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by xp84 1mo ago
Even that doesn't pass basic scrutiny. The same ambiguity can and always will exist with tim-apple.com and tim.apple.com - there's nothing here that needs fixing.
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by xp84 1mo ago
I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that this is the most careless, disruptive change to anything to do with DNS or internet names I have ever seen. > "will increase efficiency for the operation of the .name TLD." Wh
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by xp84 1mo ago
I won’t lie, I asked Copilot (of all things) first, in order to be more confident I wasn’t forgetting even one breakup, and it also pointed out that “almost” one.
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by xp84 1mo ago
There’s also whole TikTok (etc) channels who take random posts from Ask Reddit and just AI narrate the question and the top n highly-voted answers while showing a screenshot of each comment.
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by xp84 1mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if there’s just one guy somewhere who loved using the word load-bearing, all his papers got trained on, and now he can’t write anything without being assumed to be Claude.
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by xp84 1mo ago
For this advertisement for your activist campaign, you are hereby fined 100 credits for a violation of the anti-advertising statute. Further violations will result in loss of privileges.
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by xp84 1mo ago
I really appreciate the lack of flashiness that naming your company "General ____" puts out there. 20th century brought us General Electric, General Dynamics, General Motors, General Mills, General Dynamics, General Foods. The fou
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by xp84 1mo ago
Wow. Talk about the worst uses of AI -- the actual representative pictures of product you're selling. If false advertising law ever got an update, a ban on an AI depiction of one's product itself in an ad or other pre-sale image
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by xp84 1mo ago
The money is nbd, but it's much more important to Google (same as it would be for any of the other tech giants) to keep a certain streak going - 42 years now and counting since the government forced a large or important company to
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by xp84 1mo ago
I'm what you'd probably call a "90s kid" but I lived in a rural area. Around 1994, while the kids in more 'normal' places were using Mac LC-IIs with color screens, and I'm assuming others were using Window
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by xp84 1mo ago
> They have the ability to change name services in some database somewhere. But it's not actually an official name change. Is it Congress who officially holds that power, then? And are you saying that if Congressional Republicans pa
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by xp84 1mo ago
> Commodore expected both the VIC-20 and C-64 to have a shelf life of around 3 years. They were about right in the case of the VIC-20, but the C-64 kept selling about 700,000 units a year through the end of the decade and was still hangi
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by xp84 1mo ago
Not GP, and I regularly lament as well the incredibly gentle treatment of certain companies that I'd argue should have been literally fined out of existence (e.g. Equifax, PG&E, etc.), but we should probably stop to reflect that if
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by xp84 1mo ago
Thanks. I was trying to figure out exactly what's in scope here. I'd love to get a broad breakdown or a big pie chart that goes to this level of granularity so I can see where this sits within its other 'non-Google-property&#
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by xp84 1mo ago
> If the powers that be are corrupt we can simply keep calling it Lake Ontario This is the same logic that the right wing used when they disagreed with Obama on some issues, so they blocked his Supreme Court nominations just because anyt
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by xp84 1mo ago
The acronym gets awkward if we don't, though
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by xp84 1mo ago
> Google’s ad tech business brought in $30 billion last year, or about 8 percent of the revenue for its parent company, Alphabet. Its ad tech revenue has declined for 16 straight quarters, and analysts estimate it accounts for less than
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by xp84 1mo ago
Define "validate". App Review is really only good at catching things that make Apple uncomfortable for financial reasons, or make their attorneys worried (trademarks, copyright, etc.) The sandboxing is what makes the App Store pre
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by xp84 1mo ago
While I'm definitely not inclined to trust whoever wants to introduce new barriers, part of me actually thinks that the availability of second-level names (e.g. example.com), instantly, for trivially-low prices... maybe you could m
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by xp84 1mo ago
I'm no domain registry expert but I'm inclined to agree with you on 100% of this. Who needs a domain registration to cyber extort? Pretty sure they just DM that type of material to the victim and threaten to DM it to others. Simpl
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by xp84 1mo ago
The box is shipped in a box, as is everything. Whether it's being shipped to a store or to a home, it's going to come down to cardboard. One of the least environmentally problematic materials there is. Trees planted just to be cut
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by xp84 1mo ago
In the USA, the left is currently obsessed with touting their intellectual superiority over their political opponents. It doesn't occur to them that whether they're smarter or not, they don't deserve to rule because they do n
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by xp84 1mo ago
For all the regulations that have arguable merits, the EU loves to also do stupid ones like this one. As though the packaging of board games is what's clogging the landfills and oceans. The packaging is used to hold the actual game for
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by xp84 1mo ago
> RoR was so brittle and slow that they couldn’t hire enough to keep it going. This is such a "poor carpenter blaming his tools" take. RoR isn't holding you back from writing performant, high-quality code. However, lettin
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by xp84 1mo ago
calling thinking about bikeshedding, bikeshedding, is peak bikeshedding.
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by xp84 1mo ago
> managing state on the server is not fun at all. Really? I've never found that difficult. Sessions exist, URL parameters exist... Perhaps in a complex SPA you can have trouble, but so many of the "applications" I've
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by xp84 1mo ago
You've got to be careful, though. Consider that they have non-deletable apps, tiny amounts of onboard storage, and that every "app" WILL bloat over time. So, with those updates installing the latest version of Netflix, Prime,
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by xp84 1mo ago
The reason why the apps won't run is the weird SDK thing. As a Mac or iOS developer you can only run certain versions of XCode and each version of XCode supports only the most recent couple of OS SDKs. If you freeze everything in amber
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by xp84 1mo ago
Ah. Especially once you're doing an AI model that makes plenty of sense. For non-AI, non-AAA gaming needs, I was able to get an RX560 GPU module[1] for my EliteDesk, which I use for Minecraft (It is mutually exclusive with its 2.5&quot
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by xp84 1mo ago
I'm totally with you. Although if I moved to Arizona, I think instead of using "MST" 365 days a year and confusing all the people from other states during the 7 DST months, I would use "PT" in the summer and "M

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