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by cageface 11mo ago
This matches my experience. Codex is just more capable. But Sonnet is also quite good and much faster. So lately I'll start with Sonnet for everything but the most complex tasks and then switch to Codex when needed.
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by cageface 1y ago
For writing code at least this has been exactly my experience. GPT5 is the best but slow. Sonnet 4.5 is a few notches below but significantly faster and good enough for a lot of things. I have yet to get a single useful result from Gemini.
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by cageface 1y ago
This has not been my experience with Flutter at all. It's made building a non trivial cross platform app so much easier and for the few things I've needed to drop down to native it's been very easy.
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by cageface 1y ago
He very often brings other knowledge to bear in conversations that clearly wasn't just prep work for the specific topic. He's not strong on science but he has a firm grounding in literature, philosophy and history that isn't
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by cageface 1y ago
It won't be easy to find somebody with his breadth of knowledge to replace him.
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by cageface 1y ago
I finally gave up and pulled all my iOS apps from the store after receiving yet another app update rejection from a reviewer that clearly hadn't spent 5 minutes trying to understand what the app is for. I'm tired of begging for ha
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by cageface 1y ago
You could give my app a shot too: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
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by cageface 1y ago
You could also try my app: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
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by cageface 1y ago
Maybe this could explain why mental illness & creativity seem to be so closely related? Just as one example, James Joyce's daughter was schizophrenic.
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by cageface 1y ago
but this depends on the antecedent claim that much if not all of reason is strictly representational and strictly linguistic. Most of these newer models are multi-modal, so tokens aren't necessary linguistic.
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by cageface 1y ago
My experience too. Here in Bangkok I never bother to even open it anymore.
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by cageface 1y ago
Even if you like the general direction of SwiftUI it's way less mature on the mac and being tied to the OS version means you have to deal with all the churn it's had in the last three years to ship with it on the mac. Very few dev
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by cageface 1y ago
This might be true in the US but it's close to worthless in a lot of the rest of the world.
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by cageface 1y ago
You could give my app a shot too: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
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by cageface 2y ago
Only in the US. Apple Maps is still far behind Google Maps in most of the rest of the world.
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by cageface 2y ago
I think the term you're looking for is virtue signaling.
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by cageface 2y ago
Yeah that view builder syntax is a perfect example of optimizing for the wrong thing. It makes for nice short examples but in real apps your compile times explode trying to untangle these crazy generics and the compiler very often just thro
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by cageface 2y ago
You can really see this when trying to build apps with Swift & SwiftUI. The language and the framework seem to be optimized for nice terse WWDC demos but both fall apart pretty quickly when you start to do any heavy UI lifting with them
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by cageface 2y ago
If I have a complex structure MyStruct that I make recursively readonly it doesn't show up in the IDE as DeepReadOnly<MyStruct> or something like that. It shows up as a huge tree of nested readonly declarations, so the original t
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by cageface 2y ago
Right this is what I tried to do but unfortunately trying to mark everything immutable in Typescript leads to some very unergonomic type signatures. Hopefully this can improve in the future.
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by cageface 2y ago
I recently came to this realization in a large typescript codebase. It's really important to understand who owns data and who has the right to modify it. Having tools to manage this and make it explicit built into the language is so he
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by cageface 2y ago
It's both desktop and mobile. If you're browsing on mobile it will show you screenshots of the mobile app. The sync app is separate, free app just used for serving files to the mobile app for syncing though.
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by cageface 2y ago
Most of my classmates would have been very interested in an academic career if they thought their chances were even one in ten and this was in a top tier program. And they were all totally willing to relocate too.
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by cageface 2y ago
When I was in graduate school the chances of getting a tenured position weren't anywhere close to 1 in 3. Where are you getting that number?
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by cageface 2y ago
You could add mine to that list: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
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by cageface 2y ago
I guess I just see so many of these "the whole industry except for me is doing it wrong" kinds of posts but almost never see anybody really back it up with anything concrete that I've grown extremely skeptical.
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by cageface 2y ago
I think I'd need a lot more than one claim with no evidence that this is true but I appreciate the thoughtful response all the same. Outside of really edge case stuff like real time low level systems software optimizing performance is
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by cageface 2y ago
If you really think what you're doing can be easily generalized then you're leaving a lot of money on the table by not doing it.
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by cageface 2y ago
This is the inevitable result of decades of feature creep in software that tries to be too general and meet every enterprise edge case.
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by cageface 2y ago
You can get all the software quality you want if you're willing to pay for it. Users have now been taught that $10 is a lot to pay for an app and the result is a lot of buggy, slow software.

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