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Comment · 1 month ago
...Adobe? What interest do they have in data harvesting so much from vehicles?
Comment · 1 month ago
>at what point does a company become a collection of impenetrable siloes, where nothing really does what you expect?

Around the year 2015.

Comment · 1 month ago
>I know the UN claims that "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation." but it's purely symbolic and changes nothing geopolitically.

Symbols are arguably the most important aspect of geopolitics.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Dangling shiny keys in front of people remains an effective method of narrative control a decade on.
Comment · 2 months ago
There are several hundred federal judges, and cases like this can be brought before virtually any of them. As a consequence at least one judge has ruled practically every single action by the Trump administration is illegal. These rulings are typically overturn at some point in the appeals process up to the Supreme Court, which has mostly upheld them as legal.
Comment · 2 months ago
Level 10 spec is 2^40 pixels, which is a ~1 million x ~1 million pixel square.
Comment · 2 months ago
An active "yes/no/cancel" prompt is a paragon of usability compared to the modern standard of constant yes, except for when it fails with a silent no.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
The contrarian in me wants to say Margaret Mitchell.

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