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by bogwog 4y ago
In a college hackathon, I wrote a chrome extension that crowd sources answers for online tests and displays them next to the questions. So if one person with the extension took the test already, everyone would get the answers even if the qu
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by bogwog 4y ago
Writing code is the equivalent of swinging a hammer. A more experienced engineer might swing it better than a junior, but swinging hammers isn't what makes an engineer valuable. These AI models don't actually understand anything a
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by bogwog 4y ago
That’s not “devil’s advocate”, that’s just baseless conspiracy theory.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Actually it seems every app is just a browser window, so you can create an app that points to puter.com, and you'll have puter inside of puter. It's pretty cool, but I can't think of what this would be useful for. Presumably,
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by bogwog 4y ago
It really is like trying to choose between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Guess it's time to write to our politicians and threaten to vote them out. Maybe collect signatures from a bunch of people and attach it to the letter to give it more weight.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Government setting prices like that is a terrible idea. The solution to this problem is competition. The only regulation needed are laws that stop Apple from preventing competition. If there were alternative app stores, free market forces w
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by bogwog 4y ago
So you're saying that anything Brave does is okay because they're not Google? FYI Brave isn't the only company that isn't Google.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Why does it matter where the indexes come from? As a user, I only care about the results. Also, idk if I'm grandfathered in to an old price or anything, but my subscription is $10/mo.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Kagi is excellent, and it's the only monthly subscription where I actually feel like I'm getting something of value. Even my Pandora subscription feels like I'm getting ripped off since I really only ever listen to the same s
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by bogwog 4y ago
> A company has to make money to survive and pay its employees. So why do they give their product away for free? To lure naive/optimistic people in so they can be exploited later? Why should a company like that survive?
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by bogwog 4y ago
Don't assume good intentions when malice is equally likely... at least in this technology world we live in. Companies that are actually on the user's side are very rare, so you're more likely to be correct (and safe) by never
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by bogwog 4y ago
Programming languages require a lot of precision (one missing symbol, improperly capitalized letter, etc will break the entire thing), whereas even the best OCR is very imprecise. That sounds like a really bad combination. On the other hand
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by bogwog 4y ago
That was the exact same story I read, probably on this site.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Browser bookmarks != Youtube subscriptions
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by bogwog 4y ago
> For instance, my IP changes when I travel, but I’m an American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local ads in different languages when I’m in foreign countries, despite having my home address (verified with my c
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by bogwog 4y ago
This is great news and a big win for consumers!
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by bogwog 4y ago
> There are businesses running on software that makes Teams look like a paragon of performance, stability and user-focused UI/UX. Those (probably) aren’t trillion dollar businesses.
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by bogwog 4y ago
It’s true that we can’t really know whether Google is exploiting these expanded permissions to collect more data unless we have some insider information. However, it’s generally very easy to predict what a company is going to do by observin
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by bogwog 4y ago
That's actually a really good idea. Someone should sell a pi hole like box preconfigured to block all those aggressive/conspiratorial sites. Maybe make it discrete too, like a small box you plug into an outlet hidden behind some f
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by bogwog 4y ago
> Trillion dollar company can't be bothered to optimize their OS properly, or perhaps their workforce is not skilled enough That’s what happens when you’re immune to typical market forces. Why invest money in things that give value
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by bogwog 4y ago
The vast majority of Windows games work perfectly fine on Linux nowadays. The only major exception is anti-cheat, but even that is starting to change. Even 343 is working to bring the Halo Master Chief collection to Linux by moving to EAC’
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by bogwog 4y ago
But 99.99999% of the time, when a program calls malloc, it needs it to succeed. So if there is a callback or something to notify that a wait is required or whatever, then 99.99999% of programs are going to do it. That means the high cost
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by bogwog 4y ago
Elon Musk is a clown and it would be very entertaining to watch him lose $44B as Twitter crashes and burns, like slipping on a banana peel. ...but, honestly, the idea of a large social network not reliant on advertising is interesting and I
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by bogwog 4y ago
you right android good apple bad
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by bogwog 4y ago
That's actually one of the big reasons I've held off on buying one (although the #1 reason is lack of AMD options), and am eyeing laptops from HP and Lenovo that actually advertise full Linux support (like the HP Dev One). Even if
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by bogwog 4y ago
Is this a rhetorical question? If not, just look at Alex Jones.
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by bogwog 4y ago
That’s a chicken and egg problem. Break up the monopoly, and the competitors will come. It’s not like the Google/Apple stores would be hard to compete with. They both have massive, longstanding problems that consumers and developers ha
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by bogwog 4y ago
By “tapping a screen a couple of times” you’re referring to the process of enabling side-loading on Android? Because if you don’t think that’s a problem, then you must be living in a bubble surrounded by techies. Imagine you’re trying to st
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by bogwog 4y ago
Did you choose the Samsung App Store, or was it preloaded on the device by the phone manufacturer? Consumer choice is restricted by those anti-competitive business practices I mentioned. Whatever deal Samsung has with Google for preloaded

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