willtemperley

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by willtemperley 5d ago
RNZ is an unusually pleasant website.
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by willtemperley 5d ago
I’d like to think that people will move back to native, but sadly there’s only one viable platform for native app dev, Apple. I base that statement on the highly fragmented Linux ecosystem and the fact that Microsoft are appear to be active
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by willtemperley 6d ago
My experience in academia was that data management is not well respected. Universities often see data as part of the library system which leads to a disconnect between data and research. I’d suggest data management needs to be a well paid c
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by willtemperley 7d ago
> modern science is synonymous with open source software. Another problem with reproducibility is the openness of the underlying data. Many academics are terrified of giving away the golden goose and the software is often useless without
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by willtemperley 16d ago
I didn’t know about Gemini protocol, thanks. Seems to have traction. Inadvertently, Cunningham’s law helps me out.
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by willtemperley 16d ago
You don't hate The Internet, you hate The Web. The Web can be forked and I don't know why people aren't working on this. An ad free, zuck-less ungoogle Web is possible. I don't like the current web either. I like The Int
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by willtemperley 18d ago
They are currently being sued for trade secret theft so it seems likely.
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by willtemperley 18d ago
Given none of the wikis pointed to in the article have ads, I'd say you're right.
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by willtemperley 20d ago
The Wikipedia article is far more informative, though I'm uncertain if read the full dpreview article due to ad-induced nausea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker
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by willtemperley 21d ago
> 30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting This is also the best way to understand a codebase, and it's quite enjoyable. I think the models are getting too egotistical. They're so confident of their fixes they won&#x27
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by willtemperley 24d ago
Yes, but ... Sometimes there are genuine reasons to build a text editor. It's really hard to build a full WYSIWYG graphics editor without modelling text layout yourself, especially for more advanced work like properly curving the text.
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by willtemperley 24d ago
> You do not know what these companies do with your data once they have it. They might limit how it gets used, they might sell it, they might expose it. This is the burning question for me, what are they doing with our hard work. I'
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by willtemperley 29d ago
Why is this moving the goalposts? Native apps can work reasonably well offline and online. Web apps can’t, currently.
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by willtemperley 29d ago
It depends. Truly working offline, which is as private as it gets in many scenarios, isn’t really feasible with web apps.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Cool. In July, ESRI and Google teamed up to lock down road closure data on their “community maps” program. The community appears to be governments feeding their data to Google and ESRI who then look after it for us, entirely for our benefit
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
> I am in Europe, and the Mac Studio M5 Ultra GPU 64 cores with 96GB RAM is up to 6.649,00 €. Ouch. It would be significantly cheaper to fly to a tariff-free country and buy there.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
I think companies of all sizes will want their own models, or at least customised ones, for their own specific use cases or competition and security issues. 1. Both training and optimisation will get significantly cheaper and easier quickly
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
That infographic says it uses 16-20% more fuel per unit of thrust. That's a significant amount more weight for an aircraft to carry, but because carrying extra fuel also burns fuel, extra fuel use would compound exponentially. This wou
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Thanks that’s an interesting anecdote to me because I’m also developing SwiftUI apps. Claude will create something that technically works but looks terrible. I don’t have the luxury of a previously well designed app to train Claude on, but
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
I think this is true to an extent, but it really depends on how much information the LLM has on a topic. They’re amazing at maths because maths has been open source since day 0. They’ve great at algorithms for similar reasons. C bindings ar
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
They wouldn't, but build scripts are a particularly effective attack vector.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Surely non-sandboxed build scripts are just a terrible idea. Both Cargo and npm should look at what Swift Package Manager (SPM) is doing. It’s not perfect but there’s a noticeable absence of supply chain attacks involving SPM, probably part
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Agree on the styling, the diagrams are very clear and match the text perfectly. I like the trailing dots though.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Yes my grandfather had one. It worked well on flat terrain. I think it used a motorcycle battery so batteries were easy to find and charge.
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
I suspect you're not a pretty girl that gets stared at. Neither am I, but if I were I'd rather the stares weren't recordable.
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
> "Claude did it" cannot ever be a valid excuse. I think this an incredibly important point. As soon as we devolve reposnsiblity to computer progams, society cedes control to the algorithm vendors. Jeff Geerling was called out
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
Yep, “instinct“ and “smoking gun” are LLM favourites. I find it really annoying when the LLM says “good instinct” as if I’m an animal barely able to think.
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
I'm against LLM usage in conversation, e.g. when discussing issues in open-source. It's like half-hearing a conversation, I'm missing the context that the other person has with their robot. Second, the person has usually at b
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
The Cornetto is truly important in British culture. For example, the Cornetto trilogy, which i'm surprised wasn't mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
GNOME 2 was lovely. Then GNOME 3 came and I switched to Mac.

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