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by jesterson 5mo ago
Are you forgetting the /s or sarcasm is implied?
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Fair enough, for some reason I thought iphone is older than 20 years. iPhone was indeed a great product and it changed market, no doubt about it. Apple Watch doesn't really count in my books - it's just a silly toy without much pr
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by jesterson 5mo ago
> - If you forget your password you lose your messages This shouldn't be the case right? As password isn't related to the key messages are encrypted with.
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by jesterson 5mo ago
How is it "objectively worse"?
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Would you care to explain why do you think privacy with Apple is any better than other teams?
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Not a fan of zack (quite the opposite), but he isn't wrong here. Apple indeed didn't come up with anything new. Their PR stunts each year are more and more laughable as time goes by. Neither did Meta, but that's a different d
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by jesterson 5mo ago
> I’m sure this will not be a popular take on HN however. Precisely because it's your feelings, not objective observation. No public company would care of their users, even remotely. Indeed, during Jobs time it actually worked that
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Big question is how to put sgt.cia.gov or mayor.fbi.gov in the middle between alice.home.her.isp and bob.mobile.his.isp. That is why centralised messengers are pushed hard. And this is not to protect society from harm, as many would assume
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Back in days this approach in software was called trojan horse and considered as malware
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Oh managers are not the biggest evil here. At least they know basics. Now we have influx of people with not a single shred of technical knowledge thinking they can create something.
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by jesterson 5mo ago
> Why is it a bad thing to know all the ins and outs of a programming language? To write and make all the decisions yourself? That shit is fun. It's not just fun (i agree it is), but it is also essential for creation. What we have d
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by jesterson 5mo ago
Are you implying chinese models training on my data is worse than OpenAI/Grok/Claude training on my data?
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by jesterson 6mo ago
And likely in ATM servicing. Just few months ago seen windows 95 error message on HSBC ATM.
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by jesterson 6mo ago
It's sub par to google maps. As much as I would like to use it in Japan, but it is crappier than Google. Noone in my circle with iphone uses it. Most of people are using Yahoo maps, which is way better than google and apple maps combin
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by jesterson 6mo ago
If that's the case, probability of rationing/shortages for electricity may be even higher, unless you have your own generation. There are several oil companies/sources, but for electricity you are at mercy of those who contro
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by jesterson 6mo ago
I wonder what way of thinking these people exercise. They think electricity prices are somehow shielded from price going up?
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by jesterson 6mo ago
> Most people I know only get new phones because their battery will no longer get them through the day. I am not sure if your statistic is correct or people giving you excuses to get the latest model. If we speak iphones, flipping the b
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by jesterson 6mo ago
To be fair, your comment doesn't have much substance as well
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by jesterson 6mo ago
The only reason they want you to download their app is to farm more data about you. They will push you to huge extent just to collect more data. To share an egregious example, Mercury (which is a great bank) sent KYC notice literally saying
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by jesterson 6mo ago
Watch Altman's reaction in Tucker Carlson interview to the question about (alleged) murder of OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji. The overall response and particularly the body language speaks a lot.
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by jesterson 7mo ago
To be fair, it was the first majour hiccup with the app. Usually it is quite correct. It's hard to believe airline broadcasted incorrect data in my case. Even if that was the case, they could have cross checked it with airport data, wh
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by jesterson 7mo ago
I wish the data would be more reliable (or they have better sanity checks) though. One of my flights suddenly "departed" one hour+ before scheduled time. I almost got heart attack. Needless to say there were no objective reasons f
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by jesterson 7mo ago
I am having similar thoughts. To add to list of questions - it's undeniable the AI is making humans dumber by doing mental job previously done by humans. So why we spend so much energy making AI smarter and fellow humans dumber? Should
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by jesterson 7mo ago
There is no point to argue with stupid people. It's the same people who support their "opinion" with internet articles (like that means anything), mainstream media (hard to find bigger deceivers), or social media posts (that&
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by jesterson 7mo ago
Large trucks do not pollute a lot (there are strict standards to that matter). While they do pollute obviously, there is no viable substitute to it. EV truck is a dream at this point in history. Amount of private cars in Tokyo is huge. Poll
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by jesterson 7mo ago
> they no longer have the engineering prowess to compete That's not nearly the case. They have made one of best EVs back in years, but decided to focus on hybrids. And that makes total sense.
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by jesterson 7mo ago
What would be the market like if there is no government intervention with subsidies - the free market? I doubt EV would take any significant share if that would be the case.
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by jesterson 7mo ago
>almost-all-EV city. Shenzhen is not nearly "almost-all EV" city. There is a lot of wealthy people and almost none of them drives EV. You can see all expensive cars are ICE (blue plates). Modern ICE cars emit almost no sound or
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by jesterson 7mo ago
> Is it arrogance if the task won't stick? Yes. Because stick/not stick is "decided" by IT Engineer by excerpting leverage over someone who actually have decision making capability - a manager. And what it is "st
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by jesterson 7mo ago
It's not a "regulating system" of any kind, but plain passive aggressive arrogance. I know better what to do so I would just pretend like I am going to do what you suggested. Unfortunately this trait is not so uncommon across

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