I wonder if this will cause a reduction in remote jobs for citizens. Compliance with US laws like HIPAA and FERPA have strict requirements regarding access. Many employees use 2FA on their personal devices, which if passed this law would interfere with.
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SamuelAdams commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
> A company will know that you just got paid and so charge you just a bit more for your chicken nuggets than they do when you haven’t been paid in two weeks.
I know there's various data apps can collect. On iOS at least it seems like you have to grant permission for the app to access most of it. But how on Earth is this supposed to work? How does the app on my phone know if I just got paid?
For me I have a recurring calendar appointment reminder for when I get paid. So anything that requests calendar access would know that.
SamuelAdams commented on Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix afranca.com.br/why-90s-mo... · Posted by u/jslakro
Also: Recency & survival bias. We remember what became the classics from the 90s and also what came out this year and was available on our last flight
This is an excellent point. For example, here [1] is a list of all films released in 2025. However I bet most people 10 years from now will only remember the top 10-20 [2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2025
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2025_box_office_number...
SamuelAdams commented on Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again) devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/IcyWindows
.NET was a solid choice for backend builds before Node became so popular (And .NET is generally more performant than Node).
I hope this churn in .NET builds is temporary because a lot of people might be looking to go back to something stable especially after the recent supply chain attacks on the Node ecosystem.
I love working with dotnet, but lately I’ve been writing more backend applications in Python. The code is simpler, testing is simpler since method privacy doesn’t really exist, and code is quicker to deploy because you do not have to compile it.
This could also change but in my experience AI is better at generating Python code versus dotnet.
SamuelAdams commented on Implications of AI to schools twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Again, AI is not getting rid of degrees or learning or education.
It's getting rid of cheap methods.
Scantrons and bluebooks were always a way that made it cheap for institutions to produce results. Now those methods kinda seem silly, right?
500 person freshman lectures seem kinda absurd now, right?
Teaching via adjuncts that had 3 days notice for the class and are paid nothing is kinda scammy, right?
R1s professors whose tenure evals have nothing to do with teaching is kinda wrong, right?
The Oxbridge model of 5-10 person classes with a proctor is what the education with AI is going to be about. It's small, intimate, and expensive.
The silver lining is the Demographic Cliff of 2025:
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cli...
PDF warning: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf
Colleges will need to reduce class sizes, or close entirely, for the next decade at least. With smaller class sizes brings the opportunity for course instructors to provide more time per pupil so that things like in-person homework and project review is possible.
SamuelAdams commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles
I don't particularly care about mozilla so much as I care about Firefox, gecko, and the continued existence of at least ONE other browser.
I don't want to use a blink based browser. If/When mozilla finally dies I don't have high hopes that Firefox won't just die with it.
I will stick with Firefox due to multi account containers. Chrome does not offer a comparable alternative, and this extension makes working with AWS significantly easier.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...
SamuelAdams commented on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport avherald.com/h?article=52... · Posted by u/jnsaff2
It does make me wonder: why are aircraft takeoffs and landings not recorded more often, with higher quality cameras and more angles? If I can watch an NFL replay in 4k a few seconds after the ball is snapped, why not record (and overwrite) all flights that take off and land at every airport?
Like a dash cam, they can save the footage only if there is a problem. Surely that would be much better than splicing together many third party camera recordings.
SamuelAdams commented on Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states nextgov.com/digital-gover... · Posted by u/jhatax
With the rise of AI there is no excuse on why tax software should be so hard to make.
You’re going to give your tax data - some of the most sensitive data to some constituents - to OpenAI / Google / some other startup?
That seems like a nightmare of a product as far as privacy is concerned.
SamuelAdams commented on Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX press.asus.com/news/press... · Posted by u/Roachma
I shudder to think how small the macOS ui text will be on this but I’m willing to find out.
You can run it natively, but it is better to downscale to 4k or 1080p. I run three 5k versions of this monitor and they are all downscaled to 1440p. I get 1:1 pixel mapping so text looks crisp in every app except Microsoft Teams.