Siira

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by Siira 5y ago
I trust Telegram, with its open API and third-party clients, more than a company that bans alternative clients. Why do they want me to use their client? Does it have some alterations from the source code?
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by Siira 5y ago
That’s an anti-feature, unless you’re only getting family photos. What people really need is cloud sync plus a good interface to browse and search photos.
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by Siira 5y ago
> You’ve to do to them what Apple App Store is doing to them. What them? The Apple/Google duopoly is fucking everybody. There was a recent post on HN about Panic shutting down its iOS text editor because of AppStore restrictions. Th
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by Siira 5y ago
LSP works in most editors with minimal additional support. Their move is just catering to the lowest common denominator.
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by Siira 5y ago
The last paragraph can be done with a good IM, such as Telegram, as it has not crippled itself to virtue signal E2E, and has functional cloud sync and search. I even forward my emails to it as it’s easier to organize them there.
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by Siira 5y ago
It's ethical how? By making rich Americans even richer, and removing one of the few ways developing countries can enter the global market?
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by Siira 5y ago
> Only the government should be allowed to pay The gov is the one entity that should not be allowed to pay at any cost, as it has infinite paying power.
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by Siira 5y ago
Perhaps the key is that most people do not perceive huge benefits from these, but they perceive huge danger from the downsides. People usually both underestimate their own downstream benefits because of large inferential distance between th
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by Siira 5y ago
They don’t work worldwide though.
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by Siira 5y ago
More expensive and less portable though, AND no touch interface.
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by Siira 5y ago
Without an external keyboard? Really? PS: The whole web VSCode thing can also have very bad latency in my experience.
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by Siira 5y ago
It’s not like there is much of an alternative. Android isn’t that much better, and its hardware offerings suck. Apple has an effective monopoly on quality tablet hardware, as far as I know. (I don’t understand why, but then again, I don’t u
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by Siira 5y ago
With this level of reasoning, SMS also makes sense for phones, and banning messenger apps is no big deal. People have different needs, and a minority is always pushing the edges, and this pushing needs to happen so that the mainstream can p
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by Siira 5y ago
Isn’t software a big exception to this?
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by Siira 5y ago
I don’t really see the evidence backing this claim. Most popular fiction books on Goodreads are not exactly “deep.” Publishers aren’t some stupid ideologues either. It’s far more probable that books simply can’t compete with the addictive,
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by Siira 5y ago
I wrote essentially the same thing (with proper interpolation, using zsh’s builtin quoting system) for [Python]( https://github.com/NightMachinary/brish ). I have been using it extensively for months, and I’m very happy
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by Siira 5y ago
I think the problem is with the whole virtue signaling thing. Telegram is so much ahead of the competition in everything except video calls and having E2E enabled by default. (Which doesn’t matter to normal users, and will make the multi-de
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by Siira 5y ago
Telegram has an open API, so if this is really the case, you can ultimately fork the app.
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by Siira 5y ago
And people keep repeating the lie that the app stores somehow created a better experience for end users. Dark patterns and deliberate sabotage of the UX is pretty much only confined to the mobile ecosystem; Desktop-friendly companies also t
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by Siira 5y ago
NYT only cares about keeping their stupid costumers happy within their echo chamber. It’s not a non-profit. Garbage desires in, garbage consequences out. The free market can’t do magic.
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by Siira 5y ago
:thums-up: Some people can’t stop fighting “blasphemy,” even if they aren’t in a classic religion.
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by Siira 5y ago
Things take time. Which industry matured that quickly? Anyhow, stuff like Monero are actively suppressed by regulation and central exchanges. That's a political problem.
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by Siira 5y ago
Static images are well supported, but I haven't heard of anything about interactive plots. Of course, it's possible in principle, but someone would need to code it.
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by Siira 5y ago
I don't use these shitty GUI apps anymore ;) alias x='noglob calc-raw' calc-raw () { python3 -c "from math import *; print($*)" }
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by Siira 5y ago
Why was there a counterfeit Xcode in the first place? Reminds me of how hard it is to download Xcode with the crappy App Store when not having the connection Apple engineers enjoy ...
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by Siira 5y ago
You can't win in a duopoly.
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by Siira 5y ago
It’s also not as easily biasable.
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by Siira 5y ago
Check out Julia; It has built-in optional static typing, a fast JIT, it can be run interactively in the same style as Clojure, and it supports lisp-like macros.
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by Siira 5y ago
Windows “modern” calculator takes quite some time on its useless splash screen for me. (The old native calculator opened almost instantly.)
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by Siira 5y ago
The current frontiers are nowhere near what is possible though; E.g., python, bash, ruby could be a lot faster if their development was subsidized by governments. Cpp doesn’t have a good package manager (and likely will not have one in the

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