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by w4 3y ago
I’m primed to be upset with Apple these days, but this doesn’t seem like an unreasonable position. The EU is forcing them to do a bunch of work to support alternate browser engines, this in turn creates a bunch of additional work if Apple w
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by w4 3y ago
Yes, for a couple of reasons: - I control the system prompt to guide the model to do exactly what I want, rather than begging and cajoling ChatGPT. I will often use the API playground for this reason where someone else might use ChatGPT. -
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by w4 3y ago
I agree that Google search is very vulnerable. The results are spammy and the current ad volume badly degrades usability for me. In my case, I don’t use Google search much anymore. Previously it was my one stop for finding information onlin
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by w4 3y ago
I have. The other interface is better, but unfortunately still uncomfortable. The weight distribution is also an issue for me; the entire unit is a literal pain on the neck. Another issue that I haven’t seen commented on is that the fixed a
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by w4 3y ago
Great review. I agree with a lot of it; the one glaring exception is comfort. No matter which band I’m using, the Vision Pro is brutally uncomfortable after 10-15 minutes. This is not the case with other headsets, e.g. the Quest 3 with the
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by w4 3y ago
Disastrous in your view. In the view of many homeowners, not so much. There are competing interests and multiple perspectives to most of these issues where one position is not absolutely right as compared to the other.
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by w4 3y ago
Interesting to see my own feelings reflected in the larger trend. I switched to the Mac back in the day (10.2 Jaguar) because OS X was Unix without the headaches. These days I am increasingly tempted by Linux. Linux is where most of the int
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by w4 3y ago
IMO if your goal is to get up and running fast as a single developer I would suggest that you pick a battle-tested server side framework in a language you already know (Django, Rails, Flask, Laravel, Play, Express, ASP.net, whatever), and u
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by w4 3y ago
I was commenting on the broader cultural shift on HN over the past 15+ years, not on RTO vs WFH.
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by w4 3y ago
> To balance this, particularly your last paragraph I have the opposite viewpoint. The US government had ppp loans that were forgiven completely that effectively paid companies per employee. There was no reason not to over hire for a lo
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by w4 3y ago
I suspect many are still here. They're just a much lower percentage of the userbase than they once were. Anecdotally many are on Twitter, though that may have more to do with the curation of my follows than anything else.
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by w4 3y ago
> Someone working for the government can't legally kill or imprison you because they don't like you either. In developed democracies, if you are a citizen, because of the tight restraints put on government power. Those restra
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by w4 3y ago
> I feel like this is a cultural shift for hn, and I'm curious about where it comes from My gut feeling - without data to back it up - is that HN has shifted from a forum mostly for founders and hackers to a forum mostly for FAANG
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by w4 3y ago
> It feels wrong to say that it's fine for someone with only a profit motive to use private data in small, petty ways to extract more profit from someone that's already paid them, but that the duly elected representative gover
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by w4 3y ago
I didn't know that - appreciate the context. Ironically it drives home my point in a way I wasn't aware of. The “developers, developers, developers” moment happened near the apex of Microsoft's monopoly.
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by w4 3y ago
Fair enough. I think I misunderstood your point. That's another approach to take, I suppose.
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by w4 3y ago
True. And this is yet another data point to support my thesis: The state of the tooling and docs, along with Apple's increasingly aggressive approach towards developer incomes, all gives the impression of an arrogant institution which
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by w4 3y ago
You’ve got this all backwards. OS and hardware developers need software. Their devices are useless without it. It’s why the infamous Ballmer “developers, developers, developers” clip exists. This is why OS developers and hardware manufactur
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by w4 3y ago
As someone with a Vision Pro preorder and a developer account, this stuff is really souring me on taking the device seriously as a development platform. I abandoned iOS development for the web in the 2010s because app review roulette made i
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by w4 3y ago
The real kicker to this entire discussion is this: In a time where America is ostensibly gearing up for peer competition with China and working to onshore manufacturing and development, we are strongly disincentivizing domestic innovation b
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by w4 3y ago
Because it was used to game the CBO score for the 2017 tax bill by offsetting tax cuts with future revenue, making the bill seem more revenue neutral upon analysis. This was done under the presumption that Congress would never actually le
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by w4 3y ago
You pro-rate it based on usage for R&E vs. usage for "maintenance."
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by w4 3y ago
That's not correct through '27: https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/en/glossary/bonus-depreciatio... It also applies to e.g. saas used for software development, which never would be depreciated over time prev
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by w4 3y ago
Sort of. My understanding is that courts very much have the power to knock down agencies acting outside of their legislative authority, even under Chevron. That’s not what the debate about Chevron is about. The debate around Chevron is ab
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by w4 3y ago
That’s not really the question being decided about Chevron, though. That’s a much bigger question about the constitutionality of the independent agencies themselves. The question at hand in this case is basically whether or not the judiciar
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by w4 3y ago
A scenario worth considering before deciding for yourself if Chevron being overturned is entirely bad news: If a would be dictator were elected in the United States, would it be better if the courts had broad power to check the executive br
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by w4 3y ago
> Both of whom also do (or should) defer to specialists. Consultants, lobbyists (not all of which is corrupted by money, though much of it is), hearings, depositions, etc. So too does the judiciary, in addition to the same hearings and
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by w4 3y ago
Why is it ridiculous? The goal of a computer program is to solve a problem. The Perl script solves the problem. It handles all of the weird edge cases a re-write would rediscover. Re-writing it would take engineer time away from other prior
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by w4 3y ago
Export controls for GPUs that are exclusively manufactured a hundred miles off of China’s coast in Taiwan, a nation that the CCP considers to be part of China, and that it has explicit plans to take by military force in the coming years? It
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by w4 3y ago
> It’s clearly an actual photo, but it’s not clear what exactly the image is of. It is an image of children: https://www.reuters.com/world/nato-ministers-shown-horrific-...

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