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by ninkendo 2y ago
I’ve said this before a zillion times, but Siri is only good for imperative stuff. Commands. “Play this song”, “make a note”, “set this alarm”, etc. And even that’s only barely true: it gets things wrong even within that very narrow set of
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Oh my god I ran into this yesterday. I wanted a very specific kind of underarmour sweat pants. It gave me every other company competing with underarmour and a bunch of things that are not sweat pants. It’s like they’re not even trying to do
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Glad to know I’m not the only person who just drives to the next station when I see a “see attendant” message.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
So that you can update the UI to show the new time zone? Or change the time format to indicate that it’s no longer in the same time zone as the user is in? That’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s more.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Trust me! I know. I know so hard . But that’s still the kind of thing they say. Everyone just up and forgot about snow leopard, or maybe they just see it as a failure if they had to do a snow leopard release (at least the program org would
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Apple has a culture of ignoring bugs and just working on features. The software program org decides what is going to happen for the next release, and engineers are assigned, and no resources are left to fix any existing bugs. The idea is fo
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by ninkendo 2y ago
The actual law says what countries cannot run a social media site in America. It doesn’t say it has to be American owned. Just not a country that we’re in a quasi-cold war with (China, Russia, Iran, NK, are the usual suspects.) If America w
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by ninkendo 2y ago
As I read more and more comments like GP’s In this thread, I keep getting this vision of a man in France in 1940 welcoming nazi tanks to his town because “well, we have a military too, how is this any different, they’re just a geopolitical
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Foreign governments don't have a right to free speech in the US. They never have and the very idea is absurd. It's getting really tiresome to have to repeat this.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Ok Edit: from your comment history it looks like you’re from turkey. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if turkey banned instagram/fb/X. In fact I’m kind of surprised they haven’t already.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Twitter and Facebook are already banned in just about every one of the U.S.’s adversaries. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea etc etc all ban them. Your comment makes me quite alarmed, to be honest. Are people really this clueless about what
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by ninkendo 2y ago
America's adversaries have already banned Meta/Twitter, what's your point? The word "Adversary" is literally the most important word of GP's sentence. They're a country that we're in a cyber cold war
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by ninkendo 2y ago
To add: it’s also kinda silly on the surface of it for Amazon to use consumer devices to hide their crawling traffic, but still leave “Amazonbot” in their UA string… it’s pretty safe to assume they’re not doing this.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
They could be using echo devices to proxy their traffic… Although I’m not necessarily gonna make that accusation, because it would be pretty serious misconduct if it were true.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
The important distinction is the whole “hostile foreign government” thing. None of the stated reasons for the TikTok ban matter except this one: a country who is openly hostile towards us can control what our citizens see. That alone is e
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by ninkendo 2y ago
I agree no one seems to be saying that dark matter must be part of a quantum field, but my point is more to lament the overgeneralizing of “quantum fields” as a concept to explain unobserved things. I’m absolutely a layman here, so apologie
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by ninkendo 2y ago
> Now imagine a particle that doesn't even interact via the weak force. The only way we would be able to detect it is via gravity, but gravity is an extremely weak force at the individual particle level. That's a possible candi
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by ninkendo 2y ago
I don’t see a need to get so hung up on the nomenclature… it should be obvious that if you’re using a separate type checker in python, then of course you’ll also get the benefits I describe. The distinction I’m drawing is of course “has typ
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by ninkendo 2y ago
The big deal is that Rust will refuse to compile if you forget to use the appropriate smart pointer. You can’t just accidentally forget that you left a mutable reference in another thread: if you want a thread to use a reference, Rust wil
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by ninkendo 2y ago
> I can express a lot in Python, but I don't trust the code as much without robust tests. This is a major part of why I like languages like rust. I can do some pretty fearless refactoring that looks something like: - Oh hey, there’s
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by ninkendo 2y ago
There’s a lot of arguments here where people are saying basically, “auto is bad because you can …” it “auto is great because you can …”, as if the two are mutually exclusive or something. It’s like saying “knives are bad because you can kil
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by ninkendo 2y ago
What about code reviewers? Show me a code review system that lets you hover over the value to see the type… none of the ones I’ve used can do it. For that matter anyone reading the code from a web browser in any other context.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
I think I basically agree. My policy is basically: people can contact me, computers can’t. The only notifications I allow are for apps that are a proxy for human communication: messages, email (with a heavily curated inbox in which I dutifu
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by ninkendo 2y ago
What defines a successful spear phishing? Is it just clicking a link? My process when I see a sketchy email is to hover over the links to see the domain. Phishing links are obvious to anyone who understands how URLs and DNS works. But worki
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by ninkendo 2y ago
I had the exact experience selling an iMac on eBay about 10 years ago. Buyer clicked buy it now, my listing was removed, they never paid. They deleted their account shortly after (it was some .ru email address.) eBay had nothing to say othe
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by ninkendo 2y ago
Is job hopping to get a bump in salary still a thing nowadays? Serious question. I haven’t needed to look for employment in the past year or so, but I’ve heard some terrible things about the job market, enough that I’d be surprised if it wa
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by ninkendo 2y ago
They have top notch tech, yes, but it’s massively overkill for literally every company that’s not at google’s scale. If you’re not careful you may hire someone who will try to replicate everything google does, when you may need only 1% of t
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by ninkendo 2y ago
If an app has root (which it would need to write to /usr), then mount -o remount,rw /usr Can defeat that pretty trivially. Probably why nobody really bothers with it. /usr (and root access in general) is such a distr
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by ninkendo 2y ago
An insane amount of applications are webapps nowadays anyway. Linux has chrome and Firefox which means you get 99% of relevant “applications”.
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by ninkendo 2y ago
It's a ton of his videos. He did it a lot more often in the earlier days... if you sort by oldest videos it was pretty much 100% of his content: Walk around, ask people questions about stuff, and post how wrong everyone is. As the chan

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