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Somewhat unrelated but as a Pixel Watch user (since I'm in that ecosystem), I envy the Apple Watch just for the square display. It is just the fundamentally correct design for text…

Given the analogy, I assume the provider can refuse to disclose information except under a warrant. And that the client and provider can sign a contract forbidding the provider to …

ChatGPT gets about 2-3x as smart the second you turn off memories.

I have never bought an Arduino. I have bought a few Picos, a few ESP32s, and a couple Picos. And a clone of an Arduino Nano integrated in a system with a Pico for 5V logic, specifi…

While that is true, if Espressif and the Raspberry Pi Foundation can build their SDKs and still offer cheap chips/boards, so could Arduino. I'm not expecting a $0 markup, but Ardui…

While that is true, both Espressif and the Pico have their own SDKs, and they're really well written too. The Arduino SDK is the simplest to use, sure, but the Pico framework (I do…

Yep. And that's exactly why the EU has the structure it does. Unfortunately the only country that ever left proceeded to shoot itself in both knees, light itself on fire and jump i…

Because if function foo's third flag parameter supports FOO_ENABLE_FEATURE_X starting from 2.31, and a program only occasionally calls foo with this flag, there is no good way to d…

> you just extract an old Linux distribution into a folder and tell your current/modern compiler to target it That sounds like more work than spinning up a Docker container though.…

This is not an ABI stability problem, this is a UX problem. iOS and Android do backwards incompatibility all the time. If you find a mobile app that hasn't been updated in 10 or 15…

Yes but there is simply no reason to have two devices. There are a large number of Windows tablet-laptop combo machines that work perfectly well and prove touch apps work perfectly…

I simply do not think that the popularity of US tech is due to anything other than the quality of US tech. I live in Romania, and the people that were rushing to pirate Windows in …

That was not done by the European Commission. It was a document with no legal power. And it was an acknowledgment of an existing market trend. non-iPhones had already began converg…

Once again, the EU coming 30 years later to do something everyone else is doing, and everyone will credit them for some odd reason. In the 90s, there were dozens (hundreds?) of pho…

Exactly. AI is your intern, not your contractor.

Can anyone using GrapheneOS report if Firebase notifications come in consistently and reliably via sandboxed Play Services? I'm in the market for a new phone, and I'm going to buy …

Ok, but there's nothing stopping from writing a "discoverable" GUI or TUI or CLI for this interaction. To the user it doesn't matter. To the developer, it makes a difference. /proc…

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Unfortunately, my comment was simply not a defense of the company, since I know little about the situation, nor was it an attack on the city's …

Me: "I do not think the population should live under fear of excessive, arbitrary and unaccountable law enforcement. The company may be entirely in the wrong in which case they sho…

What that may all be very true, would it not be better if law enforcement was predictable and in accord with the written law passed by the legislature and settled, in cases of disp…

While all that may be very true, and you may be right, that is all for the judge to decide, is it not? I am not taking the side of the company, I am taking the side of rule of law …

First of all, I think that this instinct to fine-'em, screw-'em, etc. is profoundly authoritarian. It is extremely important for a civil society not only that predictable laws are …

I recently started using Codex (OpenAI's Claude Code) and it has a VSCode extension that works like a charm. I tried out Windsurf a while ago. And the Codex extension simply does e…

I HATE this. I regularly look at really high end products I'll never buy for the fun of it in a "What's the best X that money can buy?" sort of way. And it took me half an hour to …