JimDabell

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by JimDabell 4mo ago
It became feasible to switch to CSS layouts for complex websites and apps in the early 00s. How early depended upon your target demographics and skill set. Lots of people who didn’t want to learn new ways of doing things carried on using ta
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> We’re being asked to usher in huge productivity gains by introducing AI to our workflows, but we’re not asking how does it help us? Not a lot of us stand to directly gain from our employers becoming more productive. How much money do y
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
“Opt-in by default” is an oxymoron. If it’s default then I haven’t opted into anything. It’s been enabled by default.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
When you are ready to record a change, split your current working changeset and pick the things you want to commit. It’s equivalent to staging then committing with Git.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
As far as I can see out-of-order streaming is only half the described functionality – there is also HTML streaming & revamped DOM parsing which does not have the positive signals that out-of-order streaming does: https://gi
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
You didn’t answer my question: do you think they are doing this? AWS already have a strategy in place for what you describe. They are very liberal in giving out credits. They don’t do it by subsidising prices.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
When I go to Amazon and pay them for DeepSeek inference, do you think that Amazon are subsidising that?
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
There’s a pretty clear example of Zitron being dishonest here: > I also severely doubt that Anthropic managed to make the cost of running its services profitable in the space of six months. > [Per The Information in January], Anthropi
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
According to Dario Amodei, Anthropic are even profitable when including inference as long as you look at it on a per-model basis; it’s just that every model is more expensive to train than the last one. For instance, if you have already spe
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> can you find the members of this culture that like getting slopgrenaded? A communication culture needs both speakers and listeners. I see the speakers, I have yet to see the listeners. I could just be missing them though. Head over to
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
That’s what the --dry-run argument is for.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Which statement of mine do you think is not settled law? Which law do you think is being broken and how? Your objection doesn’t make sense. In the event that an AI company loses a lawsuit for copyright infringement based on simply training
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> I'd like to understand why I can't use a song in one of my videos without permission/payment, but an AI company can train models using that song without having either. Because when you say you are “using” the song, what
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
It’s not necessarily going to be Google, but the rise of AI does not look good for the web, and it’s a largely self-inflicted wound. Have you not noticed that the typical user experience on the web is dire? You need to click through trackin
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
They had 40% margin on inference in 2025. https://archive.is/aKFYZ You can quibble about the exact numbers, but I think it’s fairly clear at this point that inference is profitable with decent margins. Like you say, unit ec
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> Ed Zitron https://www.wheresyoured.at/ has done the math, and it's pretty bleak. Ed Zitron is constantly wrong and writes like a child having a tantrum, I don’t understand why you take him seriously? https:/
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Two hours of cardio into your daily routine is ~40% higher than the upper bound suggested by the article. A lot of people can get this level of exercise by walking or cycling to work. Even for those people that can’t, it’s something to cons
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> AFAICT, this is a web standard and expected to get buy in from Safari and Firefox before shipping to users. If it hasn’t already got buy in then it isn’t a web standard, it’s just a Google proposal. Something isn’t automatically a web
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> Isn’t their explicit claim that they’re doing this to extend battery life? I thought this was already litigated? Yes, and yes. Batteries are consumable goods and throttling can make aging, borderline batteries work when otherwise they
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Tim Cook has been pretty clear where he stands: > “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he said, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” It was the same thing for environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas th
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> Isn't Tailwind easy to understand when you look at the codebase, rather than putting in more effort to learn a pure CSS codebase? No, I don’t think that’s the case at all.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
CSS pixels are weirder: http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
One thing that has always struck me about Tailwind is that practically every argument its proponents use more or less boils down to “I never learnt CSS beyond a junior level” . It’s super common to hear Tailwind advocates say things like
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> I made a PR to fix it but the maintainers haven't applied it. :-( https://github.com/encode/httpx/pull/3733 Unfortunately, you may be the wrong gender to contribute to Encode repositories like httpx
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Similarly, the Windows wallpaper with the metallic bubbles is the Selfridges shop in the Bullring, Birmingham, UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridges_Birmingham
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
A similar thing happened here in Singapore. Otters were endangered, but after the government worked to clean up the waterways, they came back. They are now thriving, to the point where my condo has signs up saying “What to do when you enco
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Not to mention the fact that the default settings are to ask the user before sending anything to ChatGPT, and you can selectively disable just the ChatGPT integration while leaving Apple Intelligence enabled.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
These are known as tautological place names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Amusingly: > AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong > us-east-1 is no longer a merrily burning dumpster fire of sadness and regret. — https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-yo
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
In the beginning was RSS 0.x. It was originally intended to be based on RDF. Compromises were made and it ended up dropping the RDF. The spec. wasn’t very good and had several ambiguities. Some people forged ahead with a cleaned up RDF-base

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