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by ezst 5mo ago
Then you made the right choice, and it's only unfortunate that not enough of you made the same to tip the scales in favour of mercurial, or at least to avoid the monopolistic situation we are in now. I might say that I stopped thinking
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by ezst 5mo ago
Do they? They came to the realisation that they control a sufficient fraction of the market that your preference as a consumer no longer matters to them.
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by ezst 5mo ago
> select a rectangle and perform OCR You get that out of the box on an up to date KDE, from the screenshoting application Spectacle.
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by ezst 5mo ago
https://www.scala-js.org/ is quite phenomenal.
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by ezst 5mo ago
> never use code that can stop working until you pay ransom Funny because that describes pretty much exactly "cloud-first" software architecture, and people jumping on it in troves, unexplainably.
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by ezst 5mo ago
ok, now bring-up a photo and datasheet of the flagship model from each of those brands, and articulate how they effectively depart from one another on metrics such as ergonomics, operating system, and hardware specs such as CPU/GPU&#x2
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by ezst 5mo ago
> This should be for the market to decide, not EU bureaucrats. Ohh sweet summer child... We are in an era of obscene consolidation, in pretty much every sector, wealth is being consolidated to degrees unseen before, oligopolies enshrine
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by ezst 6mo ago
Not sure I agree. You can "blind type" on a physical keyboard, and even if it has less sophistication in the way of inputting large amounts of text (lack of auto complete, lack of fuzzy typing/auto correct), a calculator is p
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by ezst 6mo ago
> MacOS by far has the least bugs and kinda just works. MacOS is sometimes so weird and inconsistent that it's hard to tell whether it's a bug of Apple usual's "you are not smart/cool-enough to understand" k
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by ezst 6mo ago
> But the sad reality is that x86 processors are falling behind in performance. The Intel Core Ultra X7 358H is a whopping 35% slower than the M5 Pro 35% is the generational difference between the M4 pro to the M5 pro¹. Don't drink
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by ezst 6mo ago
I happen to have a pair of airpod pro 2 and some Sony's (the airpods being a gift). Nothing about the airpods strikes me as being clearly superior, which is surprisingly rare for Apple products: they tend to all stand out in one way or
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by ezst 6mo ago
> Siri is STILL utter garbage. Always was. If Apple had an easy trick to make it any good or useful, they would have already. LLMs aren't that, so Siri remains what it is.
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by ezst 6mo ago
Does the Dolby treatment carry into Linux with comparable performance, or does "best sound" require Windows?
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by ezst 6mo ago
30% slower than a M5 is a M3/M4. I will take that, thank, and not concern myself with MacOS or the thousand cuts of leaving x86.
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by ezst 6mo ago
3. Is what I call a smart move. Sometimes the game is won by not playing, and it's increasingly obvious that the LLM race leads to nowhere (there is no moat, there is nothing unique or clever that Apple can build out of it that can&#x2
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by ezst 6mo ago
> craftsmanship What marketing does to people
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by ezst 6mo ago
I mean, why not? Fairphones showed it can be done, to an extent. At least this should be pursued. One step at a time, though.
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by ezst 6mo ago
Yes, what about airpods? Little reason to buy them if you are not in the Apple ecosystem, and if you are, and you are a careful buyer, you'll probably settle with other brands which are technically ahead (in either of build, sound or A
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by ezst 6mo ago
This is actually one thing I think will be great as AI coding agents get better. Companies whose main expertise is code reviewing might start producing better software.
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by ezst 6mo ago
I haven't used a touchpad in recent years that wasn't "good enough", I really don't obsess about those (but I acknowledge that many do here), but I profoundly dislike MacBooks' keyboards. Anyhow, let's not
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by ezst 6mo ago
If history is a lesson (of going from lower level to higher level programming languages), the exact opposite will happen: there'll just be so much stuff out there that any eventual gain in efficiency will be dwarfed in the grand scheme
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by ezst 6mo ago
I was rather hostile towards WebUSB/Bluetooth for ideological reasons, until I came across some cool apps like a climbing board control app (Bluetooth) or a netMD (to transfer to minidisks, via USB), which I would have found overkill t
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by ezst 6mo ago
Disagree. I want a replaceable battery in my phone. They can get to extensible memory next. And it's not because you don't care about something that you should remove this freedom from me. And don't tell me that the market wi
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by ezst 6mo ago
> Reality check, they are already astoundingly meaningful and transformative AI The onus of the proof regarding their meaningful and transformative nature is on you. The largest niche LLMs have so far managed to carve for themselves is s
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by ezst 6mo ago
And I'm not an AI doomer, but hell no, give me another space program/station over this every single time and pretty please. We are not pioneering new engineering science or creating a pipeline of hard research and innovation that
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by ezst 6mo ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if in 2-3 years the "max" plan is $800 or $2000 even. I'd rather be surprised if they are still doing business by then.
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by ezst 6mo ago
By the nature of LLMs, there's no reason to think it would.
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by ezst 6mo ago
That's why I miss the days of old fashioned GUI toolkits (before the web thought of itself as an application distribution platform): you would just design any app as a bag of typical controls in typical containers, and you and your use
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by ezst 6mo ago
It's because you are holding it wrong! --courtesy for all the LLM pushers so they don't have to bother commenting on this one
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by ezst 6mo ago
> Sure, but since commits have a branch attribute attached to them, "rebasing" does not appear to be "first class". Again, that's orthogonal: you may or may not use "named branches" (the kind of which p

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