ricw

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by ricw 2mo ago
Not an apples to apples comparison#. iOS uses way less ram than android, plus has memory compression. That’s why Apple gets away with less ram and much smaller batteries with equal or better performance. # pun intended
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by ricw 3mo ago
It works great for a number of reasons - it’s functional making it much easier to reason about for LLMs (eg no side effects) - it’s compiled (including the html template), so the LLM get instant feedback if something is off and can fix it q
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by ricw 4mo ago
I disagree with that conclusion. I see tailwind as a cleaner more succinct version of css that is much easier to manage and add features too. Sure it’s not as dry, but I’ve been bitten in this regard because css framework and templates are
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by ricw 5mo ago
Unsure how true that is. Google cloud is tiny compared to aws for a reason. It matters. People will switch if you piss them off.
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by ricw 5mo ago
But how? In the states you can’t even take legal action but are forced into arbitration?
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by ricw 5mo ago
Munich is a bad example - they were effectively „bought out“ by Microsoft by investing hugely into the local economy in the form of offices and employees. It was also two parties that kept flip flopping with different priorities. Linux itse
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by ricw 6mo ago
Had similar thoughts until googling what the cheapest Chromebook on Amazon costs: $139. I’d still get a Neo and for students it’s probably the right choice - chromebooks are just a browsers after all. But pricing wise this laptop is a decad
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by ricw 8mo ago
Tidewave.ai does exactly that. It’s made Claude code so much more functional. It provides mcp servers to - search all your code efficiently - search all documentation for libraries - access your database and get real data samples (not just
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by ricw 8mo ago
They do bin their chips. Across the range (A- and M-series) they have the same chip with fewer / disabled cpu and gpu cores. You pray a premium for ones with more cores. Unsure about the chip frequencies - Apple doesn’t disclose those
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by ricw 9mo ago
All in one of course. That’s the biggest advantage. And why postgres is great - it covers virtually all standard use cases.
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by ricw 9mo ago
Depends on the query and I don’t have exact numbers of the top of my head, but we’re talking low 100ms range for something pgvector itself wasn’t able to handle in a reasonable amount of time.
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by ricw 9mo ago
I’ve been using this since early this year and it’s been great. It was what convinced me to just stick to Postgres rather than using a dedicated vector db. Only working with 100m or so vectors, but for that it does the job.
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by ricw 10mo ago
Apple probably wouldn’t have changed to usbc for their phones. Lightning was a mobile phone / other development, whilst usbc and its contributions came from their Mac department. They did not like each others standards. I know Apple en
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by ricw 11mo ago
Truetax | Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Elixir/Phoenix LiveView | San Francisco (Hybrid) or REMOTE (US) | Full-time Truetax builds software to streamline government tax administration and make society more equitable. We're
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by ricw 11mo ago
The beta has been accessible to the public including the electron devs for 2+ months.
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by ricw 11mo ago
Curious what the better frameworks are these days? Are they tied to specific hardware like arduino was? And what language do they use?
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by ricw 1y ago
Instagram is the same. Had to install it for a dev project and it was disgusting. Social media just can’t be trusted.
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by ricw 1y ago
Just do both? Need an adequate network for that though which new school ai vibe entrepreneurs might lack…
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by ricw 1y ago
I've been using elixir / phoenix / liveview for a year now, basically since LLM coding has been a thing and it's been transformative. The usual "getting started" problems were so diminished that i feel like i h
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by ricw 1y ago
No reference here but found this out the hard way too. Google search Ali is Utterly useless in fact and entirely different search results vs using the web. Bing is better. Haven’t tried ksgi yet
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by ricw 1y ago
The question should be the other way around: why mongodb? It’s not ACID compliant so has major down sides…
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by ricw 1y ago
It’s actually much more that the ozone layer, which filters uv, is much thinner than it was even 60-70 years ago. The ozone layer might be growing again, but at a very slow pace. Simple fact is, we’re much more exposed to uv than prior gene
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by ricw 1y ago
That’s entirely unfounded. There are more than 100 daily flights between the Bay Area and LA metro. That’s ridiculously high demand. https://simpleflying.com/san-francisco-los-angeles-flight-ma...
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Apple Supplier TSMC May Operate Intel's Chipmaking Facilities(macrumors.com)
2 points by ricw 1y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 2y ago
Truetax | Head of Data Operations | ONSITE | Full Time | San Francisco, CA Truetax, Enterprise AI for Gov Tax Administrators, is seeking a Head of Data Operations who will support the execution of the company's mission - to drive effic
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Google's free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ricw 2y ago|1 comments
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by ricw 2y ago
Is macOS up to scratch to be used as a server these days? Last I checked it would always run into trouble / randomly reboot / become unavailable whenever a new OS update became available. Admittedly this is about 2 years ago. If s
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by ricw 2y ago
It is. A bunch of Bart stops now have developments around them, just look at MacArthur in Oakland with its 40 floor residential building next to Bart.
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by ricw 2y ago
Disagree. Just get one of the tailwind UX kits and use their classes as your standard style guide. I personally use flowise as it’s free with paid more complex components if needed, but there are a bunch of others out there that fill the sa
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by ricw 2y ago
it's perfectly fine if everything can run on a single server instance. which is probably the majority of things. i've run production instances with 2PB of data being scraped per month by 100+ CPUs and 256GB of RAM using docker com

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