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by nxc18 5d ago
There must be some benefit if all the providers are doing it independently. GPT5.6-Sol on Max thinking just became regarded as of a few days ago. The boosters will tell me it’s my fault for using such an old, cheap out-of-date low quality n
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by nxc18 5d ago
The nice thing about calendar app is it uses a system-wide database that other apps can use. So my TickTick app can show my self-hosted Synology calendar events alongside my work Outlook calendar events, and TickTick doesn’t have to do anyt
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by nxc18 5d ago
Android doesn’t have a single decent calendar app. The apps that do exist and are cross platform are _almost always_ a worse version of the iOS app. I tried making the switch to Graphene and even after giving in and using the Play store to
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by nxc18 7d ago
I was an early adopter of Live Mesh, and thought it was awesome. From the outside, it was mind-boggling that it didn’t gain traction. You write about it as an idea that has been abandoned, but I think really it is an idea that has become di
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by nxc18 7d ago
They usually do a noticeably bad job at kerning and text in general. They’ve gotten much better but it still doesn’t quite match the results of actually using a font/computer-generated text. They also tend to not lay things out in quit
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by nxc18 10d ago
To be fair, the “threat” was to post a story to Instagram, so perhaps “warning” is a fairer characterization of what happened. I do have compassion for the business owner though - lots of mixed signals between people selling AI and the peop
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by nxc18 10d ago
GitHub, including Enterprise (so not just Azure’s fault), has become unreliable, low quality software. I say unreliable because I cannot rely on it to accurately do what it claims to do. I cannot trust any number. I cannot trust that action
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by nxc18 11d ago
“Modal” is a word. The AI brainrot is real.
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by nxc18 14d ago
> What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!? There are scenarios where something might need to await and might not. Why take the hit if you are able to do something synchronously? Edit: this is especially impor
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by nxc18 16d ago
I had the exact same issue with it suddenly amplifying bass (my air conditioner and motor vehicles being big triggers) on my AirPods Pro 3, and the memory foam eartips did actually fix it. Kind of a surprising result. I hesitate to share an
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by nxc18 16d ago
Try $12,000 for that.
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by nxc18 16d ago
The Android version is useless though, TBD if Apple can do better. https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
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by nxc18 17d ago
Apple sold plenty of minis. It just wasn’t a blockbuster. They also didn’t sell many pluses. They also didn’t sell many Airs. For context, Apple sold 6 million minis, most Android manufacturers (other than Samsung and Google) can only dream
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by nxc18 17d ago
Have you tried replacing your eartips? I find that radically improves performance - I think they must either get clogged or brittle in a way that causes problems. Cheap foam eartips from Amazon are even better than stock for my AirPods Pro
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by nxc18 17d ago
Even if they’re just matching battery life while adding frequent HRV readings, they’ve made a big advancement. Frequent HRV is a requirement to be a WHOOP/Garmin competitor. Previous Apple Watch can do it if you tell it you have afib,
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by nxc18 18d ago
I see a ton of AI generated images and descriptions on DoorDash. I get the sense the restaurant is not doing it themselves, I’m not sure if they have any control over disabling it or perhaps they are opting in.
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by nxc18 19d ago
No, no, no. Guise. You’ve got it all wrong. Microsoft cares about Windows and its customers again. Don’t trust your lying eyes. It’s a big initiative and you know Microsoft is always serious about those. https://www.windowscentra
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by nxc18 22d ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals I’ll point out you also violate this guideline. Do you seriously read the article and not see that it is extremely low signal-to-noise? And full of non-sequiturs and strange unnecessary clarifi
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by nxc18 22d ago
It is astonishing how easy it is to see the AI hand at work in the writing. Really, it is almost impossible not to see. I don’t get how these people feel it is appropriate to pass off slop like this and not even bother to edit it. Just pain
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by nxc18 22d ago
Americans don’t like this, isn’t rubbing their face in the stupidity they elected the opposite of coddling fascism? Noting that they actually do also coddle fascism, but in this case I’m not sure they’re doing Trump any favors. If they want
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by nxc18 24d ago
Why do you think that? We’ve had this exact problem since the GPT3 moment and it has not improved at all. Not even a little, unlike agentic coding. Why do we expect a horizontal line to suddenly go exponential? Also, it seems that writing e
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by nxc18 24d ago
I’m sorry you had a bad experience. The monorepo I work in has 2-5x as large (depending on how you count) and I don’t see crashes or major performance issues. Even when bloated with plugins (testing, GitHub PRs, formatters, copilot, vim emu
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by nxc18 24d ago
What counts as large? There can be some perf issues if you don’t exclude node_modules and build outputs from search, but I’ve never seen it crash.
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by nxc18 24d ago
If you work on web tech (and who doesn’t these days?) VS Code has the advantage of using the same tech stack you’re already familiar with. If you need to debug a problem, just open devtools. If you want to run a performance profile, do the
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by nxc18 25d ago
Randomly the new tab page stops working. And when the new tab page stops working, all browsing activity stops working until I restart the app. I think the pages load, but I can’t actually see them because it is hidden by the new tab page. A
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by nxc18 1mo ago
I think the real problem is we don’t have a native-quality UX toolkit on the web - the built in controls are just horrible. So every app has to reinvent the wheel from scratch, or use one of a few hundred (thousand) web component libraries
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by nxc18 1mo ago
Portland put out portable toilets during the pandemic. They had big signs on them about how toilet access was a human right, or something like that. One by one, they were all burned down. Homeless people seem to be really good at destroying
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by nxc18 1mo ago
Everyone who is buying into RSI/AGI hype. That hype is the only thing sustaining this investment cycle. The bubble will pop as soon as people realize “AI” is a normal technology.
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by nxc18 1mo ago
Two different audiences. Unfortunately for them, messages cross streams. I think it is a good message if you’re trying to scare people into giving you money (or else they lose out on unlimited profits down the road).
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by nxc18 1mo ago
All of the industry leaders of AI can’t stop bragging about how their AI is committing what would be felonies if a human did it, warning that it’s about as likely as not that AI will literally lead to human extinction, and threatening that

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