insomniac
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- Comment on Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal 11 months ago:
DDG is also a for profit venture and used privacy more as a marketing ploy. They’ve been caught allowing Microsoft trackers.
- Comment on Was this guy at the store judging me? 11 months ago:
And if you do, welcome to having an anxiety disorder
- Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple 11 months ago:
Circumstances outside gaming where any high end laptop isn’t good enough is pretty niche and I don’t think this really matters to most consumers. I would prefer to run Linux but at work, my options are Windows or MacOS. It’s a pretty easy choice. Apple products are great when someone else is paying for them.
- Comment on For some reason, I'm doubtful. 1 year ago:
These aren’t super valuable. You can get them for about 200-250 bucks.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
Same thing they did to housing. Incoming 10 to 15 year car loans.
- Comment on It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says 1 year ago:
It was pretty bananas for a minute. The Mazda dealership offered us 5,000 more than we paid brand new for my wife’s Mazda 3 in 2018. I told the salesperson that it makes no fucking sense and he couldn’t explain it either. Didn’t go for it for a bunch of reasons but it was really odd.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 1 year ago:
The problem is the walled garden, both ecosystems have those features but they don’t work together. If all your friends have iPhones, there’s a lot of pressure to also have an iPhone. And once you’re in, you’re not likely getting out unless all your social circle does at once. That kind of lock in is extremely valuable.
- Comment on Does Perchance.org count as coding/programming? 1 year ago:
Markup languages like HTML are declarative. That means you use it to describe the result you want but you don’t give it any instructions for how to actually do that. An imperative language is used to actually describe the behavior. Traditional programming languages are imperative. An imperative language is necessary to interpret the HTML and actually display the content in the desired way. You can’t use HTML to accomplish anything by itself. This distinction is why calling HTML a programming language is contentious.
- Comment on The temptation is always there 1 year ago:
This community makes more sense when you realize the majority of users are CS students.
- Comment on LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand 1 year ago:
Why works you presume that? Maybe they’re suffering and trying to raise awareness.
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
I’ve had a bunch of jobs using Java and my current place switched entirely to kotlin. It’s so nice. I don’t think I could go back.
- Comment on A little rant about lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Why don’t you guys start a new community that suits you? I bet there’s more people that feel the same way.
- Comment on What do you think of framework and their methods? 1 year ago:
It’s a great idea and I’m very interested but this article is just an ad. There’s very little substance.
- Comment on Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency 1 year ago:
The developer of paint.net sells it on the Microsoft store to support the product. Not any different than buying an app through the App Store or Google play store.
It’s created by a Microsoft Engineer, not super surprising they leverage Microsoft tools to get paid.
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
I upgraded from 11 to 14 pro and was pretty underwhelmed. It was kinda worth it for the camera but besides that, it’s the exact same phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
When I first joined, I hopped around instances and tried out a bunch. But eventually I settled on this one and I haven’t logged in to any other account in a while. I probably count as like 5 inactive users. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of that.
Posts are going up pretty steady, that matters more.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
A few posts up, there’s an article about how basically all cars manufacturers are a privacy nightmare
- Comment on Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep? 1 year ago:
Is there a way to actually know that?
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 1 year ago:
They don’t. Libre Office is maintained by a non-profit called The Document Foundation. They’re funded entirely by donations. I think they make enough to have some full time employees.
A lot of open source software is created by individuals or non-profits. The Mozilla foundation makes Firefox, for instance. They make money through donations and also Google pays them a ton of money to be the default search engine.
There are for profit companies that make open source software. Such as Red Hat. They tend to make money by selling support for the software.
- Comment on People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently 1 year ago:
Houses are stupid unless you live in an RV
- Comment on [HN] Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid 1 year ago:
With all the musicians dying lately, the first part of this headline gave me a lot of heartburn.