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Comment Re:Two thoughts (Score 2) 76

One: the story implies that a crewed flight is a "life and death" situation every time whereas a programmed flight is apparently a guarantee of safety and success. This seems like bullshit.

The way I understood it was that the "life and death" was only referring to test flights, i.e. flying with a crew vs. nobody onboard.

Comment Re:Of course their percentage growth will be highe (Score 3, Informative) 106

And if a company doing $1billion in revenue grows by 10%, and the company doing $1million in revenue grows 100%, then the one that grew by only 10% increased its market share.

For simplicity let's assume these two companies represent the whole market. In the beginning the market size is $1.001 billion, and at the end $1.102 billion. In this scenario the market share of the smaller company increased from under 0.1% (1/1001) to 0.18% (2/1102), while the giant's market share decreased from 99.90% (1000/1001) to 99.82% (1100/1102).

It's a completely different thing if the absolute market share actually matters beyond a certain point, but the math in the summary itself is correct.

Comment Re:who (Score 2) 191

>"the blogger wrote later, "even if the response is negative." They replied to Torvalds' 1,500-word post on the same mailing list -- and this time received a 1900-word response"

Who replied? Some group of people? Confusing.

Hardly confusing, especially since there's also a direct link to that reply. "They" can be singular, too.

Comment Re:Plus, (Score 1) 117

'X' has no Japanese equivalent.

Super Nintendo has the A, B, X, and Y buttons -- Japanese use alphabets just fine, and can pronounce them, imitating the English pronunciation through their own mora (something close to "ekkusu" in this case).

The 'Z*' mora (Za, Zu, Ze, Zo) are as close as they get sound-wise.

The English pronunciation of "X" isn't the only one, though -- e.g. pronouncing it like in Spanish or Portuguese would map easier to Japanese mora.

For one, that's 45 degrees off of what we would normally call a cross

You might have a strong connection to the Christian symbol, but there are plenty of other uses, too.

'x' is a little easier to say.

No argument there, and that's what I call it in English and in my native language, too...

Comment Re:Originally Japanese (Score 5, Informative) 117

More like "no" (while the circle is "yes").

In Japanese versions of PS games e.g. the menu selections work like that, too -- with circle you go forward, and with "X" you go backward, leading to confusion if you play both Western and Japanese releases of the games.

Comment Re:Kinds of lock-in (Score 1) 63

Lock-in is still bad for all the same reasons, but you might simply not have the choices you'd like.

Did you even read the article? Despite the awful summary here, it's pretty much along the same lines as your comment (as far as I could understand), meaning that lock-in has many different flavors, and is not a black-or-white choice -- sometimes lock-in can even be the best choice, as long as you choose it for the right reasons.

Comment Re: Aftermarket? (Score 1) 229

Pretty sure that AppleCare Plus covers screen breakage.

If someone wants to be cheap and not purchase coverage and, instead, go to a 3rd party âoeafter-marketâ repair dealer...oh well.

It's just choosing which risks to take -- the money for AppleCare would be wasted if you don't break your phone during its validity, right?

Of course, it's just mean from Apple to break working products afterwards. I mean, if the thing doesn't work right after you get the screen switched, then you can always complain to those who replaced it, and probably get compensated. But if it stops working several months afterwards, because Apple decided to issue a kill switch?

And yes, I'm salty here, since I got my screen of a 6S replaced after-market -- and Touch ID stopped working about half a year later. I have no way to prove if the events are related, but it seems very suspicious, and will make me consider very hard if I want another Apple product the next time I buy a new phone.

Comment Re:Aftermarket? (Score 3, Insightful) 229

Why would anyone go for aftermarket repairs when the device is still under warranty? They arent even a year old!

How much does warranty help if you break the screen yourself? Of course it would void the warranty, but I can imagine people would take that risk to save some money...

Comment Re:You got your C code in my browser! (Score 1) 243

Who wants websites running arbitrary C code on their machines? C is a real programming language. Probably the flagship used for most of the software you buy. It is powerful and widely known. So why let any old website that you visit execute code, probably in the background, on their own machine?

Even the C is compiled into wasm bytecode, which has its limitations -- basically the same as running JavaScript on your browser right now from what I understood. It's not like you're executing pure machine code like ActiveX or something.

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