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Comment · 10 months ago
you are right, but you are misplacing the blame. it's not that you dont own your phone, it's that you dont own your bank account and the bank can dictate how you access it
Comment · 10 months ago
the banks would care. less money spent on security or dealing with clients who had their money stolen
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
we can use AI to rewrite everything in Rust

this way all the RAM that AI data centers scoop up will be used to lessen demand for RAM that those same datacenters created

net-zero RAM!

Comment · 10 months ago
that's not enough, the tool definitions change, the agent harness changes, you need to pin a lot of stuff
Comment · 10 months ago
sure, but you can have more memory controllers (I/O dies), like threadripper
Comment · 10 months ago
bus wires. you can route only so many of them on a motherboard.

it's why GPUs have their memory chips in a circle around the GPU chip.

Comment · 10 months ago
oracle free tier seems to be 1GB RAM.

why dont you run the VM on your machine?

Comment · 10 months ago
when the agent pushes the PR, in a branch, you can switch to that branch locally on your machine and do whatever, review it, change it, and ask for extra modifications on top, squash it, rebase it
Comment · 10 months ago
OK, i didn't know switching to Clicks requires so much time, I assumed using it is natural, I imagined is just a "raised 3D" touch keyboard.

but if it's like using a Dvorak and a Qwerty at the same time, it makes sense it should be the only device

Comment · 10 months ago
the thing you need to trust is that pressing that combination shows the legit OS stuff, that it can't be intercepted (Secure Attention Key).

how the OS implements what is displayed is irrelevant

windows has all kinds of virtualizations today, it can literally run web views in separate (invisible) VMs for security purposes

Comment · 10 months ago
what has gone horribly wrong is the native UIs. they are completely worthless, across all OSes - difficult to use, limited, and in general suck compared to HTML/CSS.

I've worked with all major GUI frameworks, from MFC to Qt, they all suck compared with React/Vue

Comment · 10 months ago
you are arguing with math proofs here, the information is not gone, if it was a real video (as opposed to adversarily generated video)
Comment · 10 months ago
some people type a lot, chatting, writing emails

not sure if that makes them a power user

why do you equate second device with digital detox?

what happened to use the best tool for the job? use a phone with a physical keyboard when chatting on WhatsApp and then switch to a regular phone for Instagram and browsing web. not saying everybody should do this but if chatting is your life...

some people even use a phone and a laptop at the same time, they are already a second device person, so they could be a three device person

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