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xctr94 commented on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year 9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/ap... · Posted by u/dm

smartbit · 2 years ago

More than 10% of europeans use iMessage, enough for EU Digital Market Act to force Apple to adopt RCS and thereby trying to circumvent opening iMessage itself

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Apple’s own argument is this isn’t true. A “major number of users” have iMessage turned on automatically, but aren’t active users.

If even Apple says iMessage isn’t used by at least 45 million EU citizens… (to qualify for gatekeeper status)

xctr94 commented on Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

el_benhameen · 2 years ago

I love zucchini, and one of my kids enjoys it, but my wife and other kid quite dislike it. The texture, apparently regardless of how it’s prepared, is the issue for them more than the taste. I’ve tried firmer (grilled) and softer (steamed) preparations but have received the same feedback, so it’s something innate to the fruit. To each their own.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Could it the linked to the age of the plant? When my dad allows the zucchini to grow too long, it’s bitter. At 20 cm it’s much sweeter, and we can easily eat it raw/blanched.

xctr94 commented on Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

fsflover · 2 years ago

So tell us what these websites show to you: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/, https://www.amiunique.org/.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Safari 17 on Sonoma, with advanced tracking protections activated (also outside of Private Windows). I've tried with and without adblockers.

CoverYourTracks tells me I have strong browser protections but a unique fingerprint. In AmIUnique, I've a unique fingerprint too. I can see that Apple's claims to fingerprint-resistance are absolutely bogus, as the websites were able to list my fonts, plugins, etc., all things that should be protected against.

I'm disappointed.

I've tried all my other browsers and, in all of them, my fingerprint remains unique with plenty of information leaking.

xctr94 commented on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment? · Posted by u/kurtdev

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Not distributing the equity early on via a notary, relying instead on an agreement. Later on the equity separation was only legally possible via a heavily-taxed mechanism, meaning I could never afford my stake. They kept the equity and I basically had to leave. (Be careful about Belgian laws around equity.)

xctr94 commented on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment? · Posted by u/kurtdev

BonoboIO · 2 years ago

ChatGPT makes very good training plans if you know what you want. Like a 4 day split with XYZ available machines.

Not for beginners, but very good if you want to think a little bit less which exercises you take for the next 4-6 weeks.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

There are plenty of better researched sources for training plans. This seems like an area where their inaccuracy can cause direct, physical problems.

xctr94 commented on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment? · Posted by u/kurtdev

probablynish · 2 years ago

> Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested

This really resonates with me. Not powerlifting myself, but I have a strength training routine at the gym with the goal of improving my right knee pain. I have to take things very slow (increase by 1 rep each session, up the weight every ~2 weeks by the smallest possible increment) but looking at my graph this year is very satisfying. This little corner of my life feels a lot more under my control than anything else right now

xctr94 · 2 years ago

I really empathize and am glad you pointed this out. I needed specific exercises to fix my abductor/flat left foot, which were wrecking my hip.

Body progress is slow, but it feels wonderful to have something you can control, master, and is directly rewarding.

Kudos for sticking with it :) Good luck and keep building protections around that knee.

xctr94 commented on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment? · Posted by u/kurtdev

nwiswell · 2 years ago

> Please no. The beginner does not discover places where the form needs improvement. The beginner simply fails to lift after increasing the weight. The beginner injures themselves when they thought they could lift but they did not.

This assertion is contradicted by the hundreds of thousands of people (myself included) who have progressed beyond the beginner stage after starting out with the 20kg bar and without ever requiring the intervention of a human coach.

That said, I would have benefited from one. I had to completely deload and relearn my squat form because I was consistently leaning forward and de-emphasizing my posterior chain (now it's my best lift).

Speaking from experience, it's really pretty difficult to cause yourself an acute injury (i.e., worse than a nasty bruise) with 20kg if your form even resembles the squat, bench, or deadlift.

Granted, 20kg can be a big starting weight for overhead press, and if you're a petite woman you may initially need an alternative to the Olympic barbell even for the others.

Also, deadlifts are kind of tricky: a bare bar on the floor is a deficit deadlift. But a couple of blocks can solve this issue.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Wow, weight lifting is seriously ‘gate-kept’. GP needs to chill, he’s being elitist, and forgetting PTs are super expensive. I followed Stronglifts to 110kg, and just started again after 4 years. It’s fun. It’s easy. You focus on few, simple exercises, so form is easy to do well if you try.

xctr94 commented on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly blog.paavo.me/cities-skyl... · Posted by u/paavohtl

hutzlibu · 2 years ago

I think it is a bit tricky to get the incentives right ( since the bookkeeping people like to quantize everything). If you reward finding and fixing bugs too much - you might push developers to write more sloppy code in the first place. Because then those who loudly fix their own written mess gets promoted - and those who quietly write solid code gets overlooked.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Goodhart’s law at work, or “why you shouldn’t force information workers to chase after arbitrary metrics”. Basecamp has been famously just letting people do good work, on their terms, without KPIs.

I will preemptively agree that this isn’t possible everywhere; but if you create a good work environment where people don’t feel like puppets executing the PM’s vision, they might actually care and want to do a solid day’s work (which we’re wired for).

xctr94 commented on How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video] ycombinator.com/library/K... · Posted by u/simonpure

eweise · 2 years ago

Been working at startups on and off for over 20 years. In total I've spent more money on stock options than I've made from them.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

I’m on the same boat, plus the startup I helped co-found later found a loophole to steal my 20% of equity. Startups are a scam.

xctr94 commented on Apple M3 Pro Chip Has 25% Less Memory Bandwidth Than M1/M2 Pro macrumors.com/2023/10/31/... · Posted by u/TaurenHunter

exabrial · 2 years ago

The M1 doesn't really benchmark in pure CPUs tests much higher that the Intel chips it replaced... it's was an incremental upgrade, not a generational upgrade; in other word, pure CPU benchmark increases would have been realized when/if the nextgen Intel chips were used.

Instead, most of the felt responsiveness on the M1 comes from the insane memory bandwidth. Everything from launching apps to task swapping to garbage collection events in various languages gets a boost from the lower latency and higher bandwidth.

xctr94 · 2 years ago

Okay, I really don’t know why the M1 feels so amazingly responsive compared to my i7. But is 12.5% loss in memory bandwidth that important for these kinds of tasks? It seems really hard to saturate, say, 100GB per second!