jmaker

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by jmaker 26d ago
Why not the other way around?
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by jmaker 26d ago
I don’t get Claude, and that’s almost exactly what I did - I dropped to Claude Pro $20 + Codex Pro $100, and then unsubscribed from Claude and ramped up Codex. The Claude Pro is consumed within an hour on a simple task. I wish only Codex wo
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by jmaker 26d ago
I don’t get how Claude is considered providing “unlimited” quotas. I use up my 5h on Max $100 and Team Premium in 2-3h of relaxed use of Opus 5 high+ on fresh sessions with just a couple skills/plugins. And my weekly quotas are gone in
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by jmaker 2mo ago
Cue back in ten years and we all talk like that.
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by jmaker 6mo ago
Whatever I used Sonnet 4.6 for, including Claude Code and Claude Chat, it made so many mistakes and totally awkward assumptions that I can’t fathom what it’s supposed to be good at. The mistakes were so blatant. Plan mode, several passes, c
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by jmaker 7mo ago
Great point. What I’m recognizing in that PR thread is that the bot is trying to mimic something that’s become quite widespread just recently - ostensibly humans leveraging LLMs to create PRs in important repos where they asserted exaggerat
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by jmaker 7mo ago
I’ve got the feeling that it’s spreading and is soon to become the default. Another banking app has failed to identify me a couple of times (I attribute it to iPhone 17’s front camera distortion) and fell back to the snail mail id code as a
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by jmaker 7mo ago
Many consumer banking apps have begun integrating similar identity verification third-party providers. They are very inaccurate. Sometimes it works with the front camera on one smartphone but doesn’t with another (iPhone 17’s distortion), s
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Aren’t they part of iCloud+ only? Ask no-track can arguably compromise your privacy by fingerprinting. I agree that the privacy controls on Apple systems are well-organized. Still, it’s more important to have confidence that the privacy ser
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Is it different with Google Play?
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Apple too collects unencrypted metadata but now promises to reduce its scope.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
And that’s a significant PR and marketing posture for Apple.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
I think there’s also a topology chasm at play. Apple controls most of its hardware stack, with Qualcomm modems and Samsung displays, but the SoC is now Apple’s own. Google relies on rotating third parties to assemble the Pixels, hence poor
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by jmaker 8mo ago
I think AdSense is still an Alphabet subsidiary?
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by jmaker 8mo ago
That’s true, though I wish Apple gave me the freedom to define a new search engine, beyond the small provided selection.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
I wonder how exactly Apple Intelligence works with ChatGPT and soon with Gemini. If I remember correctly, there’s no privacy there? If so, where’s the privacy boundary in Apple Intelligence? Google pushes Gemini everywhere and wants to keep
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by jmaker 8mo ago
> - They put all the privacy controls in one place in Settings so you can audit That’s true. On Pixel Android, there’s several unrelated places in the various settings for the device and for the Google account to take care of and see
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Can someone explain what the real difference is to a consumer user between an iPhone and a Pixel or a Samsung device? Across all services, push notifications, and device backups. Both promise security, Apple promises some degree of privacy.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
That is terrible. I’ve been out of the loop with consumer Windows for like 20 years and enterprise Windows for a decade, last time was at a .NET shop. Two years ago or so, after watching a couple Microsoft folks give their talks, I tried on
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Depends on your Linux distribution. Hibernation had also been a long standing issue last I checked, especially on laptops.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Same here with a Pixel 10 Pro. Having seen issues that others have been struggling with, I’m shocked at the poor quality controls. It’s not only hardware, the software breaks every now and then. Looks like every patch introduces some bugs o
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by jmaker 8mo ago
What kind of apps do you get from F-Droid that are useful to you that aren’t available on Play? I mean, to me most of the F-Droid apps are WIP with legacy UI and I need to trust the publisher and that their handle isn’t hijacked. What are a
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Thanks, you’re likely right, but significance is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t attribute much value to the marketing fluff and on-paper changes. It’s great the battery improved but does it really matter? You still will charge every da
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by jmaker 8mo ago
I’ve been down that road, was fun, but growingly felt to me like too much maintenance that wasn’t worth the effort, distracting from more important things. Like desktop Linux. Now I’m at a point where Android itself, even Pixels feel that w
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Why not just get an iPhone then?
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Text section is also extremely annoying when marking up PDF files in the Preview app (select -> highlight). Anything you select (whole words), deselects some trailing portion and you’re left with only part of your selection with a highli
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by jmaker 8mo ago
Piercing the corporate veil is a very common practice across countries, both in civil and statutory cases as well as administrative cases. It’s a very fragile shell.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
There’s little hardware improvement in iPhone 17 over iPhone 16. Arguably only the move from titanium to aluminum in the casing is a tangible performance enhancement (better cooling). The software is the same.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
The hardware is far behind in terms of benchmark performance. That wasn’t important to me, but it’s noticeable when you edit videos.
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by jmaker 8mo ago
With Graphene, something financial won’t work anymore. I believe either banking apps or Google Wallet, a known issue. Graphene didn’t support Pixel 10 yet last time I checked. That said, I’ve been just too occupied with reading on how to fi

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