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bonney_io

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    Comment #41541137

    They do! It's called the M1 MacBook Air.

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    Comment #41038785

    It's crazy that we could now build a Wii that's self-contained within the sensor bar...

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    Comment #40544884

    > I really wish more companies would go back to the old-style model where users can buy the current version of a software tool but would need to pay a discounted price to upgrade t…

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    Comment #39445236

    It seems to me that Mastodon, tumblr, Wordpress, Threads, and any future platform's support of ActivityPub could theoretically make the entire internet "old Facebook". Facebook is/…

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    Comment #38753586

    I still don't understand the pro-Beeper argument here. They have absolutely no right to unauthorized access to Apple's servers or network, this seems fairly cut-and-dry, despite wh…

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    Comment #38582776

    > I require the ability to install apps from arbitrary sources, including piracy. No one "requires" access to theft.

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    Comment #38569398

    My version of this involved a Wii remote: freshmen-level CompSci class, and the group had to build a simple game in Python to be displayed at a showcase among the class. We wrote a…

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    Comment #38090559

    > This should have been a MacBook Air. Great, let's compare it to the MacBook Air, then. Compared to the 8GB/512GB M2 MacBook Air, at $1399, the M3 MacBook Pro has: - M3 chip - Sli…

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    Comment #37970513

    iPhone 13 mini owner here. I love this phone. I've used large phones in the past, was a happy iPhone 7 Plus owner, and owned and used the 5.8-inch iPhones X and 11 Pro, but I'm jus…

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    Comment #37920510

    Hi -- just want to clarify -- I am NOT the OP, not trying to claim this as my project, simply relating a similar example from my personal life.

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    Comment #37907481

    I did this back in 2016, with an iOS app I built/hacked away at while learning/self-teaching Swift and UIKit. Easily over 1,000 hours (~2 hours ~5x day per week for ~2 years) inves…

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    Comment #37906174

    > It's for people who want to point and click, can't do a bash for/while loop, don't understand pipe chaining commands, and don't like using vim. This sounds like the dream.

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    Comment #37905608

    Gonna be a bit awkward reaching out to new potential employers... using LinkedIn.

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    Comment #37240988

    Any insight on how Whisper works on older Intel Macs? I have a 2012 Mac mini with 16GB of RAM doing nothing; if I could use it to (slowly) transcribe media in the background, this …

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    Comment #36697772

    Claude's UI is so tastefully done, and the website works excellently as a PWA when installed to my iPhone home screen. :)

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    Comment #35968243

    So we'll spend our tax dollars in order for the government to tell us how many more tax dollars we owe?

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    Comment #35815974

    This all sucks, and I hate that CEOs can continue to lie about layoffs, hire uncontrollably, then completely 180 and lay tons of folks off. That said: where do I sign up for 16 wee…

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    Comment #35705113

    > Google is bringing in $160 Billion a year with their clean search result pages. No, Google brings in $X billion a year with all the ads and garbage they stuff in between those cl…

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    Comment #35705070

    (Mac user here) This is exactly why I use and love Safari.

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    Comment #35455219

    Sure, put PWAs in some online "app" store, but personally, if I am going to an App Store (be it iOS or Android), I want actual real platform apps , not cross-platform web apps.

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    Comment #34962770

    For no reason other than it seemed fun, I used this new knowledge to implement my own version of said key-gen, in my choice of dev environment: Swift and Xcode playgrounds. Fun lit…

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    Comment #34913993

    My anecdata: M1 MacBook Air, and I haven't noticed such a drastic difference in battery life in a day in Xcode vs. a day in Visual Studio Code. However, I run a very lean install o…

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    Comment #34598272

    > So, an app you write in Joystick today will look the same 10 years from now (features will be added/improved over time, but core APIs will not be deprecated unless there is a maj…