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by kcplate 2y ago
I guess we will see, but I can tell you after nearly 40 years of being in technology, I have never seen us go backwards, only forward and in the last 5 years forwards faster than ever. And with that experience I am advising my grandkids t
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by kcplate 2y ago
It’s not my expertise. However, if it’s a barrier to adoption it’s a problem to solve and will be. AI is exponentially improving and there is no reason to believe that this won’t continue.
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by kcplate 2y ago
That is completely contingent on if present the day SWEs stop working on trying to eliminate the hallucinations.
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by kcplate 2y ago
My courage is strong, I’m willing to support a downvoted comment with another comment or two that I know will be downvoted to hell too…just to hold a mirror up to the humorless folk on here.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Agreed.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Uh yes, they were being sarcastic. Once again…the humorless HN strikes. Sheesh.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I know the humorless HN is downvoting you but I gave you an upvote. Farts and fart jokes are always funny.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I guess it’s worse than it looks? The video was kind of a dramatic let down to be honest. I preferred the mystery.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> People will figure this out pretty quickly when they try to use it. Then you find that it’s uninstallable and you now have a fooked computer where you have to wipe your whole goddamned system to be rid of the POS you just installed. H
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by kcplate 2y ago
More expensive up front but in my experience the hardware lasts longer and is usable for longer. I just recently retired a 15 year old MBP due to a battery swell. I’d still probably have it on my desk and occasionally using it if i wasn’t
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Not only that, you can't distribute a half-finished app to the public -- even if it's free -- because it wouldn't pass review. Ahhh so you want the public to do your QA for you and don’t mind interfering with their produ
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by kcplate 2y ago
Not sure of your reality, but my apple ecosystem just works . I spend nearly zero time fiddling with my rig just to get to a point of productivity but see Linux using peers in a constant state of tweaking trying to achieve and failing of
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by kcplate 2y ago
SWEs build for maximum tinkerability. General users just want the software to work without having to tinker with it at all.
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by kcplate 2y ago
People are driven away from open standards to vendors like Apple because so much open stuff just sucks so goddamn bad . So will Apple one day fuck me over? Perhaps, but in the meantime their shit just works and I am going to use it becau
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by kcplate 2y ago
> No-one is hitting anything out of the park I kind of feel like their walled garden and ecosystem might just have created the perfect environment for an AI integrated directly to the platform to be really useful. I’m encouraged, but I
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by kcplate 2y ago
I second that. Rectangle is a must have app for me. Perhaps a few others, but that one stands out as one I don’t want to use my Mac without
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by kcplate 2y ago
It’s been that way forever. In CS most colleges have always been about 2 beats behind current industry.
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by kcplate 2y ago
This is exactly why I see virtually no difference between the desired tyrannies of the “woke” types today as compared to the religious right of the ‘80s and ‘90s. It’s the same shit with a slightly different script. That inherent desire t
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Charging allows you to multitask, and modern EVs can add a hundred or more miles of range in 15 minutes. Requires a complete mindset change to be ok with the trade off of 75% less range in 3x the time. I can get 380 miles of range in l
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yes, CDC issued guidelines. MANY local and state governments took those guidelines and made them mandatory in their districts. It’s misleading to pretend that this wasn’t so and that the CDC had no idea that governments were making their r
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I dont mean to offend anybody but IMO if you think that having a thinner laptop is more important than reducing electronic and plastic waste on the planet then yes, you are wrong. My thinner essentially “unrepairable” laptop is now on
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by kcplate 2y ago
If that is the most important feature for a laptop for you to have, then you should buy whatever “not as capable” machine suits your needs. For me it’s like the least most important feature
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by kcplate 2y ago
> unless the programmer is a total novice Might be different in SV or at a FAANG, but speaking from my nearly 4 decades of experience in tech, many to most programmers that have come up in the last 20 years are either lifetime novices, o
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by kcplate 2y ago
May not be a one for one substitute, but collards can be pretty cheap.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The competition can run multiple displays. So can quite a few Mac models on the Apple website. Pretty sure that “the competition” has a model or two in its product line up that is not as powerful or capable as another model it sells.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> This kind of thing shows we are not quite there yet I think you need to probably consider the time it took to go from 100% wrong, to 90, to 80, etc…. My guess is that interval is probably shrinking from milestone to milestone. This ca
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The only qualification to be a repeat Apple consumer is the complete lack of self-awareness and this essay is beautiful in encapsulating the cheery vacuousness of the cult. Thank you. This has opened my eyes to all of those unnecessar
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by kcplate 2y ago
There is a distinction between the image of a celebrity and their voice. The image of a celebrity is usually pretty cut and dried, it’s them, or obviously intended to be them. If the use of their image isn’t meant to be satirical, it’s pr
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by kcplate 2y ago
The only one of those you could make a reasonable case for from a general consumer perspective (not the general HN SWE consumer perspective) is maybe Journal. Which in of itself is simply too new an offering from apple to make it a must
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by kcplate 2y ago
You would have to argue the distinctiveness of the voice (if they hadn’t already pursued her to do it). Tom Waits…that’s pretty distinct voice. Scarlett Johansson…not so much

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