hunterloftis

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The Layout Bet(blog.reve.com)
1 points by hunterloftis 4mo ago|1 comments
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by hunterloftis 4mo ago
Yesterday, we launched a generative image model that competes with the top of the field. I figured some HN folks might be interested in this deep dive from the research team. Watching them figure out how to make the best use of our relative
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by hunterloftis 8mo ago
Also: free random house you didn't want, design, or ask for. If you've held onto vacant property for years or decades, you may have a specific plan in mind for it (like retirement).
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by hunterloftis 8mo ago
> Reynolds was in for yet another unwelcome surprise: The developer sued her for being “unjustly enriched” by the construction of the home on her land. > The developers’ lawyer told SFGATE in March that Reynolds appeared to be taking
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by hunterloftis 8mo ago
In the context of laptops, I would agree (MBP's hardware just outclasses everything else, even if I prefer Fedora over macOS). However, for phones, this just doesn't shake out. The Pixel 10 Pro for instance, has: * A battery that
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by hunterloftis 8mo ago
For me it's the keyboard and hotkeys. I use macs at work and Linux at home. There's no uniform way to make a Linux machine accept things like cmd right arrow to jump to the end of the line, etc. This is the closest attempt, but it
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by hunterloftis 8mo ago
Given the weird take on x86 being inherently "more powerful" and the copy-pasted error from the marketing site (32W vs 32WH) this "article" looks like gently massaged advertising copy: > Alternatively, HP’s EliteBoard
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by hunterloftis 9mo ago
My takeaway from the read wasn't that it was trying to convince anyone to take any particular action, and even emphasized that the mediocrity of AI output as more people use it will be a benefit to the smaller number of people doing th
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by hunterloftis 9mo ago
> It'd be perfect it just had a switch to inherit everything the page already has. It does! < https://lit.dev/docs/components/shadow-dom/ > By default, Lit renders into shadow DOM. This carries be
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by hunterloftis 1y ago
That sounds like possibly a configuration issue rather than strictly performance (although I agree the symptom is worse performance). For instance, specifically the value "~60fps" vs something as high as 400fps sounds like running
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by hunterloftis 1y ago
Hey, I worked on this & totally agree - I want my tools to be editors, not slot machines. My focus has been on the beta "Edit" feature, tucked away into the top-right when you're looking at a single image. It lets you dir
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by hunterloftis 3y ago
TIL, thanks! I still am not willing to migrate browsers in order to use Bing, however.
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Ask HN: Did Bing miss their opportunity to compete with Google?
3 points by hunterloftis 3y ago|6 comments
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by hunterloftis 3y ago
All good points. I suspect preferences will hinge on peoples' budgets for personal responsibility. As my non-digital responsibilities have increased, I've found it nice to be able to delegate to "the cloud" - even at the
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by hunterloftis 3y ago
I fondly remember locally-executing software with local persistence by default. To provide a counterpoint, though, during that time my entire family shared one desktop PC. Looking around me, right now: work macbook, personal linux laptop, s
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
Yep, for the 10th gen X1 Carbon
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
Because I wanted hardware that's already been tested end-to-end with not only linux in general, but the distro & version I'm using (Fedora 36). Using the same hardware that Lenovo ships with linux out-of-the-box, as well as th
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
@nivertech I use the Samsung c34j74x: https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/monitor/detail/1280/C34... It's 3440x1440, and yes the Intel driver under Fedora drives it flicker-free at 100 Hz.
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
That sounds rough! I would probably look into getting a full replacement (possibly with a different model) from Lenovo, given such persistent "lemon" issues.
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
There are regular HN threads discussing good development machines, especially from people hoping to find an OSS alternative to MS, Google, & Apple walled gardens. The hardware & operating system used for building products is a discu
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
I don't know if the fingerprint reader works - I don't like them, so haven't tried to set it up (it's integrated into the power button, which of course does work). I haven't spent more than 8-10 hours off of a charg
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
I agree the M1 is great hardware. However, the feeling of speed is made up of much more than just the hardware's capabilities. The OS you use, the toolchain you have access to, impacts your experience as well. This X1 matches 92% of a
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
I have had similar experiences to you in the past, which is why I posted about the different experience I had with the latest Thinkpad X1 Carbon that comes with Fedora Linux out of the box.
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
> I set up and supported 200 X1 Carbons over the past few years. ...but the Gen 10 X1 with out-of-the-box Fedora, the topic of this post, was released just a few months ago. > It's noticeably slower than any Apple Silicon machine
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
I did compare it to the XPS 13 - the XPS looked like a solid machine, but it felt a little cramped to me. I preferred the still-svelte-but-bigger 14" X1. Another consideration was having a company that cares about Linux running flawles
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
> Thinkpads are often up to 30% off on lenovos website, but it seems that they don't discount the configurable options any more, which rules out getting a good price for a 32GB config. Just to clarify here, I got a 32GB model at 51%
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
Happy to: Can you navigate with two fingers in a web browser? Yes. I've also been underwhelmed by non-Apple touchpads until using this. I'm not sure how much of the experience is hardware and how much is Fedora 36. How is text sel
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Tell HN: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an excellent MacBook replacement
135 points by hunterloftis 4y ago|210 comments
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
This is a surprising perspective, since we're using web components top-to-bottom to build photoshop on the web, & some of that decision was driven by performance comparisons where web components outperformed react. It's possib
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by hunterloftis 4y ago
While individual Node.js processes are single-threaded, Node.js includes a standard API that distributes its load across multiple processes, and therefor cores. - https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html#cluster

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