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who_what_whyon New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

1.3 GB/s vs 2 GB/s read. I think it's perfectly reasonable given most users aren't going to be doing high I/O, and if they did, they'd just get a MBP.

who_what_whyon Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

Really? I think Notes is far superior to Evernote. Notes was shitty but the newer versions since the past 2 years allowed me to completely remove Evernote.

who_what_whyon Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

Chromium is open source much like Android and Linux are open source.

who_what_whyon Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

Honestly you sound paranoid. What if a dev wants to add instrumentation to make sure a page is loaded? What if you have some weird OS version, CPU, or kernel that might crash 1% of app opens?

who_what_whyon Mountain View approves razing rent-controlled units for $1.5M homes

It's amazing how the politicians representing the people of the Bay Area don't possess egalitarian values. There's so much unused and undeveloped land available in the mountains yet the property is crazy expensive.

who_what_whyon Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

How's the browser a scam? I use it and enjoy it. I think their business model is the most egalitarian business model amongst all browsers.