wilsonnb3

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by wilsonnb3 6d ago
React Native apps are not webview based like Electron, they use native components. Arguably it is more native than flutter, which uses its own components designed to mirror native ones on Android and iOS.
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by wilsonnb3 27d ago
I really like the Samsung version of this, it shrinks the whole screen down into one of the bottom corners
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by wilsonnb3 27d ago
Unihertz sells several small Android phones still, they are just very niche
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by wilsonnb3 1mo ago
Interesting, the tech specs page said Verizon was supported but the carrier coverage page says it isn’t
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by wilsonnb3 1mo ago
What does it feel like to type on?
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by wilsonnb3 1mo ago
Even pre-LLM this is how suckless tools work, I actually don’t much mind having to edit a variable in a header and recompile when you make a config change. https://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/
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by wilsonnb3 2mo ago
I suspected as much after their first use case for cloud services was cricket results. Perhaps the limitation to whatever express chat is isn’t a dealbreaker in India.
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by wilsonnb3 2mo ago
> How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are? The openAI employee in question is also a former Apple employee.
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by wilsonnb3 2mo ago
What user privacy? There would be no chat logs to subpoena if users had privacy.
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by wilsonnb3 3mo ago
Companies are already shipping everything to Microsoft or Google and 17 other companies, just the cost of doing business.
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by wilsonnb3 3mo ago
Article is from February so that tracks
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by wilsonnb3 4mo ago
You can do that, in the US at least.
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by wilsonnb3 4mo ago
Dealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people. Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thing that is changing is the dialect.
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by wilsonnb3 4mo ago
> I can easily anticipate how an inexperienced engineer is going to mess up their first pull request for my project. Isn’t this just because you have seen a lot of PRs from inexperienced engineers? People learn LLM behavior over time, to
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by wilsonnb3 5mo ago
That is definitely the case, they cover this and many other interesting things about Spotify in the book Mood Machine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151728-mood-machine
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by wilsonnb3 5mo ago
You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.
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by wilsonnb3 5mo ago
Massive job loss from AI requires one of two things: actual human-equivalent AGI or no increase in demand. Focusing on option 2 and software development, teams and companies will only downsize if the demand for software doesn’t increase.
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by wilsonnb3 6mo ago
Just curious, how was SQL Server perceived at the time compared to Sybase and Oracle? I know it originated as a port of Sybase.
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by wilsonnb3 6mo ago
I highly recommend the book “How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)” if you are interested in this subject.
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by wilsonnb3 7mo ago
My understanding is that students are very hard on school provided laptops, I don’t think many of them that have been in use for a year will be in good resale condition.
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by wilsonnb3 7mo ago
The surface laptop is a competitor to the MacBook Air, the cheaper Surface Laptop Go was the low cost attempt from MS. Also, there are plenty of good laptops from HP, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, and others, the market is not that dire.
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by wilsonnb3 7mo ago
How are you going to reach out to someone first if all communication is blocked because they don't already know you?
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
You can upload custom emoji to teams, most businesses just turn it off
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
I don’t think it is that widely available due to Snapdragon chips not supporting some feature it requires. Good option for Pixel owners or phones with MediaTek chips though.
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
I never really understood that angle - do you think the Germans would have thrown their hands up and not killed anyone because they lacked accurate data on who was Jewish?
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
Programs can’t want things, it’s no different than running any other program as your user
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
They already have a modern copy on write file system (ReFS), you just can’t use it on desktop Windows for some reason
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
They already do that for Azure
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
I know language evolves over time, but I can’t help but be irritated when people refer to anything non-computerized as analog. If it isn’t representing something with a continuously various signal then it ain’t analog!
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by wilsonnb3 8mo ago
To be fair, downloading and running random executables from the internet is a genuinely terrible security model when the OS (like Windows, Linux, or (to a lesser extent) MacOS) does nothing to prevent it from doing anything you can do.

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