leptons

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by leptons 6mo ago
Apple hardware isn't exceptional, it's maybe slightly above average, sometimes, and still costs more than it should - even the neo with its paltry 8GB of RAM. Apple has had plenty of hardware problems and design foibles. So many
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by leptons 6mo ago
The only thing a vibe coder should be able to copyright, is the prompt text they wrote. Not the output of the LLM, only the text they wrote to instruct the LLM what to do. And even that is pretty iffy, because most of it like "put a bu
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by leptons 6mo ago
Maybe you missed the part where I said "And I don't like it one bit"?
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by leptons 6mo ago
Apple also shouldn't force you to use Safari if you install Chrome on iOS, but so far the DOJ hasn't followed through with the antitrust lawsuit started under the previous administration. I guess gold participation trophies are en
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by leptons 6mo ago
There is no way in hell I would give an LLM direct access to a database to write whatever query it wants. Just no way. I'll create some safe APIs that I give the LLM access to where it can interact with a limited set of things the data
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by leptons 6mo ago
What makes you think the people dealing with the LLMs' code won't also be using LLMs to "deal with it"? We're all now basically junior coders who have no idea what is in the codebase. Without LLMs, we won't be
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by leptons 6mo ago
What makes you think I haven't tried it myself? The "costs" are subsidized, it's a loss-leader.
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by leptons 6mo ago
That's all well and good, but what happens when the price to run these AIs goes up 10x or even 100x. It's the same model as Uber, and I can't afford Uber most of the time anymore. It's become cost prohibitive just to tak
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by leptons 6mo ago
>I think you underestimate how popular Pokemon is. No, I think you are overestimating how popular pokemon is. >By most objective measures it's the largest entertainment franchise in all of history. I don't care? Only a sma
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by leptons 6mo ago
Sorry, no, I am not supporting Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android or multiple other platforms when I could just target one single platform - the web browser.
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by leptons 6mo ago
I didn't avoid anything. My first sentence spelled it out: " Apple has provided no alternative, and no suggestions for how to improve the draft. They are not helping advance the draft only for selfish reasons. " They prefer t
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by leptons 6mo ago
Not focusing on pokemon for a start. Maybe use something more people can recognize and evaluate. I have zero knowledge of pokemon, I see it as a niche thing for ultra-nerdy people, and not something everyone is familiar with. Nothing about
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by leptons 6mo ago
We are at 2001 dot-com bubble burst levels now, as far as I'm concerned.
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by leptons 6mo ago
I don't know but I won't touch anything Elon owns with a 10,000 foot pole.
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by leptons 6mo ago
Maybe in 2010 or 2015, but in 2026? Nobody is quitting their high paying job when the job market is this rough . A bubble has burst and there just are not the tech jobs out there that there used to be. And employers know this, so they are
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by leptons 6mo ago
They aren't in "our" control, they are in the control of the very wealthy, who will not let the thought of natural disaster and mass extinctions affect their bottom line until there's no resource left for them to exploit
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by leptons 6mo ago
>WebUSB isn't a driver, it relies on underlying usb drivers. I never said WebUSB "was a driver". But it does not rely on specific usb device drivers being installed for specific devices. >What is the need here for a web
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by leptons 6mo ago
Miller columns is the biggest waste of screen space that's possible in an OS, and MacOS chose it for Finder. And Apple has been dying on that hill for decades. It's one of the main reasons Finder is awful and Apple's design c
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by leptons 6mo ago
I started using this web browser in 1992... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) It's about as stripped-down as the web can get.
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by leptons 6mo ago
I'm not sure how you can think Finder is better than the alternatives. It's awful, and has always been awful, IMO.
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by leptons 6mo ago
Or you can just not use the web at all. If you're so scared of it, why are you using it with browsers that have implemented all kinds of APIs that probably already scare you? You may as well just use the Lynx browser if you really want
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by leptons 6mo ago
Apple has provided no alternative, and no suggestions for how to improve the draft. They are not helping advance the draft only for selfish reasons. They also won't allow any other browser on iOS for the same selfish reasons. Apple con
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by leptons 6mo ago
The spec is still in draft because Apple refuses to let it move forward - because WebUSB, WebBluetooth and other APIs would compete with their app store, where they can make money from purchases made through apps. They prioritize profits ov
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by leptons 6mo ago
>Sadly, someone else will and weaponize it in an uncontrollable manner. Except it isn't "uncontrollable". You have to explicitly allow every single website to use WebUSB . Without that explicit allowance, the website can&
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by leptons 6mo ago
You can press a simple button on a webpage and it will install malware on your iPhone. Plenty of exploits have been out there for a long time. Should we disallow clicking on anything on a webpage too? WebUSB is no more risky than any other
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by leptons 6mo ago
Most people are going to give up in 1 minute trying to open a smartphone. I can't imagine most people I know succeeding to replace the battery by themselves.
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by leptons 6mo ago
I'm really unsure how broken screens happen. Don't you have a protective case on your phone? I've had smartphones for over 20 years, and have never broken a screen. Am I just lucky? More careful? I drop my phones too, but hav
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by leptons 6mo ago
>because it kind of devolved into a contest over who could create the most convincing illusion of intelligence. Isn't that really what all these AI companies are doing too? It sure seems like it is.
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by leptons 6mo ago
>I’ve learned more by using AI to do things about my head than hard core studying for a semester. How do you know you actually learned, instead of being fed slop by the AI that isn't true at all? If you didn't study, then I dou
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by leptons 6mo ago
What do you pay yourself per hour for "refurbishing", and does that include repair or you buy already working old equipment and just clean it up?

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