KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 2mo ago
bash is really painful to use for anything beyond the most rudimentary logic. Bourne and Mashey were terrible language designers. (By contrast, Thompson's V6 shell is very elegant, if limited.) That said, this should just be a shell it
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
This sort of thing drives people to more open competitors. I use both every day and Opus isn't that much better than the Chinese SOTA. If corporate policy allowed me to use GLM or DeepSeek I absolutely would. Claude is already pricey f
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
Given the tenor of the comments on this article, I think reading TFA is super important, especially the author's disclaimer at the end, where they state that they're definitely not blindly trusting the AI at this stage, just that
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
Aside from sportsball, AI and deranged [tb]illionaire behavior is basically it. edit: autocorrect
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
No. It's literally RAM. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-r...
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
You're into Chainsaw Man and Dorohedero but not JJK?
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
What? This is a golden age of anime. You could count the number of anime available in the west and worth watching 25 years ago on one hand, maybe two. Now? If you can't find something, you're not looking hard enough. Off the top o
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
None of that makes you happier. Define happiness, but there's a baseline for not being miserable (I have enough to eat etc) and then there's actual satisfaction with your life. If you doubt the thesis, consider the extreme example
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
indeed, there's even a (pretty solid) custom server just for DS4 https://github.com/antirez/ds4 -- works very well on high-RAM Macs
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
LG + never log it in to the internet + an Apple TV box. The webOS UI sucks, but so do all the others apparently, and you never have to interact with it in practice if you use the Apple TV for streaming.
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
You kind of don't need them in Ruby, because everything is a method or an object or a closure and you can dynamically create and alter those at runtime. That's why Ruby is really good for ad-hoc DSLs in ways that Rust and Swift re
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
You can actually get high-quality code out of them -- at least with Claude; not had a great experience with Gemini -- but for complex tasks requires riding them very, very hard and really understanding where things can go wrong and poking a
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
and for maxed-out M5 Macs
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
If Portal counts, so does Control
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by KerrAvon 3mo ago
That's very much not how it works. Musk and Trump are absolutely miserable despite having effectively infinite wealth and power. Not that either of them have the taste to wear an Aquanaut, mind.
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by KerrAvon 4mo ago
What the author is actually discussing is a broader sociopolitical issue of society having a thing jammed down its throat by billionaires. While the thing in question is GenAI, it's not really about the actual technology or the applica
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by KerrAvon 4mo ago
Can you point to a single performant, high-quality SwiftUI-first app with a messages-like chronological transcript and correct scrolling behavior on macOS? The problems with AppKit integration are real and should not be dismissed out of han
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by KerrAvon 4mo ago
It's likely the SwiftUI Mac implementation is subpar. SwiftUI-on-Catalyst might be a better choice for these applications, but it probably has other problems.
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by KerrAvon 4mo ago
Why is this even an "if" at this point? China's EV industry has overtaken the US's. They are at worst only slightly behind in AI -- all of the best large open weight LLMs are from Chinese companies, and there are more ma
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by KerrAvon 5mo ago
Strangely enough, AI could turn this on its head. You can have your cake and eat it too, because you can tell Claude/Codex/whatever to build you a full-featured Swift version for iOS and Kotlin for Android and whatever you want on
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by KerrAvon 5mo ago
Care to elaborate? This sounds like a prelude to an argument to funnel more people into vocational schools/more funding for vocational schools. (Not a criticism! I don't personally feel informed enough to have an opinion on this s
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by KerrAvon 5mo ago
You're focusing on the executable format, which is very much not the driver model.
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by KerrAvon 6mo ago
As one of those users: absolutely fucking not.
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by KerrAvon 6mo ago
If anyone wants a deep dive on this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
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by KerrAvon 6mo ago
GOPs and Democrats are the same on environmental, science, and public health policy completely, huh? You sure you wanna both sides it that hard?
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
Have you ever actually used macOS? It doesn't sound like it.
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
"Goal" implies there's a plan instead of just wanton cruelty for the sake of cruelty.
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
How do you define "swapping?" Even on Intel Macs, the memory statistics don't map the way one might expect. Be careful when making assumptions about what those metrics actually mean.
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
obligatory Dabblers and Blowhards https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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by KerrAvon 7mo ago
Seems like the Japanese have had this major blind spot in software engineering since the 90's. Even Sony didn't bother to use what they learned from the PlayStations to produce their own TV OS, outsourcing it to Google. It's

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