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Comment · 1 month ago
How about removing the Siri button from the menu bar? This doesn’t seem possible anymore (it reappears some time after dragging it out)
Comment · 2 months ago
New OEIS entry: numbers used in names of startups followed by “labs”
Comment · 2 months ago
> when a carrier does an ENUM lookup for one of these numbers, they're essentially asking "where do I route this call?", and I could answer with whatever I wanted. I could point it at my own SIP server, accept the incoming call, and then place an outgoing call to the real destination with a spoofed number

How would the “outgoing call to the real destination” avoid this same lookup? Directives to route around the ENUM system?

Comment · 2 months ago
At some point (soon), the massive inefficiency of this system will stop being subsidized. Also, it’s nondeterministic and unreliable.
Comment · 2 months ago
> The “Follow” button is visible when I take the screenshot mid-switch.

Does this indicate that the privacy feature has a gap, where you could reveal the length of your password if you take a screenshot mid app switch?

Comment · 3 months ago
I would love an agentic tool that simply finds code locations and opens them in my editor, so that I can write the implementation. I find this to be the most tedious and disorienting part, especially in languages without strong typing, that de-emphasize navigable references between classes. For example, wouldn’t necessarily need this tool for Java. Would like it for Ruby.
Comment · 3 months ago
Is it like self driving cars, where 100% non-human code would be arguably safer?

But then it always comes down to having some human who is accountable for verifying the behavior. I think ultimately we just need a better set of languages and frameworks to minimally encode the types of applications we want to build today, so that human comprehension and verification of the source code becomes easier.

Comment · 3 months ago
It’s probably not too important to choose a service that you think you can trust fully, because that trust might be broken at some point. But having an identifier that can be swapped to different backends, so people can find you again when the host inevitability changes, is a stronger strategy. I think the importance of owning domain names will increase, and using those as the canonical identifier of a project will give it more permanence. The procedures for seizure and censorship with domain names are better established and understood.
Comment · 3 months ago
But consider how, in just a short few years, tools will have changed so much that even achieving this specific look will not even be possible (everything is in the cloud and normal users can’t even run them locally)

We’ll inevitably end up feeling nostalgic for these mid-2020s AI slop menus, much like how graphic design of the 90s and 2000s is revered (see other comments on this post) even while during its making was regarded as garish

Comment · 3 months ago
Ah yes you are right. The policy I am referencing is for the Free or Pro tiers, Business is different
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Comment · 4 months ago
Going to "modernized" restaurants is just a drag. I don't want to touch your tablet or scan your code. I much prefer the restaurants which only accept cash
Comment · 4 months ago
There's also the global gitignore configuration (core.excludesfile=~/.gitignore_global), which for me contains things like: *.swp, .DS_Store, scratch, etc.
Comment · 4 months ago
This seems very low. I have not worked in professional screenprinting environments, but all resources I have seen indicate potential for hundreds or thousands of high quality prints from a well prepared screen.

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