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austhrow743··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
>and functionality of AirPod pros

Is the automatic connection and switching between devices equivalent?

austhrow743··on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Unless you're advocating slaughtering 90% of humanity, what is the purpose of this line of thinking?

Sure, some of you are just so good and nice that you're going to spend all of your time trying to better your fellow man no matter the incentives. The rest of us are spending our time and energy trying to better ourselves. It's better for everyone if the rules of the game are set up so those actions create positive externalities.

austhrow743··on Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
> I really think motivational, self improvement, anti-procrastination and studying advice courses should be offered by universities.

Agreed but i also think it should be focused on much earlier as well.

austhrow743··on OpenAI board member is violating export control, selling Claude API to HongKong
Source on ChatGPT and Claude API being export banned?
austhrow743··on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
I take it you also sew your own clothing and get milk from your own cow?

If not, what makes cooking special?

austhrow743··on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
>If you live in a very walkable place, you're less likely to use delivery

This makes sense as a theory but it doesn't match my observed reality at all. Everyone I know who frequently orders food on delivery apps live in dense, walkable cities.

austhrow743··on FSF announces Librephone project
Do you think the same for using credit cards in general or is using the phone somehow worse?
austhrow743··on Fastmail desktop app
Spending your money on this brings them in more money which could potentially be used on features you do want.

Not certainly, because that’s not how paying a subscription works. You would have to contact them too discuss directly paying for a specific feature. But potentially!

austhrow743··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
The systemic solution wouldn’t be to do that. It would be to both remove their own requirements that organisations collect this data, and to penalise organisations for collecting it outside of a handful of already heavily regulated industries like banking.
austhrow743··on How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
So is OP. He appears to be looking for them the same way i am. Working for American companies remotely.
austhrow743··on California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness
How do you get “austerity” from a movement arguing that far more things should be built?
austhrow743··on The Atlantic Quantum team is joining Google
That someone else would take their attention is all you need research and scale it.

They should have buried it or been first. Instead they’re playing catchup.

austhrow743··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
Israel has tried responding to attacks by not killing hundreds of thousands of people, and that approach led to October 7th.

It’s been way too short a time to tell if this will work, but responding in a softer manner has proven to not. Might work is better than won’t work.

austhrow743··on Mamdani says he would phase out NYC gifted program for early grades
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choi...
austhrow743··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
What does overindexing on the swe market mean?

If these other professions don’t pay as much as swe, then doesn’t that indicate that domestic supply is meeting those industries needs better than it is swe?

austhrow743··on The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
What if the context isn't that you're switching from PHP though? What if the choice is to stick with Javascript for the full stack, or to also learn PHP on top of Javascript?
austhrow743··on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
Where did you get the 100M figure from?
austhrow743··on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
Do we know that they need to raise and are not sustainable? I don't think them raising is evidence of either.
austhrow743··on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription
Why would this saving in particular get captured by the manufacturer?
austhrow743··on OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
Hamburger situation is not comparable. It’s a trade.

This is just someone being not very specific in a text file on their computer. I have many such notes, some of them publicly viewable.

austhrow743··on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
That’s unrelated to the IPO.
austhrow743··on Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants
Punishing urban intellectuals for being urban intellectuals appears to be a common theme in a lot of right wing American messaging and the Republican Party won the popular vote.

You can’t put this on a few. It’s the genuine desire of the American voter.

austhrow743··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
Politicians represent your mum and neighbour.
austhrow743··on Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
It's entirely possible to not want to look at an ugly person without casting aspersions as to their character.
austhrow743··on Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges
What definition of gouging are you using that conflicts with “there's just a demand surge and a supply crunch”?

“the market responds the same way as if it was a business conference in town.” Normal people definitely complain about that and use the word gouging when they do so.

austhrow743··on Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
Do people raise kids in college dormitories?
austhrow743··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
Surely it has to be somewhat ideological given that adblockers exist? Have you seen your high paid engineer friends actually watching the ads?

I would rather pay a fee than watch ads, but as long as “do neither of those” is an option I’ll be picking that. If they remove that as an option I’ll either pay or not watch YouTube.

Probably not watch.

I pay for email, and was paying for search until something about the way kagi integrates with safari annoyed me. I’ve been paying more for a seedbox than Netflix costs for longer than Netflix has existed. That’s part for ad avoidance as in it initially replaced free to air tv but ad avoidance is just one factor in the best experience for my time and money trade off I’m trying to make. So i know I’m willing to both pay for things i can get ad supported from Google and also pay for a better media experience.

When it comes to that best experience for my time and money trade off though, even with money being set at zero, the vast majority of the YouTube i watch is already in the negative. Most things i watch on there, i regret the cost of just the time it took to watch the content before ads or money even gets in to it.

Which i think is a big part of the issue with ad supported internet going fee based. YouTube and so many ad supported sites and games are already just super low value and derive most of their consumption not from people making intentional lifestyle choices of “i want to be the kind of person who watches garbage all day while playing crap” but rather people making bad short term vs long term trade offs and falling in to holes of recommendations and fun looking thumbnails.

Paying for something leads to asking yourself “is this worth $x?” And i know that for at least myself $x is a large negative number. I’d pay more than the current cost of YouTube premium to definitely NOT be able to watch YouTube.

austhrow743··on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire
One of the biggest “services” expenses, i think maybe the biggest, comes in the form of employees.

Afaik the EU is regulated much more heavily in that area than the US, like here in Australia.

It makes sense to me that some amount of the US’ economic advantage comes from their ability to more efficiently match employees with the work currently demanded by the market.

austhrow743··on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
I've never had a complaint about anything I put in to a form requesting a quote for insurance. I just get the quote back. Did you write that in the comment expecting an insurance salesperson to call you up and argue passwords with you? Call their back office and say "hey this guy says our password question is crap, get our best guys on it!"?

I just cant imagine any outcome other than it was translated to just a "no" and increased your premium over what it would have otherwise been.

austhrow743··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
Going to let us burn because not doing so would be regressive.
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