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A teardown of the Claude desktop app(telkins.com)
3 points by trevor-e 8d ago|0 comments
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by trevor-e 22d ago
Very nice, I did something similar a while back and was going to make a poster of interesting ones to hang in my office: https://www.telkins.com/blog/visualizing-file-formats Never got around to that poster though. :(
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by trevor-e 3mo ago
Not trying to sound alarmist at all but I am wondering if ultrasounds are safe to be used like this? My understanding is it's basically a high-frequency sound wave which is probably fine for most tissue usage, however here it says it&#
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by trevor-e 3mo ago
it specifically addresses this in the "The escape hatch" section...
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by trevor-e 3mo ago
What an ordeal, this stuff really scares me, like the post about the Gitlab founder having to diagnose and treat himself. Great to hear you are recovering. If you find yourself in Cambridge I will gladly buy you a beer for how much rg has h
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by trevor-e 5mo ago
This looks pretty neat and the anti-AI hate in here is getting pretty tiresome. From what I can tell looking at the codebase compared to Django's, the top-level modules are structured much better and more obvious for AI to discover the
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by trevor-e 6mo ago
Right, and I agree with all of that, but that's not related to my point. You are saying "if you leave the AI attribution in the PR/commit description, it HAS to be a slop PR that was not reviewed by a human beforehand".
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by trevor-e 6mo ago
These are odd takes to me. > was submitted by someone so lazy they couldn’t even edit the commit message. You can see the vibe coded PRs right away. As others mentioned, this is very intentional for me now as I use agents. It has nothing
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by trevor-e 6mo ago
>I heard about how beautiful it is This used to be the case around Swift 4, but since then they've added so many features and keywords to the language. Now the simplicity and elegance is gone. Also it seems like there was a marked c
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
Flutter still doesn't support liquid glass on iOS so it doesn't seem like a serious contender to me at this point. And due to the nature of how Flutter is implemented, it's going to continuously be an uphill battle. Maybe it&
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
There are a couple issues with that definition: - quality is not always correlated with "cheaply made en-masse" - actual slop, assuming you are talking about the food, is more about preventing food waste although it happens to als
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
Is it slop if enough people enjoyed it to be on the top charts?
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
telkins.com I have an endless list of blog posts to write and so little time :(
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
I'm dealing with a severe health ailment with my cat right now and ChatGPT has been pretty invaluable in helping us understand what's going on. We've been keeping our own detailed medical log that I paste in with the lab and
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
Yep, localization is a huge size bloat for enterprisey apps that support many locales. There is no Apple provided way to dynamically download select localization packs based on the device locale. Meta came up with their own solution: https
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by trevor-e 8mo ago
Not sure if this is quite what you are getting at, but the SQLite folks even mention this as a great use-case: https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
I agree, latency is very important and 300 pops is great, but seems more for marketing and would see diminishing returns for the majority of applications.
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
Good luck getting 100+ devs to all use the same logical commit style. And if tests fail in CI you get the inevitable "fix tests" commit in the branch, which now spams your main branch more than the meaningful changes. You could re
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing, that is a neat in-between.
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
The treemap screenshot doesn't look correct. Nearly all charting libs (like Apache Echarts) will group nodes with a heading name, so not sure why they claim it would be hard to notice the "drivers" node. I guess in that scree
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
Yea looks like Chrome ships a universal binary with both x86_64 and arm64.
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
This was the same epiphany I had in college when I learned how to actually study. Previously I would try to go fast and cram as much as possible into my head and hope my decent memory could save me. That only got me so far. I eventually rea
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Visualizing File Formats for Fun(telkins.com)
1 points by trevor-e 9mo ago|0 comments
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
Yea that was my thought too. I like the idea in principle, but these magic thresholds can really bite you. It claims to be P(99), probably off some historical measurement, but that's only true if it's dynamically changing. Maybe t
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
> What I’m unsure about is whether diff-only context is actually sufficient for meaningful reviews, or if this becomes misleading without deeper repo and architectural awareness. The results of a diff-only review won't be very good.
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
Sorry I wrote that hastily and my wording seems to have caused much confusion. Here's a rewrite: > The job is to help the business solve a problem, not just to ship code. In cases where delivering code actually makes sense, then yea
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
No, what I meant is sometimes the solution is not delivering any code at all. Many times in my career, after understanding the problem at hand and who initiated it, I realized the solution is actually one of: 1) a people/organizational
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by trevor-e 9mo ago
> Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work. Strong disagree here, your job is to deliver solutions that help the business solve a problem. In _most_ cases that means delivering code that you should be able to confidently prove
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by trevor-e 11mo ago
Very neat, thanks for explaining. The only drawback I've seen in the past with apps using .NET is the binaries end up pretty huge due to the runtime. I'm assuming that's still the case here? I wouldn't be surprised if th
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by trevor-e 11mo ago
Yes it uses native UI by wrapping the underlying frameworks, but that still means there is a layer in between that has to be updated with fixes and new features. Every RN project I've tried in the past turned into a dependency mess s

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