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caleb-allen

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About caleb-allen

https://caleb.dev

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    Comment #46732824

    Thanks for linking that, it resonates deeply with me. It's an odd place we find ourselves

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    Comment #46056730

    I started reddit.com/r/androidterminal for discussing this feature

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    Comment #45385192

    Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost comp…

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    Comment #45385169

    And this is where I'm tapping out. Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years unti…

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    Comment #44810439

    Sure, just as a considerable group of alchemists believed the recipe for gold was right around the corner

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    Comment #44796761

    Related discussion of the original Cloudflare post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

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    Comment #44178824

    Of note from the "Acknowledgements" section: > K.C. is a director of TdeltaS Ltd., a company spun out of the University of Oxford to develop products based on the science of ketone…

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    Comment #43995622

    Maybe it's possible anyways? Qualcomm was able to integrate their own hypervisor on top of AVF Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 | Adding Third-Party Hypervisor to Android Virtualizat…

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    Comment #43995473

    Plug for reddit.com/r/androidterminal !

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    Comment #43279475

    Article I. Section 8. of the US Constitution: > The Congress shall have Power To [...] establish Post Offices and post Roads; So any such change to the mail would be legislative

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    Comment #43279386

    You put this really well. It's been incredibly frustrating to try to understand the mentality of these people, but that's just the problem—there is barely any "mentality" at all, i…

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    Comment #43279370

    The arm architecture is also optimized for UI-like tasks, quick to start and stop processes on one of many cores with differing power constraints, whereas x86 is more for workstati…

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    Comment #43279323

    You are right, an object at supersonic speeds will create a sonic boom, but it can be mitigated by structuring the object in such a way that it shapes the sound wave(s) in such a w…

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    Comment #42863876

    I have the Forerunner 945 and it's the only thing that has ever filled the void left by Pebble. Garmin is so good.

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    Comment #41366548

    > They reduced the team sizes in the US but are claiming that global team sizes and roadmap are not changing I have no reason to suspect that the person who tweeted that believes w…

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    Comment #40086032

    There are a handful of exciting movements, imo, but they're few and far between. The Android Virtualization Framework, for one, is something I'm really excited to see in the next f…

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    Comment #40086020

    > Google the company can't be "out of touch" or "self-important". Such descriptions are precisely what is meant by the term "company culture"

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    Comment #40086003

    I attended the Android Dev summit a few years back, shortly after Flutter had made some public noise. During a Q&A, I was literally laughed at when I asked the head of Android whet…

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    Comment #39864056

    I mean, HTML was originally invented as an interchange format so that the client could adapt it back into whatever form was suitable.

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    Comment #39549656

    Pardon my ignorance, but is this something that a language with a GC could potentially use to run in a WebAssembly environment?

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    Comment #39419045

    Unless the attack vector is the "screen mirroring" feature of the Apple Watch? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/watch/apd890848603/wat...

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    Comment #39419012

    Surely this is a vector for attack then?

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    Comment #38925899

    I can't imagine that a traditional furnace and AC could be less efficient than a heat pump, unless you almost never turn your heat on—a heat pump is many times more efficient, in t…

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    Comment #38600363

    Yes, but I'm a programmer.