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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> based on how much love OSX gets from some folks I can't speak for others, but my preference for macOS basically boils down to "it's a *nix system that can run the commercial software I need, with a lot of nice little att
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> Or am I just too impatient and this is all coming? I doubt its coming, at least not within the timescale OpenAI or Anthropic would like to believe. If we were close, then we'd see the fruits of that, which like you said, we are se
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Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30T in potential revenue(reuters.com)
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> I had an MP3 player on either side of 2000 that was slightly smaller than a deck of playing cards that could use Smart Media flash memory cards. The largest card at the time was either 16 or 32mb and was enough to hold 1 album at near
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
I'd imagine most are on longer than 3 years for computers. Most (non developers) I know hang onto their laptops and computers until they die or get spec constrained, and that ends up being around ~6 or 7 years, so in this case the comp
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Apple also just can't give up the idea of selling games through the AppStore either and you end up with situations like with AC: Shadows where it was ported, but you must buy the macport via the app store. Your copy on steam does not i
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
That'd be an interesting future for sure but first we need Google to stop their power trip of needing to ID you before you can install an app on your phone, and likewise Apple will never allow that either without paying the Apple tax.
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
I suspect the filler comes from RHLF and the amount of web marketing content that was ingested. "Not X, but Y" is all over marketing copy, as is the triad of concepts "By doing X, Y, and Z...." because it mimics TED-talk
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
We also need to stop immediately dismissing certain writing tropes as being automatically LLM generated. I'm re-reading an older fantasy series, and the amount of em-dashes in the text and similar tropes (you know, normal good writing)
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> "Apple’s position is that it should be permitted to charge fees on in-app purchases made by users of its devices as a means to recoup its investments in the tools, technology, and services that allow it to maintain its App Store a
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Yeah that's what gets me. If, according to them, "software development is a solved problem" then there's no reason they can't make native, efficient, well integrated apps for each platform. If the problem is solved,
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Because Microsoft screwed up their native UI story. They are slowly starting to go native again with WinUI3, but Microsoft went through a rough period with UI frameworks, I mean how many do they have now all still "supported"? Win
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Flutter is solid choice, and Canonical seems to be putting weight behind it for Ubuntu as well. Canonical is also now the new lead maintainer of Flutter Desktop.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Series 9, which I'll probably be upgrading this fall anyway.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Yeah, Apple Watch definitely needs faster charging. It wouldn't be as big of a deal if it both lasted longer, at least 3 days to get through a weekend, and could charge to a meaningful level in 15 minutes or less so I could just throw
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Online advertising is less and less about forcing a pitch to conversion in the moment its viewed. Even if someone with an ad blocker would never click on the ad anyway, repeat "impressions" build implicit trust just through exposu
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
It's a bit more of a gray area in the US, where expectations of privacy in public spaces has been ruled against many times over. When in a public space, you are allowed to film or photograph whomever you want. This likewise extends int
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> Why do we treat these cameras like they can do only one thing? Because its useful messaging to disarm the populace. "License plate reader" sounds less alarming than "Internet connected camera" or "Mass surveill
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
The penny press, and a ton of those pamphlets amount to what we now call tabloids. They were funded by advertising too, and used fear & outrage to sell copies. Led to some pretty funny conspiracies like The Moon Hoax ( https:/&#x2F
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Oh yeah, of course Meta isn't the only one pushing for it, they are just one of the largest contributors in support of these legislations, generally. More specifically, it's governments coming up with these laws. Meta's lobby
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Meta is one of the biggest ones pushing for this, because they don't want to be accountable so these types of laws pass the buck onto the delivery platforms (Apple, Google, other OSes) Meta is then funding/lobbying alongside a bun
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
This is the only valid future for tech like this IMO. Should any kind of "superintelligence" exist, it must be a public good, available to all. Not controlled by a small handful of oligarchs and profit seeking entities.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> I don’t wanna carry another device with me all the time And that's why this (and any other stand alone "AI device") is doomed to fail. We solved this problem already in 2007. "An iPod. A phone. An internet communica
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
> many talented bakers on YOUR platform Time and time again I am shown that none of these big tech billionaires have any appreciation for human craft whatsoever. What's with the attempt to have an LLM do literally everything for you
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Not legally binding, no. This is more of a lobbying attempt, Abbott just paused all new data center development in Texas until the state can audit them, they have an interconnection queue of about 474GW, ERCOT can't handle it that&#x27
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
The turnout in my state's primary this week was an abysmal 20%. I hope that's not an omen for November, because we are doomed if so.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Probably has less to do with quality and more of a copyright/license concern.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
It keeps being tried because its an abdication of responsibility. Instead of doing the hard thing, you just offload security to the user, then throw up your hands and say "oh, well its your fault you got pwned, you clicked [Allow] didn
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
Hasn't that always been the case with Google? Outside of a few that are mostly good and have stuck around, I've always seen Google has having great tech but being quite bad and making products out of it.
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by thewebguyd 2mo ago
That also own one of the 2 major mobile operating systems, with Gemini tightly integrated and all of the data they can gather from that. Why do you think OpenAI wants to do hardware? Owning delivery is going to be important, and right now,

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