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by cvwright 3y ago
Since the release of Xcode 15 it feels like the answer is, "More than 16 GB".
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by cvwright 3y ago
The challenge that they’re up against is, nobody wants to pay for “normal” non-targeted ads. The death of normal ads was called the “adpocalypse” and it took down some pretty major web properties who didn’t adapt. Dr Dobbs Journal was one
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by cvwright 3y ago
This is correct. They give your data for free to a group of advertisers and let them bid on who will pay the most to show you an ad.
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by cvwright 3y ago
No, with Facebook, you're paying money but you're still the product, because their core business is still ad-driven. They are not stopping showing ads, and they are not stopping collecting data. It seems that they're just st
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by cvwright 3y ago
Almost as unhappy as if the upstream project failed and went away completely. And in reality it depends a lot on my level of contribution. If I have dozens of lines of code in a big project, then who cares, all I really wanted was for my p
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by cvwright 3y ago
Unfortunately most of their big customers seem to be governments, who are often bound by law to do things like select the lowest bidder. And where criteria like “trust and confidence” are too often cover for corruption and favoritism.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Element has been giving us open source code under the most liberal license for something like 10 years. I think he’s earned a little benefit of the doubt.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Personally I’m happy to ask them to kindly maintain my new feature along with all of their other code, so I can continue to use an up-to-date version with very little effort.
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by cvwright 3y ago
50% was on the low end, 10 years ago when I submitted my first proposal. I’ve been out of the game for a while now, but I don’t think the rates have gone down.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Even more baffling, there are studies showing that most US universities actually manage to lose money on federally funded research. Yes, the overhead rates are obscene, but somehow the compliance costs are even greater.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Agreed on all points. I’ve been using Vapor for a small work project for a couple of years and overall it’s been a good experience. I think a lot of the author’s problems started when he bailed on Vapor and went down into the depths of Swi
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by cvwright 3y ago
We should expect more licensing of tech companies in the future. Both in terms of the kinds of services that will require licenses to operate, and in the number of jurisdictions that require them. If you want to run a hotel or a burger joi
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by cvwright 3y ago
If they wanted to, they could find real pictures of you, taken by other Google users who were there at the same time. I don't know if that's more or less creepy than the AI stuff...
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by cvwright 3y ago
If email was a new thing trying to break into a crowded space, then yes. Notice how WhatsApp took off while XMPP fragmented.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Username checks out :)
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by cvwright 3y ago
Yeah. I still think that the Matrix.org Foundation should have a branded client, simply called “Matrix”, available in all the major app stores. Lock it to the matrix.org server and offer membership in the foundation as an in-app purchase.
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by cvwright 3y ago
You are mad that they took money away from someone you don’t like? And moreover that they used this money for something that you do like?
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by cvwright 3y ago
In practice, that would require those companies to pay for a distro like RedHat, who supports a lot of the kernel dev work. But unfortunately everyone would rather find a way to get RH packages for free, and RH/IBM has only made the si
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by cvwright 3y ago
Trying to find people more job opportunities is very different from trying to make people depressed.
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Stuff I’ve Seen: A System for Personal Information Retrieval and Re-Use(microsoft.com)
1 points by cvwright 3y ago|0 comments
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by cvwright 3y ago
> I think it should be possible to build a proxy that records ALL local http(s) traffic There was a Microsoft Research project in the early 00’s called “Stuff I’ve Seen” that did basically this. I don’t know why it never really went any
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by cvwright 3y ago
Sure you’re not thinking of the John Scalzi book with the similar (referential) title?
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by cvwright 3y ago
This is random but I’d love to hear more about what’s involved in designing an enclosure and getting it manufactured at scale.
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by cvwright 3y ago
> I don't think they'll have the resources to go after anyone but the social media giants. Or anyone who criticizes those in power
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by cvwright 3y ago
Because the US provides the SR-71s and B-2s for those countries.
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by cvwright 3y ago
This sounds strangely similar to the code for the Morris worm.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Yeah this is a major pet peeve. Especially when the compiler crashes . Growing up writing in C, I didn’t even know that was a thing.
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by cvwright 3y ago
It’s this belief that engineering and public policy are exactly the same, that keeps getting us in trouble.
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by cvwright 3y ago
I would be fine with slow, if the Swift compiler could actually compile all valid Swift programs. It’s pretty commonplace for me to have to break a large or complicated function into smaller bite-size pieces because the compiler can’t type
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by cvwright 3y ago
A hell of a lot better than in most places that have tried a “moonshot”. Russia in 1917 being the major example.

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