p1necone

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by p1necone 8mo ago
Being limited to 8gb of ram is genuinely the only thing on that list I care about (no backlight and no fast charging are teetering on the edge of me caring, but they aren't worth multiple hundreds of dollars) - Apple silicone is so fas
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by p1necone 8mo ago
Damn, everyone is using AI for copyediting now aren't they? Once you notice the patterns you see it everywhere. * "This isn't X. It's Y" * "Some sentence emphasizing something. Describing the same thing wit
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by p1necone 8mo ago
Generate with carefully steered AI, sanity check carefully. For a big enough project writing actually comprehensive test coverage completely by hand could be months of work. Even state of the art AI models seem to have no taste, or sense of
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by p1necone 8mo ago
My plan for this in my current toy language project is to allow things like 'import * from Foo', but save a package.lock esque file somewhere on first build - after that you need to run some kind of '--update' command to
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by p1necone 8mo ago
You would be correct. If the ipad let you use full osx it would be pretty attractive to me and I probably would have spent the 5 minutes needed to discover the magic keyboard, but unfortunately the idea of buying a computing device with suc
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by p1necone 8mo ago
I haven't seen one yet, but theoretically a case that secures the tablet in a holder that has a proper hinge (instead of the typical kickstand style) attached would work. You'd have to weight the keyboard a bit but there's no
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by p1necone 8mo ago
I'm no statistician, but the part about halfway through that says not to use PRNGs for random assignment into bins seems wrong to me? Sure I can understand why for a research trial you might want just want to be totally safe and use a
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by p1necone 9mo ago
> It had a notion of "type"s which were functions that returned a boolean 1 only if given a valid value for the type being defined. I've got a hobby language that combines this with compile time code execution to get stati
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by p1necone 9mo ago
> I expected to see measures of the economic productivity generated as a result of artificial intelligence use. >Instead, what I'm seeing is measures of artificial intelligence use. Fun fact: this is also how most large companies
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by p1necone 9mo ago
Is this really true? Mobile device users are all mostly forced to use apps rather than the browser for most stuff, and people on desktop PCs/laptops are probably either using them for gaming (all desktop apps), or work where a lot of s
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by p1necone 9mo ago
I had some success recently making small hacks for nes/famicom roms using claude despite not having a lick of knowledge about 6502 assembly or the NES hardware, but struggling with doing any more indepth disassembly or code changes, so
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by p1necone 9mo ago
This feels inevitable for any 'unique' company that lives long enough for leadership to retire and starts hiring replacement c-levels externally. Those external people are going to run Apple just like whatever other companies they
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by p1necone 9mo ago
Wow, you're a genius, you should call up the UN and tell them they just forgot about rain! Problem solved!
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by p1necone 9mo ago
Chinese electronics manufacturing now is like Japan in the 60s/70s - I give it like a decade max before "Made in China" is widely understood to mean "High Quality" rather than the "Cheap Junk" connotation
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by p1necone 9mo ago
The high point is a toss up between XP and 7 for me, but imo Windows UX peaked then (although the 98 visual style is peak for nostalgia) and has either stayed the same or gotten worse ever since. Personally I just switched to using Linux fu
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by p1necone 10mo ago
Sorry for the knee jerk reaction - your posts have the same consistent tells as wholly llm generated text but it does seem like you largely use it just to help with translation.
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by p1necone 10mo ago
You don't need to use llms to write comments for you.
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by p1necone 10mo ago
I'm holding out for someone to ship a gpu with dimm slots on it.
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by p1necone 10mo ago
The difference from 2015 to 2025 is enormous. Gaming on linux in 2015 was a giant pita and most recent games didn't work properly or didn't work at all through wine. In 2025 I just buy games on steam blindly because I know they&#x
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by p1necone 10mo ago
Now: AI generates incorrect code. Future: AI generates incorrect code, and formal verification that proves that the code performs that incorrect behaviour.
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by p1necone 10mo ago
A receiver has always been a pretty standard part of even really simple AV setups - you can get half decent ones pretty cheap, and then you just run either the HDMI ARC port or the optical/coax digital audio out from your tv to the rec
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by p1necone 10mo ago
I doubt many real world use cases would run out of incrementing 64 bit ids - collisions if they were random sure, but i64 max is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 - if each row took only 1 bit of space, that would be slightly more than an exabyte
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by p1necone 10mo ago
Being able to create something and know the id of it before waiting for an http round trip simplifies enough code that I think UUIDs are worth it for me. I hadn't really considered the potential perf optimization from orderable ids bef
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by p1necone 10mo ago
I think the writers classification of this being a Chinese vs English distinction is a bit presumptuous - the portion of the USA OP is familiar with maybe, but I'll jump on the bandwagon to say this kind of negated negative language is
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by p1necone 11mo ago
I think besides the mechanics, the other thing that makes the grandia/grandia 2 battle system so fun is how snappy all the animations and interactions are. You never really feel like you're waiting for things to happen even though
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by p1necone 11mo ago
I've used llms to help me write large sets of test cases, but it requires a lot of iteration and the mistakes it makes are both very common and insidious . Stuff like reimplementing large amounts of the code inside the tests because
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by p1necone 11mo ago
This is true of basically everything people complain about having gotten worse over time. Whiteware and kitchen appliances are the same - you can absolutely buy a fridge, or a stand mixer or whatever that will work well and last forever. It
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by p1necone 11mo ago
Every so often I try out a GPT model for coding again, and manage to get tricked by the very sparse conversation style into thinking it's great for a couple of days (when it says nothing and then finishes producing code with a 'I
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by p1necone 11mo ago
I like goldilocks services, as big or as small as actually makes sense for your domain/resource considerations, usually no single http endpoint services in sight.
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by p1necone 11mo ago
In my defense - the paragraph under the 'Storage' header reads like what I said to me, whereas the 'Bulk Storage Hard Disk Drives' header says something kind of contradictory to that. ('Collection of brand new parts

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