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by kenferry 6d ago
This article is doing comparisons with the same subjects and lighting…
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by kenferry 6d ago
I… guess? I'm not sure why this was posted. None of these changes seem important.
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by kenferry 9d ago
A lot - title could probably use editing. The language has no heap, only stack memory, so the only deallocation is returning from a call stack frame.
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by kenferry 10d ago
> Everything looks like a problem solvable by reduce. (I'm often wrong on that, but I quite enjoy learning why by trying). I agree, but I think that’s kind of the objection. It can be tempting to write your code as little braintease
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by kenferry 10d ago
I’m not a fan of this kind of “fancy” optimization anyway. It’s too fragile. I may make some innocuous change, now the compiler cannot recognize the pattern and performance falls off the cliff. I’d rather have the reliabile performance than
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by kenferry 13d ago
That's true enough, but I don't think the conclusion is "don't regulate". Try it, iterate, figure it out. It'll be painful but so be it.
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by kenferry 16d ago
I think the big difference here is that it's opt-in, off by default, and also not included with shared images by default. This is a feature because you use it when you WANT to be able to demonstrate an image wasn't altered /
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by kenferry 16d ago
You want there to be separate lines for "how long do you want your stems"? Looking forward to your 18 SKU product matrix of decisions people have to make that they don't know what answer to choose.
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by kenferry 1mo ago
The materials cost between those buns is practically nothing. OP is reaching.
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by kenferry 2mo ago
I don't know. AI are basically trained to tell you what you want to hear, including when they're disagreeing with you. If you come off of your conversation with AI with a stronger belief than when you went in, is that merited? &qu
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by kenferry 2mo ago
You sort of side stepped the author's point, though. > In medicine you have the modern labs which automate a lot and you have the old labs. These 'neolabs' are better because of intelligence. The author is not denying that
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by kenferry 2mo ago
There are areas of academia where I definitely worry about this kind of thing, but not really database research (and in general CS is a lot less worrisome than most fields). It's a good thing when industry is a competitively attractive
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by kenferry 2mo ago
I was there too, but this blog post agrees with my memory. I agree with you that Snow Leopard was billed as no USER VISIBLE features. But people did NOT just fix niggling bugs, it was an architecturally huge release. E.g., it introduced GCD
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by kenferry 3mo ago
100%. Author's point is more like "don't vibe code if you have to maintain it". The code is your responsibility, and it's your responsibility to understand it and maintain it (using the tools your have available). S
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by kenferry 3mo ago
Inside joke. Apple's marketing guy used the word "courage" as an explanation when removing the headphone jack.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
They weren't banned, but adult websites were not why people bought the original iPhone. Neither the military nor porn were the drivers of smart phone adoption.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
I don’t think either of those drove smart phone adoption.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
On what platform? It invoked WebKit always on iOS in the early days, html or not. On Mac, AppKit could import html to attributed strings before WebKit existed.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
I mean, is it political when you write a paper that concludes that vaccines are effective or that fish die when streams are polluted? The answer seems to have become "yes", so this is a rhetorical question, but ideally _informatio
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by kenferry 4mo ago
I mean, I don't think we should legalize Fentanyl.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
I wasn't close enough to that to know how long a world build took. Didn't seem like it was too crazy though. Incremental (non-world) builds of the OS come out every day.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
I have this impression because I know the native controls are terrific at rich text, so for some reason that support isn't done in a way the author wants to use. The source code of the TextEdit app on Mac is actually published as an ex
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by kenferry 4mo ago
Er, I agree it's incredibly old, but also has been treated as societal ill and subject to regulation for its entire history.
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by kenferry 4mo ago
I enjoyed FiveThirtyEight back in the day, but does anyone actually go back and look at the old posts? They were very much of the moment. I'd imagine the vast vast majority of the traffic to them is robots. I can see why they wouldn&#x
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by kenferry 4mo ago
You’re confusing iOS and Mac OS here. The Mac never used WebKit for NSTextField rendering. When iOS was first written, WebKit was used as the text renderer everywhere initially, including in UIKit controls (the “sweet solution”). This prove
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by kenferry 4mo ago
The native Apple libraries are terrific at rendering rich text, it’s one of their strongest assets. The poster’s issues seem to be specifically because they want to use markdown as the backing. The native rich text backing for native Apple
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by kenferry 5mo ago
I worked at Apple for a long time. The OS gets fully recompiled regularly. A simultaneous total world build is relatively rare (is that needed here?), but it does happen. Sometimes new compiler versions or features need this.
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by kenferry 5mo ago
Most people making this argument aren’t saying they were incapable of doing the project without AI, they’re saying the cost benefit equation was unfavorable because it would take too long.
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by kenferry 5mo ago
Ok, but not what this article is about at all. Six figures is for undergrads. The issue here is that PIs don’t have the money to support graduate students, who are typically fully supported.
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by kenferry 5mo ago
I mean, this is semantics. Production is not the same thing as "important", but to me production code means customer facing. Internal tooling isn't production.

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