montgomery_r

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Which would you prefer: an iPhone Duo, or an iPhone 18 Pro plus an iPad mini?
1 points by montgomery_r 7d ago|2 comments
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New Apple Dev Betas: Is it possible to force LLM requests to stay on device?
1 points by montgomery_r 3mo ago|0 comments
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by montgomery_r 4mo ago
WesterDOS.
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by montgomery_r 5mo ago
Totally agreed! And I loved Snow Leopard. (And I still love Mac OS - just making the point, there have always been things to complain about :-) )
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by montgomery_r 5mo ago
I think the criticisms of the current software stack are well founded. There is friction there, stuff doesnt work that should. OP even neglected to mention the glaring Finder column view bugs or the Taboe corner radius window selection issu
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by montgomery_r 5mo ago
There’s a lot of commentary to the effect that the Mac hardware is good, but the software is somehow terrible. Speaking as someone who first used a Mac Plus, graduated to an SE/30, and is now on a Mac mini m4 pro… I can remember when
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by montgomery_r 5mo ago
That /rara avis/, an academic paper that is not only readable but witty. I do think the logics are real progress and could have wider application.
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by montgomery_r 7mo ago
The radar measure was surprising - it told me my play falls of a cliff when i’m in a worse position- I would have guessed i’m quite good at battling on, so that was an eye opener. To be clear, I am sure the analysis is better than my gut fe
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by montgomery_r 7mo ago
Aha! That worked. Brilliant idea, really useful - I’ve often thought ‘ i wonder what my better move is in this oft-repeated opening’ and this tells me. Thankyou!
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by montgomery_r 7mo ago
This is a fantastic idea and I would love to try it. Am I missing something? I don't have a google account and I’m on chess.com not lichess - how do I make an account?
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by montgomery_r 8mo ago
English pedant and RP speaker here. Jabs is a colloquialism in British English, but the BBC website is riddled with grammatical and vocabulary errors daily and rarely rises above a secondary (high school) reading level.
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by montgomery_r 9mo ago
Just finished ‘On the law of speaking freely’ Adam Tomkins - an excellent survey covering the US, UK and EU. In the middle of: Adventurers, David Howarth, an account of the beginnings of the East India Company, and Witch Wood, a delightful
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by montgomery_r 9mo ago
Ploughing isn’t quite mowing, of course, but the great Rabbie Burns tilled the same furrow in To A Mouse: On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breasti
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by montgomery_r 11mo ago
Ruby
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by montgomery_r 11mo ago
This ONS series is a poster child for ‘data is theory laden’. Nobody is ‘deprived’. And as OP notes, these gerrymandered patches do not capture rich and poor areas as seen by our own lyin’ eyes. Slice the data differently, you would have ve
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by montgomery_r 1y ago
Apologies. Not a very HackerNews style comment. Please forgive a moment of irritation with the OP in the midst of a heavy cold.. should have taken a deep breath!
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by montgomery_r 1y ago
This is so ridiculously childish. DHH’s politics should be entirely irrelevant. Ruby on Rails is not left or right wing, it’s a framework for building websites. Anyone with an ounce of sense will choose a framework on the technical merits.
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by montgomery_r 1y ago
Thank goodness it’s not just me. Had been assuming I was uniquely thick.
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by montgomery_r 1y ago
Salzberg states several times that one should browse in 'private' or 'incognito' mode to stop 3rd party tracking. This is false. Incognito mode stops data such as web history and cookies being stored on the computer you
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Some politics books I've read or re-read this year: Fall Out - Tim Shipman, on of his astonishingly detailed quartet on Britain's exit from the EU; Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli, magisterial yet readable; Boris Johnson
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Thanks! Wodehouse is one of those writers who almost never produces a bad sentence. An astonishing talent.
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Aargh, Formatting! Try 2 : For the value of ‘best’ that includes (a) had a deep and long lasting impact on how I think about the world and (b) I consider beautiful pieces of writing in their own right, here are some in no particular order:
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
For the value of ‘best’ that includes (a) had a deep and long lasting impact on how I think about the world and (b) I consider beautiful pieces of writing in their own right, here are some in no particular order: The Selfish Gene, Richard
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Every tome I try to learn what idempotent means, it’s as though I’m starting from scratch.
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
The more I hear about inverse proportionality, the less I like it.
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
We have an HP bw laserjet at home with PostScript and crucially a duplexer. I bought it used about 10 years ago for £200. We don’t print much, around 15,000pp so far. Generally I print: - in the last month, a lot of past papers as my son p
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
“At first you don't know much, so you’re not much use, and then you have to work really hard, and if that’s a shock to you, you’ll find the spot on the team is given to somebody else”. Sounds like most walks of life. If only I had been
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Lovely!
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Thanks for the informed commentary. I'm surprised that the tools haven't dropped in price faster, but perhaps there is a de minimis based on amount of material / strength / precision engineering required. I got to the si
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Digital Wood Joints(openup.design)
141 points by montgomery_r 2y ago|68 comments

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