zimmund

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Comment · 15 days ago
The politicians driving the world to the ground are 99% men. Are you really trying to pin global climate on women?

Besides, the survey you mention used just 1000 phone calls in the US and doesn't disclose education level, it doesn't depict global population properly.

Comment · 1 month ago
The purpose of the og razr clamshell was to extend the small device into something that reached both your ear and your mouth; not so much to have an increased screen surface/working space. Now we're trying to fold the phablets into something that still fits in our pockets.
Comment · 3 months ago
Not sure if the mechanical keyboards community would agree...
Comment · 4 months ago
Why is this relevant to HN? (especially since it's nothing new?)
Comment · 4 months ago
I can't stop thinking about all the unoptimized code we have around. As processors (and memory) over the last 2-3 decades improved faster than we needed to fix the inefficiencies we created, we silently accepted that we don't need efficiency everywhere. So maybe a compiler, an emulator or some critical piece of code were created with this in mind, but the average app or website just waste resources left and right and pray for the best.

With more and more code being written with AI (which has notoriously inefficient solutions to simple problems), I expect this issue to become more prevalent. I just hope we optimize at the source of the problem (AI and humans using it) and not on platforms (compiler and engine/kernel heuristics)

Comment · 4 months ago
they'll run out of countries to invade (or to sell oil to) at some point, so green alternatives will -eventually- prevail...
Comment · 5 months ago
The window (miss)management of MacOS is what's holding me from switching to Mac. I've already tried Aerospace and similar solutions, but I can't replicate the fast and unobstructed experience I have with i3wm.

Sadly wm in MacOS is like notifications on iOS: with enough time you get used to the unproductive mess they are, but you'll be missing out on better solutions. And since probably all MacOS devs are using Mac, they won't see/understand other (better) approaches.

Comment · 5 months ago
> I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all

What kind of sites do you visit frequently? Because as a Firefox user, I rarely see issues like this and it's usually related to either chrome-specific things they didn't bother to implement in a compatible way or very cutting-edge features that are not fully available in browsers yet.

I know Firefox had issues in the past (I suffered them myself) but I don't remember having issues with it over the last bunch of years, and it's my main (only) browser.

Comment · 5 months ago
Came here to comment this. I've already saw another article by this author and it all leads towards the course. Not cool :/
Comment · 6 months ago
That's because of tokens (and temperature). You could piece back the tokens to parts of existing tokens in public data. And given enough iterations, GPT will probably start showing noticeable patterns (since it's not actually random).
Comment · 6 months ago
Considering I have most of my friends living abroad and how little I get to see other people (especially the ones that would use this app), I won't even bother downloading it. I don't need an app to feel lonely...
Comment · 7 months ago
Honestly, it feels like McDonald's commiting to food quality. At the end of the day it's still a bland burger.
Comment · 8 months ago
Given that a lot of things happen in the browser, I think it wouldn't be too crazy. There are even distros that look like Windows if you're after that. What part of it do you think isn't ready for this scenario? (honestly curious)
Comment · 1 year ago
They've been crippling the free tier for a long time. And a few years ago they were about to restrict it completely (they've backed out last moment), to a point where many of us migrated to other platforms and never looked back.
Comment · 1 year ago
> As long as an app is easy to use, people prefer a single look

No, people are used to an UI language, which in the case of iOS is quite consistent across applications. You expect certain things to work (e.g. flicking in from the left edge means "go back"). There are platform-specific patterns and I'd rather have the app behave accordingly rather than being consistent with other OS' version. The real 0.1% here are probably the users of your app with active devices in both Android and iOS!

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