usermac

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by usermac 4mo ago
A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
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by usermac 4mo ago
I've been twice the past year to buy their keyboards in-person in Lexington Kentucky US. They treated me very well. I can say this much, the full-size keyboard has a slightly nicer feel to it than the 10-key-less version, the key trave
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by usermac 4mo ago
I've been using LLM's to do my OpenSCAD work for over two years now. It's always where I start (and end).
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by usermac 4mo ago
Macbook 12" was the best form factor computer ever.
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by usermac 4mo ago
Glad to hear. I thought all those videos recently of him were AI.
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Ask HN: Are small local LLMs good at coding?
2 points by usermac 5mo ago|1 comments
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by usermac 5mo ago
And in Hanks vid he mentioned it might become expensive to host on Vercel as I recall.
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by usermac 5mo ago
Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.
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Ask HN: Local small LLM with retries vs. STOA Frontier, will it work?
1 points by usermac 6mo ago|1 comments
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by usermac 8mo ago
For an org I worked for not long ago, I had them buy many of the previous incarnations of this monitor. They all died of an internal power supply issue within a year each. Even the replacements I got died within a year.
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by usermac 10mo ago
I spent some time last week adding Forgejo/Git to my local NAS via docker and tailscale.
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by usermac 11mo ago
Relative of mine is a real estate agent in the Louisville area. This year she sold two homes to two UPS pilots. One of them, his first day was yesterday. The day of the crash. He was bumped from that very flight.
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Ask HN: Any US based PCB makers?
1 points by usermac 1y ago|2 comments
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by usermac 7y ago
I recall Macs being AppleTalked together to move anything anywhere—it was magic.
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by usermac 7y ago
I read it—hilarious. Thanks. "move fast, break things" really got me.
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by usermac 7y ago
I, for one, welcome our dark background.
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by usermac 7y ago
With all the press, I'm thinking about just buying the stand, putting it on my desk... alone.
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by usermac 7y ago
And I have a 4+ year old Perl script I use daily. Yeah, yeah, I know I can install Perl myself but when I distribute it I was expecting it, Perl, to be there—never mind that it is an out-of-date version—I wrote it accordingly.
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Author Brian Shul on Piloting the SR-71 – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(bing.com)
2 points by usermac 7y ago|1 comments
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by usermac 7y ago
The first two lines, wow—You very clearly wrote what I've struggled to think of how to convey. Thank you.
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by usermac 7y ago
I installed it an noticed they have their own App Store.
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by usermac 7y ago
How do I find A220 and E190 flights just to see if I have them available to me?
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by usermac 7y ago
Two things... one personal and one technical. I was in that war. I was a silent conscientious objector (I thought the war was about oil and money.) I went because I had an obligation to go. I have many stories but the best one is this. When
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by usermac 7y ago
Now that you put it that way, I am a "dark" employee. ha ha
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by usermac 7y ago
It's pretty sweet. I just fielded a full online order system and did it in 30 calendar days flat. It wins five-star reviews from my users and raving compliments.
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by usermac 7y ago
When you run out of work simply go visit an old client—not to ask for business, not to ask for anything, just a visit to see them. Within about two weeks, that client is calling me with a project to do. It is magic. I did this many times.
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by usermac 7y ago
That was an enjoyable read. Just funny. Alright, I might not be a "dark" employee but we do run our shop on... FileMaker! Since 1993 as best I can tell.
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by usermac 7y ago
While investigating if I could actually use this—animated PNG, I found this website and it convinced me it is the new direction I should take: http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp.html
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by usermac 7y ago
What is EdgeDB? It is new to me.
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by usermac 7y ago
Wow. Version 1 was August of 1995. I discovered the Internet in September.

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