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by snazz 10d ago
It's true that it's all packet-switched rather than circuit-switched, but IMS traffic is still handled differently than regular data traffic. (The most user-visible implication of this is the QCI difference: cellular phone calls a
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by snazz 10d ago
Yes, circuit switched fallback was possible for a time (LTE data and circuit-switched 2G or 3G voice). I think 3GPP shouldn't have written that into the spec in the first place, but you know what they say about hindsight.... The whole
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by snazz 10d ago
I’ve been looking for an MVNO cell phone plan in the U.S. that offers data at a max speed of 512 kbps (or something similar that is fast enough for most legitimate uses, but a little painful), and I haven’t found anything. Seems like an opp
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by snazz 10d ago
Very few people have the discipline to use it in that way rather than as a way to remove friction, just as practically no one with a smartphone doesn’t, at least occasionally, find themselves “sucked in”.
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by snazz 11d ago
I took an acting class in college and found it remarkably challenging, but valuable, to tear down those emotional restraints. I should get back into it, it’s a skill that needs to be regularly practiced. I wish you luck and I hope it’s a va
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by snazz 13d ago
Capacitive touch keyboard?
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by snazz 14d ago
True, that is the one feature that is app-only usually. Sounds like someone who wants to go smartphone-free should open an Ally account!
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by snazz 14d ago
In my experience in the U.S., I can manage my accounts at various banks and brokerages just as well from the website as from a mobile app. I’m ok with them restricting how their apps can be used as long as the browser remains an option. The
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by snazz 15d ago
Rather than sunk cost fallacy, I would call it survivorship bias: the projects that someone has consistently worked on over time are a small fraction of the total projects out there, and those that have survived are probably useful to someo
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by snazz 18d ago
Yes, but (if I understand correctly) it would allow you to use your same X window manager (transparently under Xwayland) and run the odd Wayland application when needed.
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by snazz 18d ago
Debian has quite a lot of code production. APT and dpkg are pretty standard open source projects, and Debian also maintains substantial patches for a lot of its packages. Not to mention any of the infrastructure.
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by snazz 19d ago
I have managed to print out a paper ticket (from some dark corner of the website) and scan it on the barcode scanner at an MLB stadium. The employees were surprised it worked.
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by snazz 20d ago
Leaving it on all the time would probably dim the backlight eventually more than turning it off, but I’m sure the monitor could handle it. Mostly a waste of energy.
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by snazz 22d ago
I agree with you that this is a noticeable effect, but I have a hard time figuring out why it is, especially on Macs with the sealed system volume (which should make the operating system files bit-for-bit identical between a freshly set up
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by snazz 22d ago
Do you take issue with wrapping your thumb under your palm to hit command/option, or is it something else?
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by snazz 22d ago
Just watched that after I got home from work. I was pleasantly surprised with how in-depth it was. Thanks for sharing it! It does seem like the worst issues he was seeing had to do with parallel IO performance, which is exacerbated by the a
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by snazz 22d ago
Is APFS that much slower than ZFS or btrfs (more comparable Linux file systems) or just ext4? Btrfs is noticeably slower than ext4, but at least all the Mac and Linux file systems are way faster than file operations on Windows :)
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by snazz 23d ago
The design is supposed to be better than a true VPN, because neither Apple nor the exit node (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly) are supposed to know both who you are and what you’re doing. Of course, Apple pays them for this service, so they coul
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by snazz 25d ago
If you're including binary blobs as one of your options, then both text and archives are just types of binary blobs :)
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by snazz 26d ago
When you lower the barrier to taking the shortcut, you get more people to take it who wouldn’t otherwise have done so. If cheating becomes incredibly easy, lots of students who would have otherwise been honest take the easy way out. Moral c
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by snazz 1mo ago
Enterprise Cloud was indeed affected by this (as of this morning)
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by snazz 1mo ago
What I like about uBO Lite in Safari is that I can use it without allowing it access to any of my data (it works in a purely declarative mode if you want). Even if it’s unlikely that uBO would be sold to a sketchy company, at least this pro
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by snazz 1mo ago
It’s an interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, which is loosely supported by Supreme Court precent in Carpenter and Jones . See my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359826 Edit: To be more clear,
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by snazz 1mo ago
This makes some good intuitive sense, but to me the sycophancy feels like it is an emergent property of turning a next word predictor into a conversational chatbot whether or not it’s intentionally trained that way. Your prompt and its earl
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by snazz 1mo ago
Not sure! Used the same one for well over 10 years.
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by snazz 1mo ago
I do and I have for the last decade. If anything, the spam calls have decreased over time.
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by snazz 1mo ago
I live in the U.S., have a U.S. phone number, and get maybe one spam call every six months. (Spam texts about once a month, with the exception of before elections, when it’s more.) I wonder what causes the difference. Do I have a newer phon
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by snazz 1mo ago
I bought a desktop with “strange and undesirable” hardware (an Intel discrete GPU) from Facebook Marketplace at a substantial discount to any new machine with the same performance. Perhaps consider that route if you’re just looking for a st
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by snazz 1mo ago
Does your local NPR station (or even PBS) have local journalists? Obviously their primary formats aren’t written, but my local NPR has a fantastic website also.
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by snazz 1mo ago
5G is probably not a requirement for your phone service (although I can’t say for sure). The critical bit on networks in the U.S. and many other countries without 2G or 3G is VoLTE for phone calls and texts, which it does support. Some carr

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