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bigyabai

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    Comment #49223111

    If they worked there recently, they probably grappled with this in some capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon

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    Comment #49219300

    Even Apple is unwilling to admit it makes sense, it's not like the App Store makes you drag the icon into a shopping cart or something. It's just poor design nowadays.

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    Comment #49217535

    Ideally we should just let the government write the software, and they'd be able to verify that there's no dangers to grandma anywhere in the system. It would be foolproof, maybe t…

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    Comment #49217526

    > And then, billions of users cry out in pain as their private data is hoovered into the panopticon in the cloud. That's not how data collection works? It's Apple's responsibility …

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    Comment #49217481

    Yep, it's also worth observing Iran's accuracy relative to their perceived sanctions. The baseline Shahed 136 is a decently low-tech drone, but equipped with cheap inertial navigat…

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    Comment #49217093

    > the App Store will be the one real stain on his legacy Well, and the Apple Car. And the Butterfly Keyboard and that horrible i9 16" MBP. Plus the Airpower, and the Vision Pro, an…

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    Comment #49216916

    Is it really that hard to understand? I'm perplexed that people are perplexed by this. Electronics like webcams, SBC devkits, gyroscopes, GPS transceivers, PID controllers, radios …

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    Comment #49215444

    Why, is AR all of the sudden useful and highly-demanded when you can run native Mac apps, instead of streaming them or using the iPad/VisionOS versions? Doesn't seem to be the case…

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    Comment #49214717

    BCI will only arrive once this style of monitoring can be enforced.

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    Comment #49213411

    GPTK cannot be freely redistributed, Steam cannot integrate the tech like they do with Proton.

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    Comment #49213393

    I want you to substantiate your original political claim, not lament your loneliness for having an unpopular opinion.

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    Comment #49213262

    Kinda sounds like a cop-out. You alleged that he's due criticism, but you're unable to levy it?

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    Comment #49213157

    > You're unlikely to find any seriously critical views here. You're welcome to criticize him yourself, if you want. I suspect that your complaints will be pretty weak relative to t…

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    Comment #49205344

    > if the users would like to see it maintained for a long time, they would donate $$$. That's a bad-faith dilemma, you know it. The users can want to see it maintained without nece…

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    Comment #49205335

    Plug it in, and it's a old prototype with Gemma 5 weights baked onboard. Dammit, fucked by Craigslist again!

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    Comment #49205321

    Presumably wealth would concentrate upwards even if AI was never made.

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    Comment #49202082

    Are you lamenting the death of proprietary UNIX and paid compilers, too? This status quo is fine.

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    Comment #49200743

    > It's a shame you've had such a poor experience on X. The site isn't perfect by any means, This line is identical to what deluded Twitter users said when they wanted me to join th…

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    Comment #49200676

    You can send them to Chinese chop-shops and still turn a decent buck.

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    Comment #49199544

    HN should really be more considerate of Larry Ellison's needs, he only owns one of the ~130 Hawaiian islands so far. Deals like this put him back in the position to buy more Americ…

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    Comment #49199323

    > Automation is also a massive boon to the common man. So much so, that we aren't allowed to download and finetune the model weights that we helped to train? When OpenAI and Anthro…

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    Comment #49199281

    In fairness, a lot of Red Scare propaganda did stem from grounded and realistic espionage concerns. McCarthyism was a total overreaction in hindsight, but had roots in pervasive fo…

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    Comment #49192042

    I agree with the other commenters here - your assumption that all of us hate it for "wrong-think" is precluding your judgement here. Twitter was also not a good social media, in my…

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    Comment #49191884

    At least a little. ICE doesn't enforce election security.