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by cwyers 6y ago
Who, though? Matrix has contact discovery, doesn't it?
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by cwyers 6y ago
WhatsApp... uses the Signal Protocol. I don't understand this line of thinking at all.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Huh. I did not expect a serious and insightful answer to my entirely rhetorical question. Thank you!
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by cwyers 6y ago
Why is it, whenever Signal is brought up on Hacker News, we get inundated with the people who object to the core decisions of the Signal Project? Would Signal really be better if, instead of having a secure messenger available to the masses
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by cwyers 6y ago
> anarchist bodies such as the IETF That's an incredibly... unconventional read on the IETF.
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by cwyers 6y ago
It seems as though the whole reason that Oracle is getting this and not Microsoft is that Microsoft insisted on getting the recommendation engine in the deal and ByteDance said no -- not exclusively, mind you, at all. Oracle won't be a
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by cwyers 6y ago
And Microsoft has a pretty successful consumer products division -- not the cash cow that enterprise sales are to them, but they do have consumer products. Including the Xbox division, which targets a lot of the market that TikTok does. Exa
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by cwyers 6y ago
The problem with the idea that PGP is battletested is that it lost all the battles and learned nothing from them.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I watch a lot of cooking shows. America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, Good Eats, Milk Street, I watch Bon Apetite's YouTube channel, I read dozens cookbooks, all sorts of things. Not a single one of them is a substitute for
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by cwyers 6y ago
There are people who absolutely mean "defund the police" as "defund the police to 0:" https://www.8toabolition.com/defund-the-police Now, do they represent the majority of the people calling for defundin
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by cwyers 6y ago
Part of the problem I have with the notion that Apple (and Google) need such tight control over their app stores is that they do such a bad job of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/technology/more-ip
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by cwyers 6y ago
If alternative app stores are consistently lower quality than Apple's app store, why do you think consumers wouldn't notice them and avoid those stores?
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by cwyers 6y ago
Can you imagine how long it would be taking him if he was distracted by modern computing?
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by cwyers 6y ago
You need a web browser. I take my Kindle on the road with me (or at least, I did) and you can't sign into hotel wifi without a web browser anymore.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I really doubt this guy thinks the first Kindle was mediocre for the time.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I am not a Perl person, but it does sound to me like a lot of this thread is is missing what's going on, yeah. They're not changing the language, they're just changing the runtime to use better, more modern defaults. I don&#x
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by cwyers 6y ago
This is true some places, but it's not true everywhere. It's just that the places stuck on Python 2 often have other disconnects that make them "invisible" on the Internet.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I have exactly two uses for voice assistants: while driving and while cooking. Saying "Hey Google, set a timer for 15 minutes" when cooking or "Hey Google, remind me in in twenty minutes to add cilantro to the grocery list&qu
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by cwyers 6y ago
Except Apple isn't even the leader in marketshare in mobile devices that run apps.
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by cwyers 6y ago
The reason is simple. If you are remote at an organization that isn't fully remote, it is quite apparent that you are basically a "second-class citizen" unless a large effort is made to include you in things. It's not as
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by cwyers 6y ago
The counterpoint is that there's a lot of people and organizations out there that are happy to take advantage of the labor of these large organizations, and view loss of control over some of these things as a valid price to pay for all
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by cwyers 6y ago
> In 2015, an unrelated tool called Kubernetes was released by Google (but, really, by Xooglers). I would go so far as to say that Kubernetes (or, as the "cool kids" say, k8s) is the worst thing to happen to system administrati
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by cwyers 6y ago
HDBSCAN == Hierarchical DBSCAN, an extension of DBSCAN that produces hierarchical clusters.
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by cwyers 6y ago
> I assume they are still making a profit selling doses at low costs to developing countries. Why would you assume that, instead of assuming that the high prices in the developed world are subsidizing losses elsewhere? (Or, at least, tha
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by cwyers 6y ago
By "supported" I mean "available in the Windows Store." I believe that those are submitted by the distro vendors themselves. And from a lock-in perspective, the userland is all that matters, yeah? If an app runs on Ubunt
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by cwyers 6y ago
WSL is not a Linux. It is a Windows subsystem for running Linux userlands. (Almost as if the WSL name isn't totally nonsense!) The "default" is Ubuntu. But Debian is supported, OpenSUSE is supported, Kali is supported. Unsupp
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by cwyers 6y ago
> The principle of Linux was and still is to give tools and have users use them. A circular saw is a tool, one without a handguard is a bad tool even if it cuts wood well.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Saving X kb per 30 minutes of video streamed is "obsessively" optimizing something if you're serving a single video. If you're over 10% of all of Internet traffic, that can be millions of dollars saved a year, which pays
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by cwyers 6y ago
> The decisive moment for AI will come when a program can run a corporation better than humans. That's not an unreasonable near-term achievement. A corporation is a system for maximizing a well-defined metric. Maximizing a well-defi
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by cwyers 6y ago
Microsoft threw in the towel, discontinued their web browser development and became a Chromium fork. How are these extension developers supposed to invest enough in platforms that complete with Chrome to succeed?

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