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by pmontra 3mo ago
"he did not recall receiving the Apple notifications" so he didn't notice them.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I really have no idea. I work only with small or at most medium sized companies. All of them put their code on a git server they don't own. All of them are concerned about AI companies looking at their code. They hope that at least the
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by pmontra 3mo ago
After they uploaded their code to private repositories on GitHub, Bitbucket etc since forever?. They trust GitHub not to read their code but they don't trust an AI from Microsoft not to read it? It would be schizophrenia
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by pmontra 3mo ago
At the beginning of Google it meant "we will not be like Microsoft" and it was good marketing.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
The endgame is that I will keep a phone in a drawer next to a 20 yo hardware token I still use to access a bank. When on the move, we will see.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I added this post to my HN favorites. I experienced myself at least two of those points. In different words: Never teach to people that did not ask you to teach them. They will not listen to you. They will forget. They will not thank you. T
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I don't know if you write software for your own products or if you code for your customers. Anyway, are you going to compete on the speed of your code writing AI or on deploying the features your customers need? One useful feature is b
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Because they use one or two apps at at time, the ones they must spend all their time to perform their job. E.g. Excel and a web app to work on invoices and a stack of paper documents. I see 8 GB on Windows PCs too.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
And yet all the time you spend performing those recalls should be annoying. Maybe you don't plan to eventually sell your car on the second hand market but if you do, a car without all the required recalls could have a lower value than
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by pmontra 4mo ago
The post is missing a section about video cards. My old laptop from 2006 has an ATI x1600. I remember that I lost v sync with kernels past 3.something so I had to put the kernel on hold while the other packages updated around it. That was a
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I think that we can run a perhaps silly thought experiment. Suppose that I have a nearly perfect memory and I could remember all the books I read. Suppose also that I have a million year life span so I could read 7 million books. Then, what
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Agreed but I want to see how it plays out. Historically a good Windows computer cost $1000 and it was all it took to start programming. How much does it cost a computer with enough resources to run a good enough AI model for agentic workflo
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by pmontra 4mo ago
> MonoLisa ships as a variable font with two axes. Weight gives you every cut from Thin to Black in a single file — no megabytes per style. Grade fine-tunes typographic color by adjusting stroke thickness without changing glyph widths If
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I think you forgot the /s Anyway, interesting story. I didn't know what a key window is. I googled. It's the active window.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I'll look for a video. I like swyping because I can hold the phone in one hand and swipe with the thumb. The other hand is free. Two finger swiping would negate that advantage but maybe it opens up other usage scenarios.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
We might start using QUERY for the search requests from our web app to our server, if nothing in the stack in between the app and our server side code does not drop the body. A JSON body beats the spaghetti arguments of most filters.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
> similar-to-me bias (I like you because you're me!). My first boss in the 90s eventually told me why he hired me. "I assume that everybody at their first job with a CS degree have more or less the same level of technical compe
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Or "to save the pictures of those girls." There are infinite ways to make people open the doors of their storage.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I'm entering troubled waters but hey... The master to main issue is an accident of the history of the USA, still unresolved in its consequences, when most of the world was not practicing slavery anymore. The typical reaction outside th
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by pmontra 4mo ago
In non-English speaking countries gimp is a short word that is so seldom used that nobody knows what it means. I used GIMP for a very long time before running into a story about the meaning of the English world. It was only GNU Image Manipu
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Remove "the" from the title and you get my initial understanding of the post in the home page of HN. I thought it was a piece about the latest sonic screwdriver or something like that.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Yes, but my car is at 140k km and sooner or later I'll have to buy a new one. It's simply not possible to live without a car in the place where I live. Well, I could do like people did before cars, spend their lives in the 5 km ar
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by pmontra 4mo ago
As you are Swiss, where would you get the uranium from? I expect that the Swiss Alps have some mine, especially in the south west (I didn't check) but is that enough? You might end up swapping a dependency from foreign providers of oil
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Of course the early MSDOS PCs where loud and power hungry. I can't remember the specs but according to Wikipedia the IBM PC with a 80286 had a 192 Watt power supply. I don't remember if by then we had internal hard disks or we sti
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by pmontra 4mo ago
My 2016 car has the old version of Android auto. My phone has the new one, I think from 2019 or 2020. They are incompatible. Did I miss something by not integrating my phone with my car? I don't think so. I call with Bluetooth and navi
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I played it for half an hour on a 6.1" phone. Firefox Android, it worked flawlessly. The game is fun. Some ideas to improve the UI. The wind teller is OK but instead of a line ending with a circle it could be an arrow. Furthermore ther
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Wealth is not a goal, it shouldn't be. Wealth is a mean to be able to do whatever one desires to do. You can measure it with power, not necessarily with money. So yes, it will always matter especially to people that like to have power
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Maybe this from 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/01/microsoft...
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by pmontra 4mo ago
To be fair to them, one or two servers were enough for basically every single service back in the 90s when consumers started moving to the internet. Microsoft sold what they had. Their customers bought what they were used to. The usual stac
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Random bits out of my memory in no particular order, except the first one: First and foremost Linux was free, no money, no licenses, no procurement procedures, download and install. Windows insisted to have a GUI even on servers and you had

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