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Should be possible with a physical firewall (rule in router, pi-hole, whatever) right? It's not a sellable solution but still... I hope that these fines and the rules on "algorithm…

Yeah they use snapchat and TikTok, with a sprinkle of instagram. The problem with these are: they offer two features 1) a social feature. You can send DM:s or comment your friends …

Here's where the important difference is: unless you actually finished the wordpress thing, or ever had active users etc, it would never have become a maintenance burden. If it's n…

Yeah. I enjoy 2-4 most, 1 is the next, and 5 the least. I think the litmus test here is "if you knew could never deliver this to anyone, make money of it, get recognition for it, o…

Haha Yeah if you do step 1 with AI you risk creating "an AI powered marijuana platform for global AI solutions" (The inevitable South park Reference). https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Programming has five phases effectively: 1) You figure out what problem to solve. 2) You figure out HOW to solve the problem. 3) You actually implement the solution. 4) You see the…

I usually prefer apps to sites if there’s any usability improvement over the webpage - which there usually is. If the app just shows a webpage then no.

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”Not being interested in politics” doesn’t mean you aren’t interested, it just means politics happens to work for you. Its a strongly political take on the world too. Politics isn’…

Someone might at least read this discussion and come away with a feeling that there is something controversial about using a product or service, and read up on it before buying. If…

There is no separation of politics from anything. You can’t discuss sports in a sports forum and pretend it’s possible to keep politics out of it. Likewise with tech. If HN’s guide…

Oh ffs. Just like I would much rather drive a Chinese car than a Tesla I’d much rather use a Chinese model than an X one. That’s just where we are now. Whether it’s good at anythin…

I'd be willing to accept this: Scan on end user's devices, but never transmit the result of that. Only report it ON the device itself to the user. A false positive when you send a …

What constitutes a replaceable battery in this regulation? I don’t want hatches on things. Especially not phones. It’s fine to have some screws between me and a battery, if that ma…

> ”No .net, nothing” Not sure this is possible, or provides a meaningful ”lightness”. The 4.x CLR is an OS component as expected as Win32. You could have it as a separate download …

But who insures the ship and its cargo? And what's the premium? No one cared about sailors before either. But if the ship sinks then you cash out from Lloyds. But if the risk premi…

I hope so too. But I fear that it will feel inadequate if we know there is always a $20 online model that is an order of magnitude better. I don't think there will be a "good enoug…

I wonder what the reason is to not go humanoid but super-human? Lack of training data? For example, having 3 arms would help a lot of tasks. Or having fingers with twice the length…

I did 81/100 (not my first language) but I probably only knew 60 from before. But I speak other languages and so I can usually decode an origin of a word or I have seen other words…

Without the MS account, it is _much_ harder to sell OneDrive, Copilot, Office365-whatever subscriptions etc to their users. I get it. I get that they need to upsell their customers…

I’d happily pay $500/yr more for service to not even have to consider that

I think something similar applies in many parts of the world, _but_ I also think that the response from the OEMs is basically "fight the warranty claims hard when there is third pa…

The right to repair thing is a spectrum. On the one hand you have the John Deere inkjet model. But on the other end you have the normal car manufacturers who don't make it impossib…

This is especially nice in the age of AI. I (the graybeard senior developer) does all the risky refactoring. I can take a performance issue and turn it into six regressions in half…

Yes it can't be used 24/7 for 5-minute charges because then the buffer does nothing. But if there is never back-to-back charges then I'd argue it's also kind of pointless because w…