CharlesW

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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   Aperture (RIP) is never coming back, but many of us Aperature fans have been happily using Nitro¹, built by the guy who led Aperture and other imaging teams at Apple². ¹ https://www.gentlemencoders.com/nitro-for-macos/i
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   Thanks! For me, learning more about the setup for that (mostly autonomous?) build process would be more engaging than spending a minute with the result.
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   I know I could've done this at any time, but I cannot wait to sit my kids down in front of full-screen Oregon Trail and King's Quest experiences.
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   What are the broad strokes of K3's design? What did you learn?
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   > It would've been nice to reserve "AI" for superior human-like intelligence capable of genuine common sense and reasoning. We've called that "AGI" since the late 90s/early 00s (depending on whether y
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   Or if we want to be slightly more pendantic, why `libfdk_aac` (not SoundCloud per se) defaultly restricts the input's frequency range when encoding. My guess is that this default surprised SoundCloud, and that this blog post is an at
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   Of course.
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   You can do `/code-review low` to more closely match Codex's default behavior.
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   by CharlesW 3mo ago

   FWIW, Via Licensing listed this patent as standards-essential to several MPEG codecs (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266), and it's also listed for VC-1 (a SMPTE standard).
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    I Turned a 1982 Vectrex into the Strangest Spotify Player [video](youtube.com)

    3 points by CharlesW 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    For anyone who may not be aware it exists: https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio
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    Spotify Deleted 75M AI-Generated Tracks – and It's Not Done Yet(gadgetreview.com)

    2 points by CharlesW 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    I believe the point is that emoticons/emoji/kaomoji were never literal, and that it's surprising that anyone whose job is communications-related would say this.
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    Not to bikeshed, but isn't the word "mojibake" synonymous with "when character encoding breaks"?
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    Notably, PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi told CNBC this, so it’s either (1) bullshit, or (2) he just ended any chance of a relationship by leaking news of the talks.
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    > He was not annoyed about the closed garden, he was annoyed that it wasn't his. Those are reasonable guesses, but as someone who was at Apple at the time (in developer relations, with Adobe/Macromedia among my developers), n
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    > I don't like USB-C because they all look the same on the outside, but they're not all the same on the inside. Many people don't realize that USB-C (USB Type-C) just refers to the physical connector. At minimum, speed a
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    Close! (I had to look it up.) "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." ( Neuromancer , William Gibson)
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    Sounds very intriguing! Please reach out (see my profile) when you're ready to share more.
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    Not silly at all. For Compose Multiplatform, Axiom won't do much for code review or generation. It might be useful for operations on the built app: console capture, crash symbolication, simulator UI/accessibility driving, CPU prof
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    I'm glad that it's been valuable for you!
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    Axiom covers only native APIs and tools, but the Flutter team maintains what looks like a nice set of skills at https://github.com/flutter/agent-plugins , and the Dart team at https://github.com/dart-lan
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    If it's okay to mention my own complementary open source project, Axiom¹ does a good job of helping coding harnesses know how to do this effectively for Apple OS development. In addition to a deep roster of skills and agencts, Axiom in
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    Not your keys, not your songs: Last rites for Nina Protocol(components.news)

    2 points by CharlesW 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    I'd just note that (1) Rob did set a record whether or not he meant to¹, and (2) Kelsey also did not intend to break the men's record. ¹ https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/384202-fa...
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    This project appears to be an LLM-rewritten Elk ( https://github.com/cesanta/elk ), as noted elsewhere in the thread. That project was established in 2019.
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    It's kind of buried here, but Kelsey is the fastest human to do this. She beat the male record holder's time by 6 days.
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    Reject Modernity, Return To 80s, Learn C(hackaday.com)

    21 points by CharlesW 3mo ago|3 comments
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    [deleted because pointless]
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    by CharlesW 3mo ago

    > We generated a big pile of artifacts, we are publishing all of them, and you can form your own opinion. My opinion is that spamming HN with two gimmicky "one-shot prompting shootout" marketing pieces in two days does not bu