mholm

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by mholm 10d ago
Their power needs must be absurdly strict, considering they didn’t want the 12v -> 220v -> 12v loss for an M1 chip.
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by mholm 24d ago
As models train up the intelligence ladder, many common tasks will hit fully diminished returns, and instead it'll just get progressively cheaper to do that task. But the tasks that AI is capable of doing are also expanding. I'm n
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by mholm 26d ago
OpenAI has paused training for multiple weeks, and is still working on releasing a full postmortem. This is not getting swept under the rug. A lot of the engineers internally are very worried.
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by mholm 1mo ago
There's been a lot of effort into the writing space, and the models genuinely prefer this style. You can let them iterate on the same idea 100 times, rewrite sentences, determine what works best — and they'll still verb the noun,
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by mholm 1mo ago
This was true in the ChatGPT era. Now we're in a world with reasoning tokens, where a model can thoroughly plan out the response it wants to make. If anything, it makes the style worse.
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by mholm 1mo ago
Black for Python https://github.com/psf/black
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by mholm 1mo ago
> I guarantee you somewhere in their backlog is an item that says "require app store for app installations on macOS" This has been said for over a decade and it still hasn't happened, and Apple hasn't even tried to do
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by mholm 1mo ago
> He reported returns of 439% for the first half of 2026 > which posted a loss of 67% in July So it's still up 44% this year? The article notes this, but seems unnecessarily adversarial against an investor who is still wildly suc
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by mholm 2mo ago
98.99999%
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by mholm 2mo ago
Yes, they host it on their own infrastructure.
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by mholm 2mo ago
I don't believe it's published anywhere, but it's common knowledge to Apple engineers. I can second the poster's assertion that they run Claude internally.
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by mholm 2mo ago
The excessive spending was part of the point. The market is watching AI spend very closely. AI spend is a proxy for AI absorption. Expanding your MS contract to include Copilot for your rank and file doesn't move the meter much. Lettin
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by mholm 2mo ago
The study itself from late 2025 is also written to be _highly_ favorable to non-ai usage. Developers on a codebase they're already experienced with, largely using these tools for the first time. Of course they aren't faster! They&
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by mholm 2mo ago
These are not competing with Kobo. These are micro-ereaders, often much smaller than a phone. They're characterized by extremely weak processors and minimal hardware. 'Apps' are not a concept here yet.
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by mholm 2mo ago
Yeah. I also noticed a fairly significant speed increase when I started using Safari again. Unfortunate. There are just too many features that Safari supports perfectly, that Orion either doesn't support at all, or has flakey support f
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by mholm 2mo ago
I'm in the same boat. Nothing else is as rock solid or has the color accuracy of Hue. You can immediately tell when it's some random brand
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by mholm 2mo ago
Once you start doing frequent business through PayPal, they begin 'holding' some of your money to form a buffer against chargebacks and fraud. This doesn't happen often at the consumer level, but dominates within the small bu
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by mholm 2mo ago
> It is unlikely this kind of agentic workflow will ever get cheaper This seems like a very '500kB is all you'll ever need' thing to say. This exact scenario has seen a precipitous decline in cost and increase in reliabili
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by mholm 3mo ago
What questions? When I go into auto mode, it doesn't come back until it accidentally/intentionally tries to slip the guardrails, or completes the task. My prompt will generally include information on what it's allowed to do t
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by mholm 3mo ago
As someone who loved Supreme Commander, I really wanted to like BAR, but I found it felt like death by a thousand cuts. I last played more than a year ago, so things might be different, but the QoL felt really lacking.
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by mholm 3mo ago
If a teenager on your street said he was going to spend $1,000 to customize his Honda Civic for his needs, you'd believe him. If he says he's going to build a brand new car, better than a Honda civic, for $10,000, you'd laugh
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by mholm 3mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic don't make small models. Google happens to already have a billion devices that would benefit from small models, so they made one. Google basically gets 1 billion per year for free*.
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by mholm 4mo ago
Predictable for a year or two, yes. I know how much I'll be paying a decade from now, exempting property tax and insurance fluctuations.
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by mholm 4mo ago
I was in middle school in 2007
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by mholm 4mo ago
Beyond the financials, the psychological impact of both being able to make greater-than-superficial changes, and having extremely predictable payments for years without worrying about substantial rent increases, is substantial. I redid&#x2F
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by mholm 4mo ago
Content quality and content monetization are very different. The EU had exceptionally low monetization and brand recognition.
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by mholm 4mo ago
I bought an X4 back in November, and bought an X3 in March, after realizing the X4 was too big to fit on the back of a regular iPhone. I absolutely love this thing. It's great because of its limited scope and featureset. It just sticks
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by mholm 4mo ago
Seconding this. I installed a new dictionary to it fairly easily
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by mholm 4mo ago
I've seen a lot of people hop into prompting with no trouble, and people who have been using it for years that get bad results. Ultimately, prompting skill is just downstream of technical communication skill. It's probably a good
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by mholm 4mo ago
This has a very different feel than similar pages for other companies. Hardware is still supported if it's within age, most of the software features are just elsewhere and renamed, and some of it is just previous generations of product

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