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by afavour 10d ago
I’m curious to know what performance looks like. In the recesses of my memory is the belief that proxies are not good for performance but I have no idea if that’s well founded (or maybe once was but isn’t any more). It’s a very smart idea t
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by afavour 10d ago
First time I’ve seen Preact described as a “big solution”!
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by afavour 10d ago
A surprising number of official bodies use it (and only it) for realtime updates. e.g. for a very long time the only way to get the latest updates on the NYC subway was to follow their account on there. More broadly, it’s a platform where p
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by afavour 10d ago
You’ve said a few times that it isn’t different to anything democrats have done. Can you point to some specific examples?
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by afavour 10d ago
Essentially what you’re saying is “if you’re addicted, why not choose to not be addicted?” and… yeah… Personally my biggest complaint is not necessarily screen time in itself, it’s that the tech giants are dedicated to maximising your (and
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by afavour 13d ago
Doesn’t the G stand for “general”? An AI model that’s human-level at programming is an incredible achievement. But it isn’t general intelligence. It’s highly specified intelligence.
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by afavour 15d ago
Yes but if it’ll lower overall video minutes viewed it’ll never make it into production.
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by afavour 15d ago
My point isn’t so much that it would be impossible to do, more that it’s giving more power to the tech giants to define things however they wish (given they get to define “popular”). In this instance that would be a good thing but as a prec
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by afavour 15d ago
No, they show what the respective governments describe them as in official datasets etc.
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by afavour 15d ago
Right but who maintains that list of experts? Google? Aren’t we just giving the tech giants more power in that scenario? Yes, in this specific instance it would give us an outcome we want. But in the long term we’re replacing democratic gov
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by afavour 15d ago
I don’t understand why the phrasing of the order matters. It’s very obviously a petulant and childish move made in response to trade negotiation failures with Canada. That’s literally what Trump himself has said: > The United States is g
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by afavour 15d ago
“Popular usage” is all very well and good until you have to quantify it in some way. No way it wouldn’t be a complete mess. For example: the body of water between the UK and France. The UK calls it “the English Channel”. The French call it
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by afavour 15d ago
I get why people want Apple and Google to push back but ultimately there isn’t any logical approach for them to operate that isn’t “name things as the relevant governmental bodies name them”. Otherwise what source of truth is there? The res
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by afavour 17d ago
Unless they like the publicity about how big and bad their latest models are, in which case they’ll be congratulating people.
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by afavour 18d ago
I think this has been obvious for many years now.
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by afavour 18d ago
I disagree. It’s a valid point that we’re all providing feedback to these AI firms on the effectiveness of their models, day in and day out. I don’t see OPs post as a “complaint about capitalism” but rather a concern about centralisation an
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by afavour 18d ago
It’s been years but I ran into a problem with a notification extension years ago. Worked fine on simulator, not on device. Turned out it was because I was using a HEIF image and (I think) the on-device extension was trying to use hardware d
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by afavour 19d ago
Which is why things like permission prompts exist.
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by afavour 19d ago
There’s a whole API that the browser provides to prompt users to install: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/befo...
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by afavour 19d ago
Sounds like it would be ideal to add it to Home Screen webapps only, just like web notifications. And yet…
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by afavour 19d ago
Is there any good that can come from a dipshit mobile product manager being able to make your phone vibrate on an app? Is there actually a meaningful difference?
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by afavour 19d ago
I agree that Apple has been awful here. But there are countries deeply dominated by Android that still heavily use apps when they could be using PWAs. I don’t mean to let Apple off the hook but I also don’t think they’re the only ones to bl
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by afavour 19d ago
I found that installing facebook dot com to my Home Screen on iOS works acceptably. Lets me check in on things every now and then and still be confident they’re very limited in what they can track. Messenger doesn’t work but luckily I rarel
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by afavour 19d ago
It’s a shame the web was so slow to adapt to this new mobile world. When it all started things like offline capabilities were very difficult to do on the web and native development felt necessary. These days the web can actually do a lot… b
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by afavour 20d ago
We’re talking about two different things and I don’t understand why you’re conflating them. “It isn’t a right” and “it’s immoral” are not mutually exclusive statements. No, there is no human right to a visa application response. That doesn’
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by afavour 20d ago
> People seem to hold views that getting visas to the US is a human right. Come on, there's nothing to be gained by misrepresenting people's views. The argument is a simple one: if you are currently within the immigration proce
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by afavour 20d ago
This is a nonsense debate, really. The H1B is a non-immigrant visa but it's also dual intent so it allows you to pursue immigrant status. https://global.temple.edu/isss/faculty-staff-and-researchers... > The do
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by afavour 20d ago
I don't really think anyone is disputing that the government is able to change their approach to immigration (though it's telling they're doing it by just freezing appointments rather than passing a law), but that you can mak
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by afavour 20d ago
I don’t understand the relevance. No one is using a tourist visa in this scenario and a tourist visa definitely isn’t dual intent in the way an H1B is.
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by afavour 21d ago
H1B is explicitly a dual intent visa. You are allowed to pursue a green card while in the country on an H1B. It has been an accepted, valid path for a very long time now. If the government wishes to change that of course they can. But the h

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