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For those of us outside the US, it's not hard to understand how regulations work. The US acts as a protectionist country, it sets strict rules and pressures other governments to follow them. But at the same time, it promotes free marke
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The only real mistake the EU made was not regulating Facebook when it mattered. That site caused pain and damage to entire generations. Now it's too late. All they can do is try to stop Meta and the rest of the lunatics from stealing e
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Just to stay on topic: outside the US there's a general rule of thumb: if Meta is against it, the EU is probably doing something right.
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I agree. This is what I tell my students: 1. Stop living other people's experiences. Start having your own. 2. Stop reading blogs. Start building apps. 3. Everyone's experience depends on their use case or limitations. Don't
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Talking about video streaming, I have a question for big tech companies: Why? Why are we still talking about optimising HTML, CSS and JS in 2025? This is tech from 35 years ago. Why can't browsers adopt a system like video streaming, w
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Tim Cook cares more about making money than making customers happy. For example: Apple Stores often had long lines of people buying cables and adapters until EU regulation forced Apple's iphones, tablets and cameras sold in the EU incl
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I've got options, but not always a real choice. Most ecosystems are designed to lock you in. I tried other things, like Sony earbuds, but they didn't integrate properly with the OS, Apple didn't allow it. Tried another watch,
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If it weren't for Jobs’ wonderful Mac with Unix, I would've dropped all Apple products a long time ago. Tim drained the loyalty right from my heart.
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Tim Cook sent me a firmware update overnight. After that, kappom! He also locked me into the Apple ecosystem, and I've been trying to escape since 2020, but no luck so far. The AirPods Pro and watch pulled me right back in. Unfortunate
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True. The AirPod's mic is awful. People keep telling me they can hear all the background noise.
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I was forced to buy them. I was happy with my first generation AirPods, until one night they automatically upgraded to the latest firmware, which had a bug and they stopped working.
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When Apple discontinued the first generation of AirPods, the final firmware release had a bug that was never fixed. It caused the left AirPod to disconnect after one or two minutes. Hundreds of thousands of loyal customers were affected [0]
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I've just cloned my voice and talked to myself. It sounded like me! Proper surreal. More info here: https://www.hume.ai/blog/introducing-evi-3
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The most realistic and instructible speech-to-speech foundation model(demo.hume.ai)
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It takes my boss seven hours to create that spreadsheet, and another eight to render a graph.
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It's great to see at least one company creating real AI agents. The last six months have been agonising, reading article after article about people and companies claiming they've built and deployed AI agents, when in reality, they
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The problem is not the battery, it's the battery, processor and price. The iPhone 13 Mini made up around 3% of total iPhone sales, so there's clearly a market for compact, mid-range phones ($600-$700). You can manufacture them in
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Yeah, probably worth another watch
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Guido's passion and leadership were the driving force behind Python. A lot of smart people aligned with his vision.
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10 years ago, if your phone was bigger than 5 inches, it looked ridiculous. You'd pull it out and people would look at you like you'd just escaped from a nut house
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Phones are big now because people want better cameras and longer battery life. Also, people are spending 4-5 hours more per day on screens than they did 15 years ago, so they want bigger screen for reading, playing games and watching videos
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Looks like someone needs to update Wikipedia :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Smith > Smith began as an Agent, an AI program in the Matrix programmed to keep order within the system by terminating human simula
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> Python's success is entirely due to entry-level programming courses. Yeah, after 2008. And by 2014, it had overtaken Java in many CS programs. But I was referring to the events that led to that.
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One of my colleagues, a retired programmer who spent 20 years at Microsoft, told my students that it used to be Java vs Visual Basic, until Microsoft brought in the big guns, like Anders Hejlsberg. That's when it turned into Java vs .N
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Some books do a good job of documenting the power struggles that happen behind closed doors, big egos backed by millions clashing over ideas and control. Not gonna lie, the entire article reads more like a puff piece than an honest reflecti
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From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins. It started gaining more traction when Canonical adopted it as the main language for Ubuntu 4.10 in 2004. Then, in 2005, Guido van Rossum was hired by Goog
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Well, Agent Smith has intelligence, a purpose, and a clear goal. He seems to be in contact with someone (or something) which suggests there's some kind of orchestration behind the scenes. Let's put it this way: if Agent Smith were
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Interesting insights, thanks for sharing
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I've always wondered why The Matrix isn't talked about more as cyberpunk. It ticks all the boxes: dystopia, hackers, virtual worlds, machines in control. Also, speaking of The Matrix, I just realised Neo is the perfect analogy for
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The bug bounty world is a funny one. I remember one complaining that their bug was dismissed and fixed after they signed an NDA, no payout, nothing. Another one got $100 instead of $5,000 because the company downgraded the severity from hig

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