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by mfro 4mo ago
It was a truly ridiculous idea to put an i9 in any laptop. That generation of i9 is difficult to cool even with liquid cooler systems in big ATX cases.
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by mfro 5mo ago
FWIW VScode can be used in a docker container or remote server from the local client. See devcontainers and VSCode over ssh.
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by mfro 5mo ago
Please let me know when finding a job in software engineering in 2026 is feasible for everyone with ‘computer skills’.
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by mfro 5mo ago
Great heads up! I will work on self-hosting this month.
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by mfro 5mo ago
Builder credits apply to every AWS service I've tried.
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by mfro 5mo ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
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by mfro 5mo ago
As much as that’s true it’s clear a huge amount of people have accepted the current state and are working around it, successfully(in terms of ticking an executive’s checkbox) in a lot of cases. And it’s worth considering we’re seeing stron
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by mfro 5mo ago
While I think the author is entirely right about 'natural language programming' in the current day, if LLMs (or some other AI architecture) continue to improve, it is easy to believe touching code could become unnecessary for eve
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by mfro 5mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding the paradigm shift completely -- AI does not just generate code N(x) more quickly. It thinks N(x) faster, it researches N(x) faster, it tests N(x) faster. There are hundreds of tasks that you'll fin
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by mfro 5mo ago
When someone says passwords are ‘stored’, the assumption will always be ‘stored on disk’. ‘stores in memory’ is not an accurate representation because memory is inherently volatile and they are loaded there temporarily. Plaintext on disk is
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by mfro 5mo ago
To be fair, 'loads into memory' and 'stores' are not the same thing.
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by mfro 6mo ago
I have found literally 0 incentive to switch from firefox to anything else.
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by mfro 6mo ago
I think they're going for more of a 'monkeys will eventually produce shakespeare' thing here. Which you can apply the same argument to - monkeys do not know english, don't know what they're typing, and theoretically
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by mfro 6mo ago
Not sure why all the other commentors are failing to mention you can spend considerably less money on an apple silicon machine to run decent local models. Fun fact: AWS offers apple silicon EC2 instances you can spin up to test.
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by mfro 6mo ago
yeah it seems like sonnet 4.6 burns thru tokens crazy fast. I did one prompt, sonnet misunderstood it as 'generate an image of this' and used all of my free tokens.
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by mfro 6mo ago
Neat, what happened to the original system? Last I checked multiplayer was working in DR2.
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by mfro 6mo ago
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by mfro 6mo ago
Strangely, it is super fast on my 16 Plus, but with longer messages it can slow down a LOT, and not because of thermal throttling. I wish I could see some diagnostic data.
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by mfro 6mo ago
You're reading way too far into it. Private spaces are simply easier targets.
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by mfro 6mo ago
It just depends on the UI frameworks available to developers and their interest in building something good-looking. Different UI frameworks are available for different platforms, and there are only a few good ones that are cross-platform. Q
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by mfro 6mo ago
Funny, I found this last night: https://www.ardacraft.me/
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by mfro 6mo ago
I don't know a single young person who has entertained any hope of owning a decent house at any point in the next 20 years.
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by mfro 6mo ago
Does anyone know if this is still the most comprehensive archive? I'd like to know if the owner found any of the missing 91-01 datasets or if they are available anywhere.
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by mfro 6mo ago
Where are you seeing full-text search for groups? I can filter the post titles on the current page of listings, but this is completely useles...
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by mfro 6mo ago
You’re definitely right there should be distinction. I think “baremetal OS” is the term some people would use.
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by mfro 6mo ago
Some might claim a browser is an OS. Some do claim emacs is an OS. Tlon claims urbit is an OS. It’s a fairly fluid term nowadays.
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by mfro 6mo ago
I think the problem is the distinction here between chips and boards. The entire GPU assembly can absolutely be worn down from continuous use, thermal pads, paste, VRMs, fans do degrade. The chip itself may be fine but it's very rare t
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by mfro 7mo ago
Windows is still a solid 'gets out of the way' operating system (with numerous tweaks, customizations, and stripping) when it works. If they focus on fixing UX issues and improving stability and performance, it may be enough to sl
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by mfro 7mo ago
Just get an M1 macbook air. Way cheaper, and you get can 16GB of memory.
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by mfro 8mo ago
It’s not always exhaustion, though. I work with several people who blindly spout AI responses out of sheer laziness.

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