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by cafed00d 2y ago
There is technology that goes into ensuring an app runs on a device — the dynamic linked libraries being present, the compilers adapted to the specific instruction set shipped on that device’s chip, the algorithms, ci/cd pipelines, tha
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Competition exists in the phone markets. Competition exists in the open standards based web apps market.
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Oh you give it rest please. You need to learn how much software & operational upkeep costs factor into those “44% gross profit margins”
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by cafed00d 2y ago
> Why is it a yearly fee I do not know. My hunch is because it's easy. All I know is: Twitter/X is facing a crisis of spammy accounts and their mitigation strategy has been to require new accounts to submit payment info for th
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by cafed00d 2y ago
Well then there's your answer: devs who believe iOS App distribution doesn't work as well as Android, Window or Linux should build their apps there. Why does the existence of a competing alternative need to force the company in qu
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by cafed00d 2y ago
> For example when is the last time my customers paid for Ruby, Python, Linux, PostgreSQL? Well, those examples are cherry-picked; ergo, I present to you a picking my own cherries: Companies pay for MATLAB, Windows and MongoDB. I will c
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by cafed00d 2y ago
> Not counting game consoles, which always had a very similar distribution model, but importantly were often subsidized by their platform operator, and I hope nobody is claiming that iPhones are loss leaders for Apple Sounds like you&#x2
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by cafed00d 2y ago
> There is absolutely no reason apple should receive a single cent if you're publishing outside of their store This is a really bad take. People do not merely pay for the rearrangement of atoms into what ends up being their phone. T
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by cafed00d 3y ago
> Companies could easily avoid any cookie banner. Just don’t track. Well, then, the EU should've just made _this_ the law. And we'd have called it the "Just don't track" law. Rant & Details: > There is no
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by cafed00d 3y ago
By "samples" do you mean examples on the marketing/landing page? It sure looks like the model supports many major Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil & Kannada. https://huggingface.co/facebook/seaml
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by cafed00d 3y ago
I work at Apple Park and it’s awesome. I love it! Been here 4ish years. On my current team we share a hall-wide office that seats 4. On my old team I shared a half-hall wide room with another person. Most people have this 2 person arrange
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by cafed00d 3y ago
> To get full performance though, you can't write just Python. As you show in your demo, you have to add verbose typedefs, structs, additional fn/defs, SIMD calls, vectorization hooks, loop-unrolling, autotune insertions, etc.
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by cafed00d 3y ago
The Nadella example was meant to illustrate visionary & bold. You’re right; my statement is not scientifically accurate
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by cafed00d 3y ago
I would go farther still and say Google doesn’t need PMs — it needs a singularly bold visionary — a Satya Nadella or John Legere or maybe someone else — not a good ceo or a bad ceo; nor a polite ceo or a trash-talking tough ceo — they just
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Does that incentivize not buying land? I wonder if people will just prefer subscribing to everything with a long term bundle. I mean, rent and rent-like situations Only the big, powerful, faceless individuals — corporations — will own land
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Does it still count as human content if I blindly copy paste from ChatGPT? :))
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> Please note all the other phrases in the fragments you're quoting - Bologna is not a religious school .. Those fragments are simultaneously true for Nalanda or any other school too.
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by cafed00d 4y ago
If you're suggesting that the University of Bologna was secular (not religious) in the 11th century, then that is misleading. > then hired scholars from the city's pre-existing lay and ecclesiastical schools to teach them subje
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by cafed00d 4y ago
God! I hate “data driven decision making” with the intensity of a thousand white hot suns
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> it is a net harm on the discourse I fundamentally disagree. >It is a net harm to make people think this way, especially when the penalties for getting it wrong are immediate apologies, lest you be run out of your profession. I will
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by cafed00d 4y ago
I clicked on the link thinking: "sigh, another woke propaganda campaign". "Brave", oh wow, and no alternatives either. "Geronimo", ok, I can kinda get behind that one: I mean, we don't want someone using &
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> It's one thing to put up a demo that interested nerds can play with, but it's quite another thing to try to integrate it deeply in a system that serves billions of requests a day What’s funny is that Google itself started out
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> I want the option to control my devices. Why is that you'd demand this of _Apple_? Doesn't Linux and the plethora of devices it supports give you this already? I ask as a willful customer who prefers the complete control App
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> Maybe the Indian government needs to push separate bills prohibiting manufactures from packaging crapware One person's crapware is another person's batteries-included-ware. We wouldn't want to ban Sony MP3 players from i
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by cafed00d 4y ago
It’s actually really stupid. Not having ethics/empathy is actually _really dumb_ way to run a company. They end up making a lot of people miserable. Eventually, all of the technology, market advantage yadda yadda catches up. IBM, Yaho
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by cafed00d 4y ago
The technology will arrive in India sooner than we think. EV have very low maintenance compared to gas cars. As time goes on, new EVs will get better real fast. The old EVs will still be solid workhorses despite this. The problem with Indi
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Yup, I did use it like that. You found a flaw: I shouldn’t have said “never”. I actually did try it for maybe like 5mins and got felt meh about it. It’s a nice enough controller tbh. It’s just so inconvenient compared to my wireless dualsen
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Yup, I played the entire "Last of Us" campaign on Sony's PS Now service in 2015 on cheap Comcast internet on my 2014 MacBook Pro. Display was great and the streaming quality was great! Don't remember if it was 4k; very
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Wait a minute: someday the aliens are going to land and we gotta explain our calendar, sure. Or, _we_ don’t. Someon—- pardon me —- _Something_ has to explain it to them. That thing is gonna say: “yeah, the epoch is our earliest known
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by cafed00d 4y ago
You hit the nail perfectly right on the head! Cultural blindness! - Many Indian vegetarians would find eating _any type of meat_ (chicken, beef, pork, fish, even eggs) repulsive.

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