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I remember checks from the 80s, my mum/dad used to have them. I never owned a check book.

That launcher may be indication Apple was thinking that way, but look at their latest U-turns on pro hardware and reinforcing their commitment to laptop/desktop. I don't believe they're going that way anymore.

Also. Did you ever see anyone using that launcher as primary interaction?

I don't see why/how – they are _completely_ different UI interaction models. Superficially it looks similar, but the one thing that really set iOS apart, was to build UI concepts that targeted finger interaction first (UINavigationController and UITableView are stroke of genius).

Everything from how big the area for a tap is, to how to work with highlights, how dragging work, how things are aligned, what deliberate limitation etc, are different between macOS and iOS.

Why is the bust a "purely visual artifact"? Why do you put the visual constraint on it?

Who doesn't want to repair a broken laptop that is just out of warranty, but maybe still have a few good years to go?

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I suspect a big player like Netflix can negotiate the revenue split with Apple. Nothing we mere mortals can.

This is my main problem. GA loads a script that sets first party cookies.

I really want Safari to have easy integration points to make a good cookie whitelist interaction using plugins.

Sure it's painful the first few days having to gradually build up that list, but like little snitch, once you're passed that stage, you just set it to say no to any new domains setting cookies.

Then users could cooperate to build cookie whitelists...

I'm using Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) which makes like a private cloud dropbox between my machines/phone. No versioning, but pretty solid.

Taking risks is not the same as cheating death.

Driving a motorcycle is not something you do to get an adrenaline high, yet from a strictly transportation perspective, it's a bigger risk than driving a car.

I think it has to do with priorities. Death is not the worst that can happen to me, hence I don't chose the safest option in every decision, because even though a long life is desirable, it's not the most important thing.

The sense of freedom is often worth more than the safest option.

How do you mean it dwindles? It seems to hold steady and increase in some countries.

This is a somewhat recent figure I found. https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/11/ios-market-share-kantar/

> Existing residents don't deserve to live in SF more than new ones just because theyve been there longer

Yes, of course they do. It's people's _homes_ we're talking about. And it's absolutely in every society's interest to safe guard a mix of people everywhere.

Rampant gentrification where the moneyed upper and middle classes squeeze out the lower class, is clearly the number one reason for an increasing segregated society, disenfranchisement and alienation. Perfect growing grounds for radicalisation and what follows...

I seriously doubt a coordinated terrorist attack is done as a public facebook post. Isn't that a whole other issue?

Which I agree with. Airbnb is great when it's not run for profit. People purchasing second homes to rent out are ruining nice places.

Don't worry. You'll be welcome. There are tons of tourists in the beach areas and these areas are slowly eating into the surrounding. That's where the tension comes because prices shoot up and regular people are squeezed out.

Source: I live there.

> digitally immortalizing his youth

I'm probably too socially awkward to understand this obsession with documenting ones offspring in minute detail. but then I have zero interest in having kids.

I do hope EU gets on top of Apple/Google/Netflix/HBO/etc soon. It's supposed to be One Market, yet these all impose territory restrictions where content in Spain is not necessarily available in France and vice versa.

Yes, this is why I say I really don't presume to understand much. I've seen some things, and it's questionable whether I understand what I see through my western cultural filters.

My pockets were mostly southern india and a bit of delhi and kolkata. In work contexts of IT, I (thought) I saw similarities, but I'm sure there's many subtle differences that just eluded me.

> Whites create and Asians copy

While I think it's incorrectly worded, I do think cultures encourage behaviours that in turn affects ideas like creative output, but that's not race, only culture.

Example: My native country, Sweden, has a culture of municipal music schools that are relatively cheap. Tons of kids are encouraged, and do, take up some instrument at some point. Very few take it further, but Sweden has a disproportionate number of #1 international pop hits compared to its tiny population. This is obviously also part of that pop music is something that is globally in demand (some countries produce many classical musicians, which may not be as commercially viable).

Kids in the US are encouraged to live the American dream, that anyone can make their own fortune (totally unrealistic, given class structures), and are encouraged to innovate and try things out. Clearly that culture of "self made man" produces a lot of innovation and creative output, which in turn is globally very in demand.

The only asian country I had a little insight into is India. As an outsider, I can't at all claim to understand it, but there appears to be widespread culture of learning a trade, perform that trade the way you learned it, get a good job with a big company and then focus on your family. I trained some outsourced IT staff, and no one there wanted to "stick out" or perform better than the group. People were much more inclined to take collective responsibility for solving a task than individual. I speculate that India as a consequence of this culture, isn't using its full potential for dominance globally, be it creatively, musically etc. Though there are signs of it changing.

I got to write an address database matcher once covering all of scandinavia and poland.

For suggest functions, it turns out people fully expect to be able to write some sort of ascii normalisation and still get a match, i.e. the address has ż in it, but people want to type a plain z.

And the rules for this are not entirely obvious. A swede would totally expect being able to write ö instead of the norwegian ø when doing routing across the border.

There's a reason for reading text in columns – it's just easier!

Everything from newspapers to books do it.

And it's quite interesting to try layout a text width wise. Just paste some long text into an html-page or text editor and then go full screen width. I find it almost impossible to keep track of where I'm looking. I'm much slower reading like that.

Good point. It's worse than email or username.

Sure. But perhaps it should be something you have that isn't the device you're trying to get into.

Biometric data is not a password, it's an identity. Fingerprints and iris scans are equivalent to a username or email.

To secure a device you need a password.

Basics: something you are (iris scan, fingerprint), something you have (2fa token, usb unlock key), something you know (password).

One out of 3 is probably not very secure.

The point I was making was that popularity does not equal quality. This doesn't mean I think gangnam style is particularly bad, but is it the best?

I think very little can be gaged from the amount of views something gets on the internet, be it the daily mail or gangnam style.

I've been in plenty medical investigation for this. I'm quite sure there isn't anything physically wrong with me.

Also. The fact that I can control it by observing the signs my body gives me...

Quite certain it is positive stress.

It's hard to describe, but I can quite easily get "into the flow". This is where I focus on a single project, time cease to exist and I just become one with the code. I can focus on coding for hours and hours without break. In fact, lunch and toilet breaks are irritating distractions. I can go to sleep at night uneasy about something I'm not exactly sure about and suddenly the solution strikes me when I'm half awake in the shower next morning.

I don't use much caffeine, a bit of coffee in the morning, rarely in the afternoon – however I do know that coffee and alcohol makes my condition worse.

It's totally engulfing and extremely productive. This _is_ the mythical man month that people talk about. Only. For me it takes a toll. It's not about any underlying stress like "I won't make it in time". My work is luckily such that I don't have much pressure. It's being "in the zone" that is the problem.

The "flow state". I love it yet mustn't overdo it.

I think there is also a revive of cycling as transport. Stockholm have seen a sharp rise in cycle commuters the last few years.

As people become more aware of both health and environmental issues, the tendency to choose the bike increase.

Yes, and gangnam style is the most viewed youtube clip ever.

Daily mail is not bad because of politics but because it's exploitative, sensationalist, devoid of empathy and does absolutely _anything_ to get a click/view/reader. It stands for nothing, there are no standards, nothing is too low and no story too sensitive to bulldoze.

> I guarantee you you WILL NOT burn out if your thing goes well.

I strongly disagree with this. I'm a compulsive person, I used to say yes to everything, I enjoy everything. I don't think I ever spent effort towards something that wasn't rewarding in some way or other.

However. Stress is stress and it can be negative or positive. Stress makes you perform better, adrenaline pumping, your senses sharpen. It can all be in a positive loop with great feedback, everyone loving what you do, amazing results, and still you end up burnt out.

My stress manifests physically, "skipped" heartbeats, adrenaline rushes when waking up in the night, I even got atricular fibrilation (AF) and was hospitalised to be "reset" through one of those heart machines you see in ER. I was convinced there was something very wrong with me. Heart problem? Doctors did test after test, and nothing.

I learnt my lesson, I know how to recognise the signs now. I can manage it by just taking care of myself.

But guess what, every single thing I do is fun, positive, great feedback.