k-mcgrady (u/k-mcgrady)

k-mcgrady commented on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/harambae

marcellus23 · 5 years ago

It's certainly believable that women don't enjoy dating apps, but I think it's difficult to make the case that it's equally hard for them (in terms of successfully getting a date) when they have thousands of matches and many men I know have none.

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

Thousands of matches isn’t a good thing. If you ever have the opportunity ask a female friend to show you the kind of messages they get on dating apps. They’re pretty appalling. It genuinely worries me that there are so many creeps out there. The men you know may not be getting many matches but at least the ones they get are more than likely from relatively normal people. If I had to sort through the garbage women do on dating apps I wouldn’t be on them.

kjakm commented on National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean nationalgeographic.com/en... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

kjakm · 5 years ago

Could somebody who understands this stuff explain it for me?

I'm pretty sure I've heard of the Southern Ocean before. It also seems a little fishy that this is being heavily promoted by the magazine that (presumably) these 'Nat Geo cartographers' work for.

Is this a PR stunt? Is there an official body that classifies oceans?

Edit:

I guess this bit of the article explains it. There is no new ocean, it's been recognised for a while.

"'The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,' says National Geographic Society Geographer Alex Tait. "

kjakm commented on Vivaldi 4.0 vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-... · Posted by u/0x49d1

ACS_Solver · 5 years ago

I want to offer Vivaldi some praise, I switched to it as my main browser a few years ago, and it's been great. I had to look for a new browser when Firefox (that I had used since the Firebird days) kept breaking my settings and plugins with their updates. After yet another Firefox update I wasn't able to restore the browser to how I want it to be, so I tried Vivaldi.

I'm not even a big fan of the original Opera, but love Vivaldi's features such as easy screen splitting between two tabs and one-click actions to disable images or apply certain filters to a page. Picture-in-picture and pop-outs for media are also great, periodic tab reload is occasionally very useful.

Ideally I'd like to use a fully FOSS browser, but my patience with Firefox ran out, and Vivaldi is Chromium + custom open-source parts + closed-source UI layer. Good enough for me, though not ideal.

kjakm · 5 years ago

I hadn't even thought of tab tiling as a feature I might need until now. Just took a look and seems incredibly useful!

k-mcgrady commented on Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion developer.apple.com/app-s... · Posted by u/kfdm

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

I’ve seen quite a lot of people complaining about this on Twitter. Is there some negative to this I’m not aware of other than companies losing customers? I’ve come across more and more sites in recent years with no account deletion option and it’s hugely frustrating. One I discover it and manage to shut my account down via a support channel they have lost me for good. There is no way I’m ever becoming a customer again because I can’t trust them with my data if they’re going to hold it hostage. If they’d included the account deletion option I very well may have returned in the future.

k-mcgrady commented on Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021 techcrunch.com/2020/06/10... · Posted by u/nomoreplease

amackera · 5 years ago

Not surprising, given how iTunes U never found a critical mass and quite frankly stagnated.

It's a shame, since education tech is very bad and could really use a wake-up call. I thought Apple entering the space might increase competition and lead to new innovation, but obviously that didn't happen.

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

iTunesU predates things like Coursera. I’d say it took someone like Apple to convince major universities that making their lectures available was worthwhile or else people like Coursera never would have gotten off the ground. It’s a very different market now and iTunesU definitely stagnated but in 2007 it was pretty cool.

k-mcgrady commented on Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021 techcrunch.com/2020/06/10... · Posted by u/nomoreplease

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

Shame, I got a lot of value from it in the first few years after it’s launch. At the time that sort of content wasn’t really available elsewhere.

k-mcgrady commented on WWDC21: Apple Keynote [Live] apple.com/apple-events/ev... · Posted by u/gardaani

imbnwa · 5 years ago

I guess that's owing to the fact that unlike all other streaming platforms, streaming is Netflix's core competency and not a side hustle unlike all other owners of streaming platforms. They need the in-app engagement as much as subs.

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

I’d love to know whether it works in their favour or not. I find myself viewing less and less Netflix content on my Apple TV as the “up next” queue is always full of non-Netflix content.

k-mcgrady commented on FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web theverge.com/2021/6/7/225... · Posted by u/jbredeche

standardUser · 5 years ago

I always use WhatsApp or Instagram for non-work video chatting. FaceTime is completely irrelevant unless you just happen to have your entire social circle using one company's hardware with no exceptions.

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

…and this changes that (to an extent) by allowing iOS/Mac users to have FaceTime calls with people in different ecosystems.

k-mcgrady commented on WWDC21: Apple Keynote [Live] apple.com/apple-events/ev... · Posted by u/gardaani

vmception · 5 years ago

right yeah

I still use Weather Underground even after that app's abysmal UI update. I tried Dark Sky but it just assumes too much.

I just want regional weather from all the thermometers. Apple Weather doesn't.

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

Apple bought Dark Sky. That’s why they now have next hour rain data I believe.

k-mcgrady commented on WWDC21: Apple Keynote [Live] apple.com/apple-events/ev... · Posted by u/gardaani

credo · 5 years ago

It is interesting to see that Netflix hasn't implemented SharePlay.

The keynote lists many other partners (such as Hulu, HBOMax etc.)

k-mcgrady · 5 years ago

Netflix don’t implement the Apple TV features that allow you to see content from multiple sources on one page or “up next” either.