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by benoau 2y ago
> Personally, I am still doing the traditional job hunt a little bit, but I’m now investing more time and effort into my blog and YouTube channel about software development and operating systems. Personally, I am also very much doing tha
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by benoau 2y ago
> We’re addressing the misuse of free accounts as cloud storage for original files—a practice that violates our Terms of Service and negatively impacts the performance and experience for Pro members. Safeguarding the original of a photo,
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by benoau 2y ago
I think "customers" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that comment, only developers will watch you coding or read your blog or whatever else, probably only if you scratch their back too, and you have nothing to sell them except t
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by benoau 2y ago
You could build it in the open on GitHub or GitLab etc, you could stream your sessions on Twitch etc, you could post to a few subreddits, you could post shorts to TikTok and YouTube. But why go to all this trouble to market building your
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by benoau 2y ago
Read all about it his new book, "Mat Lauer Can Suck It" .
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by benoau 2y ago
Yep, we've built "stack" after "stack" out of collecting and manipulating rows of data and right now probably a thousand eager young developers are noodling on how to do it slightly differently, probably counting do
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by benoau 2y ago
Ran out of everyone else to cull.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Convinced Trump to Exempt Apple from Tariffs(macrumors.com)
15 points by benoau 2y ago|1 comments
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by benoau 2y ago
Maybe, we're already centralizing everything around a handful of big companies - for most of them ads are like a fallback more so than a plan A. Many things that are ad-supported have subscription-supported competition. Some of the t
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by benoau 2y ago
Absolute desperation for the illusion of engagement and retention. Otherwise, you'll almost definitely only get back there via an aggregator rarely if ever. The aggregators themselves, are almost down to just Google/Apple/M
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by benoau 2y ago
> Downloaded an untouched char.lgp from the current Steam build (1.0.9) to make sure the count reflects the shipping game rather than a modded archive. How?
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by benoau 2y ago
One of those things that we've always known but the longer-term possibilities integrating this with other treatments sounds fascinating. > “An emerging body of research allows us to take what had been anecdotes and place music on an
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by benoau 2y ago
What I'm really looking forward to, is when the EU investigates the "donations" big tech's been giving to Trump whilst requesting he make this exact same problem disappear in Europe. And what happens "after Trump
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by benoau 2y ago
> In an undisclosed location in the Upper Midwest, one family is building a compound surrounded by a moat that can be lit on fire. "Meal Team Six" for millionaires.
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by benoau 2y ago
... and they haven't even spent all year searching for a new job yet!
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by benoau 2y ago
Hot new feature as portrayed by * Intel-era TouchBar MBP * heh.
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by benoau 2y ago
Key point is basically: > not all organizations will be eligible for verification, says OpenAI. Up goes the walls around the garden!
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by benoau 2y ago
I guess the counter-question is does it matter if nobody is building tools optimized for humans, when humans aren't being paid to write software? I saw a submission earlier today that really illustrated perfectly why AI is eating peopl
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by benoau 2y ago
I guess it's a bit like what would you do with UBI. I would do what I do, but for me instead of someone else. The problems I would solve would probably be absolutely irrelevant: nobody can see this figment of my imagination unless I
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by benoau 2y ago
Apple's probably in the most fascinating position they've been in since Microsoft rescued them decades ago. - contempt of court hearing for strategically-banning developers from linking to competing payment options, after a judge
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by benoau 2y ago
I think a "NUC" is the logical conclusion if you don't want the screen and don't like the keyboard compromises! There's a lot of room for powerful devices in that space like discrete GPUs, or AI crunching, etc. But
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by benoau 2y ago
I use a Synology NAS which gives me some convenient software nobody is tracking, they have their own suite of tools for productivity and entertainment which has some nice apps for managing things like photo backups and streaming music. Plu
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by benoau 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking
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by benoau 2y ago
Had to lynch a lot of people first! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_lanterne
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by benoau 2y ago
Assuming you mean phone, I think every app I use is more than 10 years old. The app ecosystem has not been worth exploring in many years for me. I bet most of the app installs these days are just kids tapping misleading ads they see in bad
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by benoau 2y ago
How about companies like Google and Apple collecting 30% off the top the last 15 years? They're the ones not providing that oversight and boy is * doing nothing * profitable: in court Apple revealed 75% profit margin on their fees!
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by benoau 2y ago
Because last year ... > Adobe knowingly "trapped" customers into annual subscriptions, the FTC alleged. > Adobe prioritized profits while spending years ignoring numerous complaints from users struggling to cancel costly sub
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by benoau 2y ago
Yes but part-of the point of those discounts is to obfuscate the value of that currency when you are spending it. This is like nutritional information on food, it will be "bad" for some companies if there is transparency.
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by benoau 2y ago
Anecdotal but I haven't seen a 2nd-hand bookshop in years however those little "tiny libraries" where people just donate their books are in abundance. What I've seen other used-item shops are doing these days is checkin
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by benoau 2y ago
How can the EU work on "building things" if the companies with the most resources and the greatest capacity for "building things" are actually making copycat software propped up with policies that exclude competition?

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