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by hbn 2mo ago
I started university in 2014 so it was post-Google-driving-up-engineer-salaries, and it attracted a LOT of people with no passion for computers, but wanted one of those well-paying jobs. It was rare to find people who actually "got&quo
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by hbn 2mo ago
The University I went to has like an 80% acceptance rate so it's not comparable, but I was surprised when I got into 400-level CS classes and there were people who didn't know how to program at all. Our professor assigned us to wr
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by hbn 2mo ago
Are you using some version of the internet that's cut off from other countries?
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by hbn 2mo ago
I was not asserting there's a rule where you're cut off after 2 years. I'm saying it does happen, I'm sure it's happened in some cases within months of releasing an app that someone needed to update it because a new
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by hbn 2mo ago
Needing to pay again every once in a while to continue using it is called a "subscription"
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by hbn 2mo ago
Food companies aren't rapidly developing groundbreaking new technologies on the most competitive battleground in computing history where everyone is trying to compete globally just to create the foundational infrastructure. It's n
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by hbn 2mo ago
You're using a device with an ever-evolving OS that constantly breaks compatibility. If you paid for it once and only got to keep the version of it as of when you paid for it, in a couple years the platform would remove your ability to
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by hbn 2mo ago
Yes they do need it to be maintained because they update their phone and any apps that don't keep up can no longer be used unless the dev does more work.
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by hbn 2mo ago
Maintaining an app isn't free. You let it sit stale for a year or 2 and you'll get kicked from the App Store for non-compliance. Not to mention the developer account subscription is $99/year
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by hbn 2mo ago
That's a bunch of photos from the same camera, not 2 lenses at the same time
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by hbn 2mo ago
You can find bands you like and follow what they put out, just like before. I don't know why you'd ignore the output of talented musicians because AI exists. You can't complain about culture disappearing if you're choosi
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by hbn 2mo ago
If the western AI companies are forced to comply with this type of BS, and develop their models to do their job while balancing a book on their head and hopping on one foot, the Chinese models just got a free pass to completely dominate the
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by hbn 2mo ago
The recent Hugging Face incident did not seem like FUD to me
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by hbn 2mo ago
I get the addictiveness of TikTok and Reels but I don't know what the solution is to the supposed insidiousness. They just figured out what you like to watch and showed you more similar stuff. Are we gonna make laws that say "if y
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by hbn 2mo ago
I bought my first LLM subscription with Claude right before they gave access to Fable 5. I got so used to it, when they finally pulled access for me and I had to go back to Opus I felt like I was working with my hands tied. I finally know w
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by hbn 2mo ago
Intentional anonymity is perfectly tasteful.
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by hbn 2mo ago
> Is "snatching a phone and running off" a common enough problem in some regions that this is worth having? Yes absolutely https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/phone-london-snatch-9.7204104
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by hbn 2mo ago
> the number of games emulating PS1 / N64 aesthetics is so massively oversaturated at this point that I'm kind of burned out on it. The point isn't just to be a novelty throwback aesthetic. It's the most accessible wa
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by hbn 2mo ago
I can't compare to PowerShell, I've only ever used the Mac version of Warp (the Windows version is relatively new, I can't attest to the quality) To be more specific about what I was saying, on Mac, in any standard text field
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by hbn 2mo ago
I'm not much of a workaholic, I don't really like going outside or getting my hands dirty... But mowing the lawn is nice. It's like doing a giant coloring page with a big thick marker. The past couple of years I've lived
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by hbn 2mo ago
I started doing it and immediately felt like I was optimizing for minimal moves like a video game, rather than what I'd actually do which is not the same strategy. There's a handful of things different - The direction you mow leav
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by hbn 2mo ago
Yeah I became a fan of Warp when they offered a terminal that treated the input as a normal text input field so I could use my normal keyboard text editing shortcuts. But I understand that's not a viable business model. I'm back o
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by hbn 2mo ago
We are all long aware that Jobs was a flawed individual. But he made good products that most people like to use. That was GP they were getting at with "he wants to be Steve Jobs." You don't need to hamfist that into the conve
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by hbn 2mo ago
I've seen some very recent niche tech demoing fast-refresh e-ink screens but pretty much everything until now has required a noticeable flash to clear the entire screen on update. Which is fine for reading books but not for quick anima
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by hbn 2mo ago
Playdate's screen isn't e-ink, it's a 1-bit LCD You probably wouldn't want the refresh rate of e-ink for a gaming device.
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by hbn 2mo ago
It's wild cause it was so easy circa ~2010, back before Mojang was purchased. Microsoft makes a web login seem like some kind of lost knowledge like Roman aqueducts.
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by hbn 2mo ago
The issue with owning discs now is they tend to not even have the full game on them. They either shipped the discs before the game was done so there's something practically unplayable on the disc, or sometimes it's a demo and you
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by hbn 2mo ago
In September they're bringing the latest major iOS version to the iPhone 11 which released 7 years ago. And from what I've seen on the iPhone 11 subreddit, it improves performance. What other device manufacturer does that? The Goo
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by hbn 3mo ago
There's nothing to be confused about, this isn't about age verification. It's about increasing surveillance and ending anonymity. The "think of the children" shit is just a tactic to make emotional, non-critical-thi
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by hbn 3mo ago
Looking through your phone at an AR object is not anywhere close to what VR offers. Maybe with a Google Cardboard / Google Daydream type experience. But not holding the phone out in front of you. Obviously $3500 is not nothing for most

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