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by troad 8mo ago
> Having done this for a dozen of experiments/toys I fully agree with most of the post, would be nice if the the addition of must_tail attribute could be reliable across the big 3 compilers, but it's not something that can be r
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by troad 8mo ago
> The final straw with Mac > Obviously there was a solution, probably an easy one, but I didn’t even look for it It's hard to take this seriously. It's the most obvious setting possible. Settings > Privacy & Security
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by troad 9mo ago
The Canadian and Australian news link taxes are a naked hand out to powerfully connected individuals like Rupert Murdoch. They're completely incoherent as policy without that fact. Big Tech spinelessly folded when they should have just
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by troad 9mo ago
Take the good, leave the bad. People are messy, flawed, complex.
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by troad 9mo ago
If it were an effective rallying cry, it would have worked at any point in the last forty years. Politics is not assessed in terms of how the slogans sound, but what they achieve. Universal healthcare is further away today than it was in th
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by troad 9mo ago
> Yet we look at phones, and we see people accepting outrageous permissions for many apps The data doesn't support the suggestion that this is happening on any mass scale. When Apple made app tracking opt-in rather than opt-out in i
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by troad 9mo ago
Haha, yes, corrected. Thank you. I have a habit of fusing unrelated expressions.
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by troad 9mo ago
Notoriously not actually secure, at least in the case of Flatpak. (Can't speak to Snap) Not sure how something can be called a sandbox without the actual box part. As Siri is to AI, Flatpak is to sandboxes.
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by troad 9mo ago
MacOS has been getting a lot of flak recently for (correct) UI reasons, but I honestly feel like they're the closest to the money with granular app permissions. Linux people are very resistant to this, but the future is going to be san
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by troad 9mo ago
It now seems to be best practice to simultaneously keep things updated (to avoid newly discovered vulnerabilities), but also not update them too much (to avoid supply chain attacks). Honestly not sure how I'm meant to action those at t
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by troad 9mo ago
The irony is that karma posts are so easy. Take something most of your audience already agrees with, triple down on some reductionist caricature of it, and smother it in pithy glibness. The shorter the better. Particularly effective if you
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by troad 9mo ago
> Complete rethink/reboot required. Or, instead, keep building, so the UK actually gets experience with large scale projects? Establish an anti-corruption body that retrospectively investigates every pound spent on HS2, and places l
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by troad 9mo ago
Interestingly, the -fere in interfere comes from the Latin ferīre , meaning 'to hit', 'to strike', etc. My first guess would have been something like facere / fāre or -fer , but that quickly falls apart on refle
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by troad 9mo ago
Contrapoint to the naysayers: building infrastructure is good actually, and in this specific case, has had the added side benefit of unearthing these cool artifacts that would otherwise still be decaying in some peat bog. British NIMBYs see
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by troad 9mo ago
> That works until you get into a terminal and want to copy/paste/send signals without having to remember special keybinds that only apply when you're in the terminal. I don't really understand what you mean by this.
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by troad 9mo ago
Thank you for confirming!
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by troad 9mo ago
You can try to remap KDE keybindings but it won't affect Gnome applications, games, etc. Personally, I found the most reliable thing to be a keyboard-level swap of Ctrl and the Cmd key. That way, whenever you're asked for Ctrl, wh
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by troad 9mo ago
What is the point of this article? What does it actually say, other than 'AI good, criticisms of AI bad'? What am I supposed to have learnt from reading this, other than that the author likes AI?
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by troad 9mo ago
This is all great advice and I appreciate it.
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by troad 9mo ago
I think vim's greatest problem is discoverability. It's a big enough problem that after six or so months working full time in neovim I went back to a GUI editor. I just about barely remember the most common commands, but I do not
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by troad 9mo ago
HN is great for technical discussions, but is below average for political or macroeconomic discussions. A HN comment thread on those topics is essentially indistinguishable from a NYT comments section, which I mean as an unfavourable compar
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by troad 9mo ago
> If the Lightning OUTSODE Tesla This reflects a very common pronunciation of syllable-final Ls in English, called a vocalised L, but I've never seen it reflected in spelling in such a way. Very cool! I'm extremely curious - di
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by troad 9mo ago
> A lot of these attacks on the UK regarding free speech are coming from the American Right, an obsession which I can't quite understand the motive for. > This particular article is an opinion piece from last April by "the w
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by troad 9mo ago
Hannah Arendt convincingly made the case that any government power used against immigrants will eventually be turned against citizens. History keeps proving her right.
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by troad 9mo ago
> I have used JS before TS entered the scene, and being able to transpile features/syntax like that is not a TS innovation, nor only available in TS. I used JS back in the 1990s. Transpiling to JS is a relatively new phenomenon. No
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by troad 9mo ago
No worries! I don't understand why Apple is so averse to surfacing the status of things, especially highly sensitive and finicky things like online sync. It would dramatically improve the feel of the software if it didn't seem lik
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by troad 9mo ago
> Being these things are at their core probability machines, ... How? Why? Is Siri a probability machine? I didn't think it was an LLM at all right now? I thought it was some horrendous tree of switch statements, hence the difficult
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by troad 9mo ago
> it's something zealots tell themselves Don't be like this. Don't spit bile at people because they have different needs and preferences to you. As I understand it, the TS compiler can translate newer JS features/synt
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by troad 9mo ago
I can personally confirm I've downloaded an entire iCloud library at once, to a brand new Mac, using the 'Download Originals to this Mac' option. As have many others here, I would think. That's literally what that option
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by troad 9mo ago
I appreciate the end note, and I hope I'm not coming off as mean either. It's easy to sound too direct online. Rest assured I'd happily buy you a drink in person. I think in general the JS layer is simply unnecessary, and I&#

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