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by benoau 3mo ago
It's a cute comparison but the stickers Gruber's referring to (CPU etc) are unnoticeable when you're actually using a laptop, they're static and out of the way and would never distract you or disrupt your work and they&#
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by benoau 3mo ago
The difference is you can trust the compiler without knowing what System.out.println("Hello, World!") is going to ultimately look like, and the vast majority of what compilers output will never need human intervention to fix somet
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by benoau 3mo ago
Their VR is a flop now but Apple didn't know that when they did the AVP. Meta are selling millions of glasses and growing so it's looking like a hit.
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by benoau 3mo ago
It's not always frivolous stuff, like Upwork puts CloudFlare over searching and applying for work.
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by benoau 3mo ago
I worry about what would happen if CloudFlare decided I was an adversary, a massive amount of the internet would become completely inaccessible if I couldn't get past their annoying gateway!
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by benoau 3mo ago
Doesn't the US too, following Google's antitrust loss last year? > Judge Mehta said in the 223-page ruling that Google must share some of its search data with “qualified competitors” to resolve its monopoly. https://
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by benoau 3mo ago
Google just got fined €430 million for a very similar fee scheme, practically copied from Apple, so it's highly unlikely that Apple will get away with it forever. Theoretically Apple should have a monster fine brewing since they'
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by benoau 3mo ago
> I will never understand the decision-making process that led to "Let's build an awesome VR headset that can't do gaming". FOMO, someone else being successful in VR (and now in glasses) is a nightmare scenario for Ap
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by benoau 3mo ago
Tweet says the EU has fined big tech €3.8 billion... but a cursory AI-powered search suggests the US has fined them much more : - $5b fine for Meta https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019&#x2
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by benoau 3mo ago
Sounds similar to Apple's "Core Technology Fee", literally a mechanism for sabotaging third party app distribution in the EU.
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by benoau 3mo ago
Fascinating case and arms-race, seems like part of the issue is the bricking is too obvious...
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by benoau 3mo ago
Prescient in some ways but also rendered utterly obsolete by AI... > You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is to decide that you want to writ
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by benoau 3mo ago
Presumably Starlink for routing throughout space. Google does under-sea cables and domestic internet access too.
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by benoau 3mo ago
I'd forget all about stars and just find some people to actually use your software, bend over backwards to make sure they have a good experience, and amongst these people find and cultivate advocates for using it and projects that can
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by benoau 3mo ago
Did you get any traction from your existing efforts? Maybe someone using your work can promote it to their users, or you do something in their project to increase your visibility to them, that kind of thing.
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by benoau 3mo ago
> “My thesis has always been, with the Enhanced Games, it works, we generate revenue, we can push that into scientific development, better drugs come out, and eventually, through capitalism, we cure death.” Sounds delusional... > D’So
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by benoau 3mo ago
That'd be a huge performance boost too, the top end Snapdragons probably easily beat the Wildcat Lake chips but I believe they're still catching up on Linux support. Wildcat Lake would also let you put a Thunderbolt device on it
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by benoau 3mo ago
Really interesting that it's held up so well, hope they put a Wildcat Lake processor into it soon.
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by benoau 3mo ago
I really look forward to Pop OS updates... but it's because they broke a bunch of stuff and stripped most apps down to their basics.
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by benoau 3mo ago
I think the demand is more about what's not using AI yet, plus half the world isn't really dependent on online services and platforms yet, two huge areas of growth.
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by benoau 3mo ago
The consequence of bad screenshots is nobody will download the app, which is a fate shared by about 80% of apps anyway. Scammers certainly aren't the ones complaining, they have no emotional attachment to their apps and they're fo
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by benoau 3mo ago
Isn't that why SpaceX "acquired" xAI?
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by benoau 3mo ago
Has to be random spot-checks and mostly automated scans, the numbers they say on the website would not allow time for exhaustively testing everyone. > Every week, nearly 500 dedicated experts around the world review over 130K apps. http
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by benoau 3mo ago
Spoiler alert: it's "securities fraud", humanoid robot edition.
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by benoau 3mo ago
> A second fine of 430 million euros ($689 million Cdn) targeted Google's restrictions on its app store Google Play preventing app developers from steering users free of charge to cheaper offers on rival app stores or websites. Ther
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by benoau 3mo ago
What they really got wrong, is that there aren't even enough missiles, ammunition or fuel production to defeat a country that has been sanctioned for decades and these bottlenecks would make it trivial for humanity to prevail over AI,
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by benoau 3mo ago
Pop OS, combined with "Toshy" for using Mac keyboard shortcuts. I find this is a really comprehensive translation of Mac shortcuts, even cmd+shift+{} works for moving between tabs. I use my Keychron keyboard in Mac mode retainin
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by benoau 3mo ago
That cost has always been there and allowed for their lucrative margins. It's the upfront cost of building/populating their datacenters (many more than before) that is eating those margins.
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by benoau 3mo ago
That would only happen if they need to invest like this forever, otherwise it's just a short-term dent in their margins while they re-calibrate.
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by benoau 3mo ago
The other option is nobody has this access, since it is only required because Google have built this access for themselves and the DMA simply requires they do not have privileged access because it is not competitive. This is a problem that

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