mkhalil

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by mkhalil 7d ago
A multi-billon dollar company dropping quarters (performance/ux) to pick up pennies (development savings from not maintaining a native app) never made mathematical sense to me. [ aside: Meta founded the development of RN and they don&#
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by mkhalil 25d ago
People might think that Americans are selfish - and there ofc is truth to that - but I strongly believe that many-to-most of us WANT the world to 'reverse-uno' any tariffs or ridiculousness that the administration in power force u
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by mkhalil 25d ago
"Why LLMs ARE dumber than they appear" is much closer to the reality I live in.
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by mkhalil 2mo ago
Good for you! Some of us are professionals and like to understand our systems and how they work. I don't write assembly instructions by hand either, nor do I design CPUs much, but I want to - and likely need to - know how they work to
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by mkhalil 2mo ago
In this economy, if you're playing catchup to competitors you really can't have growth AND large profit margins. Why is that not obvious? XBOX brought in 5 billion, and after all development costs, marketing, operating expenses, i
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by mkhalil 3mo ago
microservices / clusters / zones - really all of these are other "cell-based" architectures as well. there is absolutely no written rule that a microservice was just an API or a singular service, it basically can be a in
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by mkhalil 4mo ago
> "while also working out how to make AI generated video that's impossible to detect." what gives you that impression? Google is spends millions of dollars researching and implementing SynthID [0]; ensuring all videos gene
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by mkhalil 4mo ago
>> * Moving code off of GitHub doesn't change any of this: AI companies are free to download your git repo no matter where it is hosted, just like they can any other content on a publicly accessible website. C'mon, I'm
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by mkhalil 5mo ago
Why would folks be better paying 5.5% fee to OpenRouter ("Open") if most people just use one or two providers? Just use the provider's API.
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by mkhalil 5mo ago
yeah, the context is federally here; so from my federal income taxes which are MUCH higher than my state, sales, and property taxes combined
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by mkhalil 5mo ago
Not to mention, that Opus cost orders of magnitude more money. These are VERY impressive and usage. FAANGS love to give away money to get people addicted to their platforms, and even they, the richest companies in the world, are throttling
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by mkhalil 5mo ago
So we spent more on interest for the deficit than we spent on the doubling the combined spending on all of the following: transportation government operations natural resources community development education & social services agricultu
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by mkhalil 10mo ago
I'm sure its happened before, but this is the first time i finally get to see some sort of modern hardware in KiCad. Pretty cool to see all 6 layers, paste layers, and adhesive layers as well. I've always wondered how the cake was
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by mkhalil 10mo ago
I use pnpm, but even so: thankfully naming things is hard, and all my env variable names are very_convuluted_non_standard_names for things lol.
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by mkhalil 10mo ago
That's why it should be rounded for everything. No pennies should probably mean that any final transaction totals are rounded to the nearest nickel. Whether they pay with cash, credit, debit, snap, gift card, etc... IMO, rounding for c
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
1.5 billion used to be an absolute ridiculous number to pay for a company not long ago. AOL? 1990s AOL? But with 5 trillion dollar companies these days that are "worth" more than the entire GDP of Germany, why not. It's not r
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
Huh? Did you read the link? Did you notice the ONE screenshot clearly shows the app has a material-ui look. I'm going to say this because I think you might not know this, but also because I think many others might not have thought abou
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
It *is* confusing but in actuality, it kind of works: It's a Windows Subsystem - as in the Hypervisor/VM platform - to boot a Linux VM. And, more importantly IMO, Linux distro is using this Windows Subsystem for: booting, drivers,
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
The "demo" is kind of bologna. 1) The code that is running is not what's presented; it executes (non-transpiled) vanilla JS.* Why not just show that? 2) Removing the box shadow massively makes the two closer in performance. 3
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
Thank you. Honestly, the "could of" is more of a "sometimes I write how I sound" thing, but anything else, is more of a middle of the night brain mush. I actually re-wrote that bottom part at least twice because I had a
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
Holy moly this thing has grown. I seen the Apple TV/Android app many many years ago and figured it was just another basic/forked IPTV/M3U viewer but looking at the website and " https://getchannels.com/rel
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by mkhalil 11mo ago
I always felt TiVo really did a great job at identifying how important good UX and UI are for consumer products. Partially, the monopolies/cable companies knew/know they were able to get away with poor UI since consumers didn&#x27
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by mkhalil 1y ago
>> "Complexity is not inherent to web development" >> "Hotwire is sort of vanilla rails and it enables you to create very modern experiences with content live updating through web sockets and it is basically a one
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by mkhalil 1y ago
This article has been re-written for over a decade. The so-called "complexity" is just a list of tools that each solve a specific problem. Tooling isn't the problem: The complexity is inherent to modern web development. You s
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by mkhalil 1y ago
Unpopular opinion: I think it's wild that ANY ORG would pay $200k for a chat app. If I ever ran an org that needed a chat app and the costs came even close to $200k a year, I would rather hire an engineer, contract a designer, and crea
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by mkhalil 1y ago
Good catch, you are correct. I initially was going post the actual command for checking out a branch at a time: > git checkout $(git rev-list -1 --before="YYYY-MM-DD" master) but thought I found a shortcut - which turns out is
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by mkhalil 1y ago
Every time I see a something with the ability to import code from Git, especially if they allow specifying a branch (this pack even supports commit hashes), I wish they would document (and that more people would know) that they can "ch
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by mkhalil 1y ago
Seems like it was major enough that it was the lone patch[0] in all active Apple OS's: macOS Ventura 13.7.8 | macOS Sonoma 14.7.8 | macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 iPadOS 17.7.10 | iPadOS 18.6.2 | iOS 18.6.2 Usually, its multiple CVE&#x27
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by mkhalil 1y ago
I have a lot of longer term notes that are just ideas (a.k.a "genius ideas") but written in "to-do" format. I found using different solutions for different notes is the best IMO. MS OneNote* for all longer term to-dos, o
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by mkhalil 1y ago
Most (all? ) open source licenses allow you to sell hosted clusters. They offered a hosted solution well before they changed its license. You can also fork it; but depending on the license, you might need to open-source any fork. : I don&#

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