tedmiston

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by tedmiston 7mo ago
anybody else thinking of getting one just to have a mac in a fun color? as someone who likes bold colors, the citrus is nice.
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
"Apple Pi"
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
- 2.03 lb on the old 12" books - 2.7 lb on the 13" neo and 13.6" air does that 2/3 lb difference really matter in a ~10–15 lb backpack?
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
no commission
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by tedmiston 7mo ago
> A18 Pro chip (2 performance cores + 4 efficiency cores) whereas the macbook air has the M5 chip i don't see the m5 air on geekbench yet, but here are some related numbers for context (sorted by multi ascending): | device
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by tedmiston 8mo ago
i do not have children to provide a meningful reply to the points raised, though i hope others do.
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by tedmiston 8mo ago
likes and comments aren't social?
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by tedmiston 8mo ago
i think most users need more screen blocking control than they get out of the box on iOS. tools like one sec [1] have been invaluable for me. [1]: https://one-sec.app/
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by tedmiston 8mo ago
reddit having tons of niche subreddits and the ability to sort them by best all time is one of my favorite ways to filter for higher-quality content. (i don't use the main feed much.)
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by tedmiston 9mo ago
The only truly secure computer is an air gapped computer.
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by tedmiston 9mo ago
> The question I suppose is whether an LLM can detect, perhaps by the question itself, if they are dealing with someone (I hate to say it) "stable". GPT-5 made a major advance on mental health guardrails in sensitive conversati
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by tedmiston 9mo ago
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14666.html#what-is-wrong-with-...
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by tedmiston 9mo ago
it's also very easy to rewrite commit history in a few seconds.
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by tedmiston 9mo ago
each deployment is a separate "atomic change". so if a one-file commit downstream affects 2 databases, 3 websites and 4 APIs (madeup numbers), then that is actually 9 different independent atomic changes.
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by tedmiston 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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by tedmiston 10mo ago
Art imitates life imitates ...
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by tedmiston 1y ago
CCPA/CPRA provide opt out of data sharing for (ad) sales to third-party companies, but those were passed before the gAI boom. I imagine an analogue is already in motion for AI training opt-out in CA, but those two don't address m
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by tedmiston 1y ago
They are essentially choosing the philosophy of optimizing for speed in every dimension. The tools selected are faster than their more mainstream counterparts — but since it's a static site anyway, the pre-build side of the toolchain i
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Location: Cincinnati, OH (Remote U.S.) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Generalist SWE but lately Backend, Data Engineering & DevOps. Python, web apps & APIs (FastAPI / Starlette, Flask, Dja
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Location: Cincinnati, OH (Remote U.S.) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Generalist SWE but lately Backend, Data Engineering & DevOps. Python, web apps & APIs (FastAPI / Starlette, Flask, Dja
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Mostly that FF has ~36k extensions (January 2024) [1] and Chrome has ~112k (June 2024) [2]. [No doubt, total count of extensions isn't the most important number and there's a long tail in both counts of very small user bases, but
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Yeah, this is a much more accurate title than Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups . I think you need to email dang <hn@ycombinator.com> to see if he'll agree to update.
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by tedmiston 2y ago
> Nope, me too. The whole Repo network thing is not User facing at all. There are some user-facing parts: You can find the fork network and some related bits under repo insights. (The UX is not great.) https://github.com&#x2F
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Apple Intelligence is the name of that "AI App Store" platform [1]. Many comments in this thread are conflating Apple's own models and the name "Apple Intelligence" when the latter is the overarching platform. [1]
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by tedmiston 2y ago
At the bottom of the article, they allude to a future "AI App Store": > Eventually, Apple aims to make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing agreements whereby it gets a cut from AI partners that monetize results in chatbot
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Per Apple's site [1], it's just the language setting: "* Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English,
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by tedmiston 2y ago
It would be cool if someone made a similar minimal open source desktop UI that could run on the data export from Google Takeout [or whatever the future export mechanism turns out to be].
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Location: Cincinnati, OH (Remote U.S.) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Generalist SWE but lately Backend, Data Engineering & DevOps. Python, web apps & APIs (FastAPI / Starlette, Flask, Dja
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by tedmiston 2y ago
Something like ArchiveBox or SingleFile are in the same ballpark of tools, but SingleFile at least seems to eschew Safari Webarchive as a format. ArchiveBox may support Safari webarchives, but for some reason they omit it in their docs. h
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by tedmiston 2y ago
I initially glossed over this believing it may be something trivial, but it really is a deeper XSS concern. It feels weird me to dismiss as wontfix a security issue that gives the archived page far greater access to browser data than it has

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