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4,965karma·1,427submissions·May 30, 2021
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I’m surprised to not see any reference to the Happy Vertical People Transporters from The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! Them elevators are able to see into the future to be there even before we…
15d ago·view thread
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Currently the only thing I personally find LLMs useful for are code reviews.
16d ago·view thread
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In $COMPANY, for the mid-yearly review, the employees were asked whether their AI usage was 1/ efficient, 2/ adoptive (integrated in the way they work) or 3/ transformative. Saying “nev…
16d ago·view thread
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Same. I still use the 13 mini, and will probably buy it again refurb when mine dies.
17d ago·view thread
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macOS 27 does polish Liquid Glass and makes it look passable on macOS IMHO. It was very bad on 26. Comically bad.
19d ago·view thread
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I live in the EU and want to live in a world where my children actually CAN read the Bible in class. However that’s not really possible anymore… (Also no, modern science is (still) not incompatible …
22d ago·view thread
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Obligatory “it’s Xcode with a lowercase c” comment. I know, not very interesting but it drives me mad…
23d ago·view thread
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Absolutely. Even Apple Passwords does it now (but also a LOT of other apps, including free and open-source ones). google is definitely NOT a dependency here.
24d ago·view thread
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How in the (excuse my French) f*ck is your government allowing google to login to do your taxes?? And it is the ONLY option??? I’m flabbergasted, honestly.
24d ago·view thread
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Most definitely, yeah.
24d ago·view thread
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They are, however, completely unphishable, which is a big plus IMHO
25d ago·view thread
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Thanks for the fix!
26d ago·view thread
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What is it with website not following the system’s dark mode setting? Yes, there is a switch but the default choice should be “system,” not “dark.” (And it should not be a two-choice setting either.)
26d ago·view thread
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Apple (“streets”) Maps uses that tech in the latest beta. (Apple Maps is generally better than google maps apart for the data, tbh)
26d ago·view thread
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Maybe Apple could have done better, but I’m not sure how. There is an option to ask for access to a given folder only (if the dev does its job right) in addition to either full access or not. At som…
27d ago·view thread
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Fully disagree. I actively want to know when a program tries to access my hard drive and stuff…
27d ago·view thread
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Why not Safari? It works great (it is my main browser).
28d ago·view thread
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And they have announced having funded a team for Orion on windows at the end of 2025. https://orionfeedback.org/d/2321-orion-for-windows-android-l... …
28d ago·view thread
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I use 1Blocker which works very well too.
28d ago·view thread
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Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962963 (33 points 10 comments)
28d ago·view thread