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by CivBase 3mo ago
OSM is great as a map, but the biggest thing keeping me from switching from Google Maps to any OSM solution is the "white pages". My most common use case for a maps app is location-based search. Having a complete and updated regis
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by CivBase 3mo ago
It surprises me that there isn't simply an option to postpone the update for up to 12 hours until shutdown. I'd much rather let my system take 10 minutes to shutdown when I'm done than have to wait 10 minutes on startup befor
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by CivBase 3mo ago
Fine, but then what am I? I'm certainly not a scientist. And calling me a "programmer" is like calling an accountant a "calculator". I design solutions to computational problems. I also happen to implement them a lo
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by CivBase 3mo ago
"I buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
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by CivBase 4mo ago
Idk why anyone thought this would be a "PC console killer" type of product. Consoles are subsidized because they act as the entry point to closed hardware/software ecosystems. You can't do that with a general purpose PC
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by CivBase 4mo ago
A hundred bottles in my cabinet and I'm still always missing one to make the drink I want. And so the collection keeps growing...
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by CivBase 4mo ago
You'd need physical access while it is running as the target is using it.
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by CivBase 4mo ago
I refuse to ever use a banking app on my phone, so I don't even know if my bank's app would work. But every other app I've tried to use works just fine on GraphineOS. If you've confirmed your banking app won't work
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by CivBase 4mo ago
Funny enough, I just switched to Linux for a game I play because it was a hassle on Windows. My friends and I play Halo Infinite sometimes and I've had some performance issues with it on Linux so I've always booted into my Windows
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by CivBase 4mo ago
> Though that donation itself is a bit weird because literally on the just the other side of the neighborhood is. a park! To be fair, parks don't just mean playground equipment. It could be a forested area with trails. It could be a
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by CivBase 4mo ago
Payphones were mostly extinct even when I was a kid. I didn't have a cellphone either and smartphones didn't exist yet, except for the extremely rare Blackberry. But it wsn't a problem because basically every establishment ar
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by CivBase 4mo ago
This is a good step, but it's not enough on its own. The core issue with game licenses is that they can be terminated at any time for any reason. There needs to at least be a well-defined timespan for the license. But of course that&#x
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by CivBase 4mo ago
Meta's brand is already toxic. Idk if there's much to lose there.
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by CivBase 4mo ago
> You go to a university because you are deeply interested in understanding the subject that you study. You must come from a wealthy background because what you described is far beyond the vast majority of people's means - at least
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by CivBase 4mo ago
> thanks to an algorithm (that's another name for AI, by the way) suggests it to me on HN. It's a pretty big stretch to liken a ranking algorithm based entirely on direct, intentional human inputs to what most people understand
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by CivBase 4mo ago
> something that mostly works most of the time Problem is that at YouTube's scale the remaining "some of the time" ends up being a collossal figure. On top of that, YouTube's effective monopoly position magnifies the
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by CivBase 4mo ago
I agree this is probably true, but IMO the solution to this problem is unpalletable.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
I heard a lot of great things about uv before finally having a chance to dive into it over the last month and... honestly I'm not sold. It's fast, but the UX feels like it's mostly just a wrapper around older tools. I ran int
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by CivBase 5mo ago
The "AI Overview" is broken but it still shows the correct search results. My first result is this exact TechCrunch article, followed by the M-W dictionary definition. It's a funny bug, but hardly worthy of the headline.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
I still think AI is just a cover story for these job cuts. Tech companies are still "rightsizing" after unsustainable growth during the pandemic. At the same time we're clearly headed into a recession. Investors like growth,
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by CivBase 5mo ago
I hate it, but I still use it. The platform sucks, but most of the content isn't available anywhere else. Between the infrastructure cost, the difficulty of monetization, and the immense user/create base already invested in the pl
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by CivBase 5mo ago
> You can't steal or profit off of that data, but it's fine for them for whatever reason. The reason is quite simple. When Microsoft steals YOUR work, GDP go up. When YOU steal Microsoft's work, GDP go down. And the people
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by CivBase 5mo ago
My company has extremely strict policies about installing software. We have to call up IT any time we want an application installed. As an engineer it's very annoying to deal with, but I understand it. Problem is they have no policy ab
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by CivBase 5mo ago
I mean any job. I trust a senior biologist with no degree over a fresh college biology grad with no experience any day.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
My wife is a teacher. She wanted to teach history, so she had to get a history degree with a specialization in education. But there were no jobs available, so she accepted a conditional as a special education teacher. That's what drove
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by CivBase 5mo ago
No job "needs advanced degrees". They need experience. If you want to get your foot in the door in a competitive market, degrees help. They offer some substitute for experience. But it's ridiculous to require them.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
They replaced the context menu with voice commands. They replaced cursor drag selection with a wavey gesture. They expect us to use LLMs for something as trivial as copy+paste. This reads like an April Fools joke. Even the title sounds like
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by CivBase 5mo ago
This point only makes sense if you ship AI code without reviewing it. And if you're shipping AI code without reviewing it, you're going to run into much bigger problems than Python performance limitations.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
Not at PocketOS. It's hard to believe they're the only ones.
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by CivBase 5mo ago
> Cost of goods and services drops by orders of magnitude at every point in the supply chain. That sounds great, but how are LLMs supposed to achieve this? You can't just say "AI will make a utopia". You have to present a

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