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by macintux 3mo ago
I don't know enough about their business to say, but I'm thrilled at even the idea that someone might actually value long-term success over quarterly earnings.
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by macintux 4mo ago
Reminds me a bit of the truck driver who's been building a scale model of NYC for 20 years. That crossed HN 3 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268
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by macintux 4mo ago
I don't disagree cars are more dangerous. But I can manage to be concerned about two things simultaneously.
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by macintux 4mo ago
I was 3-4 feet from a building corner when someone raced around it on a scooter. Amazing to me the complete lack of both self-preservation and respect for others. On the other hand, kids have always been stupid. We've just given them n
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by macintux 4mo ago
I admit after a half hour of flailing a couple of days ago I got desperate enough to use /usr/share/dict/words. Turns out "emoji" isn't in my copy.
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by macintux 4mo ago
It's clear by now that the societal impact is significant. I can banish all the social networks from my life and they'll still be corrupting the political process, promoting divisive content, etc.
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by macintux 4mo ago
https://www.impactcounter.com/ explains their methodology.
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by macintux 4mo ago
That's like saying your grandfather is irrelevant now that he's spawned children and grandchildren. Good luck to those personal tutors without this source material.
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by macintux 4mo ago
Would you even know? Serious question. The volume of code the models can produce, the subtle ways these bugs can manifest (or even only manifest when under attack), it seems like they would be easy to overlook.
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by macintux 4mo ago
It's a shame we don't have a better solution than the Internet Archive for preserving these after the creator is gone (or loses interest), but thank goodness we do have that. So many gems lost to time otherwise.
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by macintux 4mo ago
I assumed it was a simple mistake: easy to forget what order the two integers are sent.
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by macintux 4mo ago
> There will always be people falling off on one side of the spectrum or the other. Personally, I haven't met anyone who takes the bible literally, and I know a _lot_ of Christians, including pastors and priests. I grew up, and stil
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by macintux 4mo ago
Space fillers are sadly important for group settings where you need to finish a thought before someone interjects. But hearing them from an interviewee drives me crazy, along with "sort of", "kind of", etc. I once counte
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by macintux 4mo ago
The dark patterns are one thing; the criminal customer service once you're booked, however, seems much harder to game. Stories from this thread mean I'd never fly them (admittedly, I'll probably never have the opportunity):
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by macintux 4mo ago
It's difficult to compete in a highly price-sensitive market with a company that is effectively scamming its customers. Better service doesn't show up on the price comparison page everyone starts out with.
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by macintux 4mo ago
I've become email acquaintances with two people who have similar iCloud addresses as mine, since I've been forwarding their mail for years now.
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by macintux 4mo ago
> Until this significantly changes, Apple will have to provide good x86 interop - or lose the developer market entirely. I'm very, very skeptical of this analysis. Certainly "entirely" is hyperbole.
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by macintux 4mo ago
Brilliant tools, well worth investigating for any system-critical applications. They don't seem to get enough attention outside of the FP community.
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by macintux 4mo ago
> It’s important to note that this isn’t about privacy. Strong disagree. Most people have no idea what someone could do with their phone's cumulative data. And when Facebook offers to dramatically enhance your personal network exper
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by macintux 4mo ago
> This is because Apple's current privacy posture is "Trust Apple with your data" rather than "Trust no one with your data - including Apple" I think that's uncharitable. Apple prefers not to have the data e
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by macintux 4mo ago
Apple certainly is held responsible for such breaches by the public. And, believe it or not, I think they feel responsible for protecting their users.
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by macintux 4mo ago
A huge part of Apple’s marketing, whether you believe them or not, is that they try to protect your privacy. The smartphone is probably the most sensitive device most people own. It knows your location always. It has your banking apps. Your
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by macintux 4mo ago
Of all the crimes Big Tech is committing against humanity, Apple's attempt to safeguard user privacy is the one the EU cannot abide?
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by macintux 4mo ago
I learned long ago to set my timers for 49 minutes.
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by macintux 4mo ago
I don't think anyone's disagreeing with you that it's "best", but people are stubborn, irrational beings at heart.
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by macintux 4mo ago
> It's a use-case that is either inefficient or inhuman, and I find it really odd that it's one that you value. You could have simply asked without denigrating the commenter.
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by macintux 4mo ago
That was their original design with Apple Intelligence: do as much locally as possible, only invoke the cloud in a very controlled way when necessary.
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by macintux 4mo ago
I’m reminded of the cold war joke: two Russian generals meet up in Paris in the closing days of WWIII. One asks the other: “So who won the air war?”
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by macintux 4mo ago
> They can obviously cause a lot of damage but they would obviously lose that war if the US decided they had to remove the regime by force. That is far from obvious. A command structure scattered around a huge country should be able to
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by macintux 4mo ago
XKCD tackled that question in a video: https://youtu.be/EsUBRd1O2dU

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