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The author should have state from the start that the article he bases this upon is about social science and not the whole academic and science world, it's kind of misleading

Social science has always been full of incertainty and biased results, it seems rather normal the public don't trust it blindfully.

Sometimes I forget some people don't buy things to use them for years, but prefers buying every year the last novelties. It's kind of a weird consumerist way of life.

Yes, smartphone camera's are awesome now, but it's sad an awesome product like that will be thrown away after a year of use.

"I basically upgrade for the camera improvements every year"

No wonder the earth is warming... You really need a new phone every year just for the camera ? I really don't get why anyone would do that without an actual professional need.

First time an iPhone feature makes me want to buy one. I hope we'll find lidars in android phones soon !

thanks !

Why is there "redux" in the title ?

For me using elementary OS for a bit was truly awful: its UX was the worst I ever used.

It just felt like a gnome reskin, some clunky apps and insane defaults settings on top of ubuntu making everything worse just to please mac users. And yet it doesn't bring anything new on the table and is still way less pleasing to use than macOS (or mac has been doing really bad since the last time I used it).

If some few people really find it nice to use, good for them. But it's no suprise elementary OS is failing.

For those looking for a complete 3D engine already supporting WebGPU and with a WebGL fallback if needed, there is BabylonJs (you'll need the 5.0 version still in the release candidate state) : https://doc.babylonjs.com/advanced_topics/webGPU/webGPUStatu...

ThreeJs is alwo working on its WebGPU renderer

Maybe because Safari runs exclusively on MacOS and so can have a lot of OS specific optimizations ?

> I encourage my students to never stop learning niche languages.

Well, speaking for most mortals doing programming : once you'll find a job, you'll mostly learn languages and tech usefull for your job, not niche languages. And not everyone like programming enough to keep learning niche languages outside of work hours. And once looking for another job, you'll mostly learn languages and stuff usefull to find an interesting new job.

If you have the time and interest to learn a ton of niche languages, good for you. And maybe you'll be able to create a start-up with your epic Haskell skills, the "enlightenment" you got from learning niche languages and the golden spoon you were born with.

Glad it's not about the Swift language

Yay, hundreds of millions of chinese dollars invested in a brand new italian payment company doing nothing really new... So exciting, so unicorn.

And almost nobody is talking about what Scalapay actually do, not in the article, not in here. How is this payment platform different than the other ones ? What tech are they using ? Is crypto-currency involve ? Do they actually propose apps on android and iOS to do payment for shop owners ? Is it nice to use ? What the point of paying everything in 3 times ? What will they do with 497 millions dollars ? You could create 497 payment companies with that money.

I think you can do anything in Javascript without either Redux Saga or Redux or React.

Exactly. I never understood why tech-savvy people pay for some private closed-source password-manager while there are some great free and open source alternatives.

I also heard good things about Pass "the standard unix password manager". Great for those wanting to use the command line and git to manage their passwords.

A more accessible solution is Firefox password manager : it works rather nicely and at least it's not owned by a company trying to make money on password management.

This is excellent news. For years it was the only major browser with no WebGL 2 support : Chrome and Firefox support WebGl 2 since 2017 ... Most WebGL libraries have WebGL 1 fallbacks only to make apps run on Safari.

`eqn` looks way more readable than TeX.. All those \ are making my eyes bleed.

I heard Wallabag is a nice Pocket alternative. And you can host it yourself. I'll try putting it on my odroid one of this day.

I'm now using the nextcloud bookmarks extension, but it's rather slow, seems unmaintained, most android apps & browser extensions don't work anymore (way worse than pocket, but at least there is no adds)

Outside of USA, where most people don't have an iPhone, I don't really see the point.. It would be more usefull with ipads or any less personal device : If the shop's owner haves an iPhone accepting paiement but it's an employee doing the paiements, the shop opwner has to give his personal phone to the employee to accept paiement ? Or he needs to buy an other iPhone with no personal data and accepting paiement (is it even possible ? ) to give the employee ? .. and now it's already more expensive than a simple contactless paiement machine.

Well, I hope they'll contribute to Gecko to make it faster at rendering 3D with WebGL, or even help adding WebGPU support. Because for now, perfs aint good compared to chromium based browsers... Firefox is often way slower when using heavy 3D apps.

I bet if fdroid was censoring an app mainly used by antifa and persons from the radical left you'd be quite happy. But they rather sensor a social network used almost uniquely by alt-right / fake news writers / neonazi / hateful people, and now you're here complaining about it not being neutral.. Go create your own free right wing app store if you want Gab in it.

> The situation is analogous to a century ago, when electricity became an essential input

You can do nearly everything "the computing cloud" offers without it : just use servers, install your services on it, manage it, invest in more servers/ more powerfull servers if needed... Cloud computing is not a brand new invention, it's just delegating the server and services management to others... Whereas, a century ago, electricity was actually an essential input.

> A few months ago, the balance on my Apple account was running low (less than $100) Why do you need that much money in your apple account ? Do you buy new apps everyday ?