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Lmao this is what I get for not including the “/s”

When we were transitioning away from card catalogs I heard similar complaints from my teachers. We all adapted.

Google killed curiosity. At least libraries made you search and read alternatives. Google just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.

If your friend keeps taking you out to lunch and you never return the favor, he’s probably going to stop.

It’s rather saddening to watch the death of the global internet. China was really ahead of the game I suppose.

I love the concept (and was going to hack something for myself).

I can’t get through onboarding. The main omnara command just exits complaining of a missing session id and doing “serve” asks you to set up sessions on a page that doesn’t exist?

Nit: why is pipx required if you’re using uv?

This is nice but I really wish they’d just let me fork the damn thing already.

It was hurtful to hear Google thought our site was of “little value” to the web.

I read some of the guides. Google is right that there’s little unique content here.

Perhaps this is the right tone for a letter to the FTC. I find it hard to sympathize with the author with this style (even though they are likely right that Google is killing the web)

“We advise on technology”

proceeds to overengineer a hello world example while providing no demonstration of advantage over curl

The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter.

To steelman this a bit, early versions of Birdwatch had problems with unsourced notes and speed of note display. There’s a bunch of research that shows that 1st impressions of info tend to dominate, so speed matters a lot.

In practice FB’s program was poorly resourced and overly complex so I’m not sure it ever achieved its theoretically lower latency.

I’m very sad that this service is basically on life support and got moved into PHP with everything else.

Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”.

I disagree. Fuck subscriptions, they’re predatory.

TBF it looks like it’s intended as a “before” image but yes suspect the “after” isn’t much better

From the full screen cookie dialog preventing me from reading this article:

We and our 71 vendors process data for the following purposes:

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development.

Ehhh at this point Apple’s privacy strategy is little more than marketing. Sure they’ll push stuff to the edge to save themselves money and book the win, but they also are addicted to the billions they make selling your searches to Google.

Agreed on the UX improvements though.

Ugh, CarPlay 1 is exactly the division of responsibilities I want. I don’t want Apple anywhere near the actual driving functions and instruments. It takes a long time for my car to connect to CarPlay and it’d be super distracting to have the instruments suddenly change to Apple’s as I’m driving.

Same engagement baiter who said product reviewers should all be shills. Nothing of value here.

Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.

Apple has always been litigious and petty. We just looked the other way when they were innovating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....

Ah yes. Why do I need government help managing my subscriptions when I can checks notes literally get the content from the government?

Right before this they chose to exit Korea. https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-...

Slow and steady won this race.

You're about to have a lot more of them, since GM is ditching both. https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...

Not if they automate it like in the OP?

Do we know how GPT4V tokenizes? You’d probably need the blocks to match the token size?

Nope. Those are permanently part of the internet now, even if the reason for their existence goes away.

But “Sam Altman, Microsoft PM” would have been a much funnier outcome

To minimize legal risk to their client, which is not always the most responsible thing to do.

The irresponsible thing is to not explain yourself and assume everyone around you has no agency.

If this is true why not say it though? They didn’t even have lawyers telling them to be quiet until Monday.

It is very possible to make a game that runs like shit in Unreal. Immortals of Aveum comes to mind.