TheDong

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by TheDong 6mo ago
If I open the app store and search "Gemini", the first result is "ChatGPT (advertisement)" If I search for my bank, I get another bank. If I search for "Wordle", I get a bunch of ad-supported spamware (both the
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by TheDong 6mo ago
I don't like companies forcing their newest features on me noisily and constantly trying to ship new features and see what sticks so you can't trust whether a feature advertised one week will even be there the next. However, I hav
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by TheDong 6mo ago
"claude -p" does not charge api rates by itself, I just ran "claude -p 'write hello world to foo.txt'", and it didn't. What they changed is that if you have OpenClaw run 'claude -p' for you, that
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by TheDong 6mo ago
> 1. If nix fails to pull anything, it builds (up to and including Linux kernel and compiler). If nix fails to pull things from its binary cache, it will download the "sources" of the derivations, which are hosted in various pl
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by TheDong 6mo ago
"Analogue: A Hate Story" and its sequel do some technically interesting things, and they both also have interesting stories, I can recommend them. http://ahatestory.com/
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by TheDong 6mo ago
It's much more nuanced than that. Bread and water is prisoner food, but avocado toast and cream-cheese bagels at the corner bodega are considered mid-to-upper-class fare. Pasta (also wheat) can range from kraft mac-and-cheese (poor-cod
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by TheDong 6mo ago
Indeed it's a roughly 2x increase (5kg supermarket bag from 2000 jpy to 4000). Whether that's a big deal or not depends on the person, their finances, how much rice the family eats, etc etc.
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by TheDong 6mo ago
iOS has two built-in messaging apps. Like all phones, they have SMS built in, and hardly anyone uses it for anything except SMS 2FA codes. And then they have iMessage, aka blue bubbles, which are kinda like Signal or Whatsapp or Telegram. E
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by TheDong 6mo ago
And back in the "Microsoft has a monopoly on IE6" ruling's days, I did not use Windows or Internet Explorer, and I was not prevented from doing anything because of that. Netscape Navigator on Linux worked fine. Sure, I occasi
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by TheDong 6mo ago
"We vote with our wallet, so don't complain" is a bad take in my opinion. Like, for phones, I want a phone which runs Linux, has NFC support, and also has iMessage so my friend who only communicates with blue-bubbles and will
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by TheDong 6mo ago
Unfortunately, Apple still won't release iMessage for Android or Linux (unlike every other messenger platform, like whatsapp, telegram, wechat, microsoft teams, etc, which are all cross-platform). Because of that, you need an apple dev
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by TheDong 6mo ago
It depends how you define the market. In the 2001 microsoft case [0], the courts ruled Microsoft had a monopoly over the "Intel-based personal computer market". Apple has a monopoly over the "M-chip" personal computer ma
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by TheDong 6mo ago
There is a marketplace for free skills (in this case a markdown file saying "run openssl rand -hex 32") I do not think there is any money for something that trivial. Even the irrationally exuberant VCs wouldn't put money in t
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by TheDong 6mo ago
If you want to run better models, you need one of the more expensive GPUs, like an H100 or such ($40k). I don't think any of the smaller models are remotely comparable to anthropic. The GPU also takes around $500-$1000 in electricity,
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by TheDong 6mo ago
That's just a ralph loop: https://ghuntley.com/ralph/ I can do that now with claude code and a "while true" bash loop. Or with the built-in "/schedule" in claude code to set an agent to ru
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by TheDong 6mo ago
The opinion in https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/ is interesting here. Read the section titled 'The Gamble' if you want that opinion, but the tl;dr is that our 2025 stri
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by TheDong 6mo ago
And when I setup nixos, I have a single command which installs/configures everything. Windows isn't the alternative if you're on hacker news, OpenBSD and linux are the alternatives.
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by TheDong 7mo ago
See, for example, this blog post from 2014: https://go.dev/blog/generate The following comment in the blog post //go:generate stringer -type=Pill generates a .._string.go file which contains a '
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by TheDong 7mo ago
In go, `go mod init` and `go get go@latest` (both recommended commands), both set a 'go <latest-version>' stanzas. In go, you _must_ set a minimum required version. If you type 'cargo init', you will get 'edit
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by TheDong 7mo ago
The average Non-Han Chinese person doesn't know lockdown mode exists. If you want to frame it as a life-saving feature, it should be on by default and impossible to turn off, or at the very least should be a required prompt during init
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I mean installing linux, not WSL. I can install linux without ever thinking about a MS account on most windows laptops. Apple restricts their iDevice computers to only run iOS, with no option to install linux. Microsoft _could_ require that
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by TheDong 7mo ago
2% (linux, really 1% steamOS and 1% other linux) and 1% (macOS) makes it sound much less impressive than "2x". The options for an average user, who does not use steam and is not in the steam hw survey, are just macOS and windows.
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Okay, if it's that serious than apple should simply turn it on for everyone. Having toggles for Lockdown mode adds complexity and risk. The number of users who currently know they need to toggle on lockdown, and would be confused by ha
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I continue to find Lockdown mode frustratingly insulting. Just give me the individual options (too) darnit. Like "No facetime and message attachments from strangers, no link previews, no device connections", yes, please, I don&#x2
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Being unable to install an alternate app store or sideload my own apps means I need an apple ID to use the computer I purchased. Again, android phones with GrapheneOS or windows machines with linux let me use my hardware fully without creat
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> with how good gaming is on non-windows machines now, there isn't much for a home user to get locked-in with The options for the average user are not linux or windows, but only macOS or Windows. Gaming is abysmal on macOS on any of
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Are people inside apple fighting to drop the mandatory apple account for iOS and various core apple features? I can buy a thinkpad and install linux on it without once creating a microsoft account. I can buy an android phone supported by Gr
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> as someone who worked on the m2 mac pro They're trying to make it very clear they're not speaking on behalf of Apple Inc, despite having worked (or working) there. Big companies like to give employees some minimal "media
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by TheDong 7mo ago
He said, "pypi doesn't block upload on scanning"; that's part of where the latency comes from. The other part is simply the sheer mass of uploads, and that there's not money in doing it super quickly. I agree that&#
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I don't think people want to pay for that. If pypi charges money, python libraries will suddenly have a lot of "you can 'uv add git+ https://github.com/project/library '" instead of 'uv add

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