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NixOS... for now.

Couldn't have come at a worst time for the US and best for the rest of us. With Omachy (or however you write it), building decent OSes is about to be much easier.

Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:53PM (#48388171)
Ah yes, the classic tech guys on Hacker News that fear technology.
Re:Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:32AM (#47850261)
It's not a lie. All you need to do is watch the unveiling.

The most important bit (and reason it's not a lie) is when Jobs demoed scrolling.

"So... here i have all my songs... how do i scroll? I just... take my finger, and swipe".

You can hear the crowd visibly gasp. Every product before was arrow-keypad based and was not designed for touch. Plus it didn't have a desktop level OS, plus the capabilities of a desktop level OS. There was no equivalent.

Re:CRISPR Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:15AM (#45212635)
isn't that what GLP1s are for (before you get full blown type 2)
Re:Compare the New iPhone Models on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:56PM (#45186922)
Always seemed to me like RAM value is much more irrelevant on phones since every app is sandboxed and uses APIs for background operations.

RAM is also always consuming battery, so there are reasons to minimize it. I wonder what the RAM usage efficiency is between iOS and Android in real-world, installed-app-usage usecases.

this guy really blew up after that bridge went down in Baltimore
He's got less than 20% of Tesla now, but he owns nearly half of SpaceX... bet you he'd be so so sooooooooo much richer if that went public too
Re:Meta Project Aria - Smart Glasses Research Kit on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:46PM (#43106591)
was that Bluetooth or UWB? Cause that's like saying VHS vs. 4K
Marketing and PR humans were writing sentences like this one long before LLMs
It's ok, lotsa people have the money for it.
unless, you know, it's about blowing stuff up
How can she slap?
Re:California's wage gap is the biggest in the US on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:50PM (#40675231)
Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:12PM (#40601235)
they're focusing on booster reuse and ship tile slash entry reliability. Ship reuse will come after.

reason they're going hard on booster reuse is those 33 engines, they cost lotsa money to be dumping them over and over.

Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @07:41PM (#40361424)
and calls it Actually-Open AI
Re:Unionbusters (1986) on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:28PM (#39795049)
You skipped right over Sopranos
Re:GPS Antenna Mods Make Starlink Terminal Immune to Jammers on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:58AM (#39617289)
Question: How come aircraft can so easily get jammed then? They use GPS for precise positioning in flight, so I'm guessing they have the very best antennas...
Re:Surrealism Is 100. The World's Still Surreal on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:36AM (#39591663)
Am I the only one who expected a NYT article about how "Surrealism is (100 'real' emoji)"
yes, it's also what helped them solve CRS-7
Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:08AM (#39398026)
You sound like "making art" is only the painter in his Brooklyn studio. But it's video game designers, movie animators, videographers, graphic artists, and more that work in agencies and marketing departments of all companies that will be affected.
the difference is that NASA only has seats for 6-month ISS missions, not a couple weeks like Axiom missions. Totally different.
NASA forced Axiom to have the mission commander be an ex-NASA Astronaut for safety purposes. The first mission had 4 guys running around the ISS not knowing what's up.
They can go to Russia like they did for 10 years after the Shuttle retired.
Re:Europe needs to escape providerism on Monday December 11, 2023 @04:21PM (#38605651)
This applies for literally every country except the US and China.

It's not like any of the other G20 countries (not to mention the entire rest of the world) have anything close to "a US tech sector" or anything approaching the level of engineering/science/product/manufacturing capability of the US.

California is where the entire world population goes to when they wanna make stuff.

Re:Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:36PM (#38281319)
As others have said, SMS is fully interoperable up to and including groups and MMS.

Your problem comes from that fact that Apple cleverly introduced way more capability in the very same Messages app, for other Apple users only.

None of the complaining like yours would be happening if Messages was left as SMS only and apple had shipped a separate iMessage app, which is exactly what Whatsapp is. But there's Apple's forte. They have Bluetooth, but buying Airpods automagically works better.

I also 1000000% guarantee you that the designers spent a LOT of time analyzing the green bubble colour to make very it a slightly (but not too much) aggravating green. There are many many more pleasant shades of green.

Edit: OK yeah, a designer explained it here: https://uxdesign.cc/how-apple-makes-you-think-green-bubbles-...

Re:Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:30PM (#38281251)
he's saying that all the better stuff about Androids like replaceable batteries are gone on 1000$+ models, so you're left with a device that has iphone like capability... with worse apps and UI.
Grok? Just kidding
is there something new here?
Re:Tesla is launching their developer APIs on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:00PM (#37873544)
then... just use the Tesla app?
Re:Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:20PM (#37486458)
This is like Spatial Audio. So many things have been built and rolled out in support of Vision Pro. Obviously it'll be the A17 there too.

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