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mezeek··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
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.

mezeek··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Ah yes, the classic tech guys on Hacker News that fear technology.
mezeek··on Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
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.

mezeek··on Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes
isn't that what GLP1s are for (before you get full blown type 2)
mezeek··on Compare the New iPhone Models
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.

mezeek··on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
this guy really blew up after that bridge went down in Baltimore
mezeek··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
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
mezeek··on Meta Project Aria - Smart Glasses Research Kit
was that Bluetooth or UWB? Cause that's like saying VHS vs. 4K
mezeek··on World-First Starlink Service on Boeing 777 Launched by Qatar Airways
Marketing and PR humans were writing sentences like this one long before LLMs
mezeek··on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
It's ok, lotsa people have the money for it.
mezeek··on Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
unless, you know, it's about blowing stuff up
mezeek··on Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants
How can she slap?
mezeek··on California's wage gap is the biggest in the US
I think this sums it up quite easily: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/edrxpl/california_ex...
mezeek··on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
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.

mezeek··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
and calls it Actually-Open AI
mezeek··on Unionbusters (1986)
You skipped right over Sopranos
mezeek··on GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers
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...
mezeek··on Surrealism Is 100
Am I the only one who expected a NYT article about how "Surrealism is (100 'real' emoji)"
mezeek··on SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle
yes, it's also what helped them solve CRS-7
mezeek··on Sora: Creating video from text
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.
mezeek··on SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station
the difference is that NASA only has seats for 6-month ISS missions, not a couple weeks like Axiom missions. Totally different.
mezeek··on SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station
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.
mezeek··on SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station
They can go to Russia like they did for 10 years after the Shuttle retired.
mezeek··on Europe needs to escape providerism
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.

mezeek··on Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
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-...

mezeek··on Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem
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.
mezeek··on New models and developer products
Grok? Just kidding
mezeek··on SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site
is there something new here?
mezeek··on Tesla is launching their developer APIs
then... just use the Tesla app?
mezeek··on Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
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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