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They also announced new APIs for native Linux containerization on MacOS with a specific focus on security and performance. This seems like it may be in support of that as well. Anything they can do to improve the performance of containers is a huge win. https://youtu.be/JvQtvbhtXmo?si=3OphClGvylHggmSW

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l’année dernièrediscuss

Lest we forget, Jobs LOVED the original iMac Hockey Puck Mouse and wanted the iPhone to only run a handful of Apple-designed apps.

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I do, I use Fastmail and create aliases for every service. It's interesting to see how fast companies will "lose" or sell your email address.

I've seen it as fast as 24 hours my unique email address is being used by others even though their privacy policy says that they will never share your info.

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I did a few tests and asked it some legal questions. 4o gave me the correct answer immediately.

o1 preview gave a much more in depth but completely wrong answer. It took 5 follow ups to get it to recognize that it hallucinated a non-existent law

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But the AI generated article from the front page yesterday said I shouldn’t use Screens anymore… /s

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They first introduced a product called Snowball which is a big briefcase of hard drives that would ship you, you transfer up to a petabyte of data and send back. This was the extension of that so they went with another snow related name. Also their data archival service called Glacier which all imply "cold storage."

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I do this all the time. Change a character so I can quickly see that I’m running the build that I thought when iterating internally.

This theory makes the most sense to me.

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You still have to go through security with PreCheck. It's usually faster and requires fewer steps that non-PreCheck passengers have to go through.

I used to fly up the East Coast and back every other week and I couldn't imagine doing it without it. Seeing the 1-hour standard line and instead making it through PreCheck in less than 5 minutes. I would totally use a self-service system.

When people get PreCheck the normal reaction is "That was easy, why doesn't everyone do that?" I joke that the real "test" when you sign up for PreCheck is can you successfully book the appointment and show up?

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No you’re NOT a moron, just a minor mistake. Have a wonderfully Wednesday.

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I switched to Kagi and really like it. It really shows you what's possible when you're not optimizing for ads.

Lots of cool functionality like:

Lenses: Allows you to run a search to prioritize certain domains to give you a particular "lens" to view it through.

Personalized results: Allows you to give additional weight or decrease the weight of certain domains.

Search Bangs: Shortcuts for executing the search somewhere else like Reddit, Wikipédia, Google, etc.

I decided to pay for it not because of the ads or privacy or anything else but because it allows me to make "search" work better for my needs.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

I miss when Twitter was 140 characters. This tweet could have benefited from the enforced brevity.

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The author has a “lab” Patreon where he works out more of the specifics and also builds proofs of concept for the different functions he describes.

The prototypes he built so far are very impressive and he’s been using them as part of his workflow.

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Seems like the only people making money in this whole thing is the company hired to change the sign every other week when Musk decides to make a joke or do a sudden rebrand.

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Fun fact: According to famed programmer Brian Kernigan: one day a colleague at Bell Labs was doing textual analysis on *The Federalist Papers* but it was proving challenging due to the full-text of the document being around 1mb—far more memory than most machines at the time.

Kernigan mentioned the dilemma To Ken Thompson—of Unix fame. The next day he came to work with a new program that could quickly find strings in a text document without having to load the entire document into memory. It became known as grep.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Correlation ≠ Causation

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Can we just stop with the types of articles and agree that everyone is different and that the best strategy is to provide flexibility for employees?

Where I work, employees can work from home or in the office, THEIR choice. There are no mandates. As long as you’re getting done what you need to get done, no one really cares where you do it.

I know several who thrive in an office environment and that is where they are most productive. I’m a Director and for me, I am far more productive at home because I have fewer distractions and without the commute I can start work earlier and get a lot done while I’m my most productive then end my day earlier. and enjoy my afternoon. I still do 1 on 1’s and various team activities but a big part of my job requires focus which was nigh impossible in the office.

I also have been in far better shape mentally and physically. I no longer have the stress of a 1 hour commute (each way), sometimes 2 hours coming home due to traffic. And I am in better physical health than I’ve been in a decade because I can cook a healthy lunch and not rushing for dinner whereas in the office we ended up eating at restaurants or fast food. I can make better healthy choices. The extra time I have because of no commutes has allowed me to take up cycling which has done wonders for my physical and mental wellbeing.

Now, I know everyone isn’t like me and different people have different challenges but it’s the CHOICE for employees that is so powerful.

Lastly, from a company standpoint, I love my job and I love where I work, the extra flexibility just makes me want to stay that much more.

To quote Michael Gary Scott: “It’s a win-win-win!”

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Such a bizarre take. It would be much easier to state something like:

If you’re printing code for others to read, stick to standard characters. If you’re choosing a font for your editor, do what you want.

I really like ligature fonts. I was an early adopter of Fira Code and later moved to JetBrains Mono. I like it because I find it’s much easier to skim and understand the intent vs a standard character representation.

At the end of the day, it’s your editor, do what you want.

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I’ve always been fascinated by alternative calendars (also alternative timekeeping). However, barring an apocalyptic event, I don’t for see any alternative calendars taking off.

For most of human history, we didn’t need a standardized calendar, you just needed to agree with people that you interacted with. Religion pushed most of the standardization and later reinforced during the Industrial Revolution—helped along by colonialism.

Now that we are a globalized society, it would require parties from every nation and every industry to agree to the change and coordinate a simultaneous migration. Given we can’t get close to that level of cooperation when faced with potentially existential crises, it’s doubtful we could do it because it’s a “better” system than the current one.

I’d love to be proven wrong though!

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I think the issue is the incentives have shifted over the years.

A lot of software today is built to drive a specific user behavior to generate revenue instead of being designed from the start to provide customer value.

User-hostile behavior, dark patterns, etc. are all a symptom of this. Additionally time-to-market and marketing bullet points are often more important than user experience of bug-free software because many companies have found they can make the same revenue without having to focus on the customer experience.

Classic software was not as big-free as people like to think. There was lots of BAD software. The difference was that with higher prices and the inability to push updates (aside from mailing floppies) meant that the incentive was to produce software that had fewer bugs.

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My 2018 F-150 does something similar and it’s very annoying. I’ve figured out a workaround to mostly prevent it though. There are 3 “groups” of presets for SiriusXM (not a subscriber) and I just set them all to the ID station where there is no sound. It will randomly change to the next group inexplicably but 99% of the time it keeps it from switching to the radio—which I never want.

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