jval43

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by jval43 5d ago
I disagree. First we got everything as HTML/Electron apps, now the trend is everything as TUIs. Cross-platform, better, but still worse somehow. What falls to the wayside are the actual and real productivity and usability improvements
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by jval43 6d ago
It's entirely possible future models will refuse to answer if they notice you're using an external harness. Instead they'll point you to their respective vendor APIs for the specific use cases. We're talking about trilli
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by jval43 7d ago
Especially Apple. Buying a first gen Apple product hasn't been great since like 1999 at least. Very few exceptions.
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by jval43 1mo ago
Play the Gameboy version. I bought every single official Tetris version and they all suck in conparison. Gameboy emulators are now available again in the iOS app store or even as a a web app. Or just play on real hardware.
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by jval43 2mo ago
It was so close! I could already see the end of all the predatory publishing and flourishing of open-access. Some even required by law. Knowledge was finally going to be free. But no, it will presumably get much worse as LLMs are inserted i
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by jval43 2mo ago
My ACM papers are published in full on my website. Not preprints. In fact thats the only reason I have a website, just in case someone actually wants to read them. The copyright agreement (actually copyright assignment/transfer) with A
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Canbus – Networking so simple, even YOU can understand it [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jval43 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jval43 2mo ago
A paperclip always worked, even on the slot loading iMacs.
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by jval43 2mo ago
Impressive debugging skills, and thank you for the benchmarks. Now I'm wondering if mlx-engine / mlx-lm have these bugs too. One minor thing: as you are concerned with honest numbers, the graphs should be logarithmic on the y-axis
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by jval43 2mo ago
Very carefully - and I mean extremely carefully - word it so that it describes what it does, while implying what it should do without confirming that it actually does that. Also helps if you fix the bug or change the behavior, the docs are
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by jval43 2mo ago
This is one of the reasons I currently use Gemini for daily use and research. Google has lots of experience with search history, and presumably handles this better than new companies.
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by jval43 3mo ago
There was this article recently, which I personally found interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573 Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (maderix.substack.com) 376 points | 3 mont
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by jval43 3mo ago
Same for me, when riding the bus. Really wanted it to work and tried over the course of several weeks, unfortunately it didn't help.
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by jval43 3mo ago
Thank you, that's a good response and I agree with many of your points.
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by jval43 3mo ago
Problem-solving is not the same as engineering or computer science though. Problem-solving can be done by an "analyst" or whatever these types of jobs are usually called.
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by jval43 3mo ago
I've found two things to matter: 1. experience, i.e. knowing why and how a rule matters (in general, but also to auditors) 2. willingness to think If these aren't present, you get overly restrictive compliance that at the same tim
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by jval43 4mo ago
My work laptop just started doing this 3 weeks ago! It's insane. Rather new machine too. It gets so hot in my bag I actually worry about it starting a fire one day. I now take it out every night. Obviously I tried googling but no dic
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by jval43 4mo ago
Always trust your gut. Especially when it comes to people. Don't overthink, never rationalize it. Accept your feeling, it's valid. If I learned anything from all my past mistakes in life, it's this.
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by jval43 4mo ago
Realistically it's 48 M5 Pro vs 128 M5 Max due to constraints on how you can configure them. So a more substantial difference of ~2k US.
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by jval43 5mo ago
Counterpoint: the touchscreen in my car DOES work with gloves. Of course the knobs do too. The screen is some different tech and not quite as responsive as an iPhone screen and does not do multitouch, but otherwise works fine.
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by jval43 5mo ago
Even Toyota is going touch now, with the 2026 models lacking climate control knobs. I don't know why. Every review always praised the previous models for the physical buttons, and literally nobody asked for them. The physical buttons w
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by jval43 5mo ago
We can't. It's just that everyone and their dog has an interest in selling you that lie because money. Stochastic parrots can code yes, but that does not make them experts. Don't trust them with your life.
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by jval43 5mo ago
I did, in Java 2ME for my Nokia. That was a completely different experience and much harder to get going. I did make a color 2D game though in about a week. The TI-200 was much more accessible and fun, creating small little programs during
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by jval43 5mo ago
I love the Lightning connector, and think it feels better than USB-C. My Intel MPB has terrible USB-C ports where the cables just fall out all the time. But to be fair I've also had many issues with Lightning. A few shorted out and bec
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by jval43 5mo ago
Bungies Marathon series (1994) had the same recording system, as other commenters mentioned due to networking multiplayer. What's totally insane is that the modern engine rewrite Aleph One can also play back such old recordings, for
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by jval43 5mo ago
More like the model knew of the previous, almost identical bug from 6 years ago. Whoever discovered that should be credited.
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by jval43 5mo ago
My parents are retired. How exactly do they come into play? I'm actively avoiding Shorts, Reels, and whatever else with those mechanics precisely because they pull you in and snap an hour is gone with nothing of value to show for it.
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by jval43 5mo ago
> they were just the cheapest labor the company could find who could do the thing. Thats the problem right there. The company doesn't care . No amount of personal certifications is going to fix that. It MUST be on the companies. T
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by jval43 6mo ago
I do this on my iPad with Magic keyboard and I'm a die hard command line user otherwise. I think the reason I started doing it on the iPad is that the keyboard focus is sometimes inconsistent, so clicking or tab-tab-tab-enter is slow
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by jval43 6mo ago
Exporting originals just hangs for me. Opening or switching a photos library is basically hoping the Mac doesn't crash. Edits are locked inside the database, with no hope of ever getting them out. And god forbid you put the library on

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