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by tempest_ 6mo ago
> If you could, iPhones would already have removable batteries. A crazy take since apple has very clearly made anti-consumer moves in the past. If having a baked in battery caused there to be 1% more iphones sales which would they choos
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Citation needed. All of those can be achieved with replaceable batteries.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
It really really really depends on how you are using it and what you are using it for. I can get LLMs to write most CSS I need by treating it like a slot machine and pulling the handle till it spits out what I need, this doesnt cause me to
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
We are lucky in that we can choose our machines (within reason, and no real support if things get broken) and run an arch flavour. I use thinkpad x1 carbons and have nearly 0 issues. The hardware is not quite as nice as a macbook but it doe
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Yeah, they were that, and for the last 20 years they have been the iphone company.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
That is fair but in my experience most devs are targeting linux servers not BSD(or any other flavour) which is helped by OSX. If OSX was linux derived it would suit them just as well. edit: I suppose I should also note the vast majority of
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
I am aware. However having used Xcode at some point 10 years ago my belief is that the app ecosystem exists in spite of that and that people would never choose this given the choice.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Has apple been a serious development platform in the last 20 years? I know a lot of devs like apple hardware because it is premium but OSX has always been "almost linux" controlled by a company that cares more about itunes then it
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
If you get enough of them they can start to look like cattle. Still, they are all the same breed.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
There is a large subset of devs who have worked their entire career on abstracted hardware which is fine I guess, just different domains. The size of your L1/L2/L3 cache or the number of TLB misses doesn't matter too much if
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
> fault tolerant distributed systems I mean there were mainframes which could be described as that. IBM just fixed it in hardware instead of software so its not like it was an unknown field.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
I build on the exact hardware I intend to deploy my software to and ship it to another machine with the same specs as the one it was built on. I am willing to hear arguments for other approaches.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Because might makes right and any entity with the power to legally put up a fight is in on the game (or wants to be)
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
It isnt that weird. Just look at the gemini-cli repo. Its a gong show. The issue is that LLMs can be wrong sometimes sure but more that all the existing SDL were never meant to iterate this quickly. If the system (code base in this case) is
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Google is not incentivized to show you good results. You don't pay them, advertisers do and that is who they are working for. Their job is provide you just enough "results" that you don't or cant go any where else. No mo
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Why would you assume that to be? They might charge you less, but they don't have to and wont if the market allows it
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Cell was PS3 and the Will used a Power cpu. IBM had a hand in both however
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
The Pi isnt a loss leader for user acquisition nor do they get to enjoy Apples economy of scale. Apple can take a small loss on this and it will still be worth it if they retain the users in their ecosystem.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
JavaScript in the late 90s was doing a hell of a lot less than it is today.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
DDR4 is also crazy expensive right now so this just depends on you having some around from a previous build
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Those will dry up soon enough. Corporate laptop refreshes will be drawn out as they try and cost save on the increased price. You also better hope the aliexpress dont figure out a way to get the RAM out of those things because they will sta
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
It isnt lost but it also isnt a common skill set in programmers any more. Most programmers are JS web devs writing client side code or server side CRUD. I would guess < 10% of programmers writing code today get perf / valgrind out o
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
We just had a vendor tell us none of the HDDs we were looking for were available unless we also committed to a full NAS offering.
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by tempest_ 6mo ago
Look at the gemini-cli. Pretty sure it will look like that
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by tempest_ 7mo ago
My opinion is I think that there is a massive gulf between 'wrote the spec' and 'validated the output'. I think if the answer to "could I do this again without claude" is no then it is difficult to claim owners
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by tempest_ 7mo ago
Every "I created <xyz>" or "I rewrote x (y lang) into z lang" should really read "I prompted Claude Code to <insert thing>" "I" create stuff all the time with AI Agents but am real uncomfo
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by tempest_ 7mo ago
I mean they are not wrong. For all the whinging about bugs and errors around here the software industry in general (some niche sub-fields excepted) long ago decided 80% is good enough to ship and we will figure the rest out later. This enti
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by tempest_ 7mo ago
Running on Azure is not the same as migrating to Azure. Making big changes like the tech that underpins your product while still actively developing that product means a lot of things in a complicated system changing at once which is usuall
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by tempest_ 7mo ago
I mean that was a thing at one point but I feel like it is baked into github/gitlab etc now
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by tempest_ 7mo ago
web 4.0 here we come

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