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by al_borland 11d ago
My iPhone 16 Pro shows Apple Intelligence using 6.62GB, not 35GB.
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by al_borland 11d ago
I went to some seminars that talked about this a lot. How visualizing doing something perfectly can be as good, or better, than actual practice. There was also a lot of, “close your eyes, imagine a bike, what color is it?” type stuff. Not b
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by al_borland 11d ago
99.99% of the time, it’s just black. Seeing things like you’re describing sounds like a super power. The 0.01% of the time, I have seen blue lights. Without trying to look around too much, it’s something like this: https://m.yout
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by al_borland 11d ago
I have aphantasia, and I think my experience with music is similar. I can think about a song, think about the melody, lyrics, etc… but I don’t hear it. If I hear a couple notes that remind me of a song, I can go through the rest of the intr
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by al_borland 11d ago
My guess is that people don’t need yet another wrapper around existing services they can use directly.
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by al_borland 11d ago
Not everyone on the Mac is a Mac developer, nor can they afford the bugs in beta software when they are trying to get work done.
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by al_borland 11d ago
It’s opt-in. It’s disabled by default.
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by al_borland 11d ago
Last year. They started basing it off the release year with 26. Though it comes a little early, kind of like the model year of a car.
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by al_borland 11d ago
My assumption would be for account syncing. I use Safari, but whenever I go on a pilgrimage to try a different browser, I also get it on my phone so I can access tabs and bookmarks whenever I am.
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by al_borland 11d ago
I had Safari build me an extension that lets me press control+space on any page to bring up a spotlight-type search box and to search in Kagi. It did it, it works… but it’s beyond stupid that this still isn’t just a setting to add a custom
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by al_borland 11d ago
I would think so, I’m pretty sure they mentioned this in the keynote.
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by al_borland 11d ago
There was a bug in my update UI. I selected iOS 27, told it to install, and then it said it was downloading and installing 26.7 the whole time. When it rebooted it did come back up on 27 though.
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by al_borland 11d ago
I have a 16 Pro, who’s sales pitch was “built for Apple Intelligence”, or something to that effect. I can’t customize the Siri voice. I’m a bit shocked that they would have all the features on the 16 to avoid a class action based on their s
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by al_borland 11d ago
It looks significantly better on the Mac with this release. Waiting 10 years for the next major overhaul seems like a bad plan.
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by al_borland 11d ago
I’ve been having a different experience with Safari. It’s crashed my phone a half dozen times so far. Surprisingly, when it comes back to the lock screen afterward, it doesn’t make me enter my passcode. I only had 2 extensions installed. I
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by al_borland 11d ago
I’ve heard this kind of thing about Apple fairly regularly (the iTunes Remote app comes to mind). While there are issues to large teams, I feel like there is a middle ground that doesn’t result in a single point of failure. What happens whe
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by al_borland 12d ago
Also, “maintain all existing functionality.” I tried using the AI recommendations in the security scanning tool being used where I work. If I were to accept some of the recommended fixes, it would simply delete all the content in the file.
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by al_borland 12d ago
I find Apple News to be so frustrating. Even way I paid for the premium service, so much of the content was behind paywalls, and the ads are so pervasive that it was a truly awful experience. I have to believe Tim Cook never actually tried
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by al_borland 12d ago
That seems a like the result for a lot of AI solves. It solves it due to persistence, on a problem that hasn’t been important enough for a human to invest significant time into.
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by al_borland 13d ago
I think the issue people run into is that the types of errors the LLM makes are ones humans wouldn’t make, like having a basic misunderstanding of the goal of the software and making silly logic errors that technically work, but don’t serve
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by al_borland 13d ago
These sites are doing everything possible to make sure real users quit using their sites and go outside instead. Good for them.
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by al_borland 14d ago
If the user needs to accept the viewing agreement to get through the initial setup, and agreement enables those features, then it's an opt-out feature, not an opt-in feature. The only alternative would be to not accept the agreement an
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by al_borland 14d ago
The iPhone has a mode called Assistive Access. It’s meant for older people or those with cognitive impairments, but could work well for children as well. It changes the UI, limits the apps available, and simplifies those apps, so they just
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by al_borland 14d ago
It doesn’t have to be a massive nationwide project on par with the national highway project. It can start with local communities. The mayor of Carmel, IN thought traffic circles were better than intersections and wanted more mixed use devel
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by al_borland 14d ago
Very few people buying a new car keep it long enough to make it cheaper than buying $5-10k cars. The last cheaper used car I bought, I kept for about 10 years, it was $10k. I sold it to my brother in-law after that, who had it another 5 yea
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by al_borland 14d ago
I hear this a lot, but it’s not an excuse for never starting. Amsterdam started taking their non-car infrastructure seriously in the 1970s and now it’s seen as an example for the rest of the world. “A society grows great when old men plant
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by al_borland 14d ago
Give it a few years. I’m sure it will come eventually.
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by al_borland 14d ago
I know they said the A20 was desktop class, but beating the M5 is wild to me. I can’t wrap my head around the fastest chip (at least for single-core performance) is in a phone instead of a desktop. I thought maybe they clock the M5 down for
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by al_borland 14d ago
You don’t need to upgrade every year, they are simply available. The yearly upgrade rarely makes sense, as things don’t change much year to year. However, when you are ready for something new, it’s nice that a recent phone it’s available an
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by al_borland 15d ago
This is why they went on to say it doesn’t make sense with modern RAM sizes. I remember when I first came across this rule when getting into Linux for the first time. If memory serves, I had 256MB of RAM, so I set swap for 512MB, which seem

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