johnthuss

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by johnthuss 4mo ago
All your base are belong to us!
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by johnthuss 7mo ago
I found this video review to be much more informative and compelling. https://youtu.be/6Wv1btxCjVE?si=_1mvIHT3r_CQsuTZ
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by johnthuss 8mo ago
The Google Maps situation is a great example of why this will be hard. When Apple switched to their own maps it was a huge failure resulting in a rare public apology from the company. In order to switch you have to be able to do absolutely
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by johnthuss 8mo ago
The ChatGPT integration was heavily gated by Apple and required explicit opt-in. That won't be the case with the Gemini integration. Apple wants this to just work. The privacy concerns will be mitigated because Apple will be hosting th
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by johnthuss 8mo ago
The biggest NEW thing here is that this isn't white-labeled. Apple is officially acknowledging Google as the model that will be powering Siri. That explicit acknowledgment is a pretty big deal. It will make it harder for Apple to switc
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by johnthuss 11mo ago
All while Waymo is expanding to more and more cities, including Detroit where it will deal with snow and ice. Waymo is years ahead of Tesla in the self-driving race. It's possible Tesla never succeeds in launching a truly self-driving
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by johnthuss 11mo ago
>>> Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. It's not the main point of the article, but it is there.
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by johnthuss 1y ago
Amazon has their own PaaS offering called Elastic Beanstalk, with support for running docker containers and other popular platforms. It's not complicated to set up and is customizable if you need to tweak things. Any idea how Flightcon
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by johnthuss 1y ago
This is a fantastic article! It's really eye-opening to someone like me who wasn't aware of these changes. Great job!
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by johnthuss 1y ago
There was an excellent podcast covering this on Endless Thread! https://overcast.fm/+PCa9DKnMg
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Cursor intentionally slowing non-fast requests(old.reddit.com)
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by johnthuss 1y ago
Finally! This is incredibly good news. I hope the adoption of this feature is fast - looking at you Safari.
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by johnthuss 2y ago
The use case I have encountered was for anonymous users where the company wanted to prevent unauthorized clients (copies of the app) from relying on the same server-side HTTP API used by the official app. The point wasn't to make it im
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by johnthuss 2y ago
There are occasions where you just want to make it a little harder to impersonate an official client where it can be useful to store a secret in the binary. It's still vulnerable but requires intention and actual effort.
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by johnthuss 2y ago
garble actually sounds like an excellent utility to add some protection around things like keys/secrets in a binary. Is there anything like this for Swift binaries?
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Show HN: Hacker New Dark Mode Extension for iOS/macOS(apps.apple.com)
1 points by johnthuss 2y ago|0 comments
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by johnthuss 2y ago
An AI assistant lessens the fear of the blank page. It gets you started creatively so that you can work and it offers ideas which, even when they are bad, can lead you to something creatively satisfying. The important thing is that the AI i
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by johnthuss 2y ago
I write all my scripts with the hash bang as "#! /bin/bash" so even though fish is my interactive shell, I still use bash for all shell scripts. I think the restrictions you mention only apply if you use "#! /b
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by johnthuss 2y ago
>>> This is feasible in cases where the total number of distinct values in the column 'a' is reasonably small (think tens or hundreds, perhaps even thousands for very large composite indexes). It's great this is impr
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by johnthuss 2y ago
This is a super useful thing to know and I'm thankful for this article highlighting this aspect of Postgres. But I would disagree with the takeaway to focus on optimizing your indexes and not your tables. The reason is that the order o
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by johnthuss 2y ago
Proofreading.
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by johnthuss 3y ago
> We now have smooth scrolling support in popular Java library called "awt." Many Java applications use this library underneath, including IDEs such as Eclipse, IDEA or Rider. Eclipse doesn't use AWT, but rather uses SWT,
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by johnthuss 3y ago
This is great hard data to back up common perception. But I wonder how YouTube views for the Daily Show clips have changed over that same time period? Looking... They are rarely over 1 or 2 million views on YouTube, so yeah, that's a b
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by johnthuss 3y ago
One big difference is that physical things exact an on-going tax since you have to store them in your house and maintain them. Hence the "does it spark joy?" question. That said, the up-side is that physical goods can provide on-g
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by johnthuss 3y ago
> research suggests that people are often happier when they spend their money on experiences rather than things I concur.
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by johnthuss 3y ago
Very interesting article! I was really interested in your pricing experiments!
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by johnthuss 3y ago
The only cross-platform UI that is likely to be feasible to use long term is HTML/CSS/JS. That comes with significant downsides in terms of display fidelity. But that is going to be the case (to some degree) with any cross-platfor
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by johnthuss 3y ago
At a small workplace an account can be shared by multiple developers to assist with programming tasks like generating code, improving code, writing unit tests, reviewing code, etc. The paid account was more highly available than the free on
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by johnthuss 3y ago
I'm all for a shorter working week, but this would have a better chance if it was arguing for shorter days rather than another day off. That would be easier for companies to handle and would also be better for parents since they can ha
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by johnthuss 3y ago
That's a great computer for development. I have the 16" version, but otherwise the same. It's fantastic, unless you need to do ML stuff, in which case you might want a PC with an Nvidia GPU.

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