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by prmph 7mo ago
Careful there. I've resolved (and succeeded somewhat) to tone down my swearing at the LLMs, because, even though the are not sentient, developing such a habit, I suspect, has a way to bleeding into your actual speech in the real world
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by prmph 7mo ago
They all are. And once the context has rotted or been poisoned enough, it is unsalvageable. Claude is now actually one of the better ones at instruction following I daresay.
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by prmph 7mo ago
> Yes, the Neo has a faster CPU but it also has less RAM and less storage and costs more and has less ports. 8GB on Apple Silicon is far better than 16 GB on Wintel, and I don't event trust the quality of 16GB of RAM on a bottom of
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by prmph 7mo ago
No, you can't do real work on a $350 windows machine. No way such a setup is suitable for anything beyond browsing a tab or two and connecting to servers using SSH. And, the whole shittiness of the experience will even distract you att
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Dubai faces existential threat as foreigners flee conflict(theguardian.com)
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Candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate(theguardian.com)
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by prmph 7mo ago
Are they going to extend my subscription time as a result? It ends today, but I was locked out an hour or so ago, and I'm not sure if that was actually due to this outage. All the vibe coding is clearly not working out too well.
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by prmph 7mo ago
> The whole process is high friction and very user-unfriendly, and open documentation of these databases is lacking Yeah, that's what I want to abstract way. There are tools that do this to some extent, but they stop at backup extr
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by prmph 7mo ago
What about using the file name itself as the metadata storage?
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by prmph 7mo ago
Indeed, that's why it bothers me that major technology vendors, especially Apple, would like to do away with the very concept of files, at least for non-power users. They make it seem like data is bound up with apps, and should not hav
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by prmph 7mo ago
I couldn't disagree more. I have found KDE excellent and intuitive from the get go without much customization. To me GNOME is very primitive in comparison and ugly too. KDE is the DE that made shed the bias again linux UIs as having th
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by prmph 7mo ago
Brainer d(aemon). Totally cool.
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by prmph 7mo ago
Technically how will vibe code be identified? And how does one determine the level of human involvement that would make code copyrightable? What of the prompts? Are those copyrightable? What about the architectural and tactical design of th
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by prmph 7mo ago
Usually the problem then is more fundamental. Rust exists. If you insist on using (or need to use) languages with horrendous build architectures like C++, then you probably need a proper build server then anyways. I don't have XCode on
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by prmph 7mo ago
> 'Managing' the software to 'use the machine well' to get serious work done is unacceptable in 2026 I agree, I just don't think the rush to get more and more RAM and storage is the root of the problem. Why on ea
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by prmph 7mo ago
Indeed, 8gb is plenty, even for serious work and coding, if you use the machine well. If you think getting more and more RAM solves every performance problem, I've got news for you: People are having beachballs on machines with 32GB an
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by prmph 7mo ago
Where does it stop? Of course having a bit more room does not hurt, but my view is that if 256GB was not enough for you, 512GB wouldn't be either. To me it's mostly about learning to mange RAM and storage space on your machine. A
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by prmph 7mo ago
Nope, I tried that, was blocked by SIP.
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by prmph 7mo ago
It shouldn't be this hard to clear unwanted data from my own computer
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by prmph 7mo ago
Why don't people form cooperatives, contribute to buy serious hardware and colocate them in local data centers, and run good local models like GLM on them to share?
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by prmph 7mo ago
A ton of thanks. This "hack" allowed to finally see some stuff that was eating up a lot of my space and was showing up as "System Data". It turned out the Podman virtual machine on my MacBook had eaten up more 100GB!
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by prmph 7mo ago
Yep, it is an awful situation. I'm increasingly becoming frustrated with how Apple keeps disrespecting users. I downloaded several MacOS installers, not for the MacBook I use, but intending to use them to create a partitioned USB ins
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by prmph 7mo ago
That's not true falsifiability; its asserting a negative. I think people resort to MWI because they think it explains everything neatly; it does not! For example, from my perspective, it does not explain what world I end up in, and if
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by prmph 7mo ago
How do you know they (and others) possess them?
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by prmph 7mo ago
I think the MWI is actually the just-so explanation you claim to avoid. Is it falsifiable? If you have a theory that seems unassailable by any logic, that's a good signal it is tautological and not very useful.
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by prmph 7mo ago
> Most people don’t avoid programming because it’s too hard. They avoid it because they don’t identify as technical. But this is exactly what my comment is saying? Not sure what you added that was not already in my comment, you are agree
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by prmph 7mo ago
One other thing that is often ignored: Most of the business class, executive class, ... even working class, DON'T want to write code. The reasons vary, but in general, just as some people don't want to touch maths (even if they mi
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by prmph 7mo ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. What you are saying has a lot of truth to it. It is directly observable in the history of nations. Germany has to be forced to accept that, although it was advanced, it could not have the European empir
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by prmph 7mo ago
Nah, some fixes to HTML would go a long way to address these issues. I agree we need in built-in controls, reasonably sophisticated, properly style-able with CSS. We also need typed JS in the browser, etc
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by prmph 8mo ago
My point is that "easier" is not the same as "trivial". Yes, for a skilled and determined hacker, judicious use of AI can enable them do more. That is a far cry from "AI makes cloning complex flagship apps trivial&q

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