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by helmsb 1y ago
They also announced new APIs for native Linux containerization on MacOS with a specific focus on security and performance. This seems like it may be in support of that as well. Anything they can do to improve the performance of containers i
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by helmsb 1y ago
Lest we forget, Jobs LOVED the original iMac Hockey Puck Mouse and wanted the iPhone to only run a handful of Apple-designed apps.
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by helmsb 2y ago
I do, I use Fastmail and create aliases for every service. It's interesting to see how fast companies will "lose" or sell your email address. I've seen it as fast as 24 hours my unique email address is being used by othe
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by helmsb 2y ago
I did a few tests and asked it some legal questions. 4o gave me the correct answer immediately. o1 preview gave a much more in depth but completely wrong answer. It took 5 follow ups to get it to recognize that it hallucinated a non-existen
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by helmsb 2y ago
But the AI generated article from the front page yesterday said I shouldn’t use Screens anymore… /s
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by helmsb 2y ago
They first introduced a product called Snowball which is a big briefcase of hard drives that would ship you, you transfer up to a petabyte of data and send back. This was the extension of that so they went with another snow related name. Al
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by helmsb 3y ago
I do this all the time. Change a character so I can quickly see that I’m running the build that I thought when iterating internally. This theory makes the most sense to me.
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by helmsb 3y ago
You still have to go through security with PreCheck. It's usually faster and requires fewer steps that non-PreCheck passengers have to go through. I used to fly up the East Coast and back every other week and I couldn't imagine do
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by helmsb 3y ago
No you’re NOT a moron, just a minor mistake. Have a wonderfully Wednesday.
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by helmsb 3y ago
I switched to Kagi and really like it. It really shows you what's possible when you're not optimizing for ads. Lots of cool functionality like: Lenses: Allows you to run a search to prioritize certain domains to give you a particu
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by helmsb 3y ago
I miss when Twitter was 140 characters. This tweet could have benefited from the enforced brevity.
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by helmsb 3y ago
The author has a “lab” Patreon where he works out more of the specifics and also builds proofs of concept for the different functions he describes. The prototypes he built so far are very impressive and he’s been using them as part of his w
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by helmsb 3y ago
Seems like the only people making money in this whole thing is the company hired to change the sign every other week when Musk decides to make a joke or do a sudden rebrand.
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by helmsb 3y ago
Fun fact: According to famed programmer Brian Kernigan: one day a colleague at Bell Labs was doing textual analysis on *The Federalist Papers* but it was proving challenging due to the full-text of the document being around 1mb—far more mem
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by helmsb 3y ago
Correlation ≠ Causation
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by helmsb 3y ago
Can we just stop with the types of articles and agree that everyone is different and that the best strategy is to provide flexibility for employees? Where I work, employees can work from home or in the office, THEIR choice. There are no man
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by helmsb 3y ago
Such a bizarre take. It would be much easier to state something like: If you’re printing code for others to read, stick to standard characters. If you’re choosing a font for your editor, do what you want. I really like ligature fonts. I was
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by helmsb 3y ago
I’ve always been fascinated by alternative calendars (also alternative timekeeping). However, barring an apocalyptic event, I don’t for see any alternative calendars taking off. For most of human history, we didn’t need a standardized calen
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by helmsb 3y ago
I think the issue is the incentives have shifted over the years. A lot of software today is built to drive a specific user behavior to generate revenue instead of being designed from the start to provide customer value. User-hostile behavio
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by helmsb 3y ago
My 2018 F-150 does something similar and it’s very annoying. I’ve figured out a workaround to mostly prevent it though. There are 3 “groups” of presets for SiriusXM (not a subscriber) and I just set them all to the ID station where there is
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by helmsb 3y ago
Regardless of whether you prefer Apple or Google, the benefit of phone projection is that you can get a good experience with relatively low specs from the head unit because the heavy lifting is done by the phone which can be upgraded indepe
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by helmsb 4y ago
Revenue of a startup is no where close to being a reliable measure for such a small sample size. Give me any variable and I can make a similar graph to prove anything you want. Correlation != causation.
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by helmsb 4y ago
Seems interesting but the ads and full screen modals ruined it.
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by helmsb 4y ago
“ There's a common saying and rule of thumb in programming (possibly originating in the C world) that it's never a compiler bug, it's going to be a bug in your code even if it looks crazy or impossible.” I say, it’s “rarely a
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by helmsb 4y ago
American here, what is that in football fields (the one true measurement)?
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by helmsb 4y ago
I always store a timestamp and have an "is_deleted" flag on the business object that checks if the "deleted_timestamp" is null or depending on the use case, whether the timestamp is in the future for records that are to
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by helmsb 4y ago
I always assumed that the reason that the guidance was against using Q-Tips to clean your ears was one of legal exposure for the cases where there is a problem.
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by helmsb 4y ago
This brings back memories. I was working for Cingular when WLNP was first introduced. People were constantly trying to swap and chase after the deals, because every carrier was trying to outdo the next with a better deal. At the time, Veriz
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by helmsb 4y ago
I’ve never liked the take that you should do the bare minimum if you’re not happy or valued. If you don’t like it there, quit and go somewhere else but while you’re there you should do your best because it’s a reflection of you and your eth
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by helmsb 4y ago
You’d be surprised. I live in a city where in the tech sector, everyone knows everyone. I always joke that I can make 4 phone calls and find out about any engineer in the area because they’ve certainly crossed paths with mutual acquaintance

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