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A withering takedown, presented dispassionately

15 World Cups to not watch

Mouse/trackpad cursor support, keyboard shortcuts, and robust filesystem access are required to intelligently use Photoshop. Does Adobe expect that iOS will eventually get there?

The issue of Sony disallowing cross-play is not the reason for controversy in this case.

It's actually because logging in to a Fortnite account on PS4 irreversibly locks that account to Sony's walled garden.

I created my Fortnite account on PC and played there. Then I logged in on PS4, and played there. Now when I try to log in on Switch, I'm not able to. Here's the actual error message given:

"This Fortnite account is associated with a platform which does not allow it to operate on Switch. Neither the Fortnite website nor Epic Customer Service are able to change this. To play Fortnite on Switch, please create a new account."

The problem is that even disassociating the account from Sony won't then allow me to use my Fortnite account outside of Sony's walled garden. The account is permanently tainted by PlayStation.

Most importantly, the irreversibility of Sony's taint upon your account isn't disclosed until after the fact. It's a classic anti-user misdeed.

Anyway, Hacker News seems like the right place to ponder SaaSS user account foibles.

Of course critics of GitHub's acquisition have indeed offered a better solution in the form of Microsoft not buying GitHub.

Beyond that though, the article encourages and exemplifies the most blatant form of armchair CEO-ing.

The tech press has gleaned clicks from their fawning yet resigned corporate strategy fantasies for so long that now their headlines straight up demand that mentality from their readers.

The Catholic church is basically a corporation, where the cardinals (the board) elect a non-hereditary emperor (the CEO). Theories of the firm have modeled ideas about corporate governance on the success of this structure. In the past this catholic firm raised armies, held large areas of Italy as the papal states and still today are considered to be a sovereign entity.

The Founder's homeworld on Deep Space Nine was a rogue planet

>Decades ago everyone _knew_ smoking caused cigarettes.

Surrealists, dadaists and fans of retrocausality tried in vain to warn us that smoking caused cigarettes

A law forcing support for electronic devices until a certain amount of them fall out of use would discourage companies from making durable products. Companies would use even more brittle, low-endurance parts.

They say you can estimate the maturity of a group's culture by how easy it is to commit heresy.

Less Wrong fans seem fairly mature by that metric, since they don't blacklist their apostates.

The Yudkowskites actually seem one step ahead of academic culture if you're looking at groupthink indicators.

Everything works with Debian 9 on my Macbook Pro 11,1 and it's noticeably faster than macOS Sierra and High Sierra.

Qualcomm doesn't build faster chips because their customers have thin margins and want SoCs optimized for cost rather than speed.

Microsoft gave up on Windows RT to go back to the drawing board and build Windows on ARM. It's the same with phones: they gave up on Windows Phone so that they can have a "Surface Phone" do-over in the future. This allows them to introduce hot "new" products rather than updated versions of failed products. There are many examples of Microsoft doing this.

In their original letter, Zillow's first demand was that Kate Wagner confirm that she has "stopped, and will not in the future, access or otherwise use the Zillow Site or Images," which she has now done.

Even in the worst case scenario, the internet was going to keep Wagner's original celebrated body of work available.

I dislike the idea that Zillow's legal goons can now guarantee Zillow's sellers that their photos won't be subject to mockery by McMansion Hell.

Except they achieved the outcome that they stated they wanted. EFF says McMansion Hell won’t use photos from Zillow moving forward.

I've been running Debian on a MacBook Pro 11,1 for a couple of years and everything works great. The 7,2 Air has similar hardware and I would expect that you'll have a good Debian experience. Battery life is slightly worse than running macOS but performance is slightly better.

When my sister started grad school at Harvard she bought a brand new 64-bit Dell laptop from the school store that came preinstalled with 32-bit Windows. I was amazed.

I wiped the computer and installed a 64-bit OS, but there are definitely people out there selling 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness.

I second syncthing. It's been gloriously reliable on Linux, macOS, and Windows, even while pumping terabytes through it.

I'm constantly amazed that so many British people believe the fiction that BBC detector vans are able to detect license violations.

Actually one of the amazing things about Planet Earth 1 and 2 is that they don't use the best cameras. The BBC is a super cheap institution, and so their cameras are often super bulky and limited compared to state of the art options. Watching Planet Earth Diaries is amazing because you can see the camera crew doing incredible work with old equipment.

Now you've got me imagining a David Lynch film about a space marine fighting robot demons on Mars.

While I don't disagree with the point of the article, it seems that shooting down a bunch of undergrad student newspaper columns is needlessly punching down. When I was an undergrad, reading the daily student paper was a way to enjoy a parade of knee-slapping unintentional comedy and breathtakingly embarrassing writing.

I use a similar mu4e setup and it's great. Instead of offlineimap however I use mbsync (née isync) because it's faster when chugging through thousands of emails.

I have a 2011 Mac Mini and the fan gets annoyingly loud when under load. I was also annoyed by the fan in my NUC so I put it in a fanless case. It's dead quiet, and stays cool enough to run under load without throttling.

This is a really useful breakdown of Let's Encrypt and its scripted process for procuring certificates. It's ironic though that cryptologie.net is not run over https! They should use Let's Encrypt.

Yes, the MacBook was released April 10, but the Chromebook Pixel was already shipping USB type-C in March. Someone in the other Thunderbolt type-C thread also mistakenly claimed that Apple was the first company to use type-C.