lapcat

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by lapcat 6mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807441
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> Most PhD topics are incremental and derivative whereas they should be seminal and ground-breaking. Why? Most science is incremental. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
Classic pulling up the ladder behind you. Thiel went to Stanford, and Andreessen to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
Now someone do "the rise of Hacker News meta-analysis blog posts".
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by lapcat 6mo ago
I suspect the app ecosystem was a problem with Windows Phone. iOS and Android already had a head start of a few years, with Windows Phone not appearing until late 2010, and "Windows" was a bit of a misnomer, because desktop Window
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by lapcat 6mo ago
In order to enter the mainstream market and challenge the consumer OS duopolies, a new OS needs at least two things: 1. Retail presence 2. A large advertising budget This is why it's so difficult to challenge the existing duopolies on
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> This is a person clearly grieving that his hard earned knowledge in his field is now not that valuable. He's co-founder and CTO of his own company, so I think he's doing fine in his field.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
It's possible that the villagers were suspicious of Luria. It's also possible that the collective farm workers were suspicious of Luria. Don't you think it's possible for both of those to be true? The question is, what e
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> They might have been, but they also knew from experience that "do whatever this party apparatchik asks you to do, no matter how pointless it seems" was a better strategy for staying alive. Why didn't the villagers come t
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> More generally, Luria completely ignores a key psychological dynamic that's in play as he tries to quiz these villagers: they're going to be suspicious of why he's even doing all this in the first place. What is he up to
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> I recommend reading up on his 80/90's antics. All he cared about was money Incorrect. Read the David Pogue Apple book. For example, after the iMac was released, the Apple board of directors offered Jobs a million shares and s
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> I get convenience has led everyone to expect their phone to do everything for them, but it's not working. It's mostly working, though. For every story of someone experencing a severe problem, there are millions of non-stories
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> I feel bad for the guy and all the Apple users constantly sharing stories of being mistreated and abused. Stop giving these companies your money and consent. Here's a challenge: walk into a store and attempt to buy a smartphone th
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> Did no one of the likely-somewhat-large team who did that think "wait, this could lock out our users who may have used that character"? I don't think we can assume the team is large.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> Perhaps the most serious mistake that the AI industry made after creating a technology that will transversally disrupt the entire white-collar workforce before ensuring a safe transition This was not an oversight. To the contrary, it w
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> We’ll be fine, it’s not our first rodeo. Because World War I was fine, World War II finer....
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> This should be hurting the reputation of Chrome Web Store more than it is hurting the reputation of Open Source browser extensions. Does the Chrome Web Store have any reputation left at this point? I don't know how much lower its
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> I’m not saying that everyone is perfect all the time but like this is barely an issue if you’re sitting at your desk? It's a laptop computer.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
No.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> It turns out there’s only 84 thousand Firefox extensions. On addons.mozilla.org, but you can distribute Firefox extensions without posting on addons.mozilla.org. I do.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
tccutil reset All co.eclecticlight.Insent and reboot isn't actually working for me. Thus, there's no way to remove access short of disabling SIP and deleting the com.apple.macl xattr.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> It’s working properly in the sense that the Apple-provided file picker UI is designed to give permanent file permission access to an app. In the case of sandboxed apps, this is not true. The open panel provides temporary access, and a
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by lapcat 6mo ago
Why would you think it's "working properly"? The app somehow gained a permanent permission that I didn't give and that I can't remove no matter what I do. That's not working properly in any sense.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
It turns out the issue is a com.apple.macl extended attribute that gets set on the Documents folder and can't be removed, due to SIP.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
See "Little Snitch for Linux" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870 Also: > Little Snitch is not there to replace OpenSnitch. It's just an additional option you can choose from. Some people might p
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> I don’t mean it in the sense of software dependencies, but in the sense that some app you use would compromise you. You know macOS’ permissions are mostly security theatre. We know people inside Apple use third-party apps. I can imagin
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> If you have electronic access to something of value and broadcast that fact on the internet, you’re at risk of a physical attack. That’s not controversial? Companies make employees do training about this for a reason. You're talki
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by lapcat 6mo ago
>> I still don't know why anyone thinks that, among all developers in the world, a little indie Mac developer is getting targeted specifically. > The same people who targeted the open source uncommercial library axios last we
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> Yeah just yolo install whatever That's not even remotely what I said. > it’s not like applications or libraries such as axios iTerm doesn't use NPM. Little Snitch doesn't use NPM. I don't use NPM.
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by lapcat 6mo ago
> Per user hacked, it can be very cheap¹ compared to bribing anyone. How many users do you think Little Snitch has?

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