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by skeaker 3y ago
There is an obvious technical difference between a protocol like iMessage and the software stack required to run apps. Beeper Mini has shown with tangible proof that an iMessage client on Android exists. Nobody to my knowledge has been able
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by skeaker 3y ago
They are absolutely getting followers from this. You're talking about them now, whereas hardly anyone was a week ago.
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by skeaker 3y ago
I have seen this argument so many times and it has never made sense to me. There is so much quality software that is free and open and interoperable. It is more than possible to be both open in nature and of high quality, to me that is indi
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by skeaker 3y ago
I think you can safely say that air is a critical component of an aircraft carrier. I suppose the frame of it is not made of air, but the ballasts are designed with air in mind and are certainly made to utilize air. The whole system fails w
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by skeaker 3y ago
To downvoters, the above appears to be sarcasm. Apple would love you to believe this even though it's just blatantly silly, which is why it's funny.
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by skeaker 3y ago
I thought the question was more along the lines of, "why do these things that happen during sleep require us to be asleep and not just happen all the time?"
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by skeaker 3y ago
Not seeing how this is related.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Do you not see the irony in this? By admitting that you don't notice the (real and fairly recent and large) UI changes in Chrome you've just dropped all credibility from any argument you might have had about caring about the UI be
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yes, yes, and yes. Advertising is almost always malicious. The days of it being primarily small businesses getting the word out about themselves are long over. Advertising firms now have actual psychologists that study ways to best exploit
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by skeaker 3y ago
How do those two things not correlate? The first sentence of the article explains how MS security is being bypassed.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Source? The article linked above makes no mention of sponsors.
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by skeaker 3y ago
People with this opinion should be legally mandated to work 1 week at a computer repair or IT position.
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by skeaker 3y ago
The reduction of "techies" to emotionless robots is an unfair generalization. The inappropriate and wildly inaccurate comparison to slave labor is out of line. Even taking your arguments at face value, it doesn't really make
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by skeaker 3y ago
> I don’t think that’s true; and doing it, really reallllly makes them angry. It is in some cases. Obviously not all of them, but there is definitely bandwagoning going on. Go on any social platform where this is up for debate and ask wh
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yes, feel free to read the source code as well.
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by skeaker 3y ago
"just coding it" is a lot harder if you know nothing about code. What's cool here is that someone with literally 0 knowledge of programming can use this. Before this there was simply no way for them to do something like this,
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by skeaker 3y ago
> DMCA defines copying as theft. Then the DMCA would be wrong: Theft requires the original owner to lose their property, which does not occur when copying data. This is no surprise as the DMCA has always sucked. Frankly you missed my poi
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by skeaker 3y ago
I think this is a major issue as well. Adequate following distances give you a reasonable amount of time to stop should the car ahead of you slam on the brakes for any reason, it gives other cars the ability to seamlessly change lanes rathe
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by skeaker 3y ago
They might not have the dexterity required for some of the more complex signs, I would guess. If you devise your own gestures they can be much simpler.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Source? I heard there was a trial for this but wasn't aware it had resolved.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Your source does not support your claim. They say that if every single individual piece of data used to train a model was to be paid out, there would be a lot of payouts. You could just as easily say that if you had to pay the state for
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by skeaker 3y ago
Stolen art requires the original to be taken from its rightful owner. The original owner still has their work, meaning no theft has occurred. Also worth a mention is that in the case of AI art the original owner is hard to discern in the fi
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by skeaker 3y ago
As if that's any better? Not to mention, being capable of one means they are capable of the other.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Not sure about "corrupting America's youth," but TikTok has been proven to selectively show content to different regions to promote only certain kinds of thought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917474
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by skeaker 3y ago
Perhaps relevant: https://xkcd.com/2501/ A year or two ago, building a passable app was for the average person 100% impossible. The average person has never written code beyond "hello world," and that might h
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by skeaker 3y ago
You're actually relating perfectly given that you essentially rephrased TFA almost beat for beat. It's not as cynical as its title would imply.
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by skeaker 3y ago
This is funny because the conclusion GP arrives at as more or less the exact same one that TFA ends on. Literally, the last two sentences: "I shouldn’t worry that the era of coding is winding down. Hacking is forever."
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yes. They knowingly put things on the platform with the 30% cut in mind because it is worth it to them, ergo they do not find it egregious.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Evidently it's not egregious to the people putting games on the platform, so agree to disagree I suppose.
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by skeaker 3y ago
While we're at it, when airplanes were invented there were dozens of crashes relatively close to each other that killed almost a hundred thousand people (almost 100x that of all nuclear power accidents combined). Better get rid of the

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