historyloop

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by historyloop 5y ago
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when an argument in that area starts using fake math to drive a point home. Top-tier engineers spend 6 months to have 20% improvement that could be achieved by spending 20% more on hardware? Where IS all th
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by historyloop 5y ago
I wanna see a language where the type system and the actual language are the same language. I'm not talking about self-hosted compiler, which TS is already. But basically what runs statically and what is compiled for runtime to be the
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by historyloop 5y ago
> This meme about Apple products deriving most of their demand from being status symbols is a decade or two out of date. Both of you are arguing on which side of an ideal abstraction (Veblen goods) Apple is. Seems silly to me. Apple prod
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by historyloop 5y ago
> Would anyone else just be fine with a thick phone that had a better internal battery? Replaceable battery. Anyway, this argument has been made plenty of times. Apple prefers to sell you a new phone and an external battery.
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by historyloop 5y ago
As we know grammatical errors are the ideal way to judge if something is real or fake.
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by historyloop 5y ago
For the money this 3000 mAh Apple bank costs, you can have 4 of these lasting you literally a whole month. Kinda hilarious.
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by historyloop 5y ago
> The M1 was hailed as an entry level chip Hailed by whom? I doubt you'll find a single instance of Apple calling M1 an "entry level chip". It looks like this is the blogosphere getting too high on their own supply, huh?
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by historyloop 5y ago
I don't care much about tracking, but this ad is very effective. It's kinda dishonest about what tracking is (it's not bunch of people making job and purchase decisions for you, come on). But effective.
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by historyloop 5y ago
I wonder if they can't ship the same M1 but with some external RAM and GPU. It won't speed up some apps, but it'll help with Pro apps.
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by historyloop 5y ago
There's a limit to how much we can hypothesize about the nature of other universes, given we don't know if they actually exist. It'd be foolish to claim "QED" either way.
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by historyloop 5y ago
Well this blog post ended precisely how I expected it to end. "Maybe."
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by historyloop 5y ago
It's always a great time to complain.
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by historyloop 5y ago
"Eight months without perceptibly faster chip!" Get a load of this guy. Can't even wait even a full year, he wants his CPU revolutions every 4 to 8 months.
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by historyloop 5y ago
What language exactly you use that can't do web sockets, which is a thin layer over plain TCP sockets?
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by historyloop 5y ago
> You're not really comparing features to features if you're comparing to a boring 5000mAh brick with wired charging. So wired charging is boring and magnetically attached is exciting? You know, this is not like AirPods, which
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by historyloop 5y ago
A Canyon 5000 mAh is of comparable size and costs $12. It's not MagSafe, but frankly the cable is not a problem at all. I'm an iPhone/Mac user, but this thing costs $99 and they didn't even bother to write out the damn c
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by historyloop 5y ago
> A music and artist focused startup or business has no problem catering to artists. You forgot to name one. > My hope is that the DOJ will break up these companies so that good, healthy competition can take place again. You think DOJ
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by historyloop 5y ago
Yes, let's have whimsical music, long pauses, tangentially related side chit-chat, and re-enactment filling us on what it means "to walk" complete with walking sound effects. Gotta love 90s radio. But... it's not the 90s
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by historyloop 5y ago
I'm talking about the elevator pitch of their blog post, not of their company. Which are actually two distinct things (they're not describing their service in this blog post).
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by historyloop 5y ago
> It’s great that we’ve went full circle. But make no mistake that this only means one thing: that servers are cheaper than ever. We can now afford to entertain previously extravagant ideas. We've not come full circle. This is just
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by historyloop 5y ago
I tried skimming through the article to attempt and derive the missing elevator pitch, but I saw them reimplement precisely the system they maligned at the start (push notifications with polling). Did anyone here understand what their value
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by historyloop 5y ago
> Apple is a 2.5 trillion dollar company. I think they'll do just fine under criticism. Wait, so you automatically dislike anything that is above {certain capital amount}? The typical pub argument driven by beer and class warfare me
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by historyloop 5y ago
How do I join tables 1:1 without creating a subfield, i.e.: table1: id, name table2: table1_id, level Desired result: {id, name, level}
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by historyloop 5y ago
> unethical company Unless there's a mathematical definition of "ethical" that we can rely on for objective assessment, that's basically everyone and no one based on how you feel any particular day.
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by historyloop 5y ago
I've the feeling you brought your generic Apple rant into a specific issue about profile photos, where it doesn't fit.
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by historyloop 5y ago
> It is not about translating intent accurately. What you need is for compilation to be fully specified. If you know how complicated the transformation pipeline is on a typical compiler, you'll realize that's pretty much imposs
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by historyloop 5y ago
> isn't all that great about implementing web standards in a timely manner. It's not good at implementing standards in timely manner which Chrome implements before they're even standards (and then become standards when Goo
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by historyloop 5y ago
People often get frustrated that the famous and the rich are treated differently, but it's literally logistics at some point. This happens for everything, for example Tesla for years had the domain TeslaMotors.com, and look at Musk des
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by historyloop 5y ago
> Famously Prince, became "The artist formerly known as Prince" Famously he did become, in public media, yes. To his frustration, as he kept telling everyone to stop calling him "artist formerly known..." until he gav
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by historyloop 5y ago
Google already singlehandedly controls the web standards. Firefox and Safari are the last obstacles to them basically privatizing the web. The independent Chromium distributions do very little to that effect, as they're not incentivize

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