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by afavour 6mo ago
I’m sure the others saw the value too. It just wasn’t worth as much to them as Zuckerberg was prepared to pay. Not surprising given it’s a service that directly competed with FB in the social space.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Most other password managers have a cloud component so if your local storage breaks or gets lost you don't lose all your passwords.
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by afavour 6mo ago
No, I don't think so. If Facebook has a dataset to work from, as it does with most people, it'll tailor your experience according to that. If it doesn't it has to just use everything.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Which is great for Hacker News users that can maintain their own infra. But if we're talking "stress free", that's not an answer for the average user...
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by afavour 6mo ago
I'm loathe to defend Facebook but most people's experience is not yours. The algorithm pushes content you're most likely to engage with, in your case it has nothing to go on so probably pushes whatever causes the most reactio
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by afavour 6mo ago
I disagree. Don’t get me wrong, I want Apple to open up devices like the iPad. But I can think of few apps that would transform the iPad from “toy” to “serious” that are blocked by the policy. That transformation is largely blocked by the O
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by afavour 6mo ago
They’re just reading polls and reacting accordingly. There’s no principle involved.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Don't use the Music app. It's fully uninstallable, I don't think I've ever launched it. There are plenty of third party solutions available. I really don't consider Music.app to be a core OS feature.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Venue might be cheaper on the Thursday.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Yes, I think getting value for money here relies on a lot of corporate inertia. Which, to be honest, is usually a good bet.
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by afavour 6mo ago
> How is a VSCode fork and an open weight LLM fine-tune worth $60B? Corporate contracts. A lot of companies have signed onto Cursor. xAI has a pretty toxic brand with Elon and the nonconsensual sexual images scandal. xAI has a ton of com
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by afavour 6mo ago
You’re imagining a “greatest aspiration” that doesn’t exist. macOS has an iCloud login button in the Settings app and that’s about it.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Buying a Mac is also a single transaction. Yes, they have lots of other services they want to sell you on but you're in no way obliged to take them up on it.
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by afavour 6mo ago
There's no such thing as second hand liver damage from someone else drinking beer
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by afavour 6mo ago
Most of the processing of the application is FFMPEG yes, but there's a whole lot of application outside of the processing. Video editors UIs that don't make you want to tear your hair out are a valuable commodity and I think OP
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by afavour 6mo ago
> purely a product of decades of expensively paid-for indoctrination No, it's because being around a smoker is deeply unpleasant. I'm old enough to remember going out before the indoor smoking ban took effect. The next morning
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by afavour 6mo ago
I’d say cocaine is the upper class drug of choice. Regardless, alcohol is every classes drug of choice. The debate over whether the government is hypocritical or not kind of ignores the reality that British voters don’t want alcohol banne
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by afavour 6mo ago
Are you in America? I only ask because this mindset, that lobbyists are capable of squashing any law they dislike, is not internationally universal. Not to say lobbyists don’t have an effect in the UK, they do. But the US has a particularly
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by afavour 6mo ago
> there are already various laws designed to mitigate the effects of second-hand smoke And there are already various laws designed to prevent drunk driving and drunk domestic abuse. I think the broader picture here is a simple one: drink
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by afavour 6mo ago
There’s still a difference, surely? Drinking alcohol can lead to drunk driving and it can lead to abuse. Thankfully in the vast majority of instances it doesn’t. Second hand smoke, however, inflicts damage the moment it’s inhaled.
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by afavour 6mo ago
I see smoking as a separate category owing to the existence of second hand smoke. Smoking in a room with other people adversely affects those people. I think government is the correct body to be intervening in that scenario.
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by afavour 6mo ago
He produces Broadway shows these days. Never say never but that kind of thing screams an “I’ve got all the cash I need, now I’m following my passions” mindset. You certainly don’t do it for the money…
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by afavour 6mo ago
I think everything is a tradeoff and at that point people took the trade. But the place smartphones take in our lives today compared to 2006 is radically different, I wouldn’t assume much carries over.
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by afavour 6mo ago
I think that’s the wrong way of framing it. If, before the launch of the iPhone, you asked what people wanted from their phones you’d be there a very long time before anyone described something like an iPhone (no buttons, capacitive touch i
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by afavour 6mo ago
When the alternative is downloading arbitrary executables I find the browser sandbox to be a reassurance.
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by afavour 6mo ago
Looks to be a great proof of concept. No, running a standalone executable alongside the browser is not the way you'd want to do WebUSB. But it's great to see someone working on it.
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by afavour 6mo ago
As a counterpoint, Waymo conducted a pilot in NYC then abandoned the permit for it: https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/06/waymo-driverless-cars-tes... Phoenix is probably about as good a location as you could ge
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by afavour 6mo ago
That’s good design though. Users want consistency. Truly unique design is awesome but it belongs with experiential stuff, not a CRUD app. You might just as well bemoan the homogeneity of Windows 95 apps. All those gray buttons in the bott
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by afavour 6mo ago
> It then becomes clear just how "sloppy" CC is. Have you done the reverse? In my experience models will always find something to criticize in another model's work.
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by afavour 6mo ago
> people here were so confident that OpenAI is going to collapse because of how much compute they pre-ordered That's not why. It was and is because they've been incredibly unfocused and have burnt through cash on ill-advised, e

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