Sckharshantallas

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemdro.id•The Rise of Samsung: Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the Smartphone WarEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Apple’s market share in the U.S. fell from 56% to 49%, while Samsung’s share surged from 23% to 31%

    As much as they come up with reasons of why this happened, the reasons given don’t make sense to me. It’s not like there’s anything new to Samsung having a wide range of devices (from cheap to expensive) and iPhones changing little from one version to the next.

    I’d guess the reason is something else, like an unusual deal or promo going on etc.

    For example, the main reason iPhones got a huge market share in Japan is because in the old times they used to be cheap because of a deal between Apple and a carrier there (SoftBank).

  • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Top 10 website in the world ( July 2025 )English
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    4 months ago

    In fact, I think at least in Brazil Reddit is becoming more and more popular. Go back like 5 years ago and Brazilian subs in Portuguese were small and low-traffic except for one or two (ex: /r/brasil).

    Now there are a bunch of different themes and I see new topics being discussed quite often.

    I believe the reason is Facebook has enshittified so much that its communities are dying quickly and Brazilians are finding Reddit works better for simple discussions. Also no one posts anything personal on FB anymore, it’s all Instagram style reposts so it lost any purpose.

  • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.English
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    8 months ago

    it’s his platform, he can do whatever he wants on it, he paid a lot of money for it. […] I really don’t get why this would upset anyone

    lol

    1. Champions “free speech” to justify buying Twitter in a legitimate way.
    2. Wins over idealists who think they’re fighting for openness, calling it a “public square”, “Greek Agora” etc.
    3. Bans critics and content he just doesn’t align with.
    4. Gets called out.
    5. “Whoa whoa, I meant my free speech. The rest of you? Peasants.”
    6. People leave the platform: “I don’t get why this upsets anyone, it’s his platform”.

    This reminds me of the behavior most common in subreddits such as /r/Bitcoin, we can even put it side by side:

    • Step 1: Preach a grand ideal — “X is the free speech Agora!” / “Bitcoin is your path to financial freedom!”
    • Step 2: Rally support by moralizing it — “If you’re against this, you’re against liberty!” / “Only fools ignore Bitcoin!”
    • Step 3: When the consequences hit — censorship or market crashes — suddenly the ideal becomes personal: “It’s his platform, he can do whatever he wants.” / “You fool! You shouldn’t have invested more than you can afford to lose.”
  • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemdro.id•Android 16 lets you take proper screenshots of your beautiful HDR photosEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That’s actually quite common in large companies, just recently I read this story:

    Back then, there was close to zero collaboration between divisions at Microsoft […] In late 2013, my team was building Skype for Web, which we positioned as a competitor to Google Hangouts. We had a problem, though: in order to start a video or voice call, users needed to download a plugin which contained the required video codecs. We noticed Google Hangouts did the same on Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not on Chrome because the plugin was bundled with the browser for a frictionless experience. […] My team decided we had to offer the same frictionless experience on Microsoft’s latest browser, Edge, which was in development at the time. […] the team politely and firmly rejected bundling our plugin into the new Microsoft browser. The reason? Their KPI was to minimize the download size of the browser, and helping us would not help them reach that goal.

  • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldtoLinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•How do plumbers exist if there's no junior plumbersEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This kind of logic never made sense to me, like: if an AI could build something like Netflix (even if it needed the assistance of a mid software engineer), then it means every indie dev will be able to build a Netflix competitor, bringing the value of Netflix down. Open source tools would quickly reach a level where they’d surpass any closed source software, and would be very user-friendly without much effort.

    We’d see LLMs being used to create and improve rapidly infrastructure like compilers, IDEs and build systems that are currently complex and slow, rewrite any slow software into faster languages etc. So many projects that are stalled today for lack of manpower would be flourishing and flooding us with new apps and features in an incredible pace.

    I’m yet to see it happen. And that’s because for LLMs to produce anything with enough quality, they need someone who understands what they’re outputting, someone who can add the necessary context in each prompt, who can test it, integrate it into the bigger scheme without causing regressions etc. It’s no simple work and it requires even understanding LLMs’ processing limitations.