pocketarc

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by pocketarc 1y ago
It was the same thing with MySpace vs Facebook. Removing user customization may be better for... I don't even know what reason, but it has made all tech feel just a little bit more sterile. We now praise dark mode as some big achieveme
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by pocketarc 1y ago
> should be frowned upon as hard as table-based layouts I absolutely agree with you. I've been very very keen on CSP for a long time, it feels SO good to know that that vector for exploiting vulnerabilities is plugged. One thing tha
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by pocketarc 2y ago
There is a big difference between storing your data in the same cloud as millions of others, and having someone individually unlock and look at your phone. My phone has: * Photos going back 10+ years * Emails going back 10+ years * Messages
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by pocketarc 2y ago
> ...because, its obviously not any better than the 'tool use' API that everyone was already using. It can't be. It doesn't do anything differently. Instead of you writing tool use code (which requires you to know how
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by pocketarc 2y ago
Sibling mentioned nativephp, but PHP-GTK[0] was also a thing in the past! [0]: https://gtk.php.net
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by pocketarc 2y ago
What, in your opinion, has been going downhill? Is it all the agile stuff, or something else? Serious question, quite curious.
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by pocketarc 2y ago
I agree, and I feel like that goes for everything in general. It's like people who get mad at customer service people - the customer service person has absolutely nothing to do with the product that's giving you grief. Even the te
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by pocketarc 2y ago
I don't think a lot of people have a problem with AI summaries (a lot of people are using AI for exactly that). I think the 'hate' mostly comes from the fact that people tend to copy/paste whatever AI says without adding
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by pocketarc 2y ago
Either grandfathered (I signed up in 2019) or it might've been a new change - I left the UK last year so if it was introduced last year, that would make sense. Good to know though, so I don't keep saying "oh yeah it was free&
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by pocketarc 2y ago
Yep, this is exactly my situation - look up HP Instant Ink for your country, hopefully it'll be of use.
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by pocketarc 2y ago
No monthly recurring payment in the UK - I was paying £0, unless I went over 10 pages. In the US you do have to pay $1.5/mo.
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by pocketarc 2y ago
I print maybe once or twice a year. In the past, my workflow was: "need to print, realize cartridge has dried out because it's been so long, go buy a ridiculously-priced new cartridge, finally print the 1 page I needed to". F
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by pocketarc 2y ago
I'm a bit confused about this - if I build something in React/Vue... I'm never going to be using Vue/React alongside it, or anything else. Am I missing something? Who's out there changing frameworks in existing proj
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by pocketarc 2y ago
> a total NPC Honestly, I think that is a great way to describe what bugs me most about this list. It's the idea that other people are there for your entertainment. Like: 'Go to a cemetery. Look for sacred places. People live a
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by pocketarc 2y ago
Yeah, a few of these items sound a lot like "white tourist in poor country". Like the one about asking the taxi driver to drive you to his mom, like holy cow that's creepy. Imagine asking an American Uber driver "hey dri
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by pocketarc 2y ago
I guess that's really the thing - when a 2TB SSD is $100 and and 64GB RAM another $130... there's just not much ROI in trying to make the app more efficient. Your users won't care. I personally still value it, and I try to bu
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by pocketarc 2y ago
macOS is the best platform for wondering that, too. Apple's ecosystem is incredible, all the APIs they provide, all the neat little native functionality you can build into your apps, all virtually for free, and a user base that cares a
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by pocketarc 2y ago
Same. I am back to Copilot sadly. I don't know that there are any other good alternatives for autocomplete (good as in: so much better than Copilot that it's worth switching to). It feels like nobody's working to improve the
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by pocketarc 2y ago
One of the companies I worked with developed software for drug rehabs. Copilot would just constantly stop autocorrecting whenever I went into code files that mentioned anything to do with drugs (or sex - that's not a new censor!). It&#
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by pocketarc 2y ago
> I believe what we'd need is education. > The more educated the masses are, the more likely it is that they vote for governments that have the long term interests in mind Consider: Globally, the masses are more and better educat
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by pocketarc 2y ago
This is actually an incredible way of articulating something that's been on my mind for quite a while. Thank you for this, I will use this. The received wisdom is, of course, to lean on the DB as much as possible, put all the business
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by pocketarc 2y ago
When people try to cheap out on customer support, this is exactly what they lose, and it's something I always try to bear in mind as I go about things. By having someone like that replying to emails, they ended up with someone praising
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by pocketarc 2y ago
I always think about this - how many great engineers might be out there that are hard to spot/hire because there's no indication anywhere that they're great? And simultaneously, how many crap engineers out there are hired sim
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by pocketarc 2y ago
Yes - there are insanely great houses all over Texas. $400K gets you incredible houses, depending on the area, and $1M would get you mansions beyond your (or at least my) wildest dreams. Meanwhile, if you live in the Bay Area, I can totally
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by pocketarc 2y ago
You might've pasted the wrong link! Although damn, this modem looks good too, worth thinking about.
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by pocketarc 2y ago
The internet was great before the great monetization of it, had tons of information provided for free with no ads. After ads, it will still have tons of information. Stack Overflows will still exist, Wikipedias, corporate blogs that serve j
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by pocketarc 2y ago
> could you theoretically offload large file downloads to HTTP/2 Yes, you can! You’d have your websites on servers that support HTTP/3 and your large files on HTTP/2 servers, similar to how people put certain files on CDNs
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by pocketarc 2y ago
> More troublingly, performance has not improved in CI at the same pace as on developer machines—it’s usually a lot slower to build our app in CI than it is to do it locally on my M1 laptop. While some of the other comments around optimi
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by pocketarc 2y ago
That's actually incredible - and it has just barely grown since the 60s, when we had just 3 billion people. That means we can now feed nearly 3x the humans on virtually the same amount of land. That's fantastic, I had no idea th
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by pocketarc 2y ago
In the 2001 movie AI, the protagonist children play with an "old" robotic teddy bear named "Teddy". The bear's movement isn't great, and its voice sounds robotic. Projects like this make me think that Teddy eit

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