blauditore

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by blauditore 7d ago
6/230 seems closer to 3%. And while the number is relatively low, it seems to be a niche where they might lose customers to other platforms. It must have been unprofitable/very expensive to maintain that they killed it. OTOH, it&#
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by blauditore 7d ago
Are you starting an online argument with me?
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by blauditore 10d ago
Arguing on the internet is not about convincing the other side. It's about winning the majority opinion and getting more votes. Almost like politics.
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by blauditore 13d ago
There's a lot of truth to this: Execs want their own use case covered. In addition, everyone wants to be better than the competition at basic use cases, because that's what people compare first - even though we all know they are n
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by blauditore 19d ago
That's exactly what I mean.
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by blauditore 22d ago
Google also has millions of lines of code in several languages written over decades. Probably access to more non-public (quality) code than most other companies in the world.
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by blauditore 22d ago
And yes, I'm well aware this embarrasses some folks, hence the negative reaction.
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by blauditore 22d ago
Yes, exactly.
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by blauditore 22d ago
Most devs choosing Macbooks has a lot to do with culture. It's boutique, cool, and all the other successful people have it. Yes, officially it's always for technical reasons, but no one would ever admit to get something just becau
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by blauditore 22d ago
We chose Azure for our startup because of data location, and it was cheaper than the other two as well. Data center locations may not matter much in the US (because everyone has this covered well), but it does in other places of the world.
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by blauditore 22d ago
Exactly. The same for Windows Phone. Both was amazing software on great hardware. They just never gained enough traction because MS was a bit late to the party and wasn't willing to push through (e.g. by compensating the late start and
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by blauditore 29d ago
Well, then make it harder to accidentally make a screenshot. E.g. make the user confirm (and then memorize whatevr setting).
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by blauditore 1mo ago
I actually hate that apps are allowed to blank out content on screenshots, and this can't be disabled. There are apps completely mis-using it, e.g. mobile payment apps which hardly show any sensitive data in most cases, but now I can&#
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by blauditore 2mo ago
There's a very easy way out for them: Just claim that the bible is rather metaphorical than literal, and many things can be interpreted to be in line with scientific findings. That seems to be at least what protestant churches in Europ
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by blauditore 2mo ago
>A company cannot realize monopolistic benefits without > 50% control of a market. I don't think that's true at all. Why 50% specifically? This is not about political votes or anything like that. It's about being the la
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by blauditore 2mo ago
> [...] dark patterns are a short term strategy for winning and I'm optimistic that in the long run they will be replaced with those that are more respectful and oriented to the greater good This is definitely not the way most softw
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by blauditore 2mo ago
I like the fact that it gives animated feedback to emphasize what is happening/being altered. Native components don't always do that very well. Animations are not just artsy fluff, they have real UX value (if done right, of course
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by blauditore 2mo ago
Ah yeah, we all had either TI-89 or v200. Still was already 20-year-old tech at the time we bought it for the price of a mid-range modern phone. It really should have cost a fraction of that.
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by blauditore 2mo ago
...or was just looking for a clickbait title. Surely someone once offered a vulnerability for 500k somewhere, but that doesn't mean someone bought it.
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by blauditore 2mo ago
There is definitely the effect of less or de-growth in the industry, which started before the current AI hype. And now there's the additional effect of companies hoping AI will replace their need for (junior) devs. Nobody knows if or t
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by blauditore 2mo ago
Same here (actually had a voyage 200, but same same I guess). It's actually quite insulting that TI kept (and keeps?) selling waaay outdated hardware at horrendous prices. It's the SAP/Oracle business model applied to school
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by blauditore 2mo ago
You will likely end up in maintenance hell soon. This will likely not be much easier with AI because coding is not the hard/annoying part, it's the fact that you need to dust off every little project every time a tiny fix is neede
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by blauditore 2mo ago
The closer I start working with and on AI stuff, the more I start seeing the disconnect between doomsday predictions of what AI will replace vs. what it is actually capable of. Yes, it can do stuff, and yes, it's getting better. But th
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by blauditore 2mo ago
Any day now... Just a bit more space in the context window, trust me bro.
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by blauditore 2mo ago
This has been a recurring theme since the dawn of video games: Everyone talks about graphics (devs and gamers), but ultimately the good and beloved games are the ones with great gameplay.
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by blauditore 2mo ago
But J-Space is much catchier. This is not a scientific paper, it's a promotional essay.
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by blauditore 3mo ago
And why not accelerate using swing-bys on moons and planets? Of course this gets harder the faster you're already moving, but IIUC Voyager 1 has roughly 0.01% c, and this was launched 50 years ago.
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by blauditore 3mo ago
Yes, this is essentially because mathematics is such an old science and goes very deep into branches. That's btw also why getting a certain degree is much harder there than in any other fields I've seen (did a bunch of courses at
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by blauditore 3mo ago
Sure, but obviously that sentence implies that wrong abstractions are fairly common.
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by blauditore 3mo ago
Only tangenially relevant, but the exagerrated differentiation of universities, and levels of education (e.g. PhD vs. not) has always been bothering me. I only have experience in a different field (CS), and yes, those things can be indicato

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