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If you remember Windows Phone 8, it has already been tried and nobody (ahem, no company) wanted that.

No company is stupid enough to give up their content and infra and get none of the screen real estate.

I can see a parallel with hotels and OTAs, but in that case appearing on an OTA brings in sales. Showing $userA's content on $userB's screen won't earn any money from $company.

You have to manually start the change, it doesn't do it continuously.

For the vast majority of services, even if this action fails and the wrong password is saved (!?) you're still just a "forgot password" click away.

everything was fine

Everything was fine best viewed in IE5.5 at 1024x768. Time has changed.

If only you could add 500 bytes of CSS so the content fits the screen.

Does not require JavaScript

Who mentioned JavaScript?

Ew. I mean 500 bytes of CSS would make this so much better.

I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical. The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"

I'm surprised that they're working on HB cures since there's been an HB vaccine for 40 years.

I'd love to see more work done towards other incurable viruses like HSV (no vaccine) and HPV (limited vaccine)

Isn't half the selling point of antiretroviral therapy that you're no longer contagious?

https://i-base.info/u-equals-u/

U=U probably does not apply to all diseases for the reasons you mentioned though.

without knowing how it was built

It helps to understand the constraints of a medium, but you really don't need to know every level down to the electrons moving through the silicon.

People don't make a company. Stripe exists as is because it's not a EU company.

This is why I love Apple's Hide My Email. I use it ALL the time and the unsubscribe button is always there. It's not the most polished interface, but it works perfectly.

Also, for any subscription for which I don't use HME, I will immediately "mark as spam" any minimally-spammy email I get. The ones described in the article would be insta-marked due to the lack of Unsubscribe button.

Which it makes perfect since this it's the same company which "deprecated" MP4 support a long while ago in an effort to push to WebM.

3. Time passes

Correct, protectionism still saved the industry for years, it did its job perfectly.

Look at the car makers in Europe, they had decades to produce affordable electric cars, even lawmakers pushed their own population to buy electric cars with timelines and incentives, and they still failed miserably. How?

Tariffs are a last-ditch effort to buy more time. If you fail to use this time effectively, you will close shop. If you don't have tariffs, you close shop today.

Europe sells gasoline shitboxes for €30K when China could easily sell EVs for €20K, Europe (and the US) already lost.

Protectionism by who? By definition protectionism cannot kill your own country's car industry.

I'm so addicted I'd find a way around. It's incredible how many times I type x[enter] in my browser even if I'm met with a login screen. Being logged out stops me from mindlessly scrolling, but won't stop me from going on auto-pilot and opening X three times in a row.

In a few languages MAI means no/never, so it's an apt name for a Microsoft offering.

Not having a browser at all on your phone

I would not last 5 minutes.

I'm occasionally offline outside planes and the amount of times I pull out my phone to "google something really quick" is high.

You can already disallow apps without an MDM, but I'm curious what else you can do with it. I generally uninstall apps like Instagram so it takes a minute to even download it again, but it gives me a way to download it, post something and delete it once a week or so.

npm is so bad at everything it's insane.

SIXTEEN YEARS of development and they can't even resolve a tree of dependencies in the correct manner unless you nuke the lockfile and node_modules.

Dependency resolution is literally the number one task and they fail at it. How can you expect them to be good at anything else? Absolute joke.

Doesn't make it any less moronic. Next they're gonna arrest you for boarding the plane with Da Bomb hot sauce.

Only the highest and lowest level jobs are available. Someone needs to report to shareholders and plan. If a PM can just write tickets and they get done, then you just need one PM.

Maybe this isn't practical today, but in 2, 5, 10 years? I still have to work 30-40 years before I retire, what do I do?

I'm not buying this argument at all. What jobs are available to humans if AI can do it all? I foresee everyone paying Anthropic to do anything.

The only jobs left are manual jobs at small scale (think waiters, cleaners, nurses), but only because robots still aren't good enough.

LLMs have shown us that all the jobs we once thought were safe (creative, coding) are really not safe at all.

Even if it results in AI slop, you can clearly tell that people don't mind and don't realize.

Yeah ok. First of all, just because it sucks now, it doesn't mean we're still safe in just 24 months. Everyone was mocking AI 24 months ago.

Second, most of the work out there is not at all about "production quality 3D engine," that's the whole point. Most of us have been doing the same repetitive work for decades. Move this button here. Fix the bug here.

Sure it's not as easy as it looks, but if the average guy can spit out an acceptable app/page in 60 seconds, most people won't even be able to tell the difference.

My mind raced to the letter I instead

For Git, all you technically need is

Technically Dropbox is just rsync.

Also https://xkcd.com/1319/ but for maintenance.

such a smart machine figure out to switch the modes

Because it's not smart. We keep confusing verbosity with smartness. AI will happily keep yapping nonsense to an inattentive listener. An actually smart entity would not do that if not acting maliciously.

When news broke I was really confused how IPs with thousands of users would suddenly be more identifying than your home IP with one user.

I'm happy that Mullvad actually explains the issue very clearly in https://mullvad.net/en/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-v...

The worst part is that every company with a tasks product works right towards Jira. Compare what GitHub issues were in 2014 to what they are today: https://github.com/features/issues

and they keep. adding. redundant. features

Sounds like it's CSS' fault then. I think that just like they introduced `display:contents` to remove wrappers, they should also introduce a way to group elements as if they had a common ancestor.

    :wrap(dt, dt+dd) {border: solid 1px}

I think this varies by expectation. If you use voice, their response will be shorter and more human. If you write, you will get a whole article in response. This lets you get to what matters to you faster, as long as you're able to skim documents.

If I write and want a short response I preface it with "be brief." Sadly it doesn't work 100% of the time