong/illegal answer.
Drew_··on Local-First Web Development
Not if you assume the server is always right. Which is suitable for the majority of cases.
Drew_··on The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)
A few Logitech mice have an automatically free-spinning scroll wheel. They call it "hyperscroll". They're the only ones with this technology.
Drew_··on Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
The search experience on Amazon is not actually that bad. It's only bad if you're paranoid or picky. I don't use Amazon to discover anything that I'm actually passionate/picky about so I personally never have this problem.
Drew_··on EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]
Likely. According to GamersNexus, EVGA is currently losing hundreds of dollars on high end 3000 series GPUs right now.
Drew_··on The Ethereum merge is done
The government is no longer democratic if it is attempting to enslave it's own people. Your example is just one of a democracy voting to no longer be a democracy. This does not mean that the people of the democracy were never free or empowered.
Drew_··on The Church of Interruption (2018)
The reality is that Grace is smart but that doesn't mean everyone else in the room is wrong. To interject and argue a "better" perspective requires a certain level of arrogance that not everyone has. People like Grace, who don't have this arrogance, will instead just let the louder more arrogant people run the show because at the end of the day it probably doesn't matter.

Moreover, this arrogance can easily mark you as "problematic" and "argumentative" by other arrogant people. I'm sure having quiet people speak up sounds great to you until you realize this means getting into more arguments over everything. We need people like Grace that are competent but let louder, more arrogant people run the show because at the end of the day, we'll be more productive that way.

Drew_··on The Church of Interruption (2018)
100% guaranteed that quiet employees will be told to "speak up" at every performance review.
Drew_··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
> What's going on with Facebook product management?

The culture of Facebook is to drive metrics so they're doing their job just fine according to this.

Drew_··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
To make even more money
Drew_··on Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1
Nobody's asking for "managed servers" they're asking for server binaries, which can be easily released without source code and was common practice for decades before games turned into live services.
Drew_··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
Yeah people who complain about Tik Tok being filled with X bad thing are spending their time engaging with X bad thing. There's A LOT of really good content on Tik Tok.
Drew_··on I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)
Them making a lot of money doesn't prove that they couldn't have made more money. Everyone knows better performance means better conversion which means more $$$.
Drew_··on I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)
My last org did exactly that. The team lead that runs sprint planning was always an engineer. Product management is still there for direction and context, but the decision maker was always an engineer. I don't think this is particularly special way to do it, but I might be wrong.
Drew_··on Sunsetting Atom
Your aversion to running shell commands is definitely not helping you and what you're describing definitely doesn't need an IDE to be done so it's not shocking that people are questioning how familiar you are with deploying code and/or leveraging shell programs.
Drew_··on Sunsetting Atom
Or just run a command with a key combo. Or setup your test script to run a command afterwards. This is what every IDE is doing in the background.
Drew_··on Sunsetting Atom
Businesses and corporations are part of FOSS. The majority of FOSS doesn't exist without them.
Drew_··on Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
Reddit is much better at what you're describing. Twitter constantly inserts content you haven't asked for in your feed and when viewing tweets.
Drew_··on Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
They think these taxes will simply be passed onto renters just like the nominal taxes landlords already pay now.

The reality is that there is no market for renters that could actually afford these supposed monumental price hikes. So instead landlords would simply be forced to sell their houses, increasing the market supply and decreasing the cost of houses.

Drew_··on Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
They didn't say renting has no benefits they said it's expensive and has no ROI.

You position renting as easy and buying as a burden and an "enormous risk" so I assume you will be renting apartments and leasing cars for the rest of your life surely?

Drew_··on Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
Stop zoning out multi-family homes and apartment buildings and this wouldn't be a problem. Believe it or not, there are many low-income people living in cities where these things are allowed, and they're not all renting single family homes.
Drew_··on React v18.0
It was indeed the need to define the thunks outside of the slice that irked me, but with multiple thunks for a slice, I just wrote them as part of their own module.
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