barneybooroo

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by barneybooroo 5mo ago
It's "orderly", don't you know!
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by barneybooroo 5mo ago
Yeah, the section expanding on how they evaluated Mythos internally is a bit baffling considering how irrelevant it is.
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by barneybooroo 6mo ago
Absolutely. I look forward to a time where we have on-device small models as an OS-level service you can rely on (a bit like what Apple's doing with Foundation Models). I was recently playing around with some game dev prototyping where
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by barneybooroo 11mo ago
I think the enthusiasm for Codex coincided with the extended period of degraded quality CC was experiencing around a couple of months ago? During that time I cancelled my Claude sub and tried out Codex, which by comparison was feeling signi
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by barneybooroo 3y ago
I've always loved using a (simulated) Mellotron when making music, without being consciously clued in to which songs first got me hooked on it, but you've just made me realise it was Dinosaur Jr, not Strawberry Fields Forever. Tha
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by barneybooroo 4y ago
Yikes. I’m going to have to close my app that uses the Bing API, as this makes it completely unsustainable.
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
In my experience, it's not so much that the power user has disappeared, but their power user "surface" has been squeezed. I work in an environment where I see journalists using clunky Windows-based CMSs with 30 years+ of bagg
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
Is "the agenda" not a bit of a conspiratorial way of looking at it though? It's been notoriously difficult for creators to find mainstream outlets to tell stories about, to use your examples, trans and black lives, that aren&
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
Is your outrage that they’re commissioning content that reflects a diversity of experience?
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
I think this was an art choice rather than technical inexperience. The proportions of the field models are more similar to the chibi sprites of the SNES games, so we’re seeing the gradual evolution of FF’s style with VII the first transitio
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
I like the format! Something about organising your thinking into tweet-sized chunks lends itself to a nice pace for telling stories. Your TLDR certainly doesn’t retain any of the accessibility (to non-developers) or whimsy of the original.
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
It is amazing how what might seem like fairly routine engineering jobs become completely nightmarish once you do it underground. I used to commute via Goodge Street every day. A few years ago they replaced the four lifts (in twos so that tw
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
I once negatively reviewed a drone on Amazon. Their EMEA boss emailed me out of the blue wanting to set up a phone conversation to convince me otherwise. Really needy and gross! I reported this to Amazon who said that wasn’t “meant to happe
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by barneybooroo 5y ago
I mostly rely on audio turn by turn walking directions (in London) and was surprised how bad Google Maps was. For example, it would give directions like “head south on High Street” as if I know which way south is? Apple Maps isn’t perfect b
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by barneybooroo 9y ago
All this time I thought they were using an amazing heuristic to infer password requirements from the page
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by barneybooroo 9y ago
And in many cases the model Apple enforces is not particularly generalisable. For example, the Apple TV content search model only allows for TV shows to consist of x seasons of y episodes. The BBC hasn't been able to provide comprehens
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by barneybooroo 10y ago
And apparently can't use two adjacent USB ports! Non-issue indeed...
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by barneybooroo 10y ago
I agree there's not an elegant UI solution beyond "use master branch's licence unless current branch has one" but it doesn't seem like too much of an edge case to me, particularly if you're serving a GitHub pag
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by barneybooroo 10y ago
The Microsoft AutoUpdate client on OSX is a beautiful mess for this. doing anything else > Microsoft AutoUpdate starts bouncing in the dock > Modal "There are no updates for your Microsoft software at this time." dialog ap
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by barneybooroo 10y ago
I particularly like that in this case apparently a picture of a sunflower is a perfectly acceptable icon for "Photos"
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by barneybooroo 11y ago
1080i50 is a ubiquitous broadcast standard in the UK.
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by barneybooroo 12y ago
The whole "developer relations as Bigfoot" trope doesn't ring true when it comes to WebKit, in my experience. I've had Apple developers reach out to me when I've mentioned WebKit bugs on Twitter. They're very h