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datatracker.ietf.org 6mo ago

Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols (2012)

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www.bicycling.com 2y ago

Paris Closed 100 Streets to Cars for Good. Now, the City Is a Cyclists' Paradise

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www.theverge.com 2y ago

Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, print

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www.reuters.com 2y ago

EU's Vestager warns about Apple, Meta fees, disparaging rival products

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

UTC+08:45

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techcrunch.com 3y ago

VanMoof, the e-bike darling, skids off track: Sales paused, execs depart

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www.techdirt.com 3y ago

Twitter Launches Not-Actually-Encrypted Encrypted DMs

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maxread.substack.com 3y ago

A man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Let's put e-voting where it belongs: on the trash-heap of bad ideas (2016)

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www.progression.fyi 8y ago

Progression.fyi: Public frameworks for designers and engineer progression

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medium.com 8y ago

A Year of Monument Valley 2

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theoutline.com 8y ago

Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Zuckerberg shoots down conspiracy theory that Facebook taps your microphone

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kottke.org 8y ago

That time I was on Halt and Catch Fire

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www.atlassian.com 8y ago

Our bold new brand

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meta.discourse.org 10y ago

The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is… poor

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Vox Media Valued at $380m After $46m Investment

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www.news.com.au 11y ago

Australian startup offers 'world’s best internship' with $100k, laptop and car

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www.destroyallsoftware.com 12y ago

Gary Bernhardt: Useing You're Type's Good

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stackoverflow.com 12y ago

How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

Comcast confirms $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable

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www.mydoge.co 12y ago

Apple approves Dogecoin iOS app

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store.hermanmiller.com 12y ago

Herman Miller 2 now available

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binchewer.org 12y ago

Resolving power button issues in Mac OS X Mavericks

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adobe.breach.il.ly 12y ago

Adobe Hack Credentials Search - Find out if your details were leaked

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I mean they said pretty clearly that they should respect the wishes of sovereignty for Gibraltar, so presumably they would also extend the same to Ceuta and Melilla.

I think in a very abstract sense I agree that exclaves like this are weird and it would be cleaner if they didn't happen (Gibraltar returned to Spain, Ceuta and Melilla returned to Morocco), but that's thinking of this as a systems design problem rather than one that cares about people. I recognise that this is not an empathetic view, and my own opinion is worthless and I hold onto it very weakly.

What would a solution to this look like?

What would it take to not fear installing software? This isn't a npm problem, its a computing problem in general. Spaces like this are generally pretty against any sort of restrictions or limitations being put on computers under the name of safety (see Manifest v3)

After his own departure, Mr. Tan improperly retained or obtained an internal Apple managers’ document marked “Need to Know” that describes security procedures for employee departures. Messages left on Apple-issued work devices show that Mr. Tan and his OpenAI colleagues have been sharing this document with new hires before they give notice to Apple of their departures, previewing Apple’s security protocols.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28453229-apple-v-ope...

Lawsuits like this tend to be surprisingly easy to read, partly because they intend for the public/journalists to read them.

What makes up the ATProto is more than one type of server. Compared to ActivityPub where you just run a single Mastodon instance and you're set.

If the thing you want to own is your identity and data, you can fairly easy run a PDS yourself. If the thing you care about is different moderation decisions, you can run your own labeller (moderation system) or subscribe to another someone else has made.

I can easily install an ActivityPub server, with Glitch.

Can you? The same Glitch that shut down last year? https://blog.glitch.com/post/goodbye-glitch

Regardless, ActivityPub and ATProto have different designs and goals. Your question is akin to comparing a helicopter and an airplane.

There's no such thing as a "ATProto server". How complicated it is, and the trade-offs it made are valid criticisms of it. It all depends on what exactly your goal is as a participant of a distributed social network.

TypeScript 7 13 days ago

For various definitions of "strong". People (ab)use pointers to hack in nil support, and the type system can't perform nil checks for you, so you still end up with runtime errors if you're not careful enough.

In fact, I would say it's probably too low! Like, how is prescription glasses to correct vision not an assistive device for a disability, like poor eyesight?

Honestly, what's the difference between a wheelchair and prescription glasses? Both are medical devices prescribed be a healthcare professional to assist with a physical impairment.

Resetting Xbox 16 days ago

I'm sceptical of Hacker New's fascination with all managers being worthless, but I don't follow your logic here.

Why is "lets have more people who do things" a move away from multidisplinary teams? Unless you count being a middle manager a valuable discipline in game making?

Resetting Xbox 16 days ago

It seems like you're agreeing with the article then? Seems new Xbox boss is cutting a lot of this fat and trying to undo these strategic missteps.

Ignoring the sitting in front of the TV thing, I think if you sampled 2 steam players at random, they would look nothing like any other 100 random steam players.

Except, where every different model and version is like a different person where you need to learn their idiosyncrasies of how they work every other month.

It's a very very bizarre way to use a computer.

Personally, I just don't. I'll use and prompt the LLMs the way that feels natural to me and move on with my life. Maybe I don't always get completely optimal results from them, but im also not spending half my day pleading with the computer to do a task.

Yeah, that's usually how contracts work.

You decide whether you have followed it or not. The other party will decide if they agree. If in dispute, you go to a judge and they decide also.

No, this isn't the claim.

EU wants Apple to open 'Siri AI', with access to a personal context, open to other model/AI providers.

Apple says "We can't do this in a privacy preserving way".

You can definitely question what their true motivations are, but it seems pretty plausible that there is a moral case for this system to not be opened up to other providers who may do a worse job at privacy than Apple (especially when you are Apple and you trust yourself).

I think there is a place in these sorts of ecosystems for privileged players. If you buy an iPhone you implicitly must trust Apple to some degree.

In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types

You must be the world's greatest programmer with perfect memory. Every nil pointer exception is a bug a (good) type checker could have caught. You've never had a NameError or NoMethodError in Ruby?

Siri AI 1 month ago

Is Siri any more or less than “just” an agentic harness such as OpenClaw? How much of what that harness does is up to the LLM or the harness itself?

In my mind the Gemini LLM defines the bounds of capability and capacity, but any actual functionality or usefulness (or lack of) comes from Apple’s Siri harness.