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by astrange 1y ago
The fast-ness of the CPU is not the only problem. The rest of the hardware of the phone is designed to be a phone, not a Mac. The battery will discharge faster than it charges, the flash storage will wear out, etc etc.
782.
by astrange 1y ago
Sending multiple windows over screensharing actually seems easier than sending the desktop to me - because you only look at one window at once, the rest don't have to update at full frame rate, or at all. And it's easier and more
783.
by astrange 1y ago
Get an ad blocker and then get all the people writing Java/Electron apps to fix their memory usage and you'll be good. Exceptions apply to those running local LLMs.
784.
by astrange 1y ago
If you find a hardware bug that late, you're not fixing it and you're looking for chicken bits to flip. It is /extremely/ expensive to validate changes and remake the masks.
785.
by astrange 1y ago
IIRC many of the built-in tools were updated from FreeBSD in the last release, but they'd still be different from GNU.
786.
by astrange 1y ago
Yes, game developers can't revisit old games because they throw out the dev environments when they're done, or their middleware can't get updated, etc. But it's not possible to keep maintaining 32-bit forever. That'
787.
by astrange 1y ago
It was very easy to lose data in Snow Leopard because they hadn't introduced the document autosave system yet. That was the next version.
788.
by astrange 1y ago
Why would you want to support web APIs? They're all just Google proposing 5000 new ways for advertisers to fingerprint you but doing it through "standards".
789.
by astrange 1y ago
> If said fixing is even possible, like when Apple removed support for 32-bit binaries altogether, rendering 3/4 of macOS Steam libraries non-functional. IIRC developers literally got 15 years of warning about that one.
790.
by astrange 1y ago
AI's habit of writing every story as a bullet-point list really isn't a good writing style.
791.
by astrange 1y ago
Oh yeah, the similar name overwrote it when I moved to Silicon Valley. (The area code is also one digit off, 404 vs 408!)
792.
by astrange 1y ago
If you do it right when your RSUs vest you don't have gains. Or if you're a multimillionaire: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-07-21/how-rich-...
793.
by astrange 1y ago
He can get millions, but he can't get his entire net worth. His net worth is quoted as if the marginal price of one Meta share is the price you'd get for selling every Meta share at once. Which of course doesn't make sense.
794.
by astrange 1y ago
That makes no sense for a phone because you go outside with it in your pocket, leave it places, connect to a zillion kinds of networks with it, etc. It's not a PC in an airgapped room. It is very easy for the user of the device to be s
795.
by astrange 1y ago
And they are not oligarchs because that's not what that word means. Also, "net worth" is not "money". Shares of a company aren't money.
796.
by astrange 1y ago
Income inequality in the US hasn't increased since 2014. Wage inequality severely decreased between 2019 and 2023. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010 Sometimes good things happen!
797.
by astrange 1y ago
This kind of marginal risk thinking has never made sense to me because of the declining marginal value of money. If you have $0 you can't accept any risk and can't make any decisions correctly. But if you have like $4 million you
798.
by astrange 1y ago
I went to SJSU (now KSU) briefly before transferring to a better school (because I slept through all of high school and didn't do any homework) and I did not get the feeling that anyone else in my classes was going to be a successful s
799.
by astrange 1y ago
The % of US GDP spent on defense has been going straight down ever since Eisenhower gave that speech about the MIC. (Another fun fact is defense companies make fewer profits during war, not more. Presumably because they have to make real pr
800.
by astrange 1y ago
The buybacks also compensate for dilution from paying employees in shares.
801.
by astrange 1y ago
The US doesn't have oligarchs except maybe Alex Karp. Oligarch is a specific thing with a specific meaning.
802.
by astrange 1y ago
Stop looking. Well, "don't sell" is the wrong strategy anyway. Trade it in for an index fund.
803.
by astrange 1y ago
> they don't see the benefit of a higher stock price or reduced share count. If they're continually investing/rebalancing then it benefits them the same way a dividend does, but with fewer tax consequences.
804.
by astrange 1y ago
There is in at least California, the EU, and China. A lot of clauses in EULAs aren't actually legal.
805.
by astrange 1y ago
Encryption is basically free as far as I know, but it is more complex and it must be hard to get software updates up there.
806.
by astrange 1y ago
Anthropic's entire reason for being is publishing safety papers along the lines of "we told it to say something scary and it said it", so of course they care about this.
807.
by astrange 1y ago
To be clear there is exactly nothing you're required to submit to the government as a US service provider, if that's what you mean by authorities. If you see CSAM posted on the service then you're required to report it to NCM
808.
by astrange 1y ago
People have been doing this for a while. https://x.com/roborosewater https://bsky.app/profile/roborosewaterm.bsky.social You can see the invention of RLHF/ChatGPT here because text generation sudd
809.
by astrange 1y ago
Please don't reply with platitudes. If your coworker is sexually harassing you then your coworker is the person the HR department is protecting the company from. Not you. You won't make it in the middle class if you can't nav
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by astrange 1y ago
Claude's system prompt is still incredibly long and probably hurting its performance. https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/A...

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