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by Zak 3mo ago
What? Why would you feel bad about a negative review of something you didn't create? Either the product is something I was curious about and hadn't decided to spend time and money on yet, in which case a negative review might save
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by Zak 3mo ago
There's some value in that, but Signal's main security proposition is that you don't have to trust the infrastructure. E2EE means even compromised server software can't read message contents.
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by Zak 3mo ago
At the time the LLM generated the compiler, just syntax. The semantics it generated were the subset of C that the C version of the compiler already used. You could set the goalposts such that it wasn't novel enough to count, but for a
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by Zak 3mo ago
> it’s hard to imagine they’ll ever independently develop a compiler for a truly novel programming language I did exactly that using an LLM. It may not count as independent depending on how strict you are about that, but then LLMs do
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by Zak 3mo ago
The phones part is a red herring here. Phones work fine for reading text. Video outcompeting text as a mainstream medium for both information and entertainment is as old as television. Youtube would be a more reliable way to make money than
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by Zak 3mo ago
> She delivered a shocking stat: 79% of U.S. buyers would only buy a car if it supported CarPlay. I would be shocked by the number being that high because while iOS has a slim majority of the market share, it's nowhere near 79%
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by Zak 3mo ago
There's already a restriction that requires going into the settings and flipping a toggle, with a warning. I think that's enough. To be clear, enough does not mean that will stop every trojan/scam. People send Starbucks gif
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by Zak 3mo ago
People keep talking about it that way inside our circles, and if we do that here, we will surely fail to do better with a broader audience. Last year's example of ICEBlock makes the freedom/tinkering distinction clear to most pe
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by Zak 3mo ago
The only time I've actually seen Android malware in the wild, it was because my mother installed a homescreen flashlight toggle widget from the Play Store that also displayed ads on the lockscreen. That was forbidden under Play Store r
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by Zak 3mo ago
When I would fix Windows machines for pocket change, Knoppix was one of the first tools I'd reach for. It made separating janky hardware and janky software much easier.
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by Zak 3mo ago
People keep framing these sorts of debates in terms of tinkering . It's about ownership, not tinkering. It's about preventing megacorporations from having the last word about how government services can function and how people ca
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by Zak 3mo ago
The site links a couple studies coming to a different conclusion about crime. Feeling safer doesn't necessarily mean you are safer. As for pedestrian safety, button-activated lights over crosswalks are one potential alternative to al
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by Zak 3mo ago
It does link a couple studies to back up that claim. Critiques of those studies or evidence for the opposite would contribute to the conversation; this does not.
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by Zak 3mo ago
I think there might be some merit to a basic filter, perhaps some sort of timeout for obvious slurs. I see a few right now.
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by Zak 3mo ago
I'm seeing a big red flag here for what purports to be a systems programming language: it isn't used for its own compiler. The compiler is written in Rust. A systems programming language should be able to self-host its compiler. W
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by Zak 3mo ago
A card grid with rounded corners as the second section and a dark blue or purple theme just scream "designed by Claude". It's decent design, but not a useful quality signal.
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by Zak 3mo ago
Could be a little of each, plus a third option: subscription users don't always consume their entire quota.
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by Zak 3mo ago
One issue I keep seeing with cost comparisons is that they compare API rates while a substantial fraction of users are on subscription plans. It's more expensive to use GLM 5.2 paying z.ai or Opencode Zen API rates than it is to use Op
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by Zak 4mo ago
The ability to build reliable software has existed for a long time. Commercial airlines make heavy use of it, and serious failures are vanishingly rare. The problem is building software to those standards of reliability is expensive and slo
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by Zak 4mo ago
The name wasn't invented until 2003, but yes. Guestbooks, contact forms, signup pages, and the like started receiving automated abuse approximately five minutes after they were invented. It didn't take long after that for people t
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by Zak 4mo ago
I have the impression the situations where that actually happens are at least arguably serious misconduct, and usually targeted at someone with significant assets. A construction company that pockets ten million dollars and doesn't bui
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by Zak 4mo ago
> A company that starts with nothing wouldn't be a GmbH (limited liability company), it would be a GoH (company without liability), and there's a good reason why those don't exist... Those do exist in other countries. An
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by Zak 4mo ago
That's good to know. I did not know circuit court opinions were always available. The current system still doesn't sit right with me. Someone sufficiently wealthy has effectively unlimited access. Someone sufficiently poor with a
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by Zak 4mo ago
I see a valid point here, however, some court rulings create binding precedents. As I understand it, those can be paywalled in PACER. Binding precedents are part of the law everyone within the relevant jurisdiction is required to obey, an
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by Zak 4mo ago
At highway speeds, the wind is loud. The engine is often loud even with a factory exhaust. The only audible signal that's likely to matter is a car horn, and those are loud enough to hear over music at reasonable volume. Cars are quiet
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by Zak 4mo ago
Sure, but how many failed consumer products can you name that solved a problem a large number of consumers actually had way better than anything that came before? I should probably qualify that by saying that a product that looks to be amaz
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by Zak 4mo ago
Whose specific UI guideline are you talking about? Android's recommends the switch component for setting toggles: https://m3.material.io/components/switch/overview
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by Zak 4mo ago
I agree with the author's wish for visual cues when something is clickable, scrollable, etc.... This, on the other hand: > Imitating real objects is good, too -- I don't have a single one of Android's "sliders"
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by Zak 4mo ago
GrapheneOS is obviously an Android distribution, but I suspect trademarks mean they have to be careful about how they describe it.
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by Zak 4mo ago
Proton is one of the best examples of this phenomenon. Almost all Windows games work on Linux via Proton. Sometimes they even run better than they do on Windows. About the only time it doesn't work is when the game uses an anticheat sy

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