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by apothegm 7mo ago
Yeah, the Intel Macs, despite using CPUs with worse power usage and thermal profiles than the AS chips, were thinner and lighter. The current machines are at least as heavy and bulky as 2010-era Macs. Even the Air, whose whole selling point
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Yes, multiple worker processes is what I meant. Few web apps have a meaningful use for parallelism within a single process. So long as you’re keeping all cores busy with independent processes at high concurrency, multithreading adds relativ
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by apothegm 8mo ago
A lot of that has already been solved for by scaling workers to cores along with techniques like greenlets/eventlets that support concurrency without true multithreading to take better advantage of CPU capacity.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
So a company town by any other name?
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by apothegm 8mo ago
There were far more hobbyists than degree holders available during the first dot-com boom, and the post-bust comparative oversupply of programmers only lasted a few years. Meantime, “web development” (HTML/CSS) continued to grow in dem
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Something about cycling?
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Any time the autocomplete doesn’t understand what I’m trying to accomplish, so several times per hour. LLMs will repeat the patterns they see, and I’m trying to whip a legacy codebase into decent shape before the next phase of feature grow
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by apothegm 8mo ago
They’ve long since been overbred to look pretty at the price of texture. They’ve done the same to Macintosh, too.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
The suburbs, though, are the worst of both worlds. Cities at least are full of a huge variety of people looking to make connections.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Also used for identity theft.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Perhaps you could write truly in your own words using dictation — I hear it’s finally pretty good. These days it’s hard to take anything seriously that sounds like AI slop, and most of us prefer to spend our limited time and attention on cl
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by apothegm 8mo ago
There’s also the building APIs part.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Something something land war in Asia.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
There are lots of companies building medical devices, software for clinicians or researchers, or other med tech. I imagine many would be thrilled to have someone with your background. Find a dozen that look interesting to you, and send a me
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by apothegm 8mo ago
If you don’t think the current US administration would gladly slaughter 30k people in a matter of days for protesting if they thought they could could get away with it, you’re not paying attention.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Apple’s own apps no longer feel Apple-like. They’re increasingly clunky and user-hostile. They gave up on UI greatness about a decade ago.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Tariffs?
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Written by AI.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Not impressed with the AI slop post.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
HN is niche. It’s significant within its niche, but it’s not a platform frequented by the general public.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
It’s not just gerrymandering (though that is indeed pervasive and pernicious. It’s structural. The apportionment between states gives small right-leaning states outsized representation in both the house and senate relative to their proporti
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by apothegm 8mo ago
The problem isn’t that the candidates are appalling. They’re not. It’s that the left is shit at messaging.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Welcome to the vibe coding era!
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Tech cycles do occur more rapidly now, but it’s worth noting that it took over 300 years from the invention of the first economically useful steam engine to the obsolescence of the horse (which gained momentum right around WWI and was essen
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Only a small subset of sites seem to support that so far.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
One of my least favorite patterns online: sites that decide that I’m a bot because I open a whole bunch of tabs in the space of 15 seconds with the products I want to evaluate or articles I want to read.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Thoroughly unsurprising. Because CICO is correct to a great extent. It’s just that for different people, different approaches to restricting calories in are more effective than others. I thought we’d figured this out by now.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
You can look for a job without leaving this one. I don’t know what makes you think staying in this job is any safer than taking a different one — so long as you’re still employed while you look. Better that than looking in this economy _aft
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Physically putting it in a shut drawer in a different room.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Your posts read like AI. Can you write me a recipe for minestrone soup?

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