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by jen20 1y ago
They are better than they used to be because of the competition. I remember a time not that long ago where getting a minicab was nigh on impossible, and one miraculously did show up, it would be primary so the driver could try to scam you.
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by jen20 1y ago
Taxis in the US are one of the most regulated services around, and they were still utterly atrocious. Sure, they’re mandated to not refuse service, but you try getting picked up in Manhattan with a suitcase mid afternoon (when it’s obvious
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by jen20 1y ago
Note that this thread is full of people claiming that using SQLite with iCloud sync is evidence of some conspiracy theory or other!
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by jen20 1y ago
Musk isn’t even the first person I thought of here (it was Jack Dorsey).
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by jen20 1y ago
Last time I was in New York City I could not for the life of me find a paper copy of the New York Times to read. Newsstands appear to just be selling candy and drinks.
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by jen20 1y ago
I’ve only tried twice (after using it ~30 times during the preview directly through the Waymo app) - neither time resulted in a robotaxi though, and one resulted in a driver that smelled so bad I’ve sworn off ride sharing until the end of s
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by jen20 1y ago
If you can eventually guarantee you’ll get a robotaxi instead of a car with a driver when you call one (unlike Waymo in Austin, now, thanks to their dumb partnership with Uber), they’ll likely do ok in the longer term.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Win-win for who exactly? Society at large? All the people who don't have the breathe the fumes of some garbage commercial vehicle. > Your backyard fence looks DIY Provided it's up for code, whether it was "done yourse
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by jen20 1y ago
I constantly do this when navigating large files. Zoom out for context (better than a minimap), zoom in for detail. I use the trackpad for it though, not ctrl/cmd-+. I also do it constantly in web browsers, and am consistently amazed b
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by jen20 1y ago
> but no one on the Zed team seems to use a non-retina screen This is not that surprising to me. Surely no-one wants to spend their day looking at the pixels?
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by jen20 1y ago
> Are they silently shut down/paused after a while? Yes. This has been the case since 2008 when the first version of iOS supporting third-party apps was released. Background refresh allows some quanta of work do be done when an app
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by jen20 1y ago
I've managed to go a very long time - living in both the UK and the US - using only iMessage and (as of around 2017) Signal. I finally had to install WhatsApp on a trip recently for group coordination, but ensured it didn't get th
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by jen20 1y ago
> The fun fact is that those people have 100+ apps on their phones, which run in the background, draining their batteries, tracking the sh*t out of them, This is wildly untrue on iOS. Perhaps people have 100+ apps. But the rest, not so m
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by jen20 1y ago
> The LLMs usually get it right. This has not been my experience. They might do something in the right direction. They might write complete garbage. But the amount of time an LLM writes code that compiles and executes first time is vanis
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by jen20 1y ago
Unfortunately in Austin, Waymo have screwed the pooch by making their service only available through Uber, with no way of saying you only want Waymo instead of a human driver. I used an Uber the other day out of necessity, and the driver sm
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by jen20 1y ago
This doesn’t do that, though.
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by jen20 1y ago
FoundationDB is a fully proper open source project since 2018…
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by jen20 1y ago
There might be: even if my employer can decrypt traffic, there's no reason for either of my scumbag internet service providers to be able to.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Most of that software could run on prem. Many companies don’t have a prem on which to run.
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by jen20 1y ago
> They wrote regular software for sale, like games, for example. Wrote software, like, you know, "developed" it?
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by jen20 1y ago
> Big Tech just went full Corporate America with a page straight out of Jack Welch: fire the bottom 5-10% every year Plenty of "big tech" already did it. Microsoft could not be more famous for stack ranking dating back to the 9
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by jen20 1y ago
Typically, italic formatting indicates gentle emphasis, bold formatting indicates strong emphasis. Given this, * and * make sense. However, typically people use _ for gentle emphasis in Markdown, which makes _even more_ sense. Be careful no
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by jen20 1y ago
Or, preferably, a [link][1]. [1]: https://whatever.com
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by jen20 1y ago
Part of the point of Markdown is that it's supposed to read like plain text - many of the elements is what was commonplace on usenet and in email. If you're on macOS though, the best option for rendered Markdown is a quicklook plu
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by jen20 1y ago
That is the reason I used percentages, rather than absolute. For Java, every single app I’ve ever seen has been a massive shit show. For Swift, 0 of the 40-50 I’ve seen are.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Ever heard of Swift macros? Yes, having lived on the daily build bleeding edge of Swift for several years, including while macros were being developed, I have indeed heard of them. > Do you know where Java EE comes from? Fully aware
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by jen20 1y ago
> including Linux on Azure Are you sure about this?
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by jen20 1y ago
Swift's limitations around reflection actually make it surprisingly difficult to create a typical Java-style mess with IOC containers and so forth.
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by jen20 1y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "no discussion in the western hemisphere"? Zerotier is fairly well known in the US.
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by jen20 1y ago
The biggest advantage is being third-party-dependency-free. I tend to reject libraries which have no updated to use the stdlib approach at this stage as “likely unmaintained” - similar for those that pull in things like pkg/errors tran

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