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by vallerie 12d ago
I do hope Valve's work on ARM64 for this, alongside improvements to performance in Honeykrisp, make for a dramatically better experience with Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. They're very lovely devices with big GPUs, and I would love
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by vallerie 13d ago
I know it's controversial but I really do love C++26's contract assertions. I find they enable you, your consumers, IDEs, agents, etc understand the contracts of a method far faster, as it means you don't actually have to rea
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by vallerie 14d ago
Oh for sure. But latest Gemini has been pretty good for even tricky things. I got it to reverse engineer the Bowers Wilkins foundation app so I can queue music over WiFi from my laptop instead of my phone (without AirPlay 2 compression or a
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by vallerie 14d ago
I've found good success with the new Gemini models on Antigravity. Granted I use my models either: - like a fancy auto complete (here are some stub methods, they should do X, fill them in) - using fairly detailed plans and test harness
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by vallerie 20d ago
Well shoot, I guess QBittorrent is worth a trillion dollars.
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by vallerie 20d ago
Would you happen to have a link to this? I would like to learn about this but unfortunately treehouse.systems doesn't seem to be very well indexed by search engines, and Mastodon's search is failing me.
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by vallerie 20d ago
Yet another example of the troubling amount of power the United States holds over the internet and global finance. I really worry about the future of free and open expression over the next few years.
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by vallerie 1mo ago
Private Relay also works because it's on by default for everyone paying for iCloud (including everyone just on the 0.99/month tier for photo backup) - so Apple can use it across their apps (e.g. loading images in Apple Mail) and
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by vallerie 6mo ago
(and i had to make a HN account for this; sorry if comments like this aren't the done thing here)
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by vallerie 6mo ago
oh hey, that's my blog post! thanks for posting it; this isn't my finest work, but it's been floating around my disk for ages. happy to answer questions here :)