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by Pxtl 1y ago
No they're running YouTube channels and Substacks because of built-in monetization.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
A good article. If anything it understates how obviously influenced the designers were by Frank Herbert's novels. The little vignettes of quotes are a common device in his books. The transhumanist themes too. And of course, there&
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Web ruined everything. Got everybody thinking that flag rectangles were cool and consistent ui frameworks were old fashioned.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I mean the most brutal solution would be that for Google Play Store certification the manufacturer must use a cryptographic challenge/response process to enable admin on the phone and run a free global hotline for the user to phone&#x2
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Worth noting - was that before or after Google started getting painful decisions in court battles on the App Store thing? Because this is not going to be super positive for them on that front. > victims would also be guided to disable Go
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I'm aware of that but obviously there's a huge difference between the user clicking a link and navigating to a page on another domain and the site making that request on the user's behalf for a blob of JS.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Honestly I think cross-site requests were a mistake. Tracking cookies, hacks, XSS attacks, etc. My relationship is with your site. If you want to outsource that to some other domain, do that on your servers, not in my browser.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Obviously I'm being terse for argument. You can easily imagine InvokeWithErrorLogger(fn, fnparam, log) or InvokeWithErrorAnnotator(fn, fnparam, annotatorFn) Or any other common error-handling pattern.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
... I thought Go's whole deal was that you give up the expressiveness and power of overdesigned languages for simple, clean, "only one way to do it" semantics. That "special cases reassignment" where ':='
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I've never used Go but having used other languages with exception-based error handling, I get why Go decided to go in a different direction... but reading this over... Okay, so surely some syntactic sugar could make it more pleasant th
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Thanks, I hate it.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Wait... x, err := strconv.Atoi("123") if err != nil { panic(err) } y, err := strconv.Atoi("1234") fmt.Println("result:", x, y) > this also compiles and runs just fine but again you would h
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I've been using FF since it was Mozilla Phoenix and I never once tried Pocket.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Even as a joke that's still just a goofier version of smart glasses. There really is nothing new under the sun.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
OpenAI's business model seems to be "technological singularity or bust".
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by Pxtl 1y ago
It is not fine because it is too verbose for me to have any confidence that there isn't something awful hiding in there.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I can feel how the extreme autocomplete of AI is a drug. Half of my job is fighting the "copy/paste/change one thing" garbage that developers generate. Keeping code DRY. The autocompletes do an amazing job of automat
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Can screen just get completely tossed and converted into a compatibility-layer wrapper around tmux?
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Hey remember when conservatives were upset about how the "woke mob" hates free speech? Iirc even pg had a blog about that.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Killing the anachronistic and corrupt feudal medallion systems that some big North American cities used was a good thing, and that was one of their explicit goals... I'm no libertarian but there's plenty of municipal regulation th
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Doesn't that mean the anti-tivoization clause makes LGPL3 software unusable on most mobile platforms since they're all fixated on signing libraries?
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I'm not hardcore anti-AIgen, but it feels like most of the usage of text-AIgen is for creating pointless filler.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Because it doesn't do anything useful.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Whenever using a Meta product I have to be hyper-aware of what i stop scrolling on or click on, because Meta is all about "revealed preference" instead of what I explicitly tell them I follow and like. IE: Don't let your eyes
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Them grapes are mighty sour, eh? Social media is just fine. Yes, paying people to post content has created a wider divide between content-creators and social follows, but social follows still exist. It's just Facebook that is over.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
At this point I wish we could just get all our clients to say "self-signed is fine if you're connecting to a .LOCAL domain name". https is intrinsically useful over raw http, but the overhead of setting up centralized certs
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I assume that's to work around the high width of the font. Information density seems too low for paragraphs of text with that width. I could see this current version (without the spacing hack) being the "easy-reader" version,
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Maybe it's easy for kids to read, but I found the font too bold and the letters too close-together to read comfortably. I gave up before I could read all their justifications for those decisions. But that might've also been the w
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I've been following this story because he's a local boy, I actually met him very briefly once, back when he was just a kid. The article is skimming over some of the darker sides of his side of the story - like how allegedly his co
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by Pxtl 1y ago
> the "I wish HN would stay out of politics" crew. Sadly, this crew includes the site's moderation.

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