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by jmbwell 3y ago
I recognize that web developers want full control over the user experience, usually to the point of reimplementing all of the native UI widgets provided by the user’s OS. As a user, I prefer for my OS to do things my OS does, including styl
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Could be hard to break it down. It’s clear that much of what we have already — Sidecar, Continuity, all the ML subject recognition, spatial audio, image processing… is likely spun out of the development of this thing, or at least co-develop
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Apple positioning this for “Work” addresses that. It also conveniently diminishes concerns about things like the battery (if you’re at a desk, plugging in is no problem) and controls (if the gestures bother you, use a keyboard and trackpad)
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by jmbwell 3y ago
This article is dead on, all the way to the end. Takes a few minutes to read, but its observations on the market position of the device, all the way to the individual/social ramifications and the relevance vis a vis Meta, are as sharp
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by jmbwell 3y ago
FWIW and like it or not, libreoffice is the best or only way to do some of the things it does. I don’t actually use it directly as an office suite really ever. But I do use tools that use its libraries, like unoconv, or that depend on it fo
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by jmbwell 3y ago
It doesn't label. It doesn't do anything to "all" of anything. It doesn't refer to any "imperfection," and it doesn't address "reasoning." This is a misrepresentation of the parent comment a
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by jmbwell 3y ago
As I understand it, scar tissue isn’t necessarily weaker, and can be stronger, but is mostly adapted to the injury and how it was able to heal. If the injury was well attended, scar tissue can be as good or better than what was there before
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Author doesn’t have real answers as to why people have been using strings for so long, but (as author almost speculates) it’s possibly just because the people who have been programmatically generating HTML the longest had only string functi
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Ideally, endpoint devices are enrolled and provisioned automatically. Decommissioning is a few clicks. Service hosts are deployed and destroyed via ansible or orchestration. Backups, monitoring, logging, SIEM, etc. are integrated with the C
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I’d have bought it as a raspberry pi in a cardboard box. Is there a “fail faster” lesson to consider? Would a lesser initial product have helped reduce the scope for manufacturing and maybe helped avoid some of these pitfalls?
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Sure. And I would add that application identifiers can be a different problem domain. `app-dev.houston-1.example.com` would be a perfectly reasonable name for an application, whether it resolves to a host or a load balancer or a CDN endpoin
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Yeah see, it doesn’t necessarily solve any of these problems. If you have to do all this guesswork or refer to documentation anyway, maybe just use the human readable and immediately interpretable name of the town the DC is in. Increment a
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I would argue metadata does not belong in a device name. Location, OS, etc., should all be tracked in the device management system. The impulse to encode lots of metadata in a device name is reasonable, but less is more. Location, user, app
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Or several?
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Commenters may wish to note the last section of the article: > Modal windows can be used for views that don't constitute a "resource" or correspond to a domain entity: > Alerts > Confirmation dialogs > Forms for c
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Enter LLMs to help automate all this even further.
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Aside: "Apple Newsroom needs your permission to enable desktop notifications." Boo. Boo this page. It only needs that permission if I want to enable that. C'mon, Apple. You know better than this.
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Maybe it’s relevant today because we have LLMs and speech interfaces, but it was relevant at the time because of the growing oppression of the Cold War. The world grew beyond that, and cautiously welcomed Russia into the global economy, but
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by jmbwell 3y ago
In some cases, it’s true; taking some blame in the short term can be better in the long run than dealing with the reactionary processes and solutions of “accountability.”
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by jmbwell 3y ago
This is just like using a long random password, except that it's cryptographically verifiable without ever leaving your device. If passwords are like playing poker with your cards facing out, Passkeys are like playing with your cards f
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by jmbwell 3y ago
The now-unfortunately-named "Password managers" help with this by providing various mechanisms to sync keys with multiple devices, so that every time you get a new device, you simply need to authenticate and transfer the key store
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Also tangible and understandable is a registry of users who have access to your accounts, that allows you to grant and revoke access (at possibly different levels), without having to reset all your own credentials. I've got to quit com
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by jmbwell 3y ago
The accounts and services I use that support passkeys also support some form of account delegation, recovery contacts, legacy contacts, or family sharing. This includes Apple, Google, Microsoft, and self-hosted services through Authentik, A
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by jmbwell 3y ago
As an administrator, I hear you, but we have to adapt. Passwords are awful. On the whole, the effort and energy spent training people on passwords, battling phishing, dealing with password managers, cleaning up from breaches, and more… pass
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Complaining that bash on macOS is old is valid, but it doesn’t seem relevant here. If you’re just going to use Powershell on Windows anyway, then surely bash doesn’t matter on either platform. More relevant in my view is how well the workst
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by jmbwell 3y ago
For what it’s worth, the article seems to be about the difficulty of modeling human patterns of ambiguity in expression, not an LLM’s ability to understand or interpret or use ambiguity. It’s an important distinction in my view. We aren’t t
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by jmbwell 3y ago
That, and/or the employer isn’t strictly in the business of monetizing outrage clickbait. Kinda makes me want to … subscribe to it…
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A thoughtful article, not run of the mill kvetching. It includes comments from some of the newspapers about the thinking behind their cancellation processes and some considerations of the reasoning, which, regardless whether I agree, is enl
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by jmbwell 4y ago
I think the author of the article and many commenters here are saying they are more than happy to take their eyeballs to web sites that express a different worldview, or at least a different attitude toward users.
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by jmbwell 4y ago
To this day, I miss: - the Queue - Reviews and suggestions from my actual IRL human non-algorithmic friends Netflix knows what’s best for Netflix I guess, but those two features are what made the service for me. I discovered so much great s

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