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by rollcat 3y ago
I don't think Apple will let go of taking some sort of a cut (and seeing where things are going, they will fight for each and every % with their claws and fangs) - and I think in all fairness it is justified to an extent, building an
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by rollcat 3y ago
In a sick plot twist, the AI rebelling against the humans are other humans.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Since this is now a share your prompt thread, here's mine: https://github.com/rollcat/etc/tree/master/cmd/prompter It's quite portable (didn't test on Windows though); ~170 lines of G
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by rollcat 3y ago
Headlines headlines. I was for a moment hoping they were actually doing the movie, setting up to undermine immoral authority, while helping people on a journey of self-discovery and battling their own demons.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Well I guess that's one reason why I seem to be incompatible with car ownership. When COVID hit, I continued to pay for my public transport ticket even while I couldn't even use it, because I wanted to throw in my share towards ke
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by rollcat 3y ago
> The valuable target is "iphone users" not "app store users". As an actual "iPhone user", I personally am going to be extremely reluctant to install things from outside the app store, let alone pay for anyt
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by rollcat 3y ago
Consider the context. There are alternatives (Android, and everyone else in the mobile space that tried and didn't make it), and as orasis pointed out, the users there aren't that keen on making purchases.
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by rollcat 3y ago
I think it's helpful to learn a little bit of C, to understand why computers work at all, and how we can get, step by step, from bits and bytes to higher-level "things". Long ago, a friend of mine - a brilliant developer, who
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by rollcat 3y ago
I maintain two projects that I use daily for both work and personal stuff, that have attracted a modest, but appreciable amount of contributions. In both cases, the codebases are relatively small (500-1k sloc), and laser-focused on doing ex
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by rollcat 3y ago
Check out my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115135 Yes, I speculate and draw my conclusions based on my most recent experience (2017-2019) with Android. I'm glad it's improving,
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by rollcat 3y ago
Well, I'm yet to buy a car in my life (viva la public transport), so there's a realistic chance I don't know what I'm talking about, but I can imagine the 4-5 years cycle largely depends on the resale value. Apple produc
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by rollcat 3y ago
> You're just making up facts [...] Here's objective facts and my experiences that I used to draw my conclusions. My final Android phones were: [1] a Samsung A7 (2017), which included a non-replaceable battery, shipped with And
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by rollcat 3y ago
> The world's first non-repairable car. Apple's phones have about 7 years of first-party support / guaranteed useful life, compared with the rest of the industry's standard of maybe 2. Yeah I'd never buy a car th
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by rollcat 3y ago
> I've always found the Macbook Pro keyboards to be "fine," [...] Have you tried the previous, "butterfly" generation? It should've been criminal to ship that.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Hopefully not just a simple square grid, but something designed for ergonomics. You don't need to invent a new layout, there's plenty of pretty good designs you can copy, like Corne or Atreus. But at this point I'd take anyth
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by rollcat 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski ;)
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by rollcat 3y ago
https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
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by rollcat 3y ago
Code runs on computers, and cloud is just a single word for "someone else's computer". Great, you've outsourced hardware provisioning, maybe even OS patches - that's smart, this is not your core business, just like
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by rollcat 3y ago
Using Emacs to write Perl to configure your WM... Why not cut out the middle man, and https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Option 1: Big Intel has totally broken TLS and can see all TLS traffic in the clear in real-time > Likelihood: very unlikely, I don't think this would stay secret for long. People smart enough to break TLS at scale wouldn&#x2
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by rollcat 3y ago
You took unnecessary risk. Wipe your device before handing it over, and restore it from a backup after the repair. Also consider evil maid, or other kinds of backdoors (like jailbreaks).
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by rollcat 3y ago
This. Airdrop is actually viable for transferring huge files, like RAW photos or ProRes footage. I've had video engineering professionals ask me if it's viable to implement Airdrop support in something like a camera or a recorde
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by rollcat 3y ago
My first program was in BASIC. I was 6, and had other things to do before I got back on that journey, but the next one was in PHP. By conventional wisdom and common proverbs, my mind should've been mutilated beyond any hope of recovery
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by rollcat 3y ago
Thanks for your perspective. I realize the way I framed my argument makes it seem as if Firefox was barely palatable, yet I haven't switched away somehow. It's an OK browser - but it's not 2002 anymore. IE6 was distilled shit
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by rollcat 3y ago
Disclaimer: I use Firefox on iOS, macOS, Linux, and OpenBSD. > Those new iOS Firefox users would then be encouraged to adopt Firefox on their desktop computers, because they would finally be able to sync desktop Firefox with an adblock-e
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Wait, you are defending multiple points at the same time: [...] I've been asking all of this time: where to draw the line between striving for simplicity, and just shipping software? How much complexity is acceptable because it&#x
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by rollcat 3y ago
> How is a system package manager hiding the difference in complexity between Go executables, Electron apps, etc? Consider: apt-get install myapp You have no way of knowing if this will install a bundled copy of Chrome or not.
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by rollcat 3y ago
"Sane" package managers is how you end up hiding the difference in complexity between installing a static Go executable, an Electron app, a C++ Gtk/Qt app, a Python app, etc. Hiding the complexity is not necessarily bad, but
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by rollcat 3y ago
Same if you're building any OAuth-enabled client from source. (Remind me, what's stopping me from extracting the client secrets from the compiled binary, and re-using them elsewhere?)
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by rollcat 3y ago
There are several very compelling arguments against shared libraries. You could (theoretically, I think) link Mesa statically.

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