billti

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by billti 7d ago
Yeah. It's more Jony Ive who will be rolling in his Bentley.
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by billti 7d ago
I was hoping I didn't. But after watching the event, I kinda do. I have to hand it to them, they added some really nice touches to the OS for the new form factor. Seems almost like the best of an iPhone and a iPad Mini. Still not sure
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by billti 2mo ago
I couldn't get bridged networking to work with my M5 machine and VMs running on Parallels. This thread here would seem to indicate it's a known issue (with no updates or resolution :/ ) - https://forum.parallels.co
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by billti 4mo ago
The release announcement on the forum at https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2369... lists what is new. AI is obviously a lot of the focus when it comes to talking about the product, (and in the curr
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by billti 4mo ago
I'm no expert (relatively new to the field myself), but I was trying to put together some simple videos with animations in Final Cut Pro and decided to try DaVinci Resolve, and I'm glad I did. The Fusion stuff bundled into it is i
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by billti 4mo ago
I think it actually released today. I keep an eye on the forums to see the updates - https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2369... (Can confirm - I just opened it on my laptop (I had the latest beta in
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by billti 4mo ago
That's why I think the Optimus thing might make sense from a 'market cap' perspective. Tesla is great at innovation and ramping global manufacturing for new tech. Ten years ago, that was EVs. But now EVs are becoming a commod
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by billti 4mo ago
Does Elon over-hype nearly everything he gets involved with? Clearly yes. Does he also deliver on some mind-boggling timelines? Well Tesla went from delivering its first cars in 2008 to having the best selling car in the world in 2023, and
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by billti 4mo ago
I keep this link in my favorites and refer to it every now and again. Still one of the best write-ups I've seen on just have vast the difference is between a naive and well tuned kernel https://siboehm.com/articles&#x2F
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by billti 6mo ago
> the product is mediocre at best I'm not a Tesla fanboy, last year was the first time I bought one (new Model Y), but it is by far the best car I've ever owned, and the FSD blew my mind with how much better it was than I expec
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by billti 7mo ago
I've been playing around with low-level Metal a bunch lately, any many of their docs and samples seem still be mostly in Objective-C/C++ and not Swift, so have been forcing myself to get into it. At first I had the usual revulsion
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by billti 8mo ago
> Starship will deliver millions of tons to orbit and beyond per year Excuse my naive physics, but is there a point at which if you take enough mass off of earth and launch it into space, it would have a measurable effect on earth's
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by billti 8mo ago
I think the timing of the Cybertruck starting deliveries roughly aligning with when Elon got heavily involved in politics hurt it quite a bit. It is such a distinctive vehicle with a strong association with Elon, that there was an immediate
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by billti 8mo ago
This is the most disappointing aspect of the slide in quality for me. I working in software and "build features" for a living, and over the years I've come to prioritize reliability, performance, and an intuitive experience o
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by billti 8mo ago
> Andrew Bosworth ... has called a meeting for Wednesday ... Mr. Bosworth said the meeting was the “most important” of the year That's a bold claim on Jan 12th!
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by billti 8mo ago
Or the even more frustrating: Me: "Hey Siri, play <well known hit song from a studio album that sold 100m copies" Siri: "OK, here's <correct song but a live version nobody ever listens to, or some equally obscure r
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by billti 9mo ago
I was hesitant buying my Tesla this year (first one) as I really liked having CarPlay in my prior car (Jeep). But after having it a while, it's really a non-issue. The Tesla Apple Music app is pretty good. Their maps and navigation is
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by billti 9mo ago
It was disappointing to see one of the most advertised Apple “AI” features was “Genmoji”, which falls squarely in the “gimmick” category for me.
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by billti 9mo ago
I didn't even notice who I was replying to at first - so let me start by saying thank you for Ghostty. I spend a great deal of my day in it, and it's a beautifully put together piece of software. I appreciate the work you do and a
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by billti 9mo ago
It's a full featured and beautifully designed experience, and when it works it's amazing. However it regularly freezes of hangs for me, and I've lost count of the number of times I've had to 'force quit' Xcode
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by billti 10mo ago
This reminds me of the whole Lerna debacle a few years back. https://www.vice.com/en/article/open-source-devs-reverse-dec... That aside, even if something like this was “legally enforceable”, it adds enough fricti
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by billti 10mo ago
> Also, code that compiles with older CUDA toolkit versions may not compile with newer CUDA toolkit versions. Newer hardware may require a CUDA toolkit version that is newer than what the project maintainer intended. This is the part I f
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by billti 11mo ago
That’s one of the primary reasons we built the tooling for Q# to run in the browser (by writing in Rust and compiling to wasm). The “try with copilot” experience [1] and the “katas” for learning [2] all have a full language service and runt
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by billti 1y ago
Horses for courses. Better camera (for those special moments while the kids are young) and better battery life are two big ones for me, so I'll likely upgrade. (Kind of digging the orange color too). It's not the dullest refresh,
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by billti 1y ago
That's what I do. Works great. Yes a couple of extra clicks is annoying, and apps are often "Hey how about you go into settings and let me access all your photos for a better experience!", but I'm happy with 2 or 3 extra
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by billti 1y ago
Yeah. Anki (and flashcards in general) are great for helping you remember something _you_ learned (from a book, video, class, etc.). Not for transferring knowledge someone else learned. Writing my own cards as I'm learning is the only
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by billti 1y ago
Isn't that kinda why we have collaboration and get in room with colleagues to discuss ideas? i.e., thinking about different ideas, getting different perspectives, considering trade-offs in various approaches, etc. results in a better s
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by billti 1y ago
Yeah. On Windows some apps (the new Terminal) used to have the opacity set to 0.9 or something by default. First thing I did was set it to 1.0. Having the background bleed through is distracting for no real value. I’m usually a big fan of A
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by billti 1y ago
> While the U.S. often has a goods trade deficit, it maintains a surplus in services, including finance, education, and technology Maybe a naive question, but are only goods considered? I had always assumed the 'deficit' was &q
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by billti 1y ago
I have no 'recently' to compare to, as I'd never been in a Tesla before. I was dubious because of all the "this year for sure" history, but after test driving one, I bought the new Model Y, and it now pretty much dr

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