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by mercutio2 6mo ago
oMLX makes prefill effectively instantaneous on a Mac. Storing an LRU KV Cache of all your conversations both in memory, and on (plenty fast enough) SSD, especially including the fixed agent context every conversation starts with, means we
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by mercutio2 7mo ago
“Scared” to “take risks”? This is a bizarre way of saying “if they ship it and it has reliability problems, they know they’re skating on thin ice”. Apple’s brand has taken a beating (I’m as aghast with the latest macOS as the next nerd), bu
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by mercutio2 7mo ago
I was working at Apple and wondering the same thing ;) Turns out people like them. Not so much the HN crowd, but c’est la vie.
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
I wonder if the reason that most people don’t agree with me about Antigravity is because you were used to VS Code? For me, Antigravity is possibly the worst GUI experience I’ve had since Clippy. It’s completely filled with arcane buttons, p
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
I used to feel this way, then a week or two ago, after an automatic update, it started hanging. All. The. Time for me. Launching the app now frequently takes 30 seconds before it shows me the “load a git repo” screen. Speed was its main adv
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
I'm surprised that there were downvotes. This is an excellent answer, and better interfaces between linguistic definitions of color and physicists' than saying "Rayleigh scattering impacts blue more than red"!
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
I guess I’ve never tried the pro models, because I’ve used gemini-cli free every day for the last three months or so. It does eventually finish its quota, but then I just switch to a different Google account (which, amusingly, is what Gemin
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
It hadn’t occurred to me this was a billing bug. That would be heartening, if I wasn’t consuming tokens 10x as fast as expected, and they just had attribution bugs. Do you have references to this being documented as the actual issue, or is
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
Yeah, the generosity of Anthropic is vastly less than OpenAI. Which is, itself, much less than Gemini (I've never paid Google a dime, I get hours of use out of gemini-cli every day). I run out of my weekly quota in 2-3 days, 5-hour quo
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
Wealth taxes are very, very different from higher income taxes. People are mad about buy-borrow-die, so they’re proposing extraordinary new measures. Personally, I’d just make capital gains taxes apply at the “borrow” stage to actually fix
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by mercutio2 8mo ago
Can you tell me more about your agent harness? If it’s open source, I’d love to take it for a spin. I would happily use local models if I could get them to perform, but they’re super slow if I bump their context window high, and I haven’t s
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by mercutio2 9mo ago
What toolchain are you going to use with the local model? I agree that’s a Strong model, but it’s so slow for be with large contexts I’ve stopped using it for coding.
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by mercutio2 9mo ago
This is one of the very few non-money-laundering use cases for crypto. I would support a “5 cents per unsolicited email” email system, in a similar way. If you make it a mildly enjoyable $5/hour task to read the first sentence or two o
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
Maybe it's because I loved the books, but I loathed the Netflix adaptation. Possibly the worst sci-fi adaptation I've ever seen. The casting was OK, but they mangled the plot and motivations of every character nearly beyond reco
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
The Apple TV (the device) has a “stuff this user watches” app (called Apple TV) which has a tiny subset of its features dedicated to AppleTV+ (the service). Netflix refuses to participate in “stuff this user watches”, it would be trivial to
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
Why are you assuming active heat transfer? Passive is the way to go.
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
Yes, so? Everyone keeps talking past each other on this, it seems. “Generating power in space is easy, but ejecting heat is hard!” Yes. “That means you’d need huge radiators!” Yes. OK, we’re back to “how expensive/reliable is your gian
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
Yeah. A City on Mars made me want to throw the book at the window so many times. Building and tearing down straw-men right and left. Almost every legitimate note of caution suffered from the nirvana fallacy.
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
There’s a weird thing in discussions about space. Lots of people just don’t like space, it makes them think they’re being blasted with science fiction. So much criticism of space seems to fall into a few categories: 1. They think there
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by mercutio2 10mo ago
You mean, not very much? Everything about space-based anything is dependent in the short to medium term on Starship making mass to LEO cost about as much as air freight. Starship, at least as a rapidly reusable second stage, may fail, rocke
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by mercutio2 11mo ago
We’re the same age, and I had exactly the same reaction. AT&T and the baby bells were widely loathed (man I hated Ameritech…), so the idea they would extend their tentacles in this way was the main thing I reacted to. The technology see
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Wow! I just spent a good chunk of time last week setting up headscale and split horizon SSL behind my network, and I expected I was going to just expose a Wireguard UDP port, but discovered no, it’s DERP or nothing. DERP has been OK, but
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by mercutio2 1y ago
LEO is the last place you should worry about space debris. Space is just unfathomably large. If you aren’t in the same orbital plane, you’re just not going to have a problem. And if you did, Kessler syndrome in LEO is a non problem. Could b
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by mercutio2 1y ago
This is pretty classic Apple: hide useful information, expose it to power users who discover it. To be fair, on macOS, it’s a longstanding tradition that if you want to see more complicated stuff (in menus, in apps) hold down option. But ye
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by mercutio2 1y ago
I guess I wasn’t clear in my question. What are you getting beyond what normal docker-compose gets you was the question I should have asked. There were like a dozen answers all referring to things I think you can just use docker compose f
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Hold down option to highlight what accounts a contact is in, BTW.
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by mercutio2 1y ago
It’s rare that I get feedback like this about a feature I owned for a decade. 1) The vast majority of users have only one contact-sync account, so it’s not an issue for them, merge works fine 2) For users that have multiple contact-sync acc
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by mercutio2 1y ago
What does having a DevContainer get you? I’m all for documenting every bit of my setup, but beyond that…
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Water vapor in the stratosphere has a very high radiative forcing. Offset somewhat by particulates in the upper atmosphere. Cirrus clouds and contrails have a distinct, and large, additional forcing.
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by mercutio2 1y ago
30 years corresponds to the biggest boom in equities the world has ever seen. There is no guarantee it will continue, a 100% stock portfolio is very risky to live off of. 4% is the generally accepted safe withdrawal rate (inflation adjusted

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