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by lbourdages 7d ago
They failed to come up with a strong selling point. Health is the big seller for Apple Watch. But AVP, at its price point, needs something better than "well you can watch movies on a big screen or work in a café while looking silly&quo
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by lbourdages 9d ago
You can use the caffeinate command (CLI) to do that, IIRC.
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by lbourdages 16d ago
I once tried using Gemini directly in Google Sheets to make a graph. I never managed to get it to do exactly what I wanted; after wasting way too much time on it I was able to fix the problem in a matter of seconds. It's fascinating be
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by lbourdages 1mo ago
- load-bearing - smoking gun - I found the seam
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by lbourdages 1mo ago
As is the entirety of using an LLM? If you want something deterministic and efficient you get the agent to write a script, verify it, then run it yourself.
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by lbourdages 1mo ago
OpenAPI already exists, you can serve it on an endpoint for tool descriptions. Why did we need MCP again?
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by lbourdages 1mo ago
I have a company-managed Apple account on my work iPhone and Mac. So I beg to differ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It is quite nerfed compared to a normal Apple account - for example the App store is effectively disabled and you need some MDM to be able
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by lbourdages 1mo ago
Couldn't WASM solve that problem once and for all? Is there some limitation that WASM has that JS doesn't? Disclaimer: I am very inexperienced at front-end development.
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by lbourdages 2mo ago
Well, it goes both ways. You'll see articles saying essentially "you don't need Postgres or any other fancy database, SQlite is enough" while ignoring the fact that some use-cases warrant a more conventional DB server. D
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by lbourdages 2mo ago
Maybe they are just for internal use? I doubt Apple is going back on the server market, and given how little they have invested in the Mac Pro, I doubt they are going to make a new version. There is little advantage compared to the Mac Stud
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by lbourdages 5mo ago
It's been unacceptable for months, but now it's at the level of "we should actively look for alternatives".
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by lbourdages 5mo ago
Didn't know that tool existed, thanks for that! I assume it's using the development features in order to bypass protections?
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by lbourdages 5mo ago
Links are also often modified with "hxxps" instead of "https". Link is still clickable but will not work.
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by lbourdages 6mo ago
Fascinating! So it's a bit like a plate reverb (used in the olden days in audio engineering), but in the MHz range.
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by lbourdages 6mo ago
There is a technical solution to this - make Amber alerts specifically not bypass do-not-disturb. Others can stay as-is because I want to get woken up in case of natural disaster or other catastrophe. My phone is always on vibration, but ev
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by lbourdages 6mo ago
It is the same in Canada [1] yet I frequently see beer sold in "US pints" over here. I assume they do it so they can advertise cheaper prices (the amount being smaller). Some places will write the glass size in ounces, but some wo
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by lbourdages 6mo ago
I don't understand what is their thought process. Am I supposed to get up and start driving in hopes of finding the kid(s)? By the time I wake up in the morning, usually, they have been found. Just set it so that it doesn't bypass
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by lbourdages 7mo ago
Apart from the HTML5 export mentioned by another commenter, there exists Ruffle[1], a Rust + WASM reimplementation of Flash that can play swf files. It's used a lot on archive.org or on some websites like https://homestarrun
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by lbourdages 7mo ago
It's particularly annoying one asks for people's input/opinion, and then someone posts an emoji-ridden tirade that is clearly copy-pasted from ChatGPT. Like, I know how to use it. The fact that I asked a bunch of humans is be
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by lbourdages 7mo ago
Except you can make oxygen for pretty cheap using oxygen concentrators. The technology is simple enough that home versions exist for patients with lung problems can lug one around at all times to have a feed of oxygen rich air. Oxygen is al
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by lbourdages 7mo ago
Native French speaker here. 1300s I could still kinda follow the story with difficulty but from the 1200s I just couldn't anymore. I felt like it helped to use an "old english" accent in my inner voice when reading.
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by lbourdages 7mo ago
AWS does have a European sovereign cloud now: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-so... Now how bulletproof it is in practice will be tested in years to come, I'm sure. But it seems to b
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by lbourdages 7mo ago
I think the abysmal adoption numbers of the v26 OSes have played a big role here.
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by lbourdages 8mo ago
Given Tesla's abysmal track record on keeping their promises I feel like it is justified to dismiss them, at the risk of being surprised if they do make it.
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by lbourdages 9mo ago
I had that laptop and it is the worst computer I have ever owned. As soon as you booted the fans would start spinning. There were sometimes kernel panics when plugging or unplugging Thunderbolt devices. I have an M1 Max MBP now and it has b
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by lbourdages 10mo ago
Well, to play devil's advocate, typically only the minified version is exposed. However I agree that in the end outside of making it more readable, it's not making a huge difference.
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by lbourdages 10mo ago
Well, the current hardware is solid - great build quality, powerful, insane battery life. However, software-wise, the peak was 10.6. There hasn't been the same level of quality ever since.
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by lbourdages 10mo ago
This has not been an issue in Canada. There is sales tax, which basically randomizes the last digit.
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by lbourdages 10mo ago
Love Atomic Shrimp. There is so much variety in his content, and always a focus on curiosity, trial and error, and learning things. One of the most positive channels on Youtube.
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by lbourdages 11mo ago
Yeah, I am obviously not a data scientist. I guess where I was getting at is they do not technically even need to know genres to recommend songs. In practice though, they probably have to know them anyway for playlists, but I assume they ca

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