oakpond

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by oakpond 4y ago
If they store the data, it can still be leaked.
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by oakpond 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the rebellion against 'clean code'. I think this obsession with clean code is a natural reaction to the overwhelming number of gotchas that seem to just come with the job. It's a bit like when a parent
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by oakpond 4y ago
I personally am alright with that annoying thing given that the alternative is Google tracking my location in real-time.
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by oakpond 4y ago
Sneaking ads into AI responses.
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by oakpond 4y ago
An AI using a calculator. Ha!
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by oakpond 4y ago
Even if it gives you a number there. Does that number actually tell you what you mean or is it merely filling in the blanks with random information? I suspect the latter. For example, ask it to subtract 2 20-digit numbers. It will come up w
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by oakpond 4y ago
I agree. Also, sometimes the line between 'almost correct' and 'complete bullshit' is very thin.
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by oakpond 4y ago
fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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by oakpond 4y ago
My experience with 5G has also been disappointing.
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by oakpond 4y ago
I agree that it should just be a mass storage device. Fwiw you can connect it to Wifi and transfer files using an open source GUI program called ReMy. It uses ssh. No cloud storage account needed. https://github.com/bordaigo
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by oakpond 4y ago
I think you're right, but perhaps more aggressive marketing already helps a lot. I'm not a marketing person, but for example, take advantage of these kind of events to let people know that Matrix's network is impossible to go
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by oakpond 4y ago
Is it really "on the other hand"? LSP has paved the way for 'hybrid-source' (part closed part open) IDEs. Technically you can close down all the good parts of the IDE and open-source the bare minimum client-side function
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by oakpond 4y ago
I'm not saying that it's not weird you can't get 32GB. I agree that's a problem. I just don't understand why these things have to take up so much memory. Why does it need to be all in-memory? How slow would it reall
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by oakpond 4y ago
Why can't modern developer applications use less resources? (Partially rhetorical, partially genuinely curious about what's the problem here.)
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by oakpond 4y ago
To escape WhatsApp: has anyone tried Element One? https://element.io/element-one
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by oakpond 4y ago
> Even today, Smalltalk runtimes (e.g. Pharo) are extremely slow compared to other languages, now imagine how slow Smalltalk was forty years ago... It doesn't feel slow to me. I regularly use the VM on a Raspberry Pi and the GUI is
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by oakpond 4y ago
Aside from the development environment, I find the language itself also very elegant. While the evaluation rule for binary messages can be very counterintuitive (always left-to-right, so 1 + 2 * 3 = 9), the rule is simple and easy to learn.
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by oakpond 4y ago
What about pre-installed spyware tracking you? Where do you draw the line there? Did you know that, for example, Roborock stock firmware sends your wi-fi password to Xiaomi? [1] Does that make you feel secure? Where are the calls for regula
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by oakpond 4y ago
No
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by oakpond 5y ago
> but we all have a Facebook account. Nah.
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by oakpond 5y ago
Just curious, what languages and tools are you using specifically?
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by oakpond 5y ago
It's a Ray-Cam
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by oakpond 5y ago
It is really strange that this comment has more downvotes than the parent comment.
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by oakpond 5y ago
Regarding your conclusion: > My conclusion: Hacker News is typically ahead of the mainstream, often by a few years, but you would need to be paying very close attention to catch the early mentions of a new tech trend. Most of the linked
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by oakpond 5y ago
There is hardly any mention of a boycott. Cynicism prevails; Apple is laughing all the way to the bank.
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by oakpond 5y ago
If someone created a platform that buys every available bit of data from Google about you in real-time and visualized that on a website in real-time, would you be OK with that? Suppose you would be OK with that, do you believe that Google s
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by oakpond 5y ago
Murphy's law on the web: what can be tracked, will be tracked.
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by oakpond 5y ago
This is just what happens with a market where you can purchase records of people's personal business. Like any other market, it will seek opportunities to grow.
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by oakpond 5y ago
I've found that making notes helps me engage with the material.
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by oakpond 6y ago
Don't be one of those arrogant guys who thinks he knows everything better. A lot of software engineering wisdom seems to come purely with experience. By all means, offer your perspective! But also take the old grey beards seriously. Th

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