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by cbeach 3mo ago
This is excellent. A minor suggestion - I'd like to be able to render the current graph taller (full height of my browser window). Also some sentiment analysis on the "people" graphs would be very insightful (particularly for
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by cbeach 4mo ago
The Guardian either wilfully or ignorantly publishes stats from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. Anyone who repeats these stats is an accessory to the terrorist regime in charge of Gaza.
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by cbeach 4mo ago
It was Hamas’s war - started by a terrorist organisation butchering, abducting and raping young unarmed citizens. The scale of the aftermath is what happens when an advanced democracy faces an existential threat from a terrorist-led neighbo
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by cbeach 4mo ago
General Electric was just fine when Thomas Edison died in 1931. And Apple was fine after the tragic early death of Steve Jobs. Companies like this become bigger than their founders. And I'm sure many on the Left would argue that Tesla
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by cbeach 4mo ago
Just heard back from Google regarding my report of the ad that served malware to me: > Dear Chris, > We’re writing to let you know that we reviewed your report (ID 579240969280369002). > Here's what we found > We decided no
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by cbeach 4mo ago
Firstly, Mike, thank you for all you've done with HomeBrew - an amazing product. None of my ire was directed at you or HomeBrew. I am so frustrated at Google, not just for this incident, but for many reasons (like their inexplicable sh
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by cbeach 4mo ago
This demonstration is the clearest I've seen so far, showing the gulf between Opus and Fable for app creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJCly4YgDQ The Age of Empires clone (and the difference in graphics qualit
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by cbeach 4mo ago
I reported the ad to Google immediately, and when I checked back an hour later the search results were clear. But I suspect it's only a matter of time before another one slips through the net. I think what happens is a legitimate busin
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by cbeach 4mo ago
Slightly tangential, but I went to set up Homebrew today on a new Mac. Stupidly clicked the top link in Google (which was sponsored but not obviously so). Took me to a spoof Homebrew page. I ran the script. Typed in my Mac password like a f
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by cbeach 5mo ago
The whole premise of this article is troubling. I don’t want there to be a single standard for vertically-integrated EV design. I want BYD to compete with Tesla, each having distinct stacks. I want Ford to differ from GM. The pace of EV inn
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by cbeach 5mo ago
As soon as data starts being exfiltrated to Google (or any Big Tech firm), be sure that governments will demand their copy of the stream too. The non-disclosure clauses in mass surveillance legislation will ensure the process is opaque to u
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by cbeach 5mo ago
> Never expected to see the Critical Drinker mentioned on HN. I find myself agreeing with the majority of points he brings up in his videos, but I suspect the majority on HN would disagree with him. Sadly you're right. At times like
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by cbeach 5mo ago
The software, OS and chips are completely irrelevant to the discussion about the physical design of batteries. As for ergonomic differences, I see sliding phones, folding phones, big phones, small phones, minimal phones, phones covered in b
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by cbeach 5mo ago
I think Hollywood has been churning out derivative content for a while, and catering for "modern audiences" (as opposed to the silent majority) too much. One or two exceptions - Project Hail Mary, for example. But the decline of M
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by cbeach 5mo ago
* Samsung Electronics * Apple * Xiaomi * Oppo (includes OnePlus) * Vivo * Huawei * Honor * Motorola Mobility * realme * Google * Sony * Nokia * Asus * Nothing * HTC * ZTE
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by cbeach 5mo ago
This should be for the market to decide, not EU bureaucrats. If I want a thicker, clunkier, less waterproof phone with a user-replaceable battery, I can already buy a Fairphone or a Samsung Galaxy XCover6 Pro, or whatever. The reason people
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by cbeach 6mo ago
Alongside talk from the UK Labour government about intervening on VPNs, I'm getting uneasy vibes about this move, especially since Microsoft is one of the most government-friendly corporations in the big tech arena. The surveillance st
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by cbeach 6mo ago
It would be illegal to post such rhetoric, and I can't name a single social network CEO who's been investigated and found guilty of posting such rhetoric. Perhaps I missed a court case somewhere?
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by cbeach 6mo ago
You could literally be describing any modern day social network with those slurs.
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by cbeach 6mo ago
Their posts on X are getting multiple millions of views. Yes, that has declined, but I need to see whether their viewership on Facebook has declined similarly before I can pass judgement on X. People don’t use social media in the same way t
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by cbeach 6mo ago
I’m sure I could rig up my own email server with replication and all sorts. I recall doing this many years ago, running SpamAssasin etc. Turns out the quality of things like self hosted spam filtering is no match for the world’s most notori
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by cbeach 6mo ago
Your comment has more than a whiff of “never driven a Tesla”
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by cbeach 6mo ago
I use Gmail with my own domain (you have to pay for the privilege but Google Workspace has been very reliable and flexible for my purposes) I'd rather use Google's web storage than my own. I don't have the time nor the expert
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by cbeach 6mo ago
If we cared about reducing road casualties, then objectively speaking, we should ban bikes. Roads are designed for cars (people in protective metal boxes with hundreds of sophisticated safety features). Roads were never intended for people
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by cbeach 6mo ago
I'm not defending civilian harm. I'm defending the sovereign rights of a country to defend its civilians from warmongering neighbours. Gaza doesn't get a free pass to fire rockets at Israeli towns, invade it, and massacre tho
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by cbeach 6mo ago
Gaza lost a war it started. The civilian casualties could have been avoided if it hadn't started the war. Iran is losing a war it started (by attacking Israel with hundreds of missiles, attacking civilian shipping, sponsoring terror gr
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by cbeach 6mo ago
Thank you for being honest about where you get your news from (the links at the bottom of the post). This helps explain your worldview. (non affiliated - not an advert) I would recommend trying Ground News, which helped me understand the bi
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by cbeach 6mo ago
Like in any market, housing prices are set by the levels of both supply AND demand. Supply has increased steadily, approx +200K dwellings per year. Demand has increased -dramatically- primarily due to mass migration (net +944K people in yea
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by cbeach 6mo ago
> Optimal for society? Optimal for the Epstein class? Or do you mean optimal for the owner No. Optimal for employees and customers, which is, in turn, optimal for society. Making technology choices based on political ideology rather than
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by cbeach 6mo ago
I love seeing companies set meritocracy aside for partisan political posturing. All people who run companies should relish their competition behaving sub-optimally.

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