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by noahtallen 2y ago
I don’t think so. Firstly, there’s this: https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cwgljj/regarding_the_... Secondly, there’s the iOS changelog that mentions corrupted files re-appearing. Finally, if you ha
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by noahtallen 2y ago
As the author mentions, the "No CGI is really just invisible CGI" video is a great watch ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8oQ1jV859w ) The TLDR is basically that movie studios, directors, and actors start a hype t
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by noahtallen 2y ago
It’s a challenge, but it’s not that bad. All the package managers have lock files, so no dependencies change daily until you update them. You could even have auto-update via dependabot or renovate and the smallest amount of CI would stop th
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Maybe more reasonable for desktop ;)
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by noahtallen 2y ago
It doesn’t matter which is a bigger target, it’s whether trains are a target at all. Vandalism definitely impacts cars; there are lots of issues with broken glass in cities around the world. Sometimes from a random person just smashing ever
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Root cause is probably still C-suite for creating such a terrible culture and adverse incentives. If the test pilot and engineers are under a LOT of pressure (maybe even financial with some bonus structure) to make sure the plane gets the s
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Let’s see. McDonald’s sales and income both grew this quarter. Net income was nearly $2B. That’s $2B, after costs, that consumers don’t have in their pockets, but investors and executives have in theirs. I find it impossible to call this “h
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Ehhhhhhh. The same thing applies to every camera. You could say “shot on Sony A7iv,” and you’d still need very expensive lenses, lighting, and other gear. Sure, it’s more impressive to say “shot with the kit lens,” but a lot of the point he
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Plus, WordPress is open source (a philosophy the org supports), isn’t inherently insecure (the main thing that will make it insecure is a shady plugin, so don’t install random plugins that look weird), and really shouldn’t be that expensive
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by noahtallen 2y ago
(I've worked on FSE, Gutenberg, and WordPress as a contributor, though it's been a couple years since I worked on FSE.) I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding here. The WordPress block format is HTML so that it's comple
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by noahtallen 2y ago
The other big piece missing is that desktop-based GUI tools have native primitives that are designed for building complex apps. The web has bits and pieces, but is still a document renderer at its core. I’ve worked in a few of the XML-based
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by noahtallen 2y ago
This whole thread needs a huge amount of salt and some empirical examples. I think if you compared side-by-side it’d be different. I remember my upgrade from 2019 MacBook to M1, when every single task felt about 50% faster. Or from swapping
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by noahtallen 2y ago
After choosing an aisle seat on Aer Lingus where the flight attendants were rushing alcohol past me to various customers, I think the window seat ultimately lets me touch fewer people. So many people bumping past your shoulders and legs in
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Which is exactly where your passkeys can be stored too. Put them in a password manager like 1Password, disable biometrics, and law enforcement would have to enter a password to access them
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by noahtallen 2y ago
If you look at the number of executive orders per president, republicans tend to have slightly more over the past couple decades. (Bush more than Obama, Trump more than Biden.) I don’t think executive orders are that concerning when the l
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Exactly! I could also see hydrogen for things like freight trains and cargo ships which will be tough to electrify in America (so much track and rail companies hate spending on upgrades.) Hydrogen seems not only more dangerous, but more com
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I find it really odd that they’re comparing the streaming version vs the new Blu-ray, rather than previous Blu-ray vs new Blu-ray. (Not to mention the HDR & color space issues mentioned already). The streaming copy is compressed so terr
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by noahtallen 2y ago
If you don’t want to update dependencies frequently, then you should probably stop using (or reconfigure) the tool whose primary purpose is to help you update dependencies more frequently ;)
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by noahtallen 2y ago
It’s used for more than just email. For example, you can sign packages on for Pacman on Arch Linux with GPG ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Package_signing ), and they have you configure public key servers
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by noahtallen 2y ago
> Is it simply because no such product exists? It's definitely possible! You could self-host WordPress, then use the Jetpack plugin, which can support premium content options ( https://jetpack.com/support/newslet
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I just don’t find this a useful comparison for nearly anyone interested in becoming a self-made person, hoping to draw inspiration. I’m sorry, but growing up in a very wealthy family, inheriting a large number of followers, and starting wit
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I don't think this is a fair take for massive businesses like Apple. When you spend $77B on stock buybacks, "money to survive" is very far out of the question. Apple does not need to have increased profit margins every sing
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by noahtallen 2y ago
It could be, but even today without Bun, a common approach is to do type checking in a separate step from the build. This is because tsc doesn’t parallelize well, so type checking will slow down the build a lot. So you can put the type chec
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Right, but that’s why languages like Rust have an excellent DX. There is no complex choice about what linter, formatter, test runner, doc builder, or package manager to use. These at all such common requirements for building software at sca
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Agreed. I think it’s challenging with airplanes, just because the barrier to entry and capital costs are insane compared to tech.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
The companies are smart enough to learn from it. The problem is that in a late-stage capitalist market, companies have already grown so large that the easiest way to continue to grow profits is to cut costs as much as possible. It’s pretty
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by noahtallen 3y ago
Wouldn't that rule out so many apps? E.g. Netflix competing with Apple TV, Goggle Photos vs Apple Photos, Google maps vs Apple maps, any note-taking app, camera, email client, browser, or weather app... What actually gets you rejected?
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by noahtallen 3y ago
Kinda like Gravatar, already used by a lot of big services: https://gravatar.com/
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by noahtallen 3y ago
most software available is not open source. Any app you download from the iOS App Store might not even match what an entity claims to be its open source repository. Any app or service with a backend of any sort that you don’t host is not
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by noahtallen 3y ago
There’s a limit to how much price can fall when buildings and land are investments. A house which appreciates underneath tenants will get sold, the new owner will have a higher mortgage payment, and rent will necessarily be higher.

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