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rubbingalcohol commented on Apple Pro Display XDR Review   pcmag.com/reviews/apple-p... · Posted by u/dmitrygr
colejohnson66 · 6 years ago
I’m impressed by the color gamut coverage of the XDR.

However:

> The entire monitor is controlled via macOS, which means that even if you wanted to hook up a non-Apple laptop or desktop capable of outputting video through USB Type-C, you couldn't. It won't turn on in the first place. (Trust us: We tried.) You can achieve full functionality with Windows, but you'll have to be running it on a Mac in Boot Camp.

This seems unacceptable. Instead of not running at the full 6k resolution (like the 5k one does because DP, at the time, only supported 4k over one cable), they just won’t let it work? There has to be some technical reason besides malice.

rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
The fact that Apple went to the trouble to develop a Windows driver for the Pro Display XDR but lock it down so it only works on Macs running Boot Camp - there is no justification for that other than malice.

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rubbingalcohol commented on Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt   cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/... · Posted by u/asaibx
Shivetya · 6 years ago
the liability is with the mining company and national government of Congo. the companies purchasing products can indeed put pressure on both to improve the working conditions of miners but in the end as with nearly every human tragedy, it comes down to the government to take responsibility for its actions and inaction. nothing changes until the local government has to change it.
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
You literally want to place the blame solely on a third world country for the deaths and disease of all these child laborers when it's our first world addiction to their resources driving the injustice in the first place? Who is in a better economic standing to improve this situation?

Would you have no problem buying ivory, since it's the poacher who acted immorally, and you as the end consumer have no responsibility as to how it was supplied?

I don't throw this word around lightly, but what we are enabling in the Congo is evil, and all so we can drive expensive electric cars and pretend like we're making the world better. It's pathetic.

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rubbingalcohol commented on The Dark Side of WebAssembly (2018)   virusbulletin.com/virusbu... · Posted by u/walterbell
IvanK_net · 6 years ago
You can make 90% of people afraid of XYZ, if you write a sufficient amount of text "explaining" how dangerous XYZ is.
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
But arguably Webassembly is also dumb and has no reason to exist, so there's that on top of it being a great way to obfuscate malicious code.
rubbingalcohol commented on Shields Down (2016)   randsinrepose.com/archive... · Posted by u/mooreds
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
I think the shields analogy is misplaced. Also, a manager blaming themself for the choices of their employees shouldn't be a hard rule. As a manager I do my best to create a good environment for my employees, but I'm also not omnipotent, and the actions/inactions or simply the market position of the company as a whole can be impossible for me to control and be a bigger factor than anything I could do immediately for my team. Understandably the buck stops at the manager, but we can all only do our best and sometimes that's not good enough.

I guess to simplify:

Shitty manager ===> Employees leave

Employees leave =/=> Shitty manager

> Happy people don't leave jobs they love.

Debatable, but worth noting that some people are never happy.

rubbingalcohol commented on Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One   propublica.org/article/ti... · Posted by u/mzs
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
If Tinder forced people to do background checks, propublica would do a similar write-up about how invasive that is and how it disproportionately affects [affected group]. The only way to win this game is to not play.
rubbingalcohol commented on Estimated $64M loss as SF street conditions and costs drive out Oracle OpenWorld   sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/antoncohen
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
The far-right is already seizing on this story as proof that San Francisco is just like Venezuela.
rubbingalcohol commented on Ask HN: What should people not do with their work computer?    · Posted by u/Fiveplus
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
Don't use a work computer for any personal or side projects. Otherwise the employer may be able to claim copyright ownership over the work.
rubbingalcohol commented on HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports   arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/koolba
new_guy · 6 years ago
Platforms really need to stop trying to shoot the messenger, just swallow their pride and get vulnerabilities fixed.
rubbingalcohol · 6 years ago
They paid the hacker $20,000. That's a nice way of shooting the messenger!

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KarmaCake day2297December 3, 2012View Original