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by zx8080 2y ago
Retro computing? First title: > Generative AI and Game Development: A Necessary Evil? It's not retro computing. It's called click-bait.
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by zx8080 2y ago
> Turns out "rddit.org" isn't owned by Reddit. It’s registered anonymously via a cheap freemium link shortener. How can a domain be registered via _link shortener_?
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by zx8080 2y ago
For gradual feature roll out there should be a clear success or failure criteria and also the feedback loop. What are they?
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by zx8080 2y ago
> For extremely specific use cases such as file managers, browsers or antivirus apps, Google grants an exception by allowing QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission, which provides full visibility into installed apps. Why would browser need to enu
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by zx8080 2y ago
> Connections to foreign computers are not subjected to regulation currently. Italy has banned access to Deepseek a couple of weeks ago. Is that different?
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by zx8080 2y ago
> decoupled from the horrors of an unreliable network There's no such thing as reliable network in the world. The world is network connected, there's almost no local-only systems anymore (for a long long time now). Some enginee
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by zx8080 2y ago
> It was unclear why Mooney’s earlier visa was revoked, or why she was at the southern border this month. However, she told ABC she got her first visa at the San Ysidro border crossing on the advice of a Los Angeles attorney, who met her
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by zx8080 2y ago
It's like comparing a strong tough guy who doesn't cut corners and plans for the years ahead and a "drug zombie" who only wants to have better KPIs on paper by the end of the month/quarter/year for a title pro
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by zx8080 2y ago
> The spec lives in GitHub in a 7MB source file which is too large to view through the GitHub web interface It's a bit offtopic, but think about it: cannot view the doc despite its size is only 7Mb ~ about 0.04 percent of a typical
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by zx8080 2y ago
I wonder if any of the currently produced cars will have seats still comfortable after so many years. Probably, no.
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Anthropic Claude Code update bricked some systems(techcrunch.com)
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by zx8080 2y ago
Slowliness of the user base trust erosion means annual bonuses for the C-levels. Every year. That's by design . I'm sure they are pro's in burning frogs (or users) slowly. (Until one morning we realize that FF has become Chr
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by zx8080 2y ago
Exactly. I feel a good desire to fork the browser (ff or one of its forks) to be able build it for myself with a set of debloat patches. Just to avoid worrying about tracking and the "sell your data" stuff.
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by zx8080 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation! Is there any chance to move away from the Discourse? It's a bit too slow (on any page opening), but the biggest issue is its hostile habit of catching the browser "find in page" hotkey (replacing t
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by zx8080 2y ago
ROI?
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by zx8080 2y ago
The industry (or a couple of generations currently inhabiting it) could start with at least accepting responsibility when something goes wrong. Let me be clear: it's not about ending the "blameless culture" in engineering.
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by zx8080 2y ago
> [please don't] make it seem like it's their fault, it's not. it's todesktop's fault if anything What?! It's not some kind of joke. This could _already_ literally kill people, stole money and ruin lives. It
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by zx8080 2y ago
Is Mozilla Relay (email) really needed for Sync? Never used Sync, so maybe I don't understand something. But does not sound safe to put all eggs into this busket at once.
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by zx8080 2y ago
> this setup still relies on Mozilla infrastructure for several surrounding services for auth, email, Why does email rely on mozilla infra?
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by zx8080 2y ago
> You really think Windows (11, since anything older is gone) is a b2c product? It's free. Windows is not "free". Win 11 Home price is $120, upgrade to Pro is $100 [0]. 0 - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=window
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by zx8080 2y ago
> microsoft > had no idea how to manage a B2C product What does this mean? MS has enough of b2c products. Windows is. Office is. Not enough?
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by zx8080 2y ago
Ethics does not belong to capitalism. Money is the central part of it, not ethics.
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by zx8080 2y ago
Three popups (with adblock enabled!) when opening this web page, and one more bound to "Back" button on its close seems a bit too much to me. Is this normal now for the respected magazine like this (they have a paper version!) to
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by zx8080 2y ago
Video ads that glues themselves to the top of a __mobile__ screen when scrolled through is the craziest and hostile ad style I've seen by now. Is there some links to where to get the preview itself?
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by zx8080 2y ago
An honest interest, have you tried a dark mode on any device? Every time I tried it (sometimes as a new default setting after update for some JetBrains IDE), I did not like it at all for some reason as too much eye stress.
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by zx8080 2y ago
For some, mccoffee is a solution. So it does depend on expectations. When there's no budget for hiring a human professional, then any AI output seemingly resembling what is needed would be a solution. Because, how to properly verify it
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by zx8080 2y ago
If there's no independent verification, how do you know it's really top 10? (not middle 10, or random 10?)
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by zx8080 2y ago
Clippy is an office thing, not win2k.
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by zx8080 2y ago
It's not possible to apply human morale and principles to companies. It just does not work that way. Why would they pay if no profit if pay and they are not forced to pay?
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by zx8080 2y ago
Cool! Do you consider the risk of unintentional (and until some moment, an unknown) subscription to some paid SMS service and how do you mitigate it?

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