neallindsay

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by neallindsay 19d ago
So a Surface Pro is a laptop then. Does a SteamDeck become a laptop if you install Windows on it?
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by neallindsay 20d ago
I also raised an eyebrow at "the vast majority of laptops are only sold with a specific proprietary operating system: Microsoft Windows", but after looking at some estimates it seems legit. Probably only about 1 in 10 laptops is a
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by neallindsay 4mo ago
You have to participate in order to get access to most iPhone users.
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by neallindsay 7mo ago
If someone is charged with and found innocent of a crime, you can't just remove that record. If someone else later finds an account of them being accused, they need a way to credibly assert that they were found innocent. Alternately if
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by neallindsay 9mo ago
Isn't that what I said?
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by neallindsay 9mo ago
1.7x more is not the same as 1.7x as many.
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by neallindsay 9mo ago
Some TypeScript features are only available through JSDoc. The one I encounter most often is `@deprecated`.
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by neallindsay 9mo ago
There's a Kingdom Hearts joke in there somewhere, but I don't know enough of the lore to make it.
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by neallindsay 10mo ago
We're all suffering from the curse of dimensionality.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
In-band signaling can never be secure. Doesn't anyone remember the Captain Crunch whistle?
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by neallindsay 1y ago
The search deals were already not exclusive. The real impact will be the other businesses (especially GenAI) where Google will be barred from having exclusivity clauses in its contracts. -update- CNBC has fixed their headline.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
I don't think that blueflow is being obtuse at all. If you assert that genes have an intended way of working, then the questions > How do we know how things are intended to work? (Intended by whom?) are very salient. Your reply talk
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by neallindsay 1y ago
> …as intended. Genes and biology in general do not have "intended" purposes.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Unicode support in Ruby has been great since the beginning.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Ruby has been extremely slow and deliberate in rolling out frozen string literals. They added a magic comment to opt in to them on a per-file basis all the way back in Ruby 2.3—almost a decade ago. https://www.ruby-lang.org/
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by neallindsay 1y ago
I guess "esoteric" is in the eye of the beholder, but Promises seem a lot easier than the old callback style we used to use for asynchronous operations.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Promises in JS make this stuff much easier (at least to my mind): const lockify = f => { let lock = Promise.resolve() return (...args) => { const result = lock.then(() => f(...args)) lock = result.catch(() => {}
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by neallindsay 1y ago
By following the work of authors that you trust and getting recommendations from people you trust, you can reduce your need for recommendations from machines and companies. Then you won't need to rely on clickbait images and headlines
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by neallindsay 1y ago
I guess they expect you to set all your repos to public before applying for a visa now. Maybe your Venmo history as well?
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by neallindsay 1y ago
The xenophobes making these decisions don't care if they create problems for US citizens traveling abroad.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
The picture at the top of the article seems to be a bad (AI-generated, I assume) illustration of the Gartner Hype cycle. There are supposed to be five stages, but the text at the bottom doesn't line up with the graph because it is miss
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Computers keep getting better at acting like humans, but humans don't get any more obviously human.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
I was looking at quarterly revenue numbers—it seems like a dollar value to me.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Apple should abandon the console model for iPhones (and iPads, etc.). It's corrosive. By my back-of-the napkin math (subtracting an estimate of Google's quarterly search payments from Apple's stated "services" reven
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Despite all the data about climate change, the thing that is actually shifting us away from fossil fuels is that solar panels are cheap.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
If they didn't prevent selling derivative game engines, someone could fork it and add a valuable feature that was only available in the paid fork. This could split the community.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
That's a good point. Setting up a benign release first that you have engineered a same-hash malicious release you can swap in later is a higher bar than gaining control of a repo and immediately replacing a popular release.
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by neallindsay 1y ago
The general problem is media companies that: 1. show you more stuff automatically, and 2. optimize for engagement when choosing what to show you next That optimization works, and they have little incentive to optimize for anything else (lik
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by neallindsay 1y ago
Yes but SHA1 collisions are easy enough to engineer, so even then compromise is probably possible. (I don't know how hard it is to push a different object to an existing SHA on GitHub—I'm guessing that you probably have to remove
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by neallindsay 1y ago
This doesn't even mention ESOPs[1], which have very favorable tax benefits in the US. I don't think that ESOPs are very compatible with high-risk/high-reward startups, but for businesses that turn a profit and grow at a susta

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