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thund
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Comment #47897690
wow, how to romanticize X.400 ... - poor Internet fit, assuming managed, trusted networks - some promises depended on all participating systems behaving honestly - once a message r…
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Comment #47099024
If anyone wonders how AI might end up undermining humanity, this is a small preview. We're gradually handing over more processes to automation (YOLO, right?) while the systems them…
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Comment #45661655
openai, anthropic, gemini &co should pay wikipedia the rent.
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Comment #45658941
major possible risk, for tech savvy people: another walled garden, unless: - openai will open the memory interface (why would they?) - openai will allow other models (why would the…
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Comment #45658843
Looking forward for the 1Password extension to work properly. Installation works, but the integration doesn't yet. Nice lean UI though, thanks to Chromium oc
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Comment #45529138
4 of them please, going to spend every night playing poker on a real green!
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Comment #45522320
Seems overkill when you can simply tell agents to do that automatically
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Comment #45310970
Plus vscode is maintained by a company with thousands of devs. Obsidian is less than 10 people, which is amazing. About plugins why blame the product, pls check what you install on…
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Comment #45228202
totally agree, chasing ultrathin designs has diminishing returns. There's so many practical ways to extend battery life such as letting users selectively dial down performance, add…
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Comment #45228186
Based on what evidence that adding more battery necessarily makes it a pound? Based on what precedent of mainstream phones ever approaching that weight?
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Comment #45228182
Based on what teardown are you concluding the logic boards take up that much? Based on what phone design history where removing cameras failed to free up meaningful space?
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Comment #45194484
Agree, but by how much on the Pro models? Shouldn’t we expect twice the battery duration every 24 months at least?
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Comment #45194464
It wouldn’t weigh 4lbs if Apple invested on that research. Who really cares about this much thin phones really, Apple is out of ideas, far from revolutionary anymore. They have the…
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Comment #45194418
The one I have more vivid memories of is Nokia 8210, pretty small https://www.businessinsider.com/drug-dealers-are-buying-noki... https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/gadgets/phones…
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Comment #45192670
Around 2000-2005 there was a race for the smallest phone with ludicrously small displays. I believe Nokia was kind of leading and “winning” the race. Then blackberry and iPhone rev…
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Comment #45023830
This is a result of the current tech being filled with dark design patterns. Tech is designed to be addictive, indispensable, indisputable, mandatory. And at the same time complex,…
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Comment #44705823
Or US?
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Comment #44467714
fake news, thank you for your attention to this matter! /s
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Comment #43974137
Hate seeing how repos are so polluted by dot-files and dot-folders. I wish tools and SDKs converged into a single dot-folder, so that we could look at repos without seeing everythi…
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Comment #43922644
Unlikely but I’d like for this to be true, specially if under the water. Leaving out politics and paranoia for a sec, engineering wise it would be quite an achievement.
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