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by gigel82 4y ago
I'll believe it when I see it.
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by gigel82 4y ago
This is no different than the hundreds of "fusion breakthroughs" we've been reading about over the past 20+ years. Progress is good, sure, but we're tired of celebrating small incremental gains. A leap forward or two mig
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by gigel82 4y ago
I've never had that happen to me in 20+ years of using and updating Windows. I suspected it's an urban legend but when a friend told me they experienced it with a feature update in Windows 11 I inquired further: It turns out durin
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by gigel82 4y ago
That's why I only own .com domains. net and org are probably fine too. You're free to move the domain you own to a different registrar at any time (I'm all on cloudflare now which has no markup, it's great).
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by gigel82 4y ago
I can see your point, but wouldn't classify myself as an Apple "hateboy": I've been using iPhones since the 3GS (we have 4 iPhones in the family, 2 iPads and a MacBook). I've just been extremely disappointed by thei
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by gigel82 4y ago
The "damn spec" clearly stated that they would be introducing functionality on your device that is capable of scanning content on your device and matching that against a database of opaque hashes downloaded from a 3rd party. That&
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by gigel82 4y ago
_nothing_ is exactly what I expect them to do when it comes to my local files. We all like to vilify Microsoft (rightfully so for all the telemetry crap they pull) but imagine if Windows started scanning all your local disks for files match
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by gigel82 4y ago
It's good to be passionate, but blind devotion is dangerous, especially since we already know by now Apple is positioning itself to become a major player in the advertising space and - with a dwindling economy and an increased pressure
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by gigel82 4y ago
That's a very optimistic point of view. On the other hand, I and others speculated that the reason Apple wants to introduce code on your device that scans local content on your device against a government mandated database of "wro
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by gigel82 4y ago
I have a Nissan Leaf and it always bothered me there was no software way to fully disable telematics. I looked into how to disable the hardware but it's a very involved procedure and the car is leased so I dropped it, but maybe I need
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by gigel82 4y ago
It's mostly for dynamic pricing (based on time of day, number of customers, weather, you name it). It'd be more expensive and time consuming to send an employee with a label printer all over the store a couple of times a day.
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by gigel82 4y ago
The link was entirely random to show a similar mass produced product, I didn't do much research. You can search for NFC ones on the same website, they're a few bucks more. There are also Bluetooth variants which is more friendly t
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by gigel82 4y ago
There are a lot of "electronic price tags" which are basically the same form factor as your trading cards, except they mass produce them (have nice plastic cases) and they usually include a 3-color eink (black-white-red or black-w
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by gigel82 4y ago
I haven't bought an app in the store in at least 3 years. I installed maybe 4-5 new free apps over that period, all for smart home devices that need an app to activate / install and receive notifications. I used to go to the store
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by gigel82 4y ago
Not a single screenshot on GitHub or on their website...
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by gigel82 4y ago
I have Closed Captions / Subtitles on all the time, I cannot watch any movie or show made in the last 10-15 years without it (I would hear 20% - 90% of the dialogue otherwise). Don't find CC distracting any more, and as an added b
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by gigel82 4y ago
Curious if you'd say the same about Microsoft Windows. They never show banner ads anywhere in the product but they do advertise their own apps and services (and like the App Store on iPhone, they advertise apps you can install from the
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by gigel82 4y ago
So, Microsoft will push an update to extract the data? Did you forget a "/s" tag? I mean... Windows is also owned by Microsoft, so they should ban all use of Windows. And also ban any binary distribution of software of any ki
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by gigel82 4y ago
I'm curious about what alternatives they're proposing. That's 98% of the market right there (citation needed).
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by gigel82 4y ago
Comments talking about how Musk will look at those screenshots of code and somehow determine an employee's worth are hilarious. This obviously has nothing to do with evaluating a developer's quality; this is a classic move dicta
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by gigel82 4y ago
I mean how do they plan to interop between C and Rust code. Either in the same library or across shared libraries (if written in Rust, what does it export on the API surface such that C code can call into it)?
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by gigel82 4y ago
Is there an explanation somewhere on what the plans for ABI are? Are they exporting just pure C functions from the Rust code?
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by gigel82 4y ago
lying is the point, innit?
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by gigel82 4y ago
This is interesting, particularly for implementing Intl in JS engines without the mega-heavy ICU. But I wonder how portable it really is. Sometimes I have to dig very deep to find that what folks call "portable C" is actually POSI
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by gigel82 4y ago
Microsoft has also never sold your data to advertisers. And yet I despise them for collecting my data and not giving me the option to turn that off. Apple is now doing exactly the same thing . So I despise both Apple and Microsoft equally.
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by gigel82 4y ago
I'm happy that these sort of posts are actually getting some traction on Hacker News these days. Up until 3-4 months ago, I was still getting pummeled with downvotes and flags if I even suggested Apple are hypocrites building an ad emp
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by gigel82 4y ago
Every time I hear people bashing C++ for not being memory safe, I somehow get reminded of the teens that were eating Tide Pods a few years ago. So let's put a big warning and lock away the Tide Pods because people might eat them. Well
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by gigel82 4y ago
That's a nice story... it's also possibly true. But that's not how things work in most medium-large companies. I was asked to implement some telemetry in our client applications that I considered was going too far (clearly de
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by gigel82 4y ago
I was using Amazon Music on my commute. No ads and nice selection (often updated), plus included with Prime (which I'm paying for anyway). Removing the ability to skip really sucks but my commute is not long enough to justify paying fo
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by gigel82 4y ago
<conspiracy_hat> Some of those videos have comments related to Apple's commitment to respecting privacy and/or something to do with ads being bad ; now they want to "go in a different direction" and are doing a 198

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