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Jcowell··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
What do you mean no mechanism? People can just say no? What I think you mean is that they’re are mechanisms today to combat folks saying no, but nothing stops (only punushes) people from saying no.

It’s a lot harder these days given the 60 years of progress

Jcowell··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Penalty because it’s based on what people think when they see them. They don’t say Meta Raybands but just Meta glasses. If influential people were to start saying the former enough that it becomes then martins. Also is the question of do other Rayband glasses look like it. If this line is distinct enough than it won’t harm other lines since the visual association isn’t made.
Jcowell··on Qwen 3.8 27B
There has to be a better way of sharing config , a profile of sorts you can upload and share
Jcowell··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
I’ve said this before but Apple should make glasses where the whole frame glows when it’s in active use. Siri colors for using Siri’s , a distinct color for recording , a long exposed color for pictures, visualizer for music. Gives it the safety factor and a distinct look.
Jcowell··on U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
What does it buy
Jcowell··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
I’m interested to know the ways that Apple doesn’t cater to Software devs the way other OS does. I hate developing on a windows/non-unix machine
Jcowell··on Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses
I don’t think it should be banned but instead regulated and I think Apple has a unique opportunity here that will make them win this product category in fashion & social acceptability: Make the glasses glow. Have the top horizontal frame of the glasses illuminate when it’s recording and be able to glow on command

By making the glow a fashion aspect of the glasses, the fact that it should glow loudly will become a socially known part of the glasses. Because it’s Apple and because a good chunk of the frame needs to glow it’ll have a distinct look that’ll be easy to spot and if anyone has tampered with them to disable it, they can be asked to verify that it hasn’t by making it able to glow on command “Hey Siri, glow/party”.

Jcowell··on Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?
Curious to hear more about the deranged behaviors
Jcowell··on Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models
The author said nothing of the people but of the government itself. 12 years ago, elementary school children were slaughtered and even that wasn’t enough to ban guns.
Jcowell··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
No by then his public image would have be damaged by the cave diver incident
Jcowell··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
We both know the pay off in this instance is referring to mortgages
Jcowell··on A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain
> If the person they were quoting claimed to have been abducted by sasquatch, you could still make these two points. Would you still be arguing that it doesn't reflect poorly on the BBC to put that false claim into a headline?

No? That’s a very good headline for an article about someone who believes that they were abducted by a Sasquatch. It would be a missed opportunity for a newspaper to NOT do.

Jcowell··on Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads
It would depend on the course load. Learning languages and how to use them can easily be encapsulated in capstone, software engineering projects, & internships. The goal of a CS degree, as opposed to a bootcamp, is for students to fully understand in intimate detail the background , history, ethics, & the 5 whys of the tool that they’re using. The way I would design a CS degree is:

1. for the first two years to be about general computing with an intro to programming via Java, Typescript, Python, & Go. 2. by the end of the 2nd year Data Structures and Algorithms should be mastered 3. Third year is for tracks , whether frontend, backend, full stack, Theory. 4. Fourth year is capstone project or internship

Jcowell··on Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
A company can be multiple things. Just like Apple is a Phone, Tablet, & General Computing Company
Jcowell··on Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
Or they do enough programming from 9-5 that they don’t feel like doing anymore when they get home to their family? Programmers don’t have to do anything more then their paid to do
Jcowell··on AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say
Why is docker to blame?
Jcowell··on OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
> Let's say Google release a new phone that is significantly cheaper and/or smarter than an Apple one. nobody would stick to apple.

This is not at all how the consumer phone market works. Price and “smarts” are not only factor that goes into phone decisions. There are ecosystem factors & messaging networks that add significant friction to switching. The deeper you are into one system the harder it is to switch.

Jcowell··on US cities pay too much for buses
There’s a difference between spotting a bus at the stop and distance away and the actions you will take accordingly.

You want the bus to be identifiable as possible.

Jcowell··on The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
This seems like a bit of an over exaggeration. A pull request isn’t just a chunk of code thrown at people. it’s an entire process with a Title , description, pipeline checks that all come together to say I want this in another branch.

As the PR author it should be your job to: * Self Review the PR * Ensure you adhere/fulfill to all the expectations and requirements a PR should have before it’s pulled out of draft * That all pipeline test pass * That for a given request X there is test that validate X, Not X , and edge cases of X and are ran in the pipeline. * Has a clear description of what you’re changing/adding/removing, why, how, and the rollout plan , roll back plan , & the risk level.

The peer review process should make the reviewer engage in a rubber duck process to review their code , loop the team in for changes that can change their mental model of how a system they own works, and to catch things that we might not catch ourselves.

Not to the mention the security implications

Jcowell··on After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View
> The sentence is convoluted but clearly implies that "this kid" was "one of the MAGA gang".

What? This is crazy “find the authors purpose” gymnastics. The quote does nothing to imply that the kids is Maga or not. It does however directly commentates on “Maga gang”’s actions to try to paint him as anyone other than someone who could be MAGA. Thats the entire point of what was said

Jcowell··on graduated but no jobs
Don’t apply through linked in , apply directly via the company career site what apply materials are you submitting ? are you doing cover letters ?. As a grad how many new grads positions did you apply to?
Jcowell··on Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth
> But no one deserves anything, even clean air. People 100% deserve clean air?
Jcowell··on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
> What Apple could have done, for sake of clarity, sanity, and good practice is to handle SMS using one app, and handle iMessage using another, separate app.

That sounds like a terrible user experience ?

Jcowell··on Elon Musk shut down internal Tesla analysis showing Robotaxi would lose money
Hi! one of those people! Live in a city with adequate public transportation that I never learn to drive and would like not to for as long as possible. To get to places I pretty much use uber for places that would take a while to reach with public transportation.
Jcowell··on Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
More likely* but not always.
Jcowell··on Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
This is not true. Not all neighborhoods in the city (Basically harlem and up) have wealthy residents, and street parking is free. Anyone who lives in New York knows this.
Jcowell··on So, Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
Sure, but who, what body, would be established to do this and who would give the power to do so? With what oversight and with what enforcement?
Jcowell··on Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
I think it’s true , it just that sometimes companies become the market
Jcowell··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
> A well designed oxygen machine has a battery and a fridge can tolerate a brief power outage.

Sure, but you would at least do the due diligence to confirm that the case for Mrs Shelby before you YOLO it and wish for the best with her life on the line.

Jcowell··on Google kills diversity hiring targets
It seems silly to say this is the idea behind DEI rather than what folks may feel is the consequence (I neither don’t care if it is or isn’t”).
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