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by thombles 9d ago
If I want to say that iOS is useless for developing Bluetooth 5 features then this is true for all practical purposes and doesn’t deserve elaboration in my text, even if Apple’s API technically exposes one or two tiny pieces.
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by thombles 9d ago
I'm somewhere between 100 and 110% sure the author knew what they were doing.
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by thombles 9d ago
Even if you don't want style advice from an LLM (I generally don't, not for blogging), for a technical blogger "please check this post for factual accuracy" is a good way to not look like an idiot. Often it complains abo
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PR review when everyone has LLMs(octet-stream.net)
1 points by thombles 21d ago|0 comments
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by thombles 23d ago
The reason we happily walk around with our wallets is because Big Finance and Big Government are willing to invalidate and reissue our credit cards and identity documents, maybe even help us out with the fraudulent transactions after it was
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by thombles 1mo ago
As a daily GitHub user in Australia I still haven’t figured out why everyone’s complaining about uptime. :)
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by thombles 1mo ago
It’s definitely possible to get much better output with prompting. I know, because when I’m faced with a “standard” PR description full of technical clutter, I can paste the link to Claude and ask “ELI5 what the problem actually is, any imp
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by thombles 2mo ago
I think it’s tongue in cheek. When I first got access to Sonnet 4.5 I remember thinking to myself “y’know if they never got any better and I just had access to this forever then that would be pretty okay”. Turns out my expectations have cha
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Knuth versus Email(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
3 points by thombles 2mo ago|0 comments
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by thombles 3mo ago
Be cautious if you're using large databases on iOS. At least until fairly recently, iOS doesn't page dirty mmaped pages back to disk and after enough churn the app will OOM.
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by thombles 3mo ago
One day Quinn will retire and Apple had better have a succession plan.
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by thombles 3mo ago
I’m curious how a workplace ends up with a model policy like this. It seems like you’d spend more time trying to work out how to use a tiny number of Opus tokens than doing it yourself.
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by thombles 3mo ago
Alas. Loved his work on Major Stryker.
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by thombles 3mo ago
A low-risk way to dip your toes in is to email a blogger to say that you enjoyed their post or that you found it helpful. The message doesn’t have to have useful information in it, just be sincere. Per OP, often there won’t be a reply but a
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by thombles 3mo ago
There are already on-device models that you can use through this framework as a developer. Claude would just be an additional one.
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by thombles 4mo ago
That's my initial experience, yes. It's hard to compare these things cleanly of course. I went through several new contexts on GPT and it just couldn't get traction -- it became hard to keep it focused on "yes there&#x27
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by thombles 4mo ago
Today I was a few hours into chasing down a very tricky timing-dependent bug with GPT 5.5 and we were starting to go into circles. I noticed Opus 4.8 had showed up in GitHub Copilot so I switched over and pointed it at my notes so far. Anot
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by thombles 4mo ago
As one of those commenters on the previous post - yep, that theory appears to have been comprehensively trounced. Unless anything comes to light that mythos was applied poorly to curl, the evidence suggests that it’s not uniquely effective
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by thombles 5mo ago
We will see. As for "testing that could have been done before", Mozilla's posts indicate otherwise. Use of Opus 4.6 led to 22 security-sensitive bugs vs Mythos' 271 ( https://blog.mozilla.org/en/priva
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by thombles 5mo ago
The question is how many security vulnerabilities are actually left in the code after all the recent AI attention. Either Mythos is a nothingburger, or it's substantially more powerful but there's nothing left to do. Even a large
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by thombles 5mo ago
Curl simply isn't a good data point. It's one of the most picked-over codebases in existence with extensive security testing practices. All the researchers using not-quite-Mythos models have had plenty of time to report bugs up to
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by thombles 5mo ago
The answer is in the next sentence: "Bun owns its event loop and syscalls." They clearly want to manage their use of threads explicitly, which is not _unusual_ for systems programming but probably less common. Note that `rayon` is
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by thombles 5mo ago
Is the poster maybe confusing bandwidth (range of frequencies over which a single board can work) with bandwidth (data transfer speeds in bits per second)?
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by thombles 5mo ago
I saw this the other day and was pretty confused - I prefer to write my own commit messages and wondered if I’d accidentally let the AI do it this time. Nope, just MS changing things behind my back. Sigh.
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by thombles 5mo ago
I didn’t read this as a flex. More a rueful admission of his connection/addiction to GitHub.
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by thombles 5mo ago
It's a meaningful difference for SaaS. Most likely an attacker doesn't have access to your running binary let alone source code, and if they probe it like a pentester would it will be noisy and blocked/flagged by your WAF.
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by thombles 6mo ago
Microsoft could tone it down a bit (especially all the full screen harassment after windows updates) but I wonder how many casual users have had their bacon saved precisely because their documents and desktop got pushed to the cloud?
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by thombles 6mo ago
It’s super hostile. I realised I was going to press it by accident eventually so I switched to Fossify Gallery before I did.
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by thombles 6mo ago
It doesn’t? I use the OneDrive app for scanning documents all the time. + button then “Capture”
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by thombles 6mo ago
I understand your pedantic point but let me give a realistic reply. If your account, or the account of somebody you like corresponding with, happens to be on an instance that falls into disfavour (not uncommon in my time there) then server

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