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by dangus 10mo ago
> Liquid Glass isn't an optional decoration, it's the name of the new system-wide UI Of course it’s optional. Some of the most popular apps on the planet ignore the local UI conventions of their parent OSes entirely. TikTok is
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by dangus 10mo ago
If you have yet to use it then you have no idea if it’s useful. We can agree all day long about the pitfalls of the technology, but you’ve never used it so you don’t know if it’s causing you more work or replacing you.
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by dangus 10mo ago
The analogy still works and we get the idea. Maybe a better analogy might be a car with an automatic transmission, although that doesn’t capture the pitfalls of AI very well. It could be argued that a good automatic transmission has none of
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by dangus 10mo ago
Wow! Thanks for cluing me in, I’m trying out “connect to server” in the files app now. Obviously none of this is massively impressive to anyone who has used Android including myself, but a lot of the assumptions surrounding iOS and iPadOS b
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by dangus 10mo ago
Very easily. Even without Apple software, connecting to a Windows PC with a USB cable, iPhone will present itself as a digital camera so you can import photos with the built-in Microsoft photos app or file explorer. You can also use Apple’s
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by dangus 10mo ago
I cannot understand the nostalgia for physical phone keyboards. They are an objectively slower typing experience. I would rather just buy a $20 Bluetooth keyboard if I wanted to do some serious typing on a phone. Or maybe get into Samsung D
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by dangus 10mo ago
This statement is wild hyperbole and doesn’t represent the privacy landscape of a default Windows 11 install. Even Windows Recall, an optional opt-in beta product only available on specific hardware, very clearly and specifically in its leg
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by dangus 10mo ago
It’s a stupid business model for this product category and shows their leadership doesn’t understand the market. If you buy a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS, you’re getting a better secured phone, better phone hardware, and for less money if yo
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by dangus 10mo ago
I’m reminded of that company that added a Made in USA option of their product that you could select next to the normal price and nobody would buy it at any price premium. Like, literally nobody. I wish I could remember where that blog post
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by dangus 10mo ago
This is technically true, but the end result is that if you abolish the lottery (unpopular) you have to raise taxes (even more unpopular) to replace lost revenue. Sin taxes work so well at plugging funding gaps specifically because they are
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by dangus 10mo ago
I think the more important point to bring up is “you can hire a human for minimum wage.” The median monthly salary in Bangladesh is cheaper than the Cursor Ultra plan. And Cursor loses money. An experienced developer in India makes around $
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by dangus 10mo ago
Another aspect is that in many states, a large portion of the lottery goes directly into public good programs like education: https://www.powerball.net/distribution-of-revenue All the players know that the odds are horrible
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by dangus 10mo ago
There’s a big difference between “building things for fun and accomplishment” and taking on the intense obligations of continuing to be a CTO when a major exit is on the table. I totally understand that there are people who relish in the ch
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by dangus 10mo ago
Right, these commercial operating systems are designed with a different philosophy that arguably has its own merit. I’m enjoying a Fedora atomic distribution for the eliminating the Linux upgrading issues of the past. But macOS and Windows
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by dangus 10mo ago
You bring up apps like Skype doing similar work in 2005, but Skype was barely out of its 2003 public alpha by then. Version 2.0 beta came out in 2005 and was the first version to support video, and only supported video calling between two p
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by dangus 10mo ago
Yes, wired very differently. I think that’s why I used the Star Trek analogy. This motivation is like a strange curiosity to me. This pursuit of product is so foreign to me, and from the outside it doesn’t seem healthy. But I guess if the K
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by dangus 10mo ago
“more freedom to keep building” This is the disconnect to me. This phrase has tech industry cult vibes to me. I don’t see “freedom” and “building” as words that mesh together. I see “building” as something I’m obligated to do to pay my bill
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by dangus 10mo ago
The odd part of this journey to me was basically: 1. We aren’t going to sell. 2. Confiding with your spouse with clear concerns about current levels of stress and time commitment. 3. We can resolve a lot of the stress and sustainability pro
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by dangus 10mo ago
Also, there are almost always alternatives, like the mobile website. Things like Apple/Google Wallet aren’t significantly superior to a contactless credit/debit card. About the only bank thing I can think of that actually requires
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by dangus 10mo ago
If the author of this article just finished the book the publisher would have just published it without much fuss and probably without any significant changes. The author had all the leverage regarding content. It’s not like the publisher c
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by dangus 10mo ago
I don’t really see what’s relevant about crypto nonsense in this context. We are really talking about the overall economy especially in the tech sector. Even if every cryptocurrency becomes worthless overnight, that doesn’t represent the ma
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by dangus 10mo ago
There actually becomes a point where there’s not that many things you can do with your money when you have so much of it. This is especially true when your investors/owners expect you to generate better returns than the risk-free rate.
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by dangus 10mo ago
It’s easy to predict that, but when has “the whole thing” ever crashed? Sure, markets can crash, but this idea of “go to zero” never happens. That’s the whole calculus of these investments. Many of them are expected to fail. The fact that i
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by dangus 10mo ago
If you didn’t babysit your task manager would you know which program used more RAM or not? This argument is just so endless and tiring. Saturating my bandwidth or running a btrfs scrub isn’t accomplishing the business logic I need to do my
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by dangus 10mo ago
Why don’t you just go ahead and tell me what specs you think Slack should run on and link me to an example program that has 100% feature parity that stays within those specs? Showing me a black and white <10FPS group video call with no o
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by dangus 10mo ago
This comment has started a very annoying and unproductive debate that’s basically just parenting hot take tropes and judgmental parents explaining why their way is best so I’m just editing it away.
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by dangus 10mo ago
I don’t care because I’ll be dead. Data-hoarding archivists don’t like to hear this, but this is how it’s worked for all of human history. It’s not practical to consume and remember all the media every person has ever published. This is get
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by dangus 10mo ago
Which is basically never. They have no incentive to do that except for extreme circumstances, and they have all the leverage in the world over game publishers. Delisted games tend to stay in your library for redownload. I never understood t
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by dangus 10mo ago
I’m just going to go ahead and plug is there any deal dot com. You can sync up your Steam wishlist (it’s a little weird to setup but once you figured it out it works). I almost never buy games directly from steam anymore, there’s almost alw
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by dangus 10mo ago
I have great doubts that you were doing simultaneous screen sharing from multiple participants with group annotation plus HD video in your group calls, all while supporting chatting that allowed you to upload and view multiple animated gifs

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