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by georgespencer 3y ago
This logic doesn't really scan for me. If you care about optimizing your time enough to not respond to the deluge of unqualified candidates you receive, then you might benefit from an ATS, which will make it trivial to send a polite
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> We've been hearing many awesome stories about the next thing Apple will do, only to realize their marketing team chose to keep it for future iOS/MBP/iPhone generations to keep the profits high. I believe it's more l
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Transformer based autocomplete on iOS 17 feels just as bad -- but in different ways -- as its previous incarnation to me.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> want access to what I pay for You do not pay for this. You would like to, I’m sure.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> Is that really true though? Jailbroken phones, iMessage may still work. Any device security gets thrown out the window. Apple closes exploits which allow jailbreaking, precludes it in the EULA. What more would you have them do?
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> Apple will do anything to virtue signal Subjective, speculative. > when in reality I think you mean "when in my opinion". > they are making a decision on improving their profit Speculative, and "improving their pro
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by georgespencer 3y ago
In addition to explicitly prohibiting it as a violation of the iPhone EULA, Apple goes to extraordinary lengths to close the exploits which allow jailbreaking. Apple doesn't just block iMessage on rooted phones, it tries to prevent jai
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> It's not a super serious comment, it's more about how ridiculous the tone of "We are doing this for YOUR protection" would be. Right now I can presume a basic level of device security across all iMessage threads I h
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> Why are those users less deserving of decent security? Because they don't own an Apple device or have iMessage, which is the entire point of this discussion?
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by georgespencer 3y ago
My points are narrowly related to the parent's assertion that Apple preventing Beeper Mini interoperability / allowing SMS is evidence of their convictions relating to privacy being hokum, but since you're not one of those 3
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Apple is adopting RCS, but as far as I can tell your reply has nothing whatsoever to do with my comment.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Putting aside that I count at least two glaring examples from this list[^1] in your reply, I suspect Apple would argue that it is in fact _solely_ preoccupied with its users' security: that's why iMessage is end to end encrypted a
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Do you really consider Apple's control over a proprietary protocol which they invented and maintain to be comparable to a scenario in which Apple "sends a man" to take "your fire extinguisher […] from your house"? I
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Are there any headlines or articles from the Babylon Bee that you think of as being classics of the genre? I’ve looked occasionally in the past and always found it to be painful. “CNN PURCHASES INDUSTRIAL SIZED DRYER TO SPIN NEWS BEFORE BRO
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Haven’t seen The Beaverton. Thanks for turning me onto it. If you haven’t heard the This American Life episode where they go behind the scenes at The Onion’s writer room, it’s worth checking out. A ten minute discussion over the precise wor
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I suspect you're right, and I find it to be so sad that anyone could read a fairly well-structured rebuttal to a throwaway conspiracy theory to be evidence of someone having a vested interest.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> I mean you listed plenty of reasons the relationship is bad. Perhaps we misunderstand each other. This is what you said: > Apple wants to save face because "the leads we brought GS have double the default rate of other cards&qu
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I’m all about equality when it comes to specious conspiracy theories.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
The early Rewind releases weren't for me, but I found the folks I shared feedback with there to be awesome – really open and it seems like a terrific group of people, for anyone thinking of applying.
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> Apple wants to save face because "the leads we brought GS have double the default rate of other cards" is a bad look for future partners. Pretty sure I must be misunderstanding you. Do you really mean to suggest that Apple&#x
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Can you think of any times when a sincere fear of god might have motivated folks to perpetrate acts of evil? I suspect for this particular heuristic to feel sensible, the god needs to be one you happen to believe in. I would take precisely
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I can't speak highly enough of Miguel Grinberg's work with Python/Flask ( https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial... ) and the community he's created around it, for both beginners
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Very true and sorry if it seemed that I was criticizing them for doing it. I believe that OP's intention was to suggest that professionals who work in fields with high demands for performance, like professionals who are passionate abou
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by georgespencer 3y ago
There is no daylight between us on any of these points. My position is not that there aren't good reasons to have not upgraded from a 2015 Mac, or that I'm having trouble imagining what they are, but rather that it's a reason
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I totally agree it's a bad analogy, and whether I succeed in defending it or you succeed in knocking it down, it doesn't really help us understand each other in greater fidelity. The one thing I do admire about the person who offe
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> I took that one in good faith I tried to, but found it hard given that OP also challenged people to provide "concrete reasons" to upgrade, and said things like "there is absolutely no reason". Everything OP says ind
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by georgespencer 3y ago
I'm not agreeing with latchkey's statement about developers and "shitty tools". I'm agreeing with them that when you say this… > if their current wrenches are completely sufficient … you are not making an honest
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Thanks, I had missed that. It contains the phrase "don't use shitty tools", but I'll leave it to you to decide whether OP honestly recapitulated the same argument in their passing reference. The two seem somewhat differe
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by georgespencer 3y ago
Just lol @ thinking that this statement: > Removing someones ability to defend themselves against serious allegations by cutting them off from their ability to make money to pay for said defense undermines the integrity of the legal syst
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by georgespencer 3y ago
> There is absolutely nothing I can do with my M2 laptop that I cannot do well with my cheap old Intel laptop. Nothing. […] > The only time I experience any type of slowdown is when I launch IntelliJ. I can't tell if you're

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