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by hackrmn 6mo ago
The hero image on the linked page, which consists of a muted teal background with the words "Introducing Muse Spark", weighs in at 3,5MB. I don't even...
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by hackrmn 6mo ago
I, for one, share the sentiment with the author: > But I suspect that only creatures that have hopes and dreams and fears similar to our own would actually have much impact on human loneliness. And finding that sort of creature may be a
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by hackrmn 6mo ago
For all his infamy, Jobs held Apple together in large part through his uncompromising perfectionism and attention to the kind of details that have since been demoted to "we'll fix it in the next version" or the equivalent of
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by hackrmn 6mo ago
Fair enough, I deserved that :-)
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by hackrmn 6mo ago
Indeed, thanks for spotting that, as I myself remember discovering there's at least two. Thing is, I had learned and started with Mike Farah's `yq`, not the pass-through-to-`jq` variant written in Python that's often more eas
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by hackrmn 6mo ago
Having used `jq` and `yq` (which followed from the former, in spirit), I have never had to complain about performance of the _latter_ which an order of magnitude (or several) _slower_ than the former. So if there's something faster tha
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by hackrmn 6mo ago
When you say "unit of work", unit of _which_ work are you referring to? The problem with rebasing is that it takes one set of snapshots and replays them on top of another set, so you end up with two "equivalent" units of
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by hackrmn 7mo ago
Just want to raise my hand and say I too have been using em dashes for considerably longer than LLM has been on every hacker's lips. It's obviously not great being accused of being an AI just because one has a particular style of
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
Every time Web Components is being fronted, one has to duly inform the reader that Apple _rightfully_ refuses to implement what in my humble opinion is at least one broken piece of the specification that if implemented -- and it is implemen
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
I am reading opinions here from agent users, but I haven't adopted the "agentic workflow" myself because I believe I am (for now) now getting a lot of my trouble's worth using Gemini (3 Pro) in the traditional conversati
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
I have been blind and read your "blue" as "white", sorry. Most of my comment only makes sense in that umm, light, pardon the pun.
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
It wasn't obvious to me -- I misread "blue" as "white". `#fff` is device color, it's short for `#ffffff` which is 24-bit RGB that predates sRGB, as does true color device support. I was sending 24-bit RGB to VE
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
I think your wish is self-contradicting. `#fff` is so-called _device_ colour -- a device like a LED-based display uses it directly to drive the LEDs, where `#fff` means that the red, the green and the blue channel are already "cranked
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
Tip: look into setting the value of the `spellcheck` HTML attribute/property to `false` for your element labels -- I am looking at red wavy underlines under every "GND", "uF" etc, on the [linked] front page. Spell-c
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
Like different parts of the brain. Frontal cortex, speech center (in the back), motorics etc.
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
The entire AI bubble _is_ a big deal, it's just that we don't have the capacity even collectively to understand what is going on. The capital invested in AI reflects the urgency and the interest, and the brightest minds able to an
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
> A LLM is stateless Unless you mean by that something entirely different than what most people specifically on Hacker News, of all places, understand with "stateless", most and myself included, would disagree with you regardin
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
> it just takes tokens in, prints tokens out, and comparatively The problem with your assumption that I see is that we collectively can't tell for sure whether the above isn't also how humans work. The science is still out on w
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
This article has done rounds on the ITernet before. Maybe because it resonates with people (who repost it time and again). Anyway, I very much agree with the idea. In my experience, "text" or "string" is not a type. Tech
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
Thanks for this gem! This brings back _memories_! I think I won't even stand out from the crowd here mentioning me and the gang watched the hell out of the VHS back when, in our circle it was a different world than I suppose even for p
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
I am one of those people who will call out those patronisingly asserting something like "Oh, god, XML! So happy we could finally evolve past _that_". And yeah, XML wasn't perfect -- people harping on it are literally flogging
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by hackrmn 8mo ago
Why not "amortise" the period of sending keystrokes -- buffer them in a queue, and process the queue for sending these on a regular (and short enough for the human at the client end feeling the interactivity) interval, so there&#x
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I have to say reading the statement "requires some pretty aggressive permissions to work" sounds like there's a problem with Android permissions model. I mean, if the app needs permissions, one should normally assume it needs
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I think your argument is flawed -- perhaps rephrasing it to say is that _Apple_ tried bringing back a smaller _iPhone_ and _presumably_ few _existing_ customers bought them, would have made a better one? Because I would assume most of iPhon
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by hackrmn 1y ago
In all frankness, I think this is the legandary "if people wanted a faster horse..." statement of Henry Ford -- consumers don't always know what they want, and I know quite a few who couldn't confidently answer the quest
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I haven't thought about it as much as I have about sizes, but you do have an interesting point to ponder. I can only offer an explanation, but no consolation: I guess electronics has gotten denser, and density for the same volume is wh
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by hackrmn 1y ago
The context is the same though, regardless of screen size? The UI and/or UX doesn't change much when the screen is physically smaller? The resolution usually stays the same, and even if it shrank or grew, most apps wouldn't c
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by hackrmn 1y ago
And don't forget _overdimensioning_. Vendors love this because volume scales cubically with increase in any one of width, height and depth -- they're not the ones carrying the phone, but they can pack more features into one, quite
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Why do they keep making them BIGGER and BIGGER? Our hands don't grow that fast, most adult males have been struggling using their phone with one hand. Only the vocal minority prefers to oversized phone-computer, most of us just want to
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Indeed, on the point of parser generators utilizing "text"-based grammar [files], Lexy is not among these.

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