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by nxc18 5d ago
> What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!? There are scenarios where something might need to await and might not. Why take the hit if you are able to do something synchronously? Edit: this is especially impor
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by nxc18 6d ago
I had the exact same issue with it suddenly amplifying bass (my air conditioner and motor vehicles being big triggers) on my AirPods Pro 3, and the memory foam eartips did actually fix it. Kind of a surprising result. I hesitate to share an
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by nxc18 7d ago
Try $12,000 for that.
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by nxc18 7d ago
The Android version is useless though, TBD if Apple can do better. https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
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by nxc18 7d ago
Apple sold plenty of minis. It just wasn’t a blockbuster. They also didn’t sell many pluses. They also didn’t sell many Airs. For context, Apple sold 6 million minis, most Android manufacturers (other than Samsung and Google) can only dream
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by nxc18 7d ago
Have you tried replacing your eartips? I find that radically improves performance - I think they must either get clogged or brittle in a way that causes problems. Cheap foam eartips from Amazon are even better than stock for my AirPods Pro
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by nxc18 7d ago
Even if they’re just matching battery life while adding frequent HRV readings, they’ve made a big advancement. Frequent HRV is a requirement to be a WHOOP/Garmin competitor. Previous Apple Watch can do it if you tell it you have afib,
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by nxc18 8d ago
I see a ton of AI generated images and descriptions on DoorDash. I get the sense the restaurant is not doing it themselves, I’m not sure if they have any control over disabling it or perhaps they are opting in.
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by nxc18 9d ago
No, no, no. Guise. You’ve got it all wrong. Microsoft cares about Windows and its customers again. Don’t trust your lying eyes. It’s a big initiative and you know Microsoft is always serious about those. https://www.windowscentra
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by nxc18 13d ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals I’ll point out you also violate this guideline. Do you seriously read the article and not see that it is extremely low signal-to-noise? And full of non-sequiturs and strange unnecessary clarifi
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by nxc18 13d ago
It is astonishing how easy it is to see the AI hand at work in the writing. Really, it is almost impossible not to see. I don’t get how these people feel it is appropriate to pass off slop like this and not even bother to edit it. Just pain
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by nxc18 13d ago
Americans don’t like this, isn’t rubbing their face in the stupidity they elected the opposite of coddling fascism? Noting that they actually do also coddle fascism, but in this case I’m not sure they’re doing Trump any favors. If they want
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by nxc18 14d ago
Why do you think that? We’ve had this exact problem since the GPT3 moment and it has not improved at all. Not even a little, unlike agentic coding. Why do we expect a horizontal line to suddenly go exponential? Also, it seems that writing e
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by nxc18 14d ago
I’m sorry you had a bad experience. The monorepo I work in has 2-5x as large (depending on how you count) and I don’t see crashes or major performance issues. Even when bloated with plugins (testing, GitHub PRs, formatters, copilot, vim emu
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by nxc18 14d ago
What counts as large? There can be some perf issues if you don’t exclude node_modules and build outputs from search, but I’ve never seen it crash.
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by nxc18 15d ago
If you work on web tech (and who doesn’t these days?) VS Code has the advantage of using the same tech stack you’re already familiar with. If you need to debug a problem, just open devtools. If you want to run a performance profile, do the
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by nxc18 15d ago
Randomly the new tab page stops working. And when the new tab page stops working, all browsing activity stops working until I restart the app. I think the pages load, but I can’t actually see them because it is hidden by the new tab page. A
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by nxc18 22d ago
I think the real problem is we don’t have a native-quality UX toolkit on the web - the built in controls are just horrible. So every app has to reinvent the wheel from scratch, or use one of a few hundred (thousand) web component libraries
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by nxc18 23d ago
Portland put out portable toilets during the pandemic. They had big signs on them about how toilet access was a human right, or something like that. One by one, they were all burned down. Homeless people seem to be really good at destroying
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by nxc18 25d ago
Everyone who is buying into RSI/AGI hype. That hype is the only thing sustaining this investment cycle. The bubble will pop as soon as people realize “AI” is a normal technology.
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by nxc18 26d ago
Two different audiences. Unfortunately for them, messages cross streams. I think it is a good message if you’re trying to scare people into giving you money (or else they lose out on unlimited profits down the road).
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by nxc18 26d ago
All of the industry leaders of AI can’t stop bragging about how their AI is committing what would be felonies if a human did it, warning that it’s about as likely as not that AI will literally lead to human extinction, and threatening that
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by nxc18 26d ago
> help. It could explain concepts in a way that might help you understand better People say that all the time, but does anyone really think a lack of good explanations for things is a limiting factor in 2026? Or even 2010?
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by nxc18 26d ago
Things were painful in the Intel era but I’m on M1 Mac and I’d have a really hard time justifying a request for an upgrade. I absolutely detested my old Intel MacBook (touchbar era) and couldn’t wait to get rid of it. I run bloated slow ele
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by nxc18 27d ago
WRT to Oreo Coke, the best description is Vanilla Coke with a dark chocolate flavor, but somehow not like the chocolate a European might imagine. I found out recently that Oreo is in fact made with real cocoa; I find this surprising and sti
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by nxc18 27d ago
Author is way off base. Might as well tell me to stop breathing air, except they stopped selling air 6 years ago and I’ve been gasping ever since. Chromatica Oreos were absolutely wonderful (as far as mass produced garbage that is unfit for
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by nxc18 28d ago
My experience with whisper for example is that it tends to generate plausible-in-context content when there are long gaps or silence. I don’t think the errors as described are likely to be catchable by LLM without a lot of false positives;
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by nxc18 28d ago
Came here to say the same thing. I feel like I’ve done my homework on CSS grid and CSS flex but no matter how much I use it, it will likely never become intuitive. Autolayout was love at first sight, and continued being a joy to use as long
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by nxc18 29d ago
Another view of it is that’s just a creative use of the medium. An interactive button doesn’t serve any purpose in the screenshot, so why not find a better use for that space. When I’m in Safari, taking a screenshot can turn into a totally
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by nxc18 1mo ago
Is it a “bad reason”? Millions of people chose to use Snapchat specifically because of how it handles screenshots. It is a feature even if you don’t like it. Many people would find it inconvenient to find another device to take a picture wi

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