Barbing

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by Barbing 4mo ago
Pretty graph! iOS Safari, takes just under a second probably to load each time I pan across the graph. Wonder what it’d take to bring it all the way to smooth scrolling—too demanding on resources? Looking again, figure it has to do all the
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by Barbing 4mo ago
> used to When’d that change?
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by Barbing 4mo ago
Didn’t expect “Diplomatic issue with Sudan”
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by Barbing 4mo ago
> I write about … [Meta] in the book. This mean you are now under gag order as you rise on the bestseller list? :) Lean Startup is awesome, can’t wait to read your new. Excited to read about the ostensibly-not-evil Costcos of the world a
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by Barbing 4mo ago
I found it hard to believe I didn’t have a simple way of staying safe by installing an arbitrary application in a sandbox on macOS. (Restoring using Time Machine doesn’t count! :) ) This is a step in the right direction but requires any giv
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by Barbing 4mo ago
>Skepticism against AI text detectors on HN is as old as time Since early 2023 or so, when the detectors were widely reported (off platform) as unreliable? >and frequently comes from people with some vested interest in filling up the
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by Barbing 4mo ago
Recent Pangram feedback on HN: >Have you tried putting known human writing into pangram? I have. I've gotten 100% AI with multiple samples of my own human writing. It has also given me 50% on things I know were 100% AI written (from
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by Barbing 4mo ago
Did I miss news about an authoritative writing analyzer?
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by Barbing 4mo ago
True. Will add, device must be supervised to use VPN always-on which is possibly sensible albeit annoying (would have to reinstall iOS and set up as new I believe).
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by Barbing 4mo ago
Tangential note on > double-tap-the-bottom-of-the-screen feature that pulls up siri It’s disabled if not using Apple Intelligence, and can’t tap screen while talking to Siri (it dismisses instead). Now they’re gating features to the M3 I
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by Barbing 4mo ago
> You can't uninstall Apple Music Internet Explorer bundling was an instruction manual!
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by Barbing 4mo ago
Mainly want that button for pausing a video to play music or vice versa. Don’t love the logic (which will it play, or pause?) but maybe it’s about as good as it could be without more complexity like first press pauses background playback, s
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by Barbing 4mo ago
I think they’re wrong for this, though I’d read a steelman of why not
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Great demo videos. Very intelligent selection methods.
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Link hinting - love it
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Brilliant, exactly what I need! (I think!)
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Neat, someone mentioned these when I proposed a ludicrous anti-fingerprinting strategy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549352 Jeff Geerling rocks
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by Barbing 5mo ago
"Build Apps for Your Portal with AI" Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260605034512/https://developer... / Text: https://pastebin.com/Y2gZx3Pn -- > Andrew Bosworth
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Oh good, had hoped not, thanks
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by Barbing 5mo ago
You got this!
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Yes but miffing to open Privacy & Security & see dozens of apps pretending to need “accessibility” features. Apple has a dozen+ categories there but many poweruser apps I want specifically need accessibility. Is there an opinionated
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by Barbing 5mo ago
I like that. Might some of that logic have made it to consumer word processing programs?
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by Barbing 5mo ago
But at least their priorities are in order. How do you overcome those showstopping challenges & have more time to meet customers? Lawfare!
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Gaze language needed to be fleshed out perhaps
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Flat black circles on top of traffic signal control boxes, which are large, gray or painted metal boxes, typically found at street corners. The Acyclica device casts a fake Wi-Fi network and tracks phones that try to join the networ
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Disabled passengers who take a long time to load into rideshare vehicles are an example here where we want oversight on platform bans. Getting banned from both Uber & Lyft in the US with no recourse, even no human review, can disenfranc
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by Barbing 5mo ago
It’s hard to wrap up the past couple decades of tech building out their utility-like selves, showing how it breaks a heuristic of “it’s their business-just don’t use it”, so I’m impressed how well you’ve done it.
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Agreed, “literally written by hand” didn’t cross my mind. Not by keyboard or pen.
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by Barbing 5mo ago
> This exact same flow could have been…statically coded. But had never been until it was wrapped in a chatbot. It’s just about unheard of for a major site in the modern era, isn’t it? I think the AI factor is essentially essential. All b
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by Barbing 5mo ago
(A child murder joke) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D4vd

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