AdamN

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by AdamN 7mo ago
I would also expect that the Deepseek devs are using MacBook. If not they may be using Linux - Windows is possible of course but not likely imho. I have no knowledge about that area though so would be interesting to here any primary sourc
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Also when the project becomes a dumpster fire and you have to save it - or go through months of justifying what path is being taken or be clear with leadership what needs to change or be fired for the failure.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Works fine for me. I wonder if you have some extension or script on one of the sites you use slowing down the tab closure.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
That's the broad developer community. 90%+ of the engineers at Big Tech and the technorati startups are on MacOS with 5% on Linux and the other 5% on Windows.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
I don't think you can get a DICOM-certified display at 5K and 27" for half the price. Probably like $1k less but that's it - and if you're a radiologist making $300k+ you're not going to want to cheap out on a disp
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Yeah if they put everything on the lower end device than nobody would buy the higher end device.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
The pixel density is the same I believe - I guess their theory is that 5K is more fungible than a large 6K display since people looking for more real estate can daisy chain the 5K displays.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
It's probably an easy win for them. It also might have been a good target when they were ideating on specs. Having these pro certifications gives the devices a halo of premium quality.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Interestingly Apple TV now has this - which I find kind of annoying since it asks every time I turn on the tv. Agree though that profiles should be there.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
All the real world libertarianism I've seen trends towards the Elon Musk kind. I almost intentionally use the word since I don't see any other outcome so it's important to use the word liberally :-)
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by AdamN 7mo ago
It's a massive distinction. I live in Germany and if the government said I couldn't have a job because of my race or ethnicity I think that would be majorly problematic. If they said I couldn't because I'm American I w
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by AdamN 7mo ago
MacOS supports multiple users - I would absolutely sandbox any agent like this and only slowly give it permissions (and never to anything that's critical without compensating controls).
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by AdamN 7mo ago
That was indeed the logic then. Keep in mind though that the internment was based on 'race' and 'ethnicity'. This action is based on citizenship and it's a job limitation not a forcible relocation into an open air
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by AdamN 8mo ago
There are a few people like that (we know who they are) but either tech has changed or I never noticed but a significant portion of the senior leadership in the tech world is MAGA (not in the dumb way - but in a far more problematic "t
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by AdamN 8mo ago
Yes - I didn't mean to imply it was only one of the OSes. Further up the comments people were talking about how memory efficiency is now more important but I was trying to make the point that with compression and virtual memory it sti
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by AdamN 8mo ago
I'm aligned there. I think it will be Google/Gemini gets 50% of the generic market and then OpenAI gets 30% (via Microsoft) and then a long tail. The rest of the vendors will be awesome at their markets (Claude Code for coders)
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by AdamN 8mo ago
This is the same as when Google got big (and Facebook, etc...). We have some privacy focused competitors (Kagi, etc...) but most people are quite happy to just give Google (and worse, Facebook) everything. AI is just a new technology but t
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by AdamN 8mo ago
I don't think they have a billion active users who opted-in. Google/Apple/Microsoft are the gatekeepers (for the most part) for retail users and they decide who is on by default. The USG isn't going to step-in and the
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by AdamN 8mo ago
It's not just that it's compressed - the OS is also intelligently handling which memory should be on hardware vs. virtual. Effectively a lot of the memory concerns have been offloaded to the OS and the VM where one exists.
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by AdamN 8mo ago
A lot of that is on the OS vendors (and security requirements drive some inefficiencies that didn't used to be needed either).
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by AdamN 8mo ago
Agree that the whiteboard thing is often not applicable but it's so nice when a developer has efficient code if only because it indicates that they know what's going on and also that there are fewer bugs and other bottlenecks in t
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by AdamN 8mo ago
I know it'a a bit of a pivot but the following would make me move: 1/ eSIM activation outside the US 2/ The family plan is weird. My wife and I don't want to manage two separate bills. 3/ multiple eSIMs and numbers
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by AdamN 8mo ago
Oh ... they don't care about the taxes their workers are paying :-) Apple probably got a nice little abatement for 20 years so they're doing ok.
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by AdamN 8mo ago
Agree - but in the US so much more could and should be done at the primary and secondary level before we even talk about the tertiary one. It's actually pretty good compared to other developed countries but a lot could be gotten out o
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by AdamN 8mo ago
Yeah I'm pretty nervous about engineers in charge. Merkel is interesting because her dad was reverend in the East. My reading of her is more that she was smart and there were good options in physics/chemistry - but then she effe
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by AdamN 8mo ago
It's bifurcated. Big Tech used it to increase the labor pool local to their existing development centers. The consultancies used it to drive down unit costs.
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by AdamN 8mo ago
In narrow terms this is bad for Indian entrepreneurs since it drives up engineering costs for them. It's good for Indian tech employees though since they can demand higher compensation. In broad terms it's good for the Indian tec
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by AdamN 8mo ago
I'm an outsider (not Catholic, raised Methodist) who just happens to be attending church this year; I'm not a member. The church is interesting because it's an immigrant church which is truly global (in Berlin with English s
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by AdamN 8mo ago
That's the ethos of the entire tiny home movement. Large houses consume a lot of time and mental energy just to maintain them and to walk from one side to the other. I noticed it a lot moving from a 3 story 2,500 sq ft home in Seattl
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by AdamN 8mo ago
Yeah, also Hetzner is smart enough to realize that a lot of people are moving to them who are "Buy EU"-driven and are less price sensitive (certainly the most valuable ones are). Hopefully they can take these higher prices and fu

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