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wilsonnb3

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    Comment #49198297

    What does it feel like to type on?

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    Comment #49157817

    Even pre-LLM this is how suckless tools work, I actually don’t much mind having to edit a variable in a header and recompile when you make a config change. https://dwm.suckless.org…

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    Comment #48970136

    I suspected as much after their first use case for cloud services was cricket results. Perhaps the limitation to whatever express chat is isn’t a dealbreaker in India.

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    Comment #48865987

    > How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are? The openAI employee in question is also a former Apple employee.

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    Comment #48865954

    What user privacy? There would be no chat logs to subpoena if users had privacy.

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    Comment #48723636

    Companies are already shipping everything to Microsoft or Google and 17 other companies, just the cost of doing business.

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    Comment #48430706

    Article is from February so that tracks

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    Comment #48257685

    You can do that, in the US at least.

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    Comment #48043306

    Dealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people. Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thi…

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    Comment #48043281

    > I can easily anticipate how an inexperienced engineer is going to mess up their first pull request for my project. Isn’t this just because you have seen a lot of PRs from inexper…

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    Comment #47981334

    That is definitely the case, they cover this and many other interesting things about Spotify in the book Mood Machine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151728-mood-machine

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    Comment #47941959

    You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.

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    Comment #47795682

    Massive job loss from AI requires one of two things: actual human-equivalent AGI or no increase in demand. Focusing on option 2 and software development, teams and companies will o…

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    Comment #47589653

    Just curious, how was SQL Server perceived at the time compared to Sybase and Oracle? I know it originated as a port of Sybase.

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    Comment #47298143

    I highly recommend the book “How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)” if you are interested in this subject.

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    Comment #47249502

    My understanding is that students are very hard on school provided laptops, I don’t think many of them that have been in use for a year will be in good resale condition.

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    Comment #47249394

    The surface laptop is a competitor to the MacBook Air, the cheaper Surface Laptop Go was the low cost attempt from MS. Also, there are plenty of good laptops from HP, Asus, Lenovo,…

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    Comment #47145768

    How are you going to reach out to someone first if all communication is blocked because they don't already know you?

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    Comment #46877833

    You can upload custom emoji to teams, most businesses just turn it off

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    Comment #46770277

    I don’t think it is that widely available due to Snapdragon chips not supporting some feature it requires. Good option for Pixel owners or phones with MediaTek chips though.

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    Comment #46768439

    I never really understood that angle - do you think the Germans would have thrown their hands up and not killed anyone because they lacked accurate data on who was Jewish?

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    Comment #46699061

    Programs can’t want things, it’s no different than running any other program as your user

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    Comment #46674963

    They already have a modern copy on write file system (ReFS), you just can’t use it on desktop Windows for some reason

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    Comment #46674187

    They already do that for Azure

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    Comment #46673519

    I know language evolves over time, but I can’t help but be irritated when people refer to anything non-computerized as analog. If it isn’t representing something with a continuousl…