tpmoney

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by tpmoney 3d ago
So what? Just because you had one way to do something before, that means having a different way of doing it is useless? We have the C language, and it’s been letting people write applications for decades. Does that mean there’s no value in
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by tpmoney 3d ago
You can look for accountability. You probably won’t find it. But I’m also not saying there isn’t value in humans. I am saying that we all have worked on projects where “artisanal software development” bore as much resemblance to our process
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by tpmoney 4d ago
> LLMs just replace what you were already doing IF you were already doing it. But LLMs also allow people who never were doing something to now do that thing as well. In the same way Excel macros enabled some people to run whole businesse
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by tpmoney 4d ago
> You are a bricklayer, who is proud to build brick walls that are as strong and as elegant as possible, capable of withstanding earthquakes and vehicle impacts, while using as few bricks as possible and introducing as few flaws as possi
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by tpmoney 4d ago
SaaS' moat has always been someone else worrying about the hosting/upgrades/management part for you. Stores still sell sliced bread even though bread machines make bread for you and everyone already has a knife. People often
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by tpmoney 5d ago
AI is a tool like any other. AI doesn't inherently "strip knowledge away from people" any more than an IDE, or a GUI or a modern computer does. Yes, you can use AI to blindly do things without learning. And you can use GParte
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by tpmoney 5d ago
There are costs to using all technology, including open source software. We can start with the obvious point that open source was never about "Free as in beer" and even the FSF says as much. Of course, the nature of open source ma
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by tpmoney 5d ago
And often the most useful software is closed source proprietary things that cost money to be used effectively. That hasn't stopped open source from building impressive and useable systems that are serviceable enough for most use cases.
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by tpmoney 6d ago
AI is in a sense the purest form of open source. All information compiled for all to use without restriction, enabling truly anyone to modify any software to work the way they want and just by describing it in normal human terms to their co
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by tpmoney 7d ago
Xcode should have printing capabilities. 26.6 does on my system anyway.
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by tpmoney 7d ago
“Always listening” in the way people have been conspiratorially claiming your phone is listening to show you ads is silly. Always listening in that the owner could run an application that could be recording them and you on the other hand ha
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by tpmoney 8d ago
Being realistic, most of our home lab setups wouldn’t come close to “production ready” even without AI generated bugs. Relatively stable because they’re largely un-stressed, yes. Good enough for personal use because you can log in and fix a
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by tpmoney 10d ago
Aside from “it’s historically always done that”, I’d argue that because you use arrow keys to navigate around the finder (left, right, up, down to select, CMD-up to go up a directory, it only makes sense that CMD-down would open a directory
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by tpmoney 10d ago
Apple has repeatedly over the years attempted to create interfaces where knowing where the actual data was saved was no necessary to using and finding that data. iTunes, iPhoto, most of iOS. It’s usually met with a lot of resistance from pe
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by tpmoney 13d ago
I drove a Toyota Yaris for about 10 years and those cars had the instrument cluster in the middle of the dash. It didn’t take long to get used to and one of the unexpected benefits was how much better forward visibility was. The Yaris wasn’
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by tpmoney 16d ago
Lightning and USB-C adapters have been a thing since that change was made if not before. Even assuming the one time cost of $10 for Apple’s adapter was too rich for your blood, you can get a 5 pack on Amazon for $8. And that’s before you ge
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by tpmoney 19d ago
I apologize, it does seem like I misread and added the qualifier, you just claimed they made it “difficult”. My mistake. But I still disagree that it is “difficult” or “user hostile” to put the command to add a web app to your Home Screen 3
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by tpmoney 19d ago
Sure I agree they have no incentive to promote them. But your claim wasn’t that they don’t promote them. You claimed that they’re making them exceedingly difficult to install. Apparently because they put the command for that in a consistent
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by tpmoney 19d ago
Did your colleague even know that such a thing was possible at all, because it’s been in the share menu pretty much since day one. Sure it could be put somewhere else but it’s also been in a consistent spot for generations of iPhones, and t
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by tpmoney 19d ago
They only removed it completely in a jurisdiction where they were being told that they had to open all of their internal APIs around web applications to all comers if they were going to use those APIs in their own applications. They claimed
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by tpmoney 19d ago
I’m not sure one can say Apple is intentionally making it difficult to install a web app to the Home Screen because they haven’t implemented a draft proposal to the w3c working group that proposes a spec only chrome has implemented and no o
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by tpmoney 19d ago
It’s intuitive in as much as anything on smart phones is, because the share menu is the OS mechanism for sending data from any iOS app to somewhere else. You use the same menu to save a file to Dropbox, put a photo into a note, add a bookma
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by tpmoney 19d ago
Burger menu -> share -> add to home screen is difficult? How do you pin a web app in Android then?
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by tpmoney 20d ago
The CU decision didn't foreclose the government from crafting a different law to address the issue in a more narrow and content neutral way, but congress being the dysfunctional clown show that it is, hasn't. CU also didn't r
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by tpmoney 20d ago
Didn’t down vote, but it was a good idea because the government in citizens united was arguing the FEC (and therefore by extension the president) should have the power to preemptively restrict political speech that mentions a candidate with
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by tpmoney 20d ago
“ask” mode for installing tree-sitter grammars is the default setting. Tree-sitter modes broadly aren’t enabled by default, but that seems at least consistent with eMacs defaulting to very few modes enabled by default.
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by tpmoney 21d ago
Good news for you is that whoever told you that was almost certainly wrong. Apple considers a product "vintage" 5 years after it was last offered for sale, and "obsolete" 7 years after it was last offered for sale[1]. Pa
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by tpmoney 22d ago
I can't say it has any particular bearing on the usage of emacs, but within the last year or so I started using a "ortholinear" keyboard (an ergodox-ez) and found that qwerty was uncomfortable on that with how lousy my typing
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by tpmoney 24d ago
> No. Never do this. I agree you shouldn't do it, that doesn't make it invalid to do. > To underscore what this software is for let me quote you a diagnostic it emits Well, then I stand corrected on the intent. That pretty c
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by tpmoney 24d ago
I'm starting to get a better handle on what you're getting at, but I still think I disagree that the code shouldn't compile. To really settle this I guess we would need Bill to weigh in on his intent, because I read this arti

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