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ChrisRR··on Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
Not personally. What I am tired of is the internet's current approach of treating every discussion (of anything) with pure outrage without considering any nuance.

It's completely destroying genuine conversations about the pros and cons of AI when people will just forever parrot that everything is slop

ChrisRR··on Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I'm no expert in the matter, but weren't only the intermediate CAs compromised, not the root?
ChrisRR··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Why are they not just pushing out the update asap? Unless they're relying on the compromised certs, then it feels it should be incredibly trivial to push
ChrisRR··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
The laws are the constitution
ChrisRR··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
I suspect if you used an average 5 year old PC and current PC, there'd be very little noticeable difference between the two outside of LLMs
ChrisRR··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
I'm always surprised that devs need such high spec machines just for developing software. Unless you're developing games or scientific computing software or similar, I din't know what the power would be used for.

My dev machine is an i5 of some description about 6 years old, that's about all I could tell you off the top of my head because I've never worried about needing slightly faster compiles. (Ignoring running local LLMs of course. Currently they can't compete with Opus 5.5)

ChrisRR··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Well of course. That's like saying you can't make toast in the kettle, but it doesn't stop the kettle being useful
ChrisRR··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
Ignoring your weird correlation between freedom and tech. Not gonna google European tech before you comment?
ChrisRR··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
Inciting violence
ChrisRR··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
"The US has the most freedom. Don't look into that fact. Just trust us"
ChrisRR··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Not really. Given that roblox is almost entirely children, and given the amount of hot water they're in you'd think they'd stay the hell away from adult content
ChrisRR··on Vegemite is not a human right
Marmite would also be banned if it's because it throws off the sniffer dogs
ChrisRR··on Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite
Or you know, a multivitamin
ChrisRR··on Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite
> As a Jew who observed kosher law

> serving a life sentence for murder

Well which is it?

ChrisRR··on New iPad mini
It always reminds me of the imac from 15 or so years ago when they were touting how thin the imac was.

In reality the back was curved, and they took pictures from an angle that only showed off the edge of the screen and not how far back it curved

ChrisRR··on The new iPad mini
You can't just spin up factories producing top of the line components like RAM. It's an extremely expensive process
ChrisRR··on New iPad mini
I don't think that's unique to OLED. There's all manner of things that could've gone wrong when breaking a corner in both LCD and OLED
ChrisRR··on Anthropic S-1
For something that's written in MS Word, that's fairly common. It's only on websites where it's uncommon to see
ChrisRR··on Anthropic S-1
It's been entirely possible to compete against existing companies with very similar products for centuries before AI. There's obviously rules in place to stop you flat out cloning their IP, but it's not like you haven't been able to compete against companies as long as you have the money available.
ChrisRR··on F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
They mean because the game originally ran at 320x240 of N64, so no scaling of 2d assets is required
ChrisRR··on F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
I think there's currently a lot of nostalgia of the 3DS as the console people have grown up with. And the device has a good homebrew community around it, and is more interesting than something like the switch can definitely run it with enough horsepower
ChrisRR··on F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
I guess for those who are interested in an F Zero X port you assume they already know what platform it was on.

If I ever talk about Ocarina of Time, I don't feel the need to specify what platform it was on, or now that I realise, that it was even a Zelda game

ChrisRR··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Well yeah, imperial units are a mess. But keeping it all imperial or all metric is better than mixing the two
ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
Having been through usability studies on the understanding of symbols and their placement on devices, I completely understand this issue.

You can put a very clear warning symbol front and centre, and people will just mentally gloss over it

ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
Well it's a Google Play protect feature, so it's blocked by google, not standard Android
ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
Can be installed as usual after the 24 hour wait, or via ADB without the wait
ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
It's under google's control because it's a Play Protect feature. It doesn't exist on non Play Protect devices
ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
"I don't want to wait 24 hours to have an open phone, so I'd rather have a closed phone"
ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
You don't need to verify to distribute unsigned APKs
ChrisRR··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
You can still install unsigned APKs via ADB. Or you can install unsigned APKs following an initial 24 hour wait. Or you can install APKs on non-Play Protect devices
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