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humpty-d··on iPhone Pocket
> phone snatchers

largely don't exist because you can't do anything with the phone without the owner's password to reset it

humpty-d··on iPhone Pocket
I prefer face id because of speed of unlock via 0 motor memory gestures tbh.
humpty-d··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Why be cryptic and weird when you can just plainly say whatever it is that you actually mean? Communicate clearly, nobody knows what the f you're on about.
humpty-d··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
So just track you on the back end instead? I don't know what that really changes. If you mean to say just not track you at all and show you untargeted ads, well they are worth less, so they'll have to blast you with more of them.
humpty-d··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Stop what? Showing ads? They have to fund it somehow, there will always be ads. Most users aren't willing to pay for anything on the internet, and unfortunately revenue is required to run anything at scale. You can charge users, show ads, or maybe get funding from Saudis.
humpty-d··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Presumably Louis wants to reach as many people as possible and would like to know how many people he's reaching though.
humpty-d··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Any credible evidence that they get enough money from the sponsorships to be considered fully funded by them? Or that ground news uses influence over these channels?

I can throw a dart and hit a random podcast that has been sponsored by blue chew for years, but that doesn't mean said podcast is funded by them or bends to their whims.

IMO your comment is pure conspiracy theory.

humpty-d··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
That doesn't just target sponsor segments. It's for stuff commonly skipped. Like annoying parts of videos. Some video game guy I occasionally watching thinks he needs to sing for some reason, very useful for skipping those sections.
humpty-d··on iPhone Air
why can't apple just my ridiculous combo of wants that represents 0.2% of the market???
humpty-d··on iPhone Air
Getting flashbacks to the HTC Evo era and having a thick ass battery case lol, before that i'd have to swap battery like twice a shift.
humpty-d··on iPhone Air
0% financing on Apple card, 3-8% annual inflation the last 4 years, you'd be dumb not to take it
humpty-d··on iPhone Air
I'd rather optimize my $20 running shorts around my $1000 phone than the other way around tbh. No phone is comfortable in the pocket when running though, I used to use an arm strap and more recently just take the watch.
humpty-d··on iPhone Air
Because if the case gets damaged you can easily replace it.

People would still put a case on a bulky phone to protect resale or trade in value.

A super thin phone doesn't require a super bulky case, it requires just as much case as a person would normally use, resulting in a smaller overall profile.

I'd probably still go pro because I care more about the camera than the size.

humpty-d··on iPhone Air
I'd agree if there were fewer compromises required to pull it off.
humpty-d··on Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
I've had like 10x more pressure lately to hire cheap contractors from India than I ever did to hire a woman or black guy at any point in my 10 years of hiring in this field.
humpty-d··on Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
No mention that 2 candidates from other parties died in the run up. Or that it's out of 20,000+ individuals contesting various seats. No mention that they are mostly 59+ years old with preexisting health conditions.

Luckily it gives us the most critical bit of info we could ask for, that Musk tweeted "!!"

In summary this article is shit.

humpty-d··on The GitHub website is slow on Safari
Various comments and links throughout the discussion of this post indicate that the problem is a mix of the sheer number of nodes and css. It has nothing to do with React or being a React SPA, which it's also not, unless you have some proof otherwise.
humpty-d··on What is going on right now?
It’s useful for almost any one-off script I write. It can do the work much faster than me and produce nicer looking output than I’d ever bother to spend time to write myself. It can also generate cli args and docs I’d never "waste time" on myself, which I’d later waste even more time fumbling without

They’re insanely useful. I don’t get why people pretend otherwise, just because they aren't fulfilling the prophesies of blowhards and salesmen

humpty-d··on Notion releases offline mode
Kind of depends on which plugins you use and how much you depend on them. But in general yeah, local files and whatnot means you have very little risk of losing them if Obsidian shits the bed somehow.
humpty-d··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
The layers and "savory" history are the only things I spotted. Calling the final product "satisfying" might be sus too when we're talking about a long wall.

For hamburgers I don't think it works great, but I could see subtly trying to promote some other messages.

humpty-d··on Palantir: The Most Evil Company
Peter Scully was morally just because there was a market for his content
humpty-d··on Palantir: The Most Evil Company
If that knife was a legal person, then yes
humpty-d··on Perfume reviews
No, I expected you to prove my point by this very comment.
humpty-d··on Perfume reviews
3 pedantic "well ackshually" comments saying scent is decomposable, yet 0 just decomposing it for us? I wonder why that is?
humpty-d··on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
Farm bill and delta-8 really flipped that whole table though
humpty-d··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
I know we distrust them on account of being nefarious Chinese, but has anything come to light with R1 or the people behind it specifically to justify this?
humpty-d··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
I fail to see how saving all logs advances that cause