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pokstad

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About pokstad

https://github.com/pokstad

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-okstad-48144ab/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49058887

    Great name

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    Comment #48822005

    Isn’t the whole point of a brand to be recognizable? If customers couldn’t make this association from the start, what value does this provide?

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    Comment #48800684

    That's assuming that LLMs aren't approaching some asymptote that doesn't cross over to AGI.

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    Comment #48783327

    I kept coming back to his course listing to find some that were on site, but they were all online. I wanted to take my current team to the same onsite experience I had with Dave ov…

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    Comment #48701748

    You’re posting on a website hosted in a data center. Lack of self awareness.

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    Comment #48645489

    Exactly. The same way that selling alcohol doesn’t require a paper trail of every beer I’ve bought.

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    Comment #48562379

    You can use Hide My Email independently from Sign in with Apple.

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    Comment #48562348

    That’s a choice. This isn’t a story about someone poor who needs to work at McDonalds to make ends meet to feed their family. We are talking about the top earners in the world who …

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    Comment #48490673

    ASI = Artificial Super Intelligence? I read Freeze Frame Revolution and drew blank seeing that acronym.

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    Comment #48468091

    It does now but didn’t always: https://austinmacworks.com/updated-passwords-app-adds-histor... I should also add this is only if you have iOS 26 or newer.

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    Comment #48467480

    I’ve had the iOS password app think that it changed my password, when it did not, and then lose my old password.

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    Comment #48462448

    Yes, it doesn’t have enough ROI potential with the given regulation .

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    Comment #48456316

    That’s really neat. I wonder if that model that shipped recently with Chrome is also accessible similarly?

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    Comment #48455570

    Funny, OP wants them to force a feature via regulation, and regulation is the reason they won’t even deliver the feature in question. Death by regulation.

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    Comment #48429490

    Because this group likes to go against the status quo. The status quo currently is to AI-ify everything. Some of us think there is a hype-reality-distortion-field-bubble occurring …

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    Comment #48426150

    I guess it depends on whether you want to write application code with the Temporal SDK or use this new SQL soup. I’d rather stay out of messy SQL land for something like this if I …

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    Comment #48405775

    There’s something lopsided about education for boys. The system appears to favor girls heavily. There’s projections that college student populations will have shrinking male popula…

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    Comment #48389886

    That only is true if you agree with IP laws. China doesn’t, and you won’t be able to take 50% of the Chinese AI companies. American AI companies won’t be able to compete against Ch…

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    Comment #48388129

    If the public wants to own half of the AI company, then they should invest enough to buy half of it. Taking private property away without compensation is stealing. What the governm…

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    Comment #48331566

    You can keep plugging holes, but each time you plug you are using a narrower specification of who is at fault or who is exempt. That creates loopholes. This is known as “Whack-a-mo…

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    Comment #48330345

    SQLite is more efficient for large data sets. A single markdown or JSON file needs to be streamed to locate a piece of data O(n). Updating an existing entry in a sequential file is…

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    Comment #48330175

    Loopholes are possible from excessive regulations. Regulating everything will never stop. Vote with your money and support game studios that provide the best online support. Or buy…

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    Comment #48323117

    I use this to push changes to a local encrypted sparse bundle image, and then I periodically rsync that image to a remote disk. Git has no built in encrypted storage, so pushing di…

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    Comment #48228546

    Windows sells more copies of its software the OEM route. Also, they sell specific versions that eventually end support. Today you might consider Windows almost a loss leader since …