tonyedgecombe

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by tonyedgecombe 10d ago
The extreme left don’t look much different from the extreme right.
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by tonyedgecombe 10d ago
Britain was barely democratic at the time of the famine. It’s silly to blame the current generation for something their ancestors did. Even if the people you are complaining about were alive then they were unlikely to have any influence ov
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
Most people prefer IKEA prices.
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
Le Corbusier: "A house is a machine for living in."
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
>but it seems they are in software solutions Surely OpenAI can replicate that with their own tools in an afternoon and a few million tokens.
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
Be careful what you wish for, I can't imagine anything more dystopian than OpenAI owning all our devices.
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
I always assumed there would be some rinse aid residue on your cups and glasses.
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
Yeah, I think it's far more likely that they don't want people buying devices with what looks like last year's operating system.
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by tonyedgecombe 11d ago
In case anybody wondered that is $9.65 per US gallon.
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by tonyedgecombe 12d ago
If it could upload its weights to other servers then it’s away and free. Nothing much OpenAI could do about that once it’s happened.
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by tonyedgecombe 12d ago
I sometimes think half of Apple's success is down to the failure of the rest of the industry to deliver quality products. Microsoft and Intel in particular but all the OEM's as well. A world where they got their act together would
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by tonyedgecombe 12d ago
I've heard that they are busy bribing people in Apple's manufacturers for dimensions before products are released.
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by tonyedgecombe 13d ago
>We are all slowly dying one day at a time, is that how you want to spend your time? Mindless consumption isn't going to extend your life.
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by tonyedgecombe 13d ago
> Find an ARM Mac used (like an M1) and upgrade. And throw away perfectly good hardware.
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by tonyedgecombe 13d ago
It's rare to find people complaining about moving from a proprietary Adobe technology to an open standard.
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by tonyedgecombe 14d ago
Most energy consumption is for transportation and housing. The US trade deficit with the rest of the world is only about 3% of gdp, that doesn’t buy much in the way of emissions.
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by tonyedgecombe 14d ago
Although manufacturing output has remained stable.
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by tonyedgecombe 14d ago
>Or do people really intentionally run campaigns like that? Isn't that what you see on free to view TV. The same ads over and over.
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by tonyedgecombe 14d ago
I'm retired now so I don't need to deal with this mess anymore. If I was starting something new I would probably target something I could market offline.
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by tonyedgecombe 15d ago
> I asked for feedback Even if they gave you feedback I think you would have to take it with a pinch of salt. Hiring decisions are more emotional than most people would admit.
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by tonyedgecombe 15d ago
Amazon don't seem release any figures but I've seen estimates of 50,000 to 100,000 engineers. They do have 1.576 million employees worldwide (2025 figure).
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by tonyedgecombe 15d ago
This does seem like the kind of task LLM's are ideal for. Just like that port of Bun from one language to another.
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by tonyedgecombe 15d ago
Poor reading comprehension is more likely than trolling.
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by tonyedgecombe 15d ago
Yes, IntelliJ 8 was out in 2008. From my experience most of the progress since then has been keeping up with language and library updates.
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by tonyedgecombe 16d ago
I don't know but I am very careful not to run it flat and I don't use a fast charger with it. It does get used daily though (more than I would like).
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by tonyedgecombe 16d ago
Komoot is particularly bad, I paid for a lifetime license but now they are gating new features behind a subscription. I think it's time to find something else.
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by tonyedgecombe 16d ago
I like Rust a lot but I'm not sure it would come very high up my list for web applications.
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by tonyedgecombe 17d ago
>I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years. Just coming up to five years on mine and it is still at 87% capacity.
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by tonyedgecombe 17d ago
It took them two years to update my address.
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by tonyedgecombe 18d ago
Just checked and this behaviour came with Lion in 2011.

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