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by tl 6y ago
log5j.online is on sale for $5 / month. What's the expected ongoing cost of a package? If it's $0, then it's literally infinite. At $0.01 / month it's merely 500x more expensive. The real cost is somewhere in-b
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by tl 6y ago
/r/wallstreetbets went from less than 2 million to over 8 million in a single week, so their mods had to deal with a lot of bot spam resulting in some legitimate discussion getting destroyed in the process. The over-reaction got t
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by tl 6y ago
One difference between this and Apple: Apple's apps show the news stories when you pick a stock where Yahoo presumably can get ad revenue. I doubt this gets popular enough to be targeted though.
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Covid 1/7: The Fire of a Thousand Suns(lesswrong.com)
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by tl 6y ago
This is taken out of context. Before this quote (by about 30 seconds), he quotes Magnus Carlsen, current world chess champion as saying "I don't play computers anymore, they always win." The dominance of computers is acknowle
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by tl 6y ago
Syncthing isn't solving josephg's problem. When two people open an Excel or Google spreadsheet, both people can see the other's cursor position and edits in near real-time. Both apps require buy-in to a singular, proprietary
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by tl 6y ago
Analysis of data coming from computers (logs coming from servers in this case) is guaranteed to have a structure that makes it easier to process, compared to data coming from more organic sources (reports collected by people, measurements f
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by tl 6y ago
What Dan got right: Brooks clearly missed the boat when he said, "Well how many MIPS can one use fruitfully?". I'm not sure where the fault lies on that one. A recent article [1] bemoans the slowness of modern software. What
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by tl 6y ago
Unsure if related, but I cannot open my pending ticket with them. Direct link redirects to the main page with the message: "Apple support options are currently limited. Thank you for your patience and understanding."
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by tl 6y ago
I have felt the "sense of enlightenment" referenced in two languages: Common Lisp and Elixir. Not two distinct senses, but the same sense, twice. I've also coded productively in Scheme and Clojure without feeling the same sen
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by tl 6y ago
> Glory days. Long before spreadsheets, IBM managers wrote their budgets in APL, and lucrative timesharing services supported users around the world. Imagine a world where spreadsheets grew from being a living, easily accessible version
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by tl 6y ago
Mini vMac https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ exists for anyone who wants to try an office suite that doesn't lag.
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by tl 6y ago
It's more likely that their will be an Apple-only private API that uses /private/etc/hosts which already exists, but is editable (for now) instead of /etc/hosts.
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by tl 6y ago
Personal investment into the platform has yielded professional returns. If that return dries up or frustrations continue to mount, you will see migration.
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by tl 6y ago
Apple's restrictions resulted in a pretty severe reduction in functionality of the app. Many of their how-tos still contain apk commands which no longer function. For example: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wi
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by tl 6y ago
Except when you want a browser that actually does what you tell it to. For example (something that I ran into the this morning): try taking screenshots of a video from a streaming service (in this case Hulu). I don't need a lecture of
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by tl 6y ago
"Swift world domination" is from Chris Lattner, Swift's author. He proposed that Swift could simultaneously be better at text manipulation than Perl, data science than Python, high-performance compute than C, more expressive
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by tl 6y ago
I think for a lot of us, the addition of view builders and function builders that ignored the process of adding features to the language just so the SwiftUI team could use less punctutation was a jumping the shark moment for Swift. On top o
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by tl 6y ago
Greater difficulty / risk in development leads to fewer, higher quality applications, but breadth not depth wins the market, so we're stuck mourning dead systems with potential except for cases where depth results in a "kille
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by tl 6y ago
AOC can claim any position she wants, but the Green New Deal says (page 7, lines 6-9 as linked in another post) says "meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sourc
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by tl 6y ago
From my experience building very expensive industrial machines, the gain is more like 2x-4x not 20x, and that assumes that the game of telephone in the engineering pipeline actually gets it right. In a recent HN discussion, someone suggeste
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by tl 6y ago
Zola is fast and simple, but there is a hard upper bound on what it can do, and the author has no desire to change this. One example is requests to support PostCSS instead of SASS. Zola's author doesn't want a dependency larger t
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by tl 6y ago
It also slows down the launch of every app because you're launching an app to launch your app. The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home scre
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by tl 6y ago
It's more likely that some good non-web UI frameworks will write WASM-based backends, so that your pre-existing code works in a browser box with all of the good and bad that came with Java, Silverlight, etc...
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by tl 6y ago
Taking the story at face value: Zen lied to customers and the community, hired a developer away from Zig, and that developer cannot work on Zig now due to an NDA. GPL violations are not unknown. Would Zen have really cared about breaking th
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by tl 6y ago
Passing math.NaN() crashes in a playground.
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by tl 6y ago
If a startup wants to track my actions outside of its sandbox, I want that startup to fail. On the other hand, when Apple implements policies that prevent companies of any size from building valuable things (see for example the outrage over
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by tl 6y ago
Last time I checked, more than the majority of what I pay in taxes go to the federal government, not state or local, where it is re-distributed to other parts of the country most of whom have elected representatives from "the other par
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by tl 6y ago
Many suspect that ARM Macs are coming, but I would not trust reporting from “The Big Hack” Bloomberg [1]. From the article, Bloomberg reported [2] that Apple would also do it in 2020, so they’re planning on being eventually right. [1]: htt
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by tl 7y ago
My response is Condoleezza Rice [1] followed by Prism [2] followed by hysterical laughter. [1] http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

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