spacedcowboy

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by spacedcowboy 14d ago
Whereas this is interesting with the (mac) models available today, it'll be a lot more interesting when the 512GB variety launches in October. I wouldn't be surprised if there were (llm) models tuned specifically for this size of
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by spacedcowboy 15d ago
> If you want to gatekeep or only create stuff to boost your own ego or portfolio, then AI might be an issue, if you actually want to build stuff, AI is godsend Couldn’t agree more. If you want an example of what an AI can help a sole (e
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by spacedcowboy 16d ago
Yeah, it was kind of eye-opening for me too. I honestly can’t see myself going back to “normal” programming. I’ve been around a while, was there when “the web” was a paradigm-shift (when I set up my first website, you had to email CERN to g
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by spacedcowboy 18d ago
I run Claude code (though I’m told open code runs better, I’m used to Claude) through deepseek, which costs me about £45 per month. That’s fine for me, though I realise everyone has their own limits.
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by spacedcowboy 18d ago
It is actually pretty amazing what it can do, though sometimes it feels like herding cats. As I said, now and then I just dip into the code, rewrite something and tell it to adopt that pattern going forward. It takes a lot of the grunt-wo
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by spacedcowboy 18d ago
I'd already written a lot of it in ObjC, thinking it would be "just for me" before I moved to wanting it running on the FPGA. Three options - Port the ObjC runtime to my little OS on the FPGA ? - Rewrite everything in C so th
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by spacedcowboy 18d ago
Hi, thanks for the kind words and interest :) It is indeed the goal to have a language better than (or at least fixing some of the pain points of) ObjC, and to make it truly cross-platform and just as easy to grok. Coming from C, I think Ob
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Show HN: An ObjC-like compiler for Mac ARM, x86_64(Linux, Win), WASM, & others
2 points by spacedcowboy 19d ago|9 comments
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by spacedcowboy 19d ago
I’m not sure I agree with “already won”, that’s an extreme position, but there are consequences to all the things s/he says. It may be a death of 1000 cuts, or it may hit a tipping point, but the us is certainly walking blindly down th
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by spacedcowboy 20d ago
I think Reddit has jumped the shark, but I'm biased. I used to use it, pretty much every day, but I stopped when they turned on "you must be logged in to use oldreddit". I typically was logged in, and I always used old.redd
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by spacedcowboy 20d ago
With the frustration inherent within every cat-herder…
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by spacedcowboy 21d ago
I'm actually kind of surprised at how little memory bandwidth it has "delivering up to 1,400 GB/s of bandwidth". That's not much more than a Mac Pro M5 Ultra will give (1.2 TB/s) Somehow I though the nVidia car
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by spacedcowboy 23d ago
When it’s ready :) Just working on a few more things, there’s a network configuration to run through (webserver failover, database failure and recovery, etc) and the legal sign off (the OSA has teeth, failure to comply carries criminal, not
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by spacedcowboy 23d ago
It makes sense. If you take away the traditional ways such a service makes money out of you (advertising, selling your access patterns and data), but still want to run a service, there are still operating costs and startup investment needed
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by spacedcowboy 23d ago
I'm with you. I've done some pretty special things over the years I was employed, none of which had any input from LLMs. Now I'm retired and I have a tool at my fingertips that I can instruct, manage, and (sometimes eventuall
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by spacedcowboy 25d ago
As someone who worked on the Vision Pro, we were well aware that it wasn’t going to change the world on its own, but we were also aware that the current Vision Pro would be the worst one we ever sold. Apple, possibly uniquely amongst its p
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by spacedcowboy 25d ago
There’s something like 26 million millionaires in just the USA, that’s a reasonable market for a top-of-the-range $2500 phone, assuming an average sale is the midpoint of the scale
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by spacedcowboy 25d ago
Maybe because what the Cato Institute thinks is “right wing”, most of the world thinks is “bat-shit insane fascistic drool”. Outside of America and a few fascist states, the rest of the world recoils in disgust at the ideas the Cato Institu
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by spacedcowboy 26d ago
have you considered that you might just not be the target market ? :)
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
Having lived through them, I’m not sure that’s true
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
I wonder if its because life is becoming more grim. Well, apart from the billionaires, obviously. Seems like gritty, dystopia-like films are something of a luxury, only to be afforded when daily life itself isn't too close to the harsh
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
They also offer a decently-sized free tier, and there's no fees for moving data in or out of their CDN if its in cache.
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
It's bloody well made a difference to those trying to provide a web-service, especially a user-to-user one. The main difference is now that it's pretty stupid to go online with a new service without running everything through a la
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
cough I think you mean Lake Epstein
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
It’s what happens when other countries no longer trust you to keep your word. Besides, I imagine they move it, then they say they’ll move it.
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
I was getting semi-useful results from a 128GB M4 Max. That was a few months ago, and the models have improved (quite a bit) since then, but now I'm happy to send my $20/month to get Claude code. It's still frustrating as hel
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
Two things: - Education is not "elite", it's open to all. - Informed is not "educated". Forcing political speech to be truthful (or at least have a reasonable expectation of being truthful) with serious consequences
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
To be fair (a) I don't think he was trying to do that, and (b) I'm struggling to think of an argument that would shine good light on brexit voters ? Perhaps that they're wonderfully trusting people who believe whatever poli
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
Hey, everyone starts somewhere :) The “prime directive” of the site is “do not track”. Historically that’s been irrelevant to the internet at large, but I think there is a growing feeling of disquiet over just how spied-on, measured, packag
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by spacedcowboy 1mo ago
This is a little premature - I'm about a month away from a really good launch date, but the sentiment here is too good a match to miss... A long time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I set up my first webserver. In those halcyon d

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