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by tensility 11mo ago
Read off all live data on the drive. This should cause the nand management firmware to detect degrading cells via ECC and move the data in order to refresh isolated cell voltage levels.
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by tensility 11mo ago
Good advice; however, past experience suggests that conventional magnetic hard drives suffer problems of stiction when left in cold storage for too long. I wouldn't trust either technology for long-term archival purposes.
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by tensility 11mo ago
Doubles as the sock outfit for the next Red Hot Chili Peppers tour.
34.
by tensility 11mo ago
Meanwhile, can I have multi-message selection back in (iPad) Mail? Whoever decided to axe that feature apparently has a spam-free inbox. This company has become such a joke. Maybe Apple should start being concerned about building computer
35.
by tensility 11mo ago
More accurate to call it the iPhone Purse.
36.
by tensility 1y ago
I'm far more fond of knights than kings. So, yes, I would much more happily train another wave of humans at my craft than salt the earth behind me.
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by tensility 1y ago
For whatever it's worth, this is exactly the kind of awful that I never want in any code base that I'm working on: < https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/473e89edfebc27781b43443... > At least ru
38.
by tensility 1y ago
Actually, my criticism was the result of my own misunderstanding of what you were claiming. My apologies for that, although I'm still unlikely to use these tools based upon the example when my own personal counterexamples have shown m
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by tensility 1y ago
I'm surprised nobody else has gone meta yet, so I suppose I must. Anyway, "ChatGPT said this" ... about this thread. ---- In many of the Hacker News comments, a core complaint was not just that AI is sometimes used lazily, b
40.
by tensility 1y ago
It's called a "scam". You're welcome.
41.
by tensility 1y ago
"But the comments that quote it directly are almost always trash." Because the output is almost always trash, and it takes re-doing the work and then claiming that it came from LLMs for it not to be. These tools are being sold to
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by tensility 1y ago
Further, grep (and any of its similar siblings) works just fine for such a task, is deterministic, won't feed you bullshit, and doesn't charge you tokens to do a worse job than existing free tools will do well. Better yet, from m
43.
by tensility 1y ago
Why do you believe it's disingenuous when a capable person tells you that they don't need the crutches that you are advertising? We've accomplished millennia of engineering without the need for a bullshit generator, but you
44.
by tensility 1y ago
That tendency to hallucinate that you so conveniently downplay is a major problem. I'll take reading the reference manual myself all day rather than sifting through the output of a bullshit generator.
45.
by tensility 1y ago
There's a very good argument for not using tools vended by folks who habitually lie as much as the AI vendors (and their tools). I don't want their fingers anywhere in my engineering org, quite honestly. Given their ethics aroun
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by tensility 1y ago
"This tool uses the WebAssembly build of Perl running actual SLOCCount algorithms from licquia/sloccount." The best form of (AI) plagiarism is to simply wrap the original tool in your own facade and pretend like you built any
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by tensility 1y ago
Not at all true, though. You see, I expect the Jr will grow and learn from those off-loaded tasks in such a way that they will eventually become another Sr in the atelier. That development of the society of engineers is precisely what I d
48.
by tensility 1y ago
It's also a good reason to not believe what's being said given the still extremely high rate of hallucinations.
49.
by tensility 1y ago
As far as I understand, many users are better off with GPT-4o anyway. Amusing to be charging premiums for an objectively bad upgrade, but I guess that's the kind of bullshit economics that hype cycles create.
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by tensility 1y ago
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51.
by tensility 1y ago
The winning feature of LoC as a metric is that it can be "eye-balled" easily without tools. Cyclomatic complexity is a more interesting metric; however, it's not the easy, quick, and rather dirty spitball that Lines of Code
52.
by tensility 1y ago
Oh, boy! Byzantine generals in the traffic lights... Wonderful.
53.
by tensility 1y ago
If your Scheme were a native compiler rather than an interpreter (i.e. like Chez) and written in (a constrained subset of) Scheme, then you could use an itty-bitty Scheme interpreter written like this to bootstrap the core of your native Sc
54.
by tensility 1y ago
A lie is far worse than a gap. I'd much rather see someone simply be honest about the fact that they've taken a year off to focus on their personal health due to a serious medical condition. Further, if the lie is uncovered at a
55.
by tensility 1y ago
I sincerely hope that the attempt to obscure your identity in the resume wan't intended to be serious, A.C. The fact that you left all your former employers' names other than the current one made you a trivial single-hit search o
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by tensility 1y ago
Oddly, I thought that the irony was that this was released at the same time as Anthropic changing Claude's terms of service to eliminate user privacy. So much for Apple being a privacy-first company. I guess it's okay as long as
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by tensility 1y ago
"we store the files you upload for indexing" Screw that. No way.
58.
by tensility 1y ago
Hosting content isn't free. It makes good sense for Homebrew to only host pre-built bottles for the configurations that the vast majority of MacOS users are using (and should be, if the machine is ever attached to the public internet)
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by tensility 1y ago
% brew search --cask '*' | wc -l 7543
60.
by tensility 1y ago
Two years later and this app is still rather ... lite, eh? Well, it is open source. Perhaps its primary developers are amenable to major feature PRs.

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