NBJack

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by NBJack 7mo ago
If ATT had been applied uniformly, sure. But Apple has exemption from its own rules. So, less trickle down benefit, and more tilting the playing field wildly in their favor. Its new advertising system is doing great!
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by NBJack 7mo ago
A return to laserdiscs (with CD or BluRay technology and information density) would be wild.
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by NBJack 7mo ago
Most high end headphones have a replaceable cable. What have you tried on the expensive end of the spectrum?
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by NBJack 7mo ago
Legitimately listening to this book for the first time after a coworker recommended it. It's rapidly becoming one of my favorite books that balances the truly alien with the familiar just right. Not so ironically, it came up when we we
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by NBJack 7mo ago
It has been a while, but I remember a project of mine trying to port a FTP client to a 'secure compiler' (this was long before Rust and probably a distant ancestor of Checked C). In theory, if I could successfully port it, it woul
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by NBJack 7mo ago
I'm not sure anyone at the company can say that with a straight face anymore.
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by NBJack 8mo ago
The age old tactic of vilification. It's easy to overlook all the nuances on all sides; it's a whole spectrum with plenty of overlap. My hope in the US is that folks at least take the time to evaluate their options and/or can
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by NBJack 8mo ago
Admirable, but short of a local credit union I used to use (which I am no longer with as they f'd up a rather critical transaction), I can scarcely imagine a business that fits such a model these days. The amount of transparency needed
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by NBJack 8mo ago
Ugh, yes. Normally, you can theoretically pair someone up with a stronger engineer and watch as they learn and grow through their mistakes, while the stronger engineer keeps them on the proverbial straight and narrow with what they produce,
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by NBJack 9mo ago
I think you missed the joke: he isn't an organization at all, but the error message claims he is.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
Citation needed. Talk, especially in the 'agentic age', is cheap.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
In what ways? Apple, IMHO, has been jumping on every proverbial band wagon. And some of its 'better intended' changes like ATT seem only to have been to stifle competition while they set up their own solution.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
Real-time multi-directional communications over massive geographic areas with tens of thousands of physical cell sites connected to ~140M devices vs... public text messages with media. I realize your point, but its fair to say maintaining a
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by NBJack 9mo ago
I like the idea of someone getting an agenda item promoted because they bought a boost or used a server tag. Which is fine until they pick the wrong window to fire back with creative insults at their guildmates.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
For now. Let's not forget MS Office had a period like that as well. I give it five years max.
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Meta plans to lay off Metaverse employees this week(theverge.com)
8 points by NBJack 9mo ago|1 comments
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by NBJack 9mo ago
It will be interesting to see how RAM prices affect the behavior of all companies. I wouldn't mind if this finally lights a fire under certain software companies to also actually optimize their shit for memory use, but... I'm not
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by NBJack 9mo ago
I will pile on here and claim Apple is shockingly hostile to accessibility. From the weird way tabs work for focus to the limited options for text clarity, to the lack of control for mice customization, it feels like it has been a low item
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by NBJack 9mo ago
Those are great but often expensive mice. I wish the Apple tax didn't extend to third party hardware, but here we are.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
Given the amount of tech I own that is supposed to do this (higher end VR headsets with hand tracking, AR glasses with environmental tracking, etc.), I wouldn't dismiss the author's claims. But I'd be interested in your examp
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by NBJack 9mo ago
Citation needed. Please provide more information.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
This assumes a constant stream of an available workforce. Meanwhile, in the US where OpenAI is based, scrutiny and pressure from the current administration is making it harder to hire at their largest locations.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
It hasn't done great in the head-to-head comparisons I've seen, and has trailed in several areas on the leaderboards (though not all). Based on the 'code red' they declared, this model seems to have been rushed a bit.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
I often miss this feature in other languages. It has saved me more times than I can count.
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by NBJack 9mo ago
Space Packing Heuristic for Efficient Rearrangement of Enumerated Cattle Optimized for Weightlessness
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by NBJack 10mo ago
Click bait at best. AI slop at worst. The only thing 3 years in to a collapse are low effort blogs like this.
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by NBJack 10mo ago
Truth. You can evaluate a lot about someone from the details they give attention to, and what they ignore. It's not a hard and fast rule, but helpful in determining who you can trust with work, important things in your life (including
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by NBJack 10mo ago
Complete with "this guy will help us" to "oh no, they betrayed us!"
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by NBJack 10mo ago
If 8 had followed through on its narrative promises, it would have had a chance. But unfortunately, much like a modern LLM that exceeds its context window, it lost its way in the final act. As for sequels, we are at a weird time in history.
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by NBJack 10mo ago
Perhaps the sky already fell a while back? I don't really mind that they aren't on the LLM bandwagon, but Siri seems to have stagnated. The big "Apple Intelligence" capabilities of the iPhone 16 haven't exactly land

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