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by notatoad 2y ago
>and decided to switch to static HTML sites on S3 it's really hard to overstate how great s3 sites are with cloudfront in front of them. mine costs me <$1/month, i have essentially no concerns about security, ddos, mainten
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by notatoad 2y ago
the reality is that most of these 5-over-1 buildings are the result of bylaws meant to do exactly that, by forbidding anything deemed "ugly". When you throw up barriers to building so that developers have to make the least offens
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by notatoad 2y ago
it feels like the first major release in 18 years which introduces lots of breaking changes should just be a fork rather than a version. let me do `pip install numpy2` and not have to worry about whether or not some other library in my proj
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by notatoad 2y ago
link rot doesn't happen by the slug in a url subtly changing
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by notatoad 2y ago
In what fields is the government 10-15 years ahead of consumer tech? That seems like a totally absurd claim. Technology moves a very long way in 15 years. The only markets this might be true is for specialized military equipment where t
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by notatoad 2y ago
>in the six years from 1997 to 2004. so not like, historical atrocities from the era most people think of when they say "banana republics". current-era atrocities, perpetrated by people who probably still work at the company t
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by notatoad 2y ago
i followed this religiously for a month or two, and found it really beneficial. not necessarily for the product i was building (some of those things i shipped probably shouldn't have been) but for my own motivation. however, i expande
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by notatoad 2y ago
is my iPhone 14 going to get none of this then? i understand i'm not going to get the on-device stuff, but something like siri being able to call out to chatGPT should be available on any device, right?
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by notatoad 2y ago
>major, lifesaving impacts for 0.01% of users people who drive through areas where there's no cell coverage is certainly a larger demographic than 0.01%. having coverage to contact a friend or family member if you get in an acciden
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by notatoad 2y ago
the emergency SOS was only promised to be free for two years, which is coming to an end soon for iPhone 14. i suspect adding iMessage to the service is an effort to make it valuable enough to start charging for it.
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by notatoad 2y ago
>You seem to assume a good CEO equals a successful company the only assumption i see is the counter to that - a bad CEO equals an unsuccessful company. and i don't think that's a very controversial assumption.
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by notatoad 2y ago
somebody's got to give the MBAs their ideas.
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by notatoad 2y ago
>I don't know why this article seems to be presenting this as a fight over chicken sandwiches. because it is. McDonald's has lost the trademark for Big Mac, specifically in regard to chicken sandwiches. Beef hamburgers are un
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by notatoad 2y ago
>if an iPhone is iCloud locked but that still leaves the possibility that it isn't locked, and therefore it is worth it for theives to steal it. Even just the chance that it's not locked would make it worth stealing.
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by notatoad 2y ago
Is there a good reason why you might want to remove an iPhone marked as lost from your iCloud account? It seems like something that should just not be possible.
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by notatoad 2y ago
okay, so the only "pwning" of recall is that if your computer is already hacked, the hackers can get the recall data along with all the other data on your computer...
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by notatoad 2y ago
"this is wrong. Data can be accessed remotely" is not a super illuminating FAQ item. how can it be accessed remotely?
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by notatoad 2y ago
>But induced demand is simply a good thing - you are allowing more people to realise their desires. projects usually have a goal. especially multi-billion-dollar transportation projects. if the goal of the project aligns with the behav
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by notatoad 2y ago
>mentions wanting to use airtags for finding stolen things usually, this is in regard to complaints about the anti-stalking features making airtags less useful for finding stolen things. use airtags for whatever you want, but apple has
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by notatoad 2y ago
this one has cost us many thousands of dollars. we had cron script on a very old server running for almost a decade, starting a multipart upload every night, pushing what was supposed to be backups to a bucket that also stored user-upload
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by notatoad 2y ago
this says AT&T is twice as big. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operato... are you measuring by something other than subscriber count, or is wikipedia wrong?
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by notatoad 2y ago
>I find it hard to believe that the diverging diamond interchange from the link is less scary than a roundabout. a (good) diverging diamond is really not scary. my first time driving through one i didn't even realize i was driving
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by notatoad 2y ago
I dunno, they seem better to me (from experience actually walking across [1], not just looking at pictures on the internet) The crossing are controlled, distances are relatively short and the cars are only coming from one direction. It&#x2
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by notatoad 2y ago
google meet is part of their office suite, called google workspace. the higher tiers of google workspace include access to the paid tier of gemeni. also, in a previous iteration of google's AI branding, meet had a feature that would c
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by notatoad 2y ago
does this mean that when a new person joins a meeting that isn't on mute by default, we won't have to deal with the echos from everybody else in the office while they scramble to find the mute button? because that sounds amazing
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by notatoad 2y ago
>it's a search engine, not a question engine. for a lot of people and in a lot of use cases, it is a tool for answering questions. it generally works well for that. i get that the AI implementation sucks, but to suggest that people
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by notatoad 2y ago
because the people who have spend years of their life trying to build something , whether that's a brand, an experience, a product, whatever, have an emotional attachment to it and don't want to see it destroyed. so when they&#
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by notatoad 2y ago
Maybe I was just using it wrong, but I never found packer to be all that valuable over a python or shell script. Learning the DSL is more work than just doing the things it's trying to abstract away.
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by notatoad 2y ago
>but that they are repulsed by the idea of even accidentally engaging with the OpenAI corporation and this is not a reasonable complaint, or a justifiable reason to demand the removal of features. if you have an emotional reaction to th
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by notatoad 2y ago
> and they are reasonable for asking for it are they? their position is basically that they don't trust iterm2 to work properly, but only in regard to this specific setting. if you don't trust iterm2 to work, don't use it

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