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  • Apple Envy

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  • Are we seriously going to pretend that a single person can be wholly evil? Much less a company of 200k people.

    Even if Google takes this huge step of requiring their blessing for every Android developer (which Apple has ALWAYS had on their side), they will still be better (by my estimation) along the freedom dimension than Apple. Maybe too far removed for my involvement, but better nonetheless.

    edit: misread "just as evil [as Apple]"

  • When your understanding of a compass matches your grasp of economics

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  • s/points/reads/ ... give 'em a break...

  • What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long?

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  • Noticably? I imagine their skin imperfections would be twice as large... or maybe √2 as large?

  • Help! I Think I've Developed Insomnia..

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  • Best "hack" I've heard is to NOT TRY to go to sleep. It is involuntary. It is not something you can will. The harder you try the further back it moves.

    Instead, simply focus on creating an environment conducive to sleep (safe, warm, comfortable, etc.).

    e.g. Try not to have an active going to bed ritual (such that a bunch of business abruptly ends with the expectation of sleep), but more of a "coming in for landing" ritual, where you need to do less and less until your mind decides it might as well sleep since there is nothing to do.

  • Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading

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  • Welp... that about does it... I'm out.

  • leading ai company

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  • Quick! Ship it now!

  • Found in the wild

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  • In theory, yes. There is a first-stage bootloader (that actually finds, loads, verifies, and jumps-into fastboot) baked into the hardware (implemented in fuses and ROMs [like REAL roms, not "flashable" ROMs]), and AFAIK it cannot effectively be modified after the phone is manufactured, so they try to keep it as simple as possible.

    So if it were real, the psuedocode would be something like this:

     
        
var fastbootPartition=locateFastbootPartition();

if (fastbootPartition == null || !verifySignature(fastbootPartition))
{
     // AFAIK, this code block is already a thing in production, but the
    // message is more like a "signature failed" or "corrupted" than
    // a "you done goofed".
    displayRudeMessage();
    halt();
}

var fastbootAddress=load(fastBootPartition);
jumpTo(fastbootAddress);

  • little mouse wearing a raincoat

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  • Seems to have a bit of "fox" in it.

  • the economy is a social construct

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  • "Let them eat food" --T

  • Milliamp-hours per hour

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  • Thanks.

  • Milliamp-hours per hour

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  • Give 'em a break, I'm sure it's just their first error with units. (Procedes to google "verizon dollars and cents")

  • After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6

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  • That was fast...

  • I have tomorrow off :)

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  • That's Mr. Human-Cyborg Relations.

  • I can't upload pictures.

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  • Ditto.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • AI pilots crash and burn?

  • Artificial Intelligence will never match the human brain

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  • I don't know if this is what you mean, but I find that "Westworld" hits a lot harder post-ChatGPT.

    I remember it taking a lot more suspension of disbelief on release, but now much of it falls into the realm of plausible.

    Maybe not the "computable consciousness", but the glitchy hand-wavy "we don't know how it works either" aspect... at the time it seemed like a mcguffin cop-out, and now that's like all the new business models.

  • Google's next big Android release is coming with these AI tools and UWB features (Android 16 QPR2)

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  • Are we coming to (or past) a point where one needs to not update Android, for sanity's sake, and risk getting hacked until an alternative rises?

  • Going critical!

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  • Best C# IDE/Compiler for Linux?

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