Terretta

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by Terretta 9mo ago
It's lovely, not “always has been” but since, say, 5.10. // I'm an originally Pascal and assembly dev (learned most Internet dev langs along the way) who hated what people did with Java (until last 5 years), failed to li
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Fantastic project, and imma save it for several ambient info things I'm looking to do. But the LLM patterns and wording are tedious, especially: No this. No that. No the other. Just much, sameness, repeated. - And the bulleted question
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by Terretta 9mo ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774108
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Apple updates iOS 12.5.8 for iPhone 5s from 13 years ago, iOS 15, 16, 18 too(iphoneincanada.ca)
2 points by Terretta 9mo ago|2 comments
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Can't scroll 2nd page within iPad window. Can't slide window down to reveal more of it. Don't see any rank or vote affordances. UPDATE: After trying more, found that if using the iPad with a trackpad, then a pointer "mou
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by Terretta 9mo ago
> Quite a performance to reach 2 hours on that little battery.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
> they can get you places really effectively! But those who require them to get anywhere won't get very far without power.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Sure, sure, and next you'll tell me there's a way to know which side of the car the gas cap is on.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
We replaced the periodic table with elements for five times the reaction.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
See also rtings.com, with 4,359 products bought and tested. https://www.rtings.com/company/how-we-make-money
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Tracking versions is easy. Controlling versions is hard. Knowing what the actual semantic deltas are in binary files (what your doc examples claimed) is hard. Now you say you're not tackling that problem, so the docs are doubly weird
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by Terretta 9mo ago
> the volume of AI scrapers is making hosting untenable Aside from that potential, it's also not true. A Pentium Pro or PIII SSE with circa 1998-99 Apache happily delivers a billion hits a month w/o breaking a sweat unless yo
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Intern generated code does not substitute for tech lead thinking, testing, and clean up/rewrite.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
### The answer that fits everything (and what to do about it)
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Some feedback about the primary use case. Your Lix doc (LLM written but with typos?) is sort of weird, handwaving how Lix does version control over, say, Excel, to say it's about working with SQL databases: How does Lix work? Lix ad
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Apple Beats California Privacy Law Claims in Data Tracking Suit(news.bloomberglaw.com)
3 points by Terretta 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Not only by LLM, but the same astroturf soliciting engagement bot style that's all over Reddit -- as is the single comment reply.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
The Daylight Computer is a delight — the perfect tablet for blue skies and no shade. https://daylightcomputer.com/
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by Terretta 9mo ago
> so much of a complicated nuisance that most people simply give up Most people should give up. The number of legitimate unsigned apps for MacOS that your grandparents should frictionlessly one-click-to-install is essentially nil.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
I almost noted on that as I've harped on sub-200ms for web responsiveness since the 90s. However, reacting to something you see is a diff thing than sensing intra key-to-char lag in flow. In CS, responding to what's on screen is d
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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions(arstechnica.com)
81 points by Terretta 9mo ago|87 comments
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by Terretta 9mo ago
> What is your use case that you see UI lag between vscode and sublime? … I think this is … posturing … Typing with pleasure: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ Study the graphs. Ready the copy. If you
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Not sure it's dreams to say "community-funded". Depends on terminology. The funding assertion leverages the re-definition of “community” in “community funded” and relates to why all those big projects offer CE or Community E
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by Terretta 9mo ago
I agree with you, however: One of the qualia of a product is cost. Another is contemporaneity . If we put these together, we see a wide array of products which, rather than just being trash, hit a sweet spot for "up-to-date yet didn
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Even works just doing it for yourself, Personal Kanban style: https://www.personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/ I recommend Sunsama: https://www.sunsama.com
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Agree... Look at “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” (Royce 1970) Figure 10 on scanned page 338: https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf Whatever you do, do not stop on Figure 2's infa
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by Terretta 9mo ago
arguably: incorrectly guessed* in a way, all overconfident guessing is a better match for the result than hallucination or fabrication would be "confabulation", though, seems perfect: “Confabulation is distinguished from lying as
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by Terretta 9mo ago
> Google … constantly measures and reviews the quality of its summaries across many different categories of information, it added. Notice how little this sentence says about whether anything is any good.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
COMPLETELY agree. I still own and use those LGs.
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by Terretta 9mo ago
Sure does. I imagine a combination of stop loss and market share. If larger shops use up compute, you can't capture as many customers by headcount. // There was a figure around o3, an astonishing model punching far above the

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