KerrAvon

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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   SCOTUS is essentially blindly local to Trump — pay attention to the latest Constitution-shredding decisions; they sure wouldn’t be doing those under a Dem president, and they’re twisting themselves in knots trying to make the illogical logi
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   > pretty much every American laptop OEM is in bed with the NSA Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? The big revelation of the Snowden leaks was that the NSA was spying on Americans, which it isn’t (wasn’t) supposed to do. What doe
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   Start by reading up on who won the November 2024 US presidential election and then read https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social .
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   Obsolete doesn't mean useless. Typewriters are obsolete! I use a lot of things that are obsolete, but that doesn't make them not obsolete.
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   How do you know it was typed on a typewriter?
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   > If I were to criticize "Cons", its that high performance modern programming needs to use arrays This has been true of linked lists since the advent of memory caches; it’s not just the last 20 years. They’re simple to implemen
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   Not entirely sure what you're saying here. Amazon still provides stock to employees as part of the comp package, AFAIK.
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   We need more reality-grounded takes like this one. I do have a quibble: > These LLMs also have “agents” - but for the sake of argument, I’d like to call them “bots.” Bots, because the term “agent” is bullshit and used to make things soun
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   by KerrAvon 1y ago

   Jensen is right, though. If we force China to develop their own technology they’ll do that! We don’t have a monopoly on talent or resources. The US can have a stake at the table or nothing at all. The time when we, the US, could do protecti
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    You’ve got to read more poetry before making assertions like this. In practice, the definition is more fluid than that. Lisp cannot be completely redefined. You can’t avoid parentheses, and if you stray too far from common idiom, you’re no
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    You can’t do all of your “thinking” yourself. You’re not a lone, isolated subsistence farmer. People have been reviewing things for other people for centuries, and it’s been a valuable service.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    In fairness -- if you continue reading -- his actual complaint seems to be focused on HP canceling the product a few weeks later rather than trying to deal properly with the aftermath of the launch.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    There's a hilarious-in-retrospect interview where McCartney praises the unusual placement of notes in a particular bassline on a particular song and attributes it to Brian Wilson's genius. Later it was revealed to be entirely due
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    Not so. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/zoom-in-iph3e2e367e/i... https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/customize-the-text-si...
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    That's awfully pedantic, though. In practice the answer to "does it have ads" for what most people mean by that question is "no."
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    Swift != SwiftUI
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    I'm going to preface this by saying that I support broad liberalization of border controls; immigrants are the backbone of the USA, the engine on which we run, and we should encourage immigration and make it easy for immigrants to sett
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    I don’t disagree with that assessment of Sculley but I’m not sure if that would have helped anyone. What the movie makes clear is that General Magic very badly needed adult supervision (all these “geniuses”! doing absolutely nothing of valu
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    That has never really worked in the long run for anyone who’s tried it. (Counterexamples welcome; I can’t think of any.)
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    HyperCard is completely insecure by any reasonable security/privacy standard.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    From a particular POV, they’re it’s the same evolutionary chain. QuickDraw -> MacPaint -> HyperCard.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    now do HDR
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    He’s winning the important ones. The Supreme Court keeps giving him the green light to wipe his ass with the constitution.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    IIRC paying the Russians.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    I wouldn’t have thought a south african script kiddie would be allowed to do it, but as long as it had the Oompa-Loompa president’s OK, apparently everyone is good with it.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    USA too
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    Sherlocking won't happen. It requires them to already have the superior customer relationship. They do need to develop sustainable end-user products, or be purchased by larger players, or liquidate.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    but I also work on interesting and varied stuff, and not web front end/backend du jour garbage
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    Anecdatum, but I'm over 40 and do not find coding tedious and am not excited by AI coding per se.
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    by KerrAvon 1y ago

    The death of magazines has been coming for a while, but it’s definitely more recent than some think. I know people who bought iPads circa 2010-2012 to be able to read magazines more conveniently. Digital magazine subscriptions were a big th