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Comment · 4 months ago
> It also does not have access to your personal information in Safari (e.g. AutoFill or other browser activity).

I read this as meaning you won't be logged into the instance the agent interacts with

Comment · 6 months ago
It would be good if Samsung browser were listed. It has about 10% market share of chromium browsers and is on version 136. It sticks to one version for months at a time and then jumps several versions. Going by historical data it's due for another jump soon.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wikipedia - I remember when Encarta was how you used an encyclopaedia on your computer.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I've never bought an app

Without being signed into an AppleID you cannot install free apps either. And if you install then sign out, you're also blocked from updating the free apps.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Is it a marketing trick to make people think they're that much faster than current Intel computers?
Comment · 3 years ago
I prefer Linux (fedora with gnome) because it needs less tinkering out the box.

It's the basic things like not having to install third party utilities to have window centric window management (as opposed to app centric window management). Or being able to plug my Android phone in and be able to browse the files without additional utilities.

Comment · 3 years ago
I still have Windows for multiplayer games (everything else is done on Linux). When I built this desktop, I had to buy a Windows 11 license. It wasn't free. My laptop's old license did not transfer.

OEMs have to pay Microsoft for Windows licenses on prebuilt Windows computers.

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>>Why do they allow the Crap And Turds department to piss all over their work?

>Because Windows is a free-in-practice product and it needs/wants a revenue stream.

Windows is not free. It's because 2 revenue streams are better than one revenue stream. If your goal is to make money, why wouldn't you? (To answer my own question, it's short term thinking that will eventually drive people away from your product).

Comment · 3 years ago
I got my current job through GitHub.

At least that's how the 3rd party recruiter told me he found me. It's possible he was lying and thought it would impress me (it did).

My profile is more active than most, but very far from rockstar.

Comment · 3 years ago
The normal forms are about how data is stored, rather than how it looks after a query. After all, most joins will violate second normal form.

But yes, SQL doesn't work well with this solution.

Comment · 3 years ago
There are other ways, like having a null with more regular semantics and better composeability (like Rust's option type).

Or imagine this data:

Students:

Name: Bob

Name: Alice

StudentsClasses

Student: Bob, class: cryptography.

Student: Bob, class: databases

If you can have arrays (or relations) as a field in your result set, then

Students left outer join StudentsClasses

Could return

Student: Bob, classes: [ cryptography, databases]

Student: Alice, classes: []

Comment · 3 years ago
> how can a user (without deep technical knowledge and skills) prove the claim of end to end encryption?

Checking to see if investigations include evidence from messages on these platforms excepting:

Messages sent by the user to someone who distributes them further

Or investigators getting control of the phone.

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WhatsApp stands up to that test.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think it depends on if you define a functional language as one that functional programs can be written in, or a language that can only write functional programs.

I often see JavaScript described as a functional language, so I think modern parlance leans towards the former.

Comment · 3 years ago
Which operating system(s) or window managers are you thinking of?

I don't believe Gnome provides this option.

Comment · 3 years ago
Different people must prefer different flows.

I usually follow people based on them mentioning their handle on podcasts, or linking to their feed from their profile on another website.

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