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The word "most" is doing a lot here. Europe guarantees consumer rights by law, while the US relies on companies adopting the practices voluntarily. Most do, but larger companies mo…

It may be only a matter of time before all devs remember to append ", and make no mistakes" to the end of their LLM prompts, but I don't think we as an industry will ever reach a p…

Sorry for the late response; it's been a busy week. As a user , I don't care how complicated is the means of displaying images in a terminal session. I would only want to do so whe…

This will alarm you, then. I set Siri to a masculine voice, because I disliked the gendered assumptions I felt with the default. I gave my Claw Discord bot a feminine identity (Ada…

Sure, of course sometimes an image conveys things better than a thousand words. But a very large percentage of what most people do with computers is primarily text, with more image…

I use actualbudget.org to track all spending, but only update investment accounts ("off-budget" in Actual Budget terms) once a month. Completely deterministic, as all things relate…

I kept asking this question last year, especially after that initial METR report showing people believed themselves to be faster when they were slower. Then I decided to dive in fe…

You could double or quadruple the number of pixels, and it wouldn't make any difference in how much information humans comprehend easily. You would be using more computing power an…

Every year or so, I look into alternative to my Paperwhite, which has been in "airplane mode" since I bought it. So far, nothing else seems to be quite up to the level of my existi…

Something seems wrong. A half-million tokens is almost five times larger than I allow even long-running conversations to get too. I've manually disabled the 1M context, so my limit…

I appreciate these kinds of posts, and I've been semi-Degoogled for years now. What hasn't been easy for me to move away from so far is Docs/Sheets. Apple's Numbers and Pages seem …

It's easy on the creators primarily, they get to skip a lot of steps and don't have to explain away things like cell phones. For consumers, they get quantity. Although it shouldn't…

Of course! I don't disagree. And yet here we are at 69.43% desktop market share[0] for Windows for March 2023, decades after I started hearing about how this year, for sure, was go…

Most people will sign up for a Microsoft account, or already have, and so won't even see these ads. But let's say you use Microsoft Windows, but don't want a Microsoft account. You…

And yet Duke Nukem Forever has shipped, and Cybertruck has not. So right now, today, at this moment, DNF is not vaporware, and Cybertruck is. This is true regardless of how one fee…

> Regulating data privacy isn't Apple's job, if you want that fixed then you should take it up with the government or someone who can actually hold them accountable. I live in the …

Because Facebook announced publicly that Apple's privacy policy changes would cost them $10 billion[0], putting them on the record as having strong motive to avoid the App Store. 0…

Think about it this way: any app that refuses to go through Apple's store is telling you that you're not a customer they want. If Facebook makes that choice, it's a great time to g…

Yes, nobody is saying that Apple Card is the only card for everyone, just that it's a great card for tap-to-pay.

4.15% is lower than 4.81%, but how did you decided that UFB defines "current market rates?" UFB, I note, does not offer a debit card. 4.15% is not the highest yield currently avail…

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That they're blocking tracking is still privacy-focused. There are unsubstantiated claims that they exempt themselves from the same tracking, but reports of their advertising reven…

I'm not sure the initial comment lends itself to that reading, but it isn't clear it lends itself to my initial response either, so I'll switch over to your more charitable reading…

Your contention is that any and all poor performance is due to the pandemic, not in any way related to Brexit? I'm not sure 2022 looks quite as good as you're suggesting, but it's …

Not only Tesla, though. My 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV is 1670 kg.