deergomoo

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by deergomoo 7d ago
Yeah I used a Magic Keyboard myself for a while but I found it significantly impacted what I liked about the iPad. It doubled the weight, and removed the ability to hold it in my hand or in portrait (still the most common orientation I use
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by deergomoo 7d ago
Why do you think I put “free” in quotes? Realistically I was never going to keep the phone longer than the two year finance term anyway, because back when I started doing it a two-year old phone would be really starting to show its age runn
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by deergomoo 7d ago
I think the idea is the outside screen would be propped up, not on the ground. Though I do wonder if the outside-screen-down orientation is supported.
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by deergomoo 7d ago
The M1 Macs were a bit different because Apple had already been designing their own CPUs for years, and the machine designs themselves were almost identical to previous iterations with Intel CPUs. The only thing they needed to get right was
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by deergomoo 7d ago
I’m in the exact same situation. Been upgrading every year for a long time (via the Upgrade Programme, making doing so more or less “free”). I was absolutely jazzed they finally did an orange phone, and this is the first year in a while tha
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by deergomoo 7d ago
I’m not so sure personally. A MacBook Air is not that much less portable than an iPad, but is far more useful for work when not docked than an iPad because it still has a keyboard and a precision pointing device. And it can still be docke
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by deergomoo 2mo ago
> As for documentation, I've found this simple instruction to vastly improve LLMs' output: > Never write READMEs, docstrings, or comments. I will write those myself later. And yes, I really mean this. This is quite validatin
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by deergomoo 2mo ago
Cookie consent popups are only a scourge because publishers would rather further irritate their users than stop selling your data to their 936 “trusted partners”.
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by deergomoo 2mo ago
Even in perfectly normal, common situations it fails horribly. The bottom stretch of the road I live on is about 2.5 cars wide, but one side is reserved for parking (it’s terraced housing so no off-street parking). That leaves 1.5 cars of w
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by deergomoo 8mo ago
> AI is such a core part of the experience For who? Regular people are quite famously not clamouring for more AI features in software. A Siri that is not so stupendously dumb would be nice, but I doubt it would even be a consideration fo
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by deergomoo 8mo ago
I would call the designing of the building art, yes. But I wouldn’t call it construction. I would also call designing a system to be fed into an LLM designing. But I wouldn’t call it programming. If people are more into the design and syste
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by deergomoo 8mo ago
I will never as long as I live understand the argument that AI development is more fun. If you want to argue that you’re more capable or whatever, fine. I disagree but I don’t have any data to disprove you. But saying that AI development is
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by deergomoo 8mo ago
On what planet is concentrating an increasingly high amount of the output of this whole industry on a small handful of megacorps “democratising” anything? Software development was already one of the most democratised professions on earth. W
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by deergomoo 8mo ago
By feel. Not everyone uses all the buttons all the time, but stuff you use a lot is easily operated without taking eyes off the road. It pairs well with the other upside of physical controls, the manufacturer can’t move them out from under
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by deergomoo 9mo ago
https://gist.github.com/nicolas17/966a03ce49f949dd17b0123415...
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by deergomoo 9mo ago
Formatted? I guess not really, because it’s trivially easy to reformat it. But how it’s structured, the data structures and algorithms it uses, the way it models the problem space, the way it handles failures? That all matters, because ul
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by deergomoo 9mo ago
It’s funny, I never connected my G5 to the network or accepted any of the optional T&Cs, so there’s now numerous places in the UI that say “accept terms to see personalised content”. Uhhh no? I’m good thanks
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by deergomoo 10mo ago
> you won't get stuck because of a word you don't understand or a concept you've never heard of I very much disagree here. To make any sort of progress in AoC, in my experience, you need at least: - awareness of graphs and
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by deergomoo 10mo ago
> You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Every time I see this I wonder how many amateur/hobbyist programmers i
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by deergomoo 1y ago
The difference is you still need to express creativity in your use of GarageBand and iMovie. There is nothing creative about typing "give me a picture of x doing y" into a form field. Also, "democratizing"? Please. We&#x
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by deergomoo 1y ago
> Do we pour billions into educating users not to click "yes" to every prompt they see? Yes, obviously yes . In the same way we teach people to operate cars safely and expect them to carry and utilise that knowledge. Does it w
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by deergomoo 1y ago
Apple software, especially lately, can be really bad for it too. Single core perf is slightly better on my iPad than my MacBook Pro and yet everything feels an order of magnitude slower. If I am impatiently tapping the space I know a button
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by deergomoo 1y ago
One of these days I’m going to get around to writing a little bash script or something that will let me take a plain-ish text file and upload it into Jira via the API. I should be able to create a Jira ticket in however long it takes me to
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by deergomoo 1y ago
Is that “general” though? I’ve always taken AGI to mean general to any problem.
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by deergomoo 1y ago
For all his faults, Jobs always sold the idea that he really thought the stuff he was showing was the coolest thing ever. There was at the very least an illusion of pride and excitement, even if it wasn't always genuine. He'd crac
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by deergomoo 1y ago
> focus on content This has been Alan Dye's modus operandi since he took the helm on software design and the problem is it does not scale to larger devices. On a phone and mostly on an iPad, where you're far more likely to be
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by deergomoo 1y ago
Seriously why does seemingly every presenter from Tim Cook right down to the engineers in the tech-specific sessions speak with the exact same uncanny delivery in these videos? It's incredibly off-putting and sends my brain immediately
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by deergomoo 1y ago
I am incredibly annoyed that they’ve hidden all the camera controls behind an overflow button. Hiding functions is not the same as simplicity any more than shoving all the dirty laundry under your bed is cleaning.
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by deergomoo 1y ago
Then why not just write it? You mention not having to write Markdown in the post, but c’mon dude, you’re a software developer. Presumably the fact you have a personal blog means you must enjoy some aspect of writing, so what’s the end game
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by deergomoo 1y ago
> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. If you had any respect for your readers you’d put this as a disclaimer right at

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