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by devsda 3y ago
The concern is not about trust but gatekeeping the providers. For example in the case of email, you generaly dont worry about google reading your email but we should definitely be concerned if gmail allows send & recieve from only few d
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by devsda 3y ago
I was initially confused and thought why you would use pincode at ATM, then realized you meant the card's PIN. In India pincode refers to zipcode or postalcode. the pin in pincode means P ostal I ndex N umber. It would be interestin
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by devsda 3y ago
If Microsoft is this hostile and in your face with its paying users, I'm concerned about what its policies are when it comes to its own employees. Are Microsoft employees allowed to use Firefox and Chrome internally on a daily basis or
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by devsda 3y ago
You can create a reddit account without giving out email but when payments come into picture you are not anonymous anymore.This will limit anonymous or throwaway accounts to official apps which again have tons of tracking. I hope they also
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by devsda 3y ago
I don't mean revoking 3rd party support entirely. We don't know the implementation details yet but if this requires Apple vetting and whitelisting the providers then it can always be revoked for technical, business, political or a
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by devsda 3y ago
> Apple are *now* allowing external sync There is no guarantee that this will be permanent. It can be revoked citing x number of reasons. Also, lets wait until the implementation details are available. If it requires providers having a n
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by devsda 3y ago
You can now add headphones to your upgrade cycles because number of new phones with reasonable specs and wired headphone support are becoming rare. If this proves cost effective to manufacture and resulting headphones come with inbuilt obso
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by devsda 3y ago
I'm curious. What happens if you have another son? Also, continuing similar tradition, I hope you've reserved mail addresses ending with 6,7 and so on for future generations.
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by devsda 3y ago
Invalid amp link. Correct URL is https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/ceo-raspberry-pi-inv... Going from shipping 800k in Q1 to 1M per month sounds like a significant upgrade in their supply chain. Hopeful
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by devsda 3y ago
Are ubuntu fonts licensed in a way that prevents using them on other distributions?
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by devsda 3y ago
> There’s been good energy on campus and in urban cores like Seattle where we have a large presence. We’ve heard this from lots of employees and the businesses that surround our offices. This is not about in office productivity and they
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by devsda 3y ago
Justice delayed is justice denied. I wonder if we can say the same for timely payments especially when maintaining proper cashflow is critical for small businesses.
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by devsda 3y ago
Interesting numbers. How does it fare if we compare against those that are measured by weight ? Edit:typo
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by devsda 3y ago
Legal frameworks that end in settlement costs that amounts to X% of quarterly profit. We can clearly see where the incentives are aligned.
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by devsda 3y ago
> So much potential, which will be left unused... Potential as in electric potential? :)
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by devsda 3y ago
Think peddle is a stronger word here. There is nothing in there that says they are planning to integrate any sorts of AI. It's just someone having fun with generative AI to create few unique wallpapers and sharing them with their commu
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by devsda 3y ago
Toys or not, they are incredibly powerful devices that are very much locked down for some arbitrary reasons. Any sort of basic interaction outside of their own ecosystem even through established standards and protocols is made difficult or
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by devsda 3y ago
> Recent AP, Telangana state bifurcation was done after much violence, did they drift apart? Don't think it is right to equate the violence during the partition of India to the Telangana movement. The 1947 partition had violence wh
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by devsda 3y ago
On point 1 if google decides to lock you out of its service, it generally doesn't stop at a single device but all other devices you own and associated accounts can also be impacted. So, the solution here seems to be not just creating b
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by devsda 3y ago
Might be better than receiving personalized ads for birth control and relationship/dating advice the next morning.
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by devsda 3y ago
From my experience, not many people set boundaries between work and personal tasks and the number of people who have personal software projects outside work is tiny. I too am guilty of using work laptop for personal work like shopping etc c
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by devsda 3y ago
I think it is not about specific law targeting laptops, but they might be legally obligated to protect their IP and business secrets i.e. source code, credentials and the documentation etc on the company owned devices. If they give away the
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by devsda 3y ago
I would say practice but I think there's more to it. For some initial numbers one might rely on memory but after a certain value we "calculate" the value and then its name automatically from small set of names for each part o
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by devsda 3y ago
> He (Gates) knew that Donn's Basic was way ahead of Microsoft's, so, as a condition for agreeing to renew Applesoft, he demanded that Apple abandon MacBasic, buying it from Apple for the price of $1, and then burying it. Not
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by devsda 3y ago
For now the system has to be trained per person. Is the difference in brain activity across individuals significant enough to stop building a universal model? It is not clear whether this is language dependent or not. If it is, I hope bein
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by devsda 3y ago
It's funny and terrifying at the same time imagining our tv throwing fireballs randomly while watching it. Thanks for the chuckle.
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by devsda 3y ago
A word of caution for anyone planning to use syncthing for backups. Syncthing is designed as a sync solution but not explicitly for backups. You need some extra setup on top of the defaults for building a reliable backup solution. If not se
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by devsda 3y ago
I agree with the general idea of testing and verifying an AI before integrating it into any field that can directly or indirectly impact a human(financially, psychologically etc). Tests designed for humans may not translate well for an AI.
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by devsda 3y ago
The terms of usage seems to remain the same and the demo page's privacy policy points to the common Facebook privacy policy. I hope the terms are limited to the demo and there's no telemetry within the source.
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by devsda 3y ago
Let's say they integrate chatgpt like AI and are able to resolve most cases to customer satisfaction. But, because of their scale and the number of fake items on the platform I think their number of returns will also increase along wit

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