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by jwr 7mo ago
"Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way." -- Sundar Pichai Oh, how times have changed. And s
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by jwr 7mo ago
I have seen from the other side how this can happen. The people making the decisions do not understand the technical costs. In fact, many of them pretend to understand the technical costs and say things like "Well, it's just a sin
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by jwr 7mo ago
It is somewhat amusing that, looking back, my most informative and factually correct comments get downvoted. What gets the most upvotes is agreeing with popular opinion.
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by jwr 7mo ago
The EU, unfortunately, has shown to be very susceptible to this kind of lobbying in the past. We regularly see legislation that is being rammed and rushed through in spite of vocal opposition. I would be very, very worried. (EU citizen)
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by jwr 7mo ago
It also surprises me. Every company that creates a distributed database should pay for Jepsen testing. First, it is a great chance to improve their software, and second, if there are problems, they will eventually come to light anyway.
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by jwr 7mo ago
Measured 12x increase in issues fixed/implemented. Solo founder business, so these are real numbers (over 2 months), not corporate fakery. And no, I am not interested in convincing you, I hope all my competitors believe that AI is junk
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by jwr 7mo ago
My time spent in Emacs has *increased* with the increased use of AI. I have to read, edit, accept and reject all those code changes and Emacs+Magit is pretty much the best interface for that.
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by jwr 7mo ago
I am now waiting for Gruber (daringfireball.net) to post another rant about how terrible EU regulation is. Zero-knowledge proofs are the way to go for this type of thing, I find it mind-boggling that the US lets itself be bamboozled into co
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by jwr 7mo ago
Sure. But if you sync passkeys, are there any advantages apart from phishing protection? The biggest advantage for me is using the hardware secure enclave, thus effectively getting a 2nd factor.
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by jwr 7mo ago
No, because I do not understand what "kinds of coding" there are. Also, given the tone of this discussion, I am not sure I want to invest my time into it.
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by jwr 7mo ago
Yes, very much so, in detail. Just as I would with programmers. Also, LLM doesn't just "generate code" for me, we work together on design documents first. See, I started saying "we", because I found it to be such a
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by jwr 7mo ago
I could write the same comment myself. Also >30 years of experience. I actually think *more* than I used to, because I only get the hardest problems to solve. I mostly work on architectural documents these days.
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by jwr 7mo ago
Can we all just stop for a moment and admire the lingo? "Elevated errors" -> translation: our stuff is totally broken Everybody started saying "elevated errors" instead of "outage", because it sounds better.
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by jwr 7mo ago
Until you lose your device or it breaks suddenly.
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by jwr 7mo ago
It is terrible, slow, assumes that I receive my E-mail instantly (what if I use greylisting?), makes me check my E-mail when I don't want to. This as opposed to my password manager filling in the password field within a second or so. B
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by jwr 7mo ago
One of my favorite magit tricks: cF (commit with instant fixup). This lets you add a single-line change to a commit way back somewhere in the log.
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by jwr 7mo ago
> I never could convince even one to use it Most people think it's "just another interface on top of git" — without several in-depth examples it's difficult to realize that it actually allows you to complete really co
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by jwr 7mo ago
Magit is absolutely wonderful. It is one of the main tools I use daily to get my work done, especially now that AI does a lot of the work for me. I spend a lot of my time in magit looking at diffs! I would encourage anyone who relies on m
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by jwr 8mo ago
But the advantage here is — what? That I don't have to pay for it? I'm glad it works for you, but I'm in a (solo) business setup where I'd much rather pay a (very reasonable) amount of money for a tool that gets things r
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by jwr 8mo ago
Yes. I found Parakeet V3 (1.24GB) to be worse than Whisper (Large v3 Turbo, 20240930). Subtly worse, but still. I went back to Whisper because with dictation if you can't trust the tool, you won't bother to dictate.
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by jwr 8mo ago
Finally a take that I can agree with.
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by jwr 8mo ago
As a heavy user of MacWhisper (for dictation), I'm looking forward to better speech-to-text models. MacWhisper with Whisper Large v3 Turbo model works fine, but latency adds up quickly, especially if you use online LLMs for post-proces
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by jwr 8mo ago
So happy to see her back! It was a grueling journey and we were all crossing our thumbs, waiting and hoping…
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by jwr 8mo ago
I would probably upgrade my MacBook Pro at once, if it wasn't for the Tahoe disaster. Now, not so much, I'm inclined to wait until next year.
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by jwr 8mo ago
Incidentally, this client isolation thing can be extremely annoying in practice in networks you do not control. Hardware device makers just assume that everything is on One Big Wi-Fi Network and all devices can talk to all other devices and
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by jwr 8mo ago
The reason why US bus ridership is so low is because buses are terrible. They are dirty, loud, inconvenient to get onto, often badly designed inside (too many seats, too little space), with unsavory individuals making you feel unsafe. In su
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by jwr 8mo ago
I used both, AllegroCL commercially in production, and was disappointed in both. Especially AllegroCL given its price and promises made.
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by jwr 8mo ago
It's not just AI, replace "safe" with "open" and you will find a close match with many companies. I guess the difference is that after the initial phase, we are continuously being gaslighted by companies calling thi
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by jwr 8mo ago
Lots of big words there, but can I now expose the local Mathematica (confusingly renamed Wolfram a while ago) that I'm paying for, through MCP to Claude Code? Because it seems I can't and all the big words are about buying somethi
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by jwr 8mo ago
Yes, as simple as can be. It's the recommender system that made the difference, and that was dead simple, too, but resulted in a subjective "weighting" of scores: your recommendations would depend more on people who were like

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