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3,803karma·1,305submissions·September 15, 2021
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Is it? Apple Silicon exists, but Apple created a translation layer above it so the transition could be smoother.
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Seems the school board(s) can no longer be truste to do their job.
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Firecracker has often been recommended (here on HN and elsewhere) for a VM-for container-execution model : https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker …
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> The only people to blame now are the parents. That's a false dichotomy. I can blame myself for not keeping my family away from toxic algorithms, but I can also blame the facebook leadership …
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Sugary soft drinks (Coke, Pepsi, etc) are higher on my list than cookies or cheesecake. Schools are startking to ban soda from being sold
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Which subscription (so I can avoid it)?
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I meant from a scale perspective not the manner
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So a remote work backdoor had a vulnerability and now 1700 orgs (including federal agencies) were hacked since December? Is it too soon to compare this to solarwinds? After all they were both in Decem…
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Spotify product management has a history of not listening to customers, and thinking they know better, with lots of HN examples in threads about it
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"Come and take it! Please, take it! I wish you would take it" .. but if you don't, I'll keep it
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I don't see the parallel between this offensive tool and DRM. I could, say buy a perpetual license to an image from the artist, so that I can print it and put it on my wall, while it can simulta…
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What happens if I move to the EU and become a resident for a year, and move back? How do they know I am a resident versus tourist? Will they make me change my AppleID user and geo-lock it? Not a fan o…
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That sounds sort like an inefficient static site generator
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I worry that archive.org or wayback will not have sufficient funding and will need to close, and the sheer impact of that is greater than most realize. I hope there is a decentralized archive project
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Using generic text will end poorly. I predict a future where 99 of 100 requests result in Photoshop AI saying "I'm sorry, I can't do that". Google for silly trademarks. Facebook …
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> but the game ends when you try to use those images commercially. Right now, it feels more like it's called "innovation" and "entrepreneurship" than the end-game, as long …
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If I were an embassy employee (covert or overt), I'd want zero iMessage features beyond ASCII and the thumbs-up/down reactions. No attachments, no GIFs, no games, no Apple Pay, no easter egg…
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> Bulk build and just overwhelm the manufacturing capacities of your enemies for pennies on the dollar. Why would China not win this arms race?