callalex

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by callalex 2y ago
The options are “On” or “Off”. Please read the examples I provided for why that isn’t good enough. I’ll even leave you with a third example: I can’t get shipping notifications about an online order I made without also opting into spam about
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by callalex 2y ago
The battery replacement service is not comparatively cheap. I just paid $90 for my iPhone 11. There is no world in which a cell phone battery of even the highest quality costs anywhere near that much. For example iFixIt offers a comparable
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by callalex 2y ago
And they still can’t figure out how to make the battery replaceable even though they claim to care so much for the environment.
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by callalex 2y ago
Still no user-replaceable battery even though they claim to care about the environment.
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by callalex 2y ago
At least people treat IRC as ephemeral and place all documentation elsewhere. People are writing whole wikis inside of Discord that are not publicly searchable.
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by callalex 2y ago
No user-replaceable battery even though that’s a consumable/wear item? They even invited “Mother Earth” herself to their last presentation to talk about how much they care about the planet! Were they just lying to our faces then?
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by callalex 2y ago
No I can’t. Here’s an example: my security system app sends me push notifications when there is motion detected at times and places where there shouldn’t be motion. I need these critical (“time sensitive” in Apple-ese) notifications. It als
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by callalex 2y ago
Siri doesn’t really seem to work offline on my S9 despite the claims.
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by callalex 2y ago
The biggest innovation they could have at this point would be the price, but that will never happen.
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by callalex 2y ago
It’s been really crappy the entire time it existed, so it’s not a big loss. I have my watch on quite snugly (but not too tight), and fairly high on my wrist, and the stupid thing only takes maybe 3-5 measurements per DAY. Also, it cannot ta
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by callalex 2y ago
The “reading list” feature in safari saves pages for offline viewing.
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by callalex 2y ago
The 6S is one of the last iPhones you can reasonably replace the battery on by yourself with a kit and guide from iFixIt. Cherish it!
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by callalex 2y ago
They don’t prevent spam abuse through their app push notifications, and don’t even offer a way to report bad behavior. They are pro-spam.
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by callalex 2y ago
Locking knowledge behind something that isn’t publicly searchable or archivable works fine in the short term but what happens when Discord/Slack/whatever gears up for an IPO and limits all chat history to 1 week unless you pay up
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by callalex 2y ago
The top pain point is that it requires setting up SSL certificate infrastructure and having to store and distribute those certs around in a secure way. The secondary effects are entirely dependent on how your microservices talk to their dep
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by callalex 2y ago
It takes a while to verify all the signatures in every chip to make sure you didn’t do something evil like repair your own hardware.
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by callalex 2y ago
Can you expand on what you mean? What’s not that complicated?
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by callalex 2y ago
Agreed. It’s racial profiling to assume where someone was raised based on their name.
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by callalex 2y ago
I know more than one, and I don’t even live in Europe. Please avoid racial profiling, it’s a fool’s errand.
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by callalex 2y ago
There is simply more noise than signal with this style of racial profiling and I implore you to do some soul-searching and reconsidering because you are probably harming people without even intending to with your current behavior.
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by callalex 2y ago
I’m mixed race in a visually non-obvious way. I was born and raised in the bay. What is the “correct” ethnicity that I should try to project with my name?
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by callalex 2y ago
> Why should I think that LLMs would be good at the task of analyzing a cloud incident and determining root cause? Because it would be extremely profitable if they could. That’s how we’ve ended up in this mess, the promise is just so tan
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by callalex 2y ago
They are expensive because they are run by the Luxottica cartel.
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by callalex 2y ago
Maybe it is the traffic that is wrong? Vehicle-induced injury and death is still a huge issue, and marginal speed increases make no difference to overall trip times.
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by callalex 2y ago
Isn’t that what Blackwater is?
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by callalex 2y ago
Where do you live and how did you calculate your 50% figure?
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by callalex 2y ago
As a layman, I have a question about the mass market appeal aspect (or as you call it, making it sexy). Is there any hope that your vessel wouldn’t require earmuffs and a comm system? Or is that only possible after a million bucks of exotic
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by callalex 2y ago
This forum is providing me a rare opportunity to speak to someone of your caliber: To someone not surrounded by the same aerospace/defence/pentagon welfare state people that you are surrounded by, you come across as very genuine,
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by callalex 2y ago
Most people in the USA are too shy/prudish to say it but I think this is a conversation that needs to be opened: Americans are so resistant to public transportation because the public seriously sucks to deal with. There will be no popu
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by callalex 2y ago
This is also ignoring that it’s entirely possible for Amtrak to miss the schedule by literal days.

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