Affric

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by Affric 3y ago
Apple's Maps have only ever improved IMO. The feature roll out is slow but the UI is great. A better map if not better mapping.
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by Affric 3y ago
> deploy their own baseband processors Will it happen though? I get that COVID will be disrupting this but in my mind this has been the next big hardware (vs device/software/service) target since Apple Silicon. In my mind it&#x
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by Affric 3y ago
Introduction failed at one of my workplaces for a three big reasons (in the order they arose during the small scale trial): 1. Incompatibility with our stack for our front line staff. 2. No Excel which was preferred internally and externall
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by Affric 3y ago
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by Affric 3y ago
> There is a real question here about whether Facebook's algorithms created the zeitgeist or just reflected it. That is a false dichotomy. It is possible for Facebook's role to have been to exacerbate existing religious tension
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by Affric 3y ago
That means there needs to be science education. New evidence = hypothesis falsified. New hypothesis needed. That’s science working right.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s interesting that you continue to not read my comment. The first thing written there is “forgive the paraphrasing”. Indicating I am not directly quoting. And the part of my comment you are referring to is entirely contextualised by the
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by Affric 3y ago
In Gaelic (the Scottish language) Beag (pronounced pretty much as big but with a slightly longer I” means small and mor means small. I agree though that it’s interesting how people can guess.
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by Affric 3y ago
They key part you have chosen to ignore is: > "And after:" This indicates that the article is nuts for suggesting Apple should attempt to get deeper into advertising and search while decrying Google's model. Getting deeper
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by Affric 3y ago
Not what I have said at all. I actually think Apple should have less to do with search funnily enough.
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by Affric 3y ago
I got it split over multiple units and years.
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by Affric 3y ago
Interesting that you got that from me suggesting it was nuts for Apple to wade deeper into the mire of search and advertising.
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by Affric 3y ago
Forgive the paraphrasing but: > Apple should seek to use its monopoly power on iOS browsers to take greater search revenue This couldn’t possibly end with large suits. And after: > Google are bad for privacy This article is nuts.
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by Affric 3y ago
In my experience they do. It’s all about time and space complexity and analysis of given functions.
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by Affric 3y ago
I don't have any of my old economics notes nor the market reports I have read on hand but generally it's natural monopolies that have competition introduced, these are not particularly good analogue for software but they do have s
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by Affric 3y ago
Elon is already attempting the next step with X. There is going to be a race to become the WeChat of the west. Governments more generally need to deal with tech and the EU is the only one with the heft and the stones to do it. But this piec
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by Affric 3y ago
Market power is definitely going to shift if web devs only test on Chrome. The viability of Firefox as a browser is definitely going to decrease if devs only test for chrome. People need services like banking, paying bills, secure web based
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by Affric 3y ago
You know nothing about markets or real life market engagement if you blindly believe "competition is always good for consumers". There are costs to competition, inherently. Competition is only of benefit to consumers if they captu
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by Affric 3y ago
Sure, but then why care about Apple at all? Opening up mobile browsers _would_ be good if not for the fact the consequence will be bugs that won't be fixed by devs for everyone not using Chrome. Just use Chrome is advice that will be g
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by Affric 3y ago
Ah yes... so give Meta a couple of years of all gas no brakes with regards to user data while the legislators play catch up. They have gone for Apple out of pride and short sighted electoral strategy. The answer is to deal with Facebook(Met
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by Affric 3y ago
If you're posting on Hacker News you're not likely the one most vulnerable to Meta's tactics.
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by Affric 3y ago
Millenial (mid)... and know even Gen Xers and Boomers who would upgrade for new emoji. OS to many consumers (and consumer extends even to web developers/data scientists) means graphical shell.
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by Affric 3y ago
Stage manager was a mistake.
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by Affric 3y ago
I reckon it's more likely that Safari as a browser represents a more important set of security holes and therefore Apple feels greater obligation to patch patch problems (and that's easier to do by simply shipping the whole app ra
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by Affric 3y ago
Thanks for the comment. HFS/HFS+ is a fascinating bit of history. It strikes me how developer ergonomics have improved as computers have become cheaper/increased in power. As to UTF-8, we may say it’s young but in 14 months it wil
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by Affric 3y ago
So, a lot of what people think of when they think of OS is UI based (GUI/TUI/CLI) but kernel APIs are the real bread and butter and this is where the UNIX philosophy really shines. Passing a string as a file name in C++ with macOS
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by Affric 3y ago
Presented to the user as part of the off boarding process rather than separately. I don’t think that’s unreasonable. If I have paid for a service good off boarding is part of the service I am paying for.
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by Affric 3y ago
You say that but there should be an easy/painless way to get out of iCloud.
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by Affric 3y ago
We have seen large letter censorship apparatus before. We have seen mass spying before. Implementing these systems (with just humans) has been done more than once at large scales (think Second World War, East Germany). But regardless secure
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by Affric 3y ago
Sure, two technically capable people that control their whole stack including hardware that they can ensure has not been backdoored and that it’s in no other way being monitored for unencrypted versions of the data. 100% banning encryption

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