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Similar conclusion - they're "losing" if the goal is marketshare and mindshare dominance. If the goal is just to carve their own niche, they're already there. But, if you compare t…

Over time I went from 0 doc, 0 automation to putting a lot of thought into both. Projects become a bit of a circus to maintain, and nobody can help you out of it if nothing is docu…

> It's meant to compete with the junky little thing you get with your PC that's wired, with who-knows-what DPI and 3 buttons at best. Of all the strange things Apple decides to com…

I disagree, but you know having different preferences is fine. I think the trackpad of the macbook is the worst trackpad I've ever used, typing from an m1 mbp right now and wish it…

The US had incredible soft power. You could travel the world and still hear US news, and locals discussing their opinion on the US. US entertainment was inescapable. Now people in …

Agree with the point but boy, NYC is one of my least favorite cities so it wouldn't be my example of nice places to be. Boston's nice though!

Not just stable - also easy to understand when, if ever, something goes wrong. There's very little magic, very little layers of complexity.

I clicked expecting a list of cool things to self host. Instead I got a list of ways I would never want to host. Mankind invented BSD jails so that I do not have to tie myself in a…

I also find it funny that COBOL is treated as the boogeyman. It's just a language. Any programmer by profession should be capable of learning a language decently in a month, and be…

I agree with you that most consumers probably do want things that are bad for them. I would at least be cautious of services provided by one of the companies with the most anti-tru…

Yeah, not all hope is lost, but good apps do get delisted for not complying with whatever Google dictates on the Play store, so you have to make good backups of content that only e…

I don't know why you are relating any of what I said to popularity or the merits of closed source. I guess you misunderstand what I mean by "on life support". Android is unhealthy …

I'd love to expand the term actually, because it's been misused to come to mean that something is community oriented, collaborative, even benevolent. Not even open source, but just…

As you say, due to banking, this works more or less depending on which country you live in. Some countries have tied their banking to their phones, with apps that use SafetyNet to …

Android has been bad-faith open source for as long as I can remember. Android is look-but-dont-touch source. Its massive codebase that requires immense resources to build is not op…

I think nobody buys mac desktops because apple devices and desktop use cases barely overlap. Worst OS for gaming, they're not upgradable, and probably half the specialty software t…

Importantly, if laptop makers stuck to screen size rather than overall dimensions, a 11" with the same bezel today would be smaller than an 11" of the past, and that could be too s…

- thrifty people who do iterative upgrades You can have a win-win combination of high quality components, high performance components, and a low cost device by reuse and iterative …

> Nvidia has a terrible reputation with long term support In what space do they have this reputation? In drivers, I see they're supporting hardware that's 10 years old right now.

I'd say the SGX is the "cheapest" only if you're trying to go beyond 96GB. the AMD system is 96GB max for the GPU. The 128GB allocates a minimum of 32GB to the CPU. the Nvidia syst…

Benchmarks of what? Memory speed matters for some things but not others. It matters a lot for AI training, but less for AI inference. It matters a lot for games too, but nobody wou…

I went "huh, they're buying the smart light company from phillips?" Different wiz. And best of luck to the Wiz folks! Whenever I see Google acquisitions I just wonder how long unti…

You'd think Cloudflare would be more helpful in order to draw attention away from people increasingly realizing it has too much power over access to the internet. I'm glad that the…

I don't use VSCode, that'd be slower too. I just use emacs and tmux. But one category of things that's faster is any linux utility that needs to interact with files. NTFS stores me…

> My time is very valuable. Same that's why I don't use Windows in a professional setting. Programming in it is slower and doing office work in it is 'fun' when things change for t…