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by planb 5y ago
No. iPhones are not subsidized. If the App Store ceased to exist this minute, Apple would still be making a hefty profit on every device sold.
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by planb 5y ago
And yet you can get a raspberry pi (which is way faster than your 286) for less than the price of a mediocre restaurant meal and learn all this stuff. Or an Arduino microcontroller to go even deeper low level. There are so many ways to tink
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by planb 5y ago
The last paragraph wasn't mine. It was also part of the output :)
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by planb 5y ago
But they obviously don't work! That's why I mentioned all those Stack Overflow rip off sites as an example. When scrolling the results, my brain filters them out because I can recognise them as scam, but if they would contain uniq
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by planb 5y ago
Oh my god. I fed that text to the model and asked what we can do about this. Here are its answers: It is not so much the search engines that are at risk, but the people themselves. In a world where anyone with a $0.05 budget can just make s
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by planb 5y ago
I get the feeling that now that it's so easy to generate text that sounds legit and is syntactically correct but makes no sense semantically, web search will be unusable soon. Searching for answers to an obscure problem with a software
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by planb 5y ago
You can be harsh in a nice and professional way though.
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by planb 5y ago
> I love how lightweight it is Probably because it does not allow feature creep like adding support for a table format. I'm not trying to make fun of you, I'm just trying to state the obvious contradition that many software pro
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by planb 5y ago
You did not understand the difference between systemic and individual risk the parent mentioned. Of course, 12+ year olds are not vaccinated for their own safety, but to supress infection chains that might reach someone more vulnerable. I d
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by planb 5y ago
This is the best thing I've seen on the internet for a long time. Hopefully some people (tech journalists and twitter folks) will "fall for it" and learn along the way...
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by planb 5y ago
>We're not asking for modular connectors (although those are nice) or larger competents. You might not, but OP did: "Why can't Apple make their products easily repairable while making them aesthetically pleasing?"
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by planb 5y ago
macOS sandboxing does exactly that. The Mac App Store enforces sandboxing. What you are asking for is applying the App Store model from iOS to macOS.
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by planb 5y ago
Didn’t you hear the outcry when they introduced gatekeeper?
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by planb 5y ago
Of course he’s making this point to defend the overly restrictive App Store rules, but what he says is correct: Is macOS safe? “If operated correctly, much like that car, if you know how to operate a car and obey the rules of the road and a
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by planb 5y ago
This is not splitting hairs! Ask your grand parents, non tech savvy friends, ... if they are okay with Facebook selling their data to anyone. They will object heavily! Then ask them if they are okay with Facebook using their data to show th
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by planb 5y ago
> 4. Tim Sweeney going off on a weird tangent trying to claim Fornite is a "metaverse" and not a game. I’m quite sure that’s really his plan though. During the pandemic, my 12 year old son hung out with his friends on fortnite,
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by planb 5y ago
A bit OT, but can anyone point me to a few PWAs that are worth looking at? I don't means those "these tings are possible in the browser" sites, but real, useful tools. I just use one: "Brewfather", a fantastic home
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by planb 5y ago
You could argue the same for gendered emojis.
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by planb 5y ago
You’re probably right. But I’d be interested in how many white people change the default (yellow) vs how many black people do so.
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by planb 5y ago
How would that work? Google always decides the order of search results. Are they supposed to show a random result that matches the search terms just to be „fair“?
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by planb 5y ago
I scrolled down further in the thread and it seems they do...
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by planb 5y ago
This is not the simplest possibility. Based on how often Google Home misunderstands the simplest queries, the tech is nowhere close to getting purchase intents out of random conversations. Besides that - do folks on hn really believe the „o
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by planb 6y ago
Yes, in the long run you are right. In the timeframe that matters, Bitcoin IS an ecological disaster. I don't understand why people ignore that just because they like the idea of crypto - which I do, too. edit: well, actually of course
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by planb 6y ago
Apart from the subscription scam, I don't see a problem here. Just imagine the comments here if Apple had rejected a legit app just because it has "Smart Things" in the name.
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by planb 6y ago
That’s not how throw works. And that’s exactly why the switch(true) pattern should not be used: novice users not fully knowledgeable about every specification of a language should not fail to understand such a basic piece of code. There’s n
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by planb 6y ago
Funny headline, because every time I try to self-host anything important like mail, I learn how deep that field is and how little I know and that I'll probably need many many hours to do everything right and in a secure way (and my mai
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by planb 6y ago
Why can’t we treat an logarithm like a single person? That person may carry their own biases, have a bad day or be just plain stupid. So when I feel that I’m not treated the way it should be, I can appeal to that person’s boss or have a cou
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Ask HN: Why is Google full of spam?
3 points by planb 6y ago|1 comments
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by planb 6y ago
Why is this downvoted? This is exactly what happend. Speaking with non tech savvy users here in Germany, they feel safe and secure on Facebook and fear the „world wide west“ that the open Web has become, where you need to click 20 consent m
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by planb 6y ago
But you could always do this. Apple seems to go a step further and does this on your behalf. I think that’s newsworthy.

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