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by tpmoney 5d ago
It's very weird that these aren't in the already existing top level "Siri" or "Privacy & Security" settings tabs. Apple has had a problem for a while now where it seems like they just don't know what t
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by tpmoney 8d ago
I worked at a place once with an old Win 2k server sitting in the corner of the server room. It had once been a workgroup/domain controller but was long retired from that job. As far as we could tell, nothing was talking to the box any
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by tpmoney 9d ago
https://mklinux.org Probably not what you had in mind though...
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by tpmoney 10d ago
It's a necessary restriction. Part of what drives modern anxiety is you don't know the future, so it's necessary that while you get to pick a time period where you have perfect visibility into its future (for example, you kno
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by tpmoney 10d ago
A useful thought experiment is which 80 year period of history would you prefer to live in other than now, with the caveat that you wouldn’t know how things turn out when you lived in that time. It’s easy to pick a single brief moment in hi
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by tpmoney 12d ago
You don't understand how a comment chain that went from: > Cars qualitatively opened up something that humans could never do before. > Same with the computer. What about LLMs? > LLMs just replace what you were already doing t
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by tpmoney 12d ago
Sure, it's not one to one, so the fact that the headset is so close to the retail price of a presumably much cheaper per unit flagship phone is why I don't really think the pricing is that bad for what it is.
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by tpmoney 12d ago
Is it really that bad? The hardware processing and storage is effectively a S24 which retails for $800. Add the additional displays, cameras and controllers, an extra $250 doesn’t seem that out there.
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by tpmoney 13d ago
So what? Just because you had one way to do something before, that means having a different way of doing it is useless? We have the C language, and it’s been letting people write applications for decades. Does that mean there’s no value in
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by tpmoney 13d ago
You can look for accountability. You probably won’t find it. But I’m also not saying there isn’t value in humans. I am saying that we all have worked on projects where “artisanal software development” bore as much resemblance to our process
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by tpmoney 13d ago
> LLMs just replace what you were already doing IF you were already doing it. But LLMs also allow people who never were doing something to now do that thing as well. In the same way Excel macros enabled some people to run whole businesse
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by tpmoney 13d ago
> You are a bricklayer, who is proud to build brick walls that are as strong and as elegant as possible, capable of withstanding earthquakes and vehicle impacts, while using as few bricks as possible and introducing as few flaws as possi
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by tpmoney 13d ago
SaaS' moat has always been someone else worrying about the hosting/upgrades/management part for you. Stores still sell sliced bread even though bread machines make bread for you and everyone already has a knife. People often
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by tpmoney 14d ago
AI is a tool like any other. AI doesn't inherently "strip knowledge away from people" any more than an IDE, or a GUI or a modern computer does. Yes, you can use AI to blindly do things without learning. And you can use GParte
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by tpmoney 14d ago
There are costs to using all technology, including open source software. We can start with the obvious point that open source was never about "Free as in beer" and even the FSF says as much. Of course, the nature of open source ma
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by tpmoney 14d ago
And often the most useful software is closed source proprietary things that cost money to be used effectively. That hasn't stopped open source from building impressive and useable systems that are serviceable enough for most use cases.
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by tpmoney 15d ago
AI is in a sense the purest form of open source. All information compiled for all to use without restriction, enabling truly anyone to modify any software to work the way they want and just by describing it in normal human terms to their co
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by tpmoney 16d ago
Xcode should have printing capabilities. 26.6 does on my system anyway.
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by tpmoney 17d ago
“Always listening” in the way people have been conspiratorially claiming your phone is listening to show you ads is silly. Always listening in that the owner could run an application that could be recording them and you on the other hand ha
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by tpmoney 18d ago
Being realistic, most of our home lab setups wouldn’t come close to “production ready” even without AI generated bugs. Relatively stable because they’re largely un-stressed, yes. Good enough for personal use because you can log in and fix a
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by tpmoney 20d ago
Aside from “it’s historically always done that”, I’d argue that because you use arrow keys to navigate around the finder (left, right, up, down to select, CMD-up to go up a directory, it only makes sense that CMD-down would open a directory
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by tpmoney 20d ago
Apple has repeatedly over the years attempted to create interfaces where knowing where the actual data was saved was no necessary to using and finding that data. iTunes, iPhoto, most of iOS. It’s usually met with a lot of resistance from pe
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by tpmoney 23d ago
I drove a Toyota Yaris for about 10 years and those cars had the instrument cluster in the middle of the dash. It didn’t take long to get used to and one of the unexpected benefits was how much better forward visibility was. The Yaris wasn’
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by tpmoney 26d ago
Lightning and USB-C adapters have been a thing since that change was made if not before. Even assuming the one time cost of $10 for Apple’s adapter was too rich for your blood, you can get a 5 pack on Amazon for $8. And that’s before you ge
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by tpmoney 28d ago
I apologize, it does seem like I misread and added the qualifier, you just claimed they made it “difficult”. My mistake. But I still disagree that it is “difficult” or “user hostile” to put the command to add a web app to your Home Screen 3
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by tpmoney 28d ago
Sure I agree they have no incentive to promote them. But your claim wasn’t that they don’t promote them. You claimed that they’re making them exceedingly difficult to install. Apparently because they put the command for that in a consistent
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by tpmoney 29d ago
Did your colleague even know that such a thing was possible at all, because it’s been in the share menu pretty much since day one. Sure it could be put somewhere else but it’s also been in a consistent spot for generations of iPhones, and t
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by tpmoney 29d ago
They only removed it completely in a jurisdiction where they were being told that they had to open all of their internal APIs around web applications to all comers if they were going to use those APIs in their own applications. They claimed
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by tpmoney 29d ago
I’m not sure one can say Apple is intentionally making it difficult to install a web app to the Home Screen because they haven’t implemented a draft proposal to the w3c working group that proposes a spec only chrome has implemented and no o
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by tpmoney 29d ago
It’s intuitive in as much as anything on smart phones is, because the share menu is the OS mechanism for sending data from any iOS app to somewhere else. You use the same menu to save a file to Dropbox, put a photo into a note, add a bookma

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