willtemperley

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by willtemperley 6d ago
I didn’t know about Gemini protocol, thanks. Seems to have traction. Inadvertently, Cunningham’s law helps me out.
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by willtemperley 6d ago
You don't hate The Internet, you hate The Web. The Web can be forked and I don't know why people aren't working on this. An ad free, zuck-less ungoogle Web is possible. I don't like the current web either. I like The Int
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by willtemperley 8d ago
They are currently being sued for trade secret theft so it seems likely.
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by willtemperley 8d ago
Given none of the wikis pointed to in the article have ads, I'd say you're right.
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by willtemperley 11d ago
The Wikipedia article is far more informative, though I'm uncertain if read the full dpreview article due to ad-induced nausea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker
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by willtemperley 11d ago
> 30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting This is also the best way to understand a codebase, and it's quite enjoyable. I think the models are getting too egotistical. They're so confident of their fixes they won&#x27
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by willtemperley 15d ago
Yes, but ... Sometimes there are genuine reasons to build a text editor. It's really hard to build a full WYSIWYG graphics editor without modelling text layout yourself, especially for more advanced work like properly curving the text.
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by willtemperley 15d ago
> You do not know what these companies do with your data once they have it. They might limit how it gets used, they might sell it, they might expose it. This is the burning question for me, what are they doing with our hard work. I'
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by willtemperley 19d ago
Why is this moving the goalposts? Native apps can work reasonably well offline and online. Web apps can’t, currently.
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by willtemperley 19d ago
It depends. Truly working offline, which is as private as it gets in many scenarios, isn’t really feasible with web apps.
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by willtemperley 20d ago
Cool. In July, ESRI and Google teamed up to lock down road closure data on their “community maps” program. The community appears to be governments feeding their data to Google and ESRI who then look after it for us, entirely for our benefit
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by willtemperley 22d ago
> I am in Europe, and the Mac Studio M5 Ultra GPU 64 cores with 96GB RAM is up to 6.649,00 €. Ouch. It would be significantly cheaper to fly to a tariff-free country and buy there.
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by willtemperley 24d ago
I think companies of all sizes will want their own models, or at least customised ones, for their own specific use cases or competition and security issues. 1. Both training and optimisation will get significantly cheaper and easier quickly
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by willtemperley 24d ago
That infographic says it uses 16-20% more fuel per unit of thrust. That's a significant amount more weight for an aircraft to carry, but because carrying extra fuel also burns fuel, extra fuel use would compound exponentially. This wou
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by willtemperley 24d ago
Thanks that’s an interesting anecdote to me because I’m also developing SwiftUI apps. Claude will create something that technically works but looks terrible. I don’t have the luxury of a previously well designed app to train Claude on, but
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by willtemperley 24d ago
I think this is true to an extent, but it really depends on how much information the LLM has on a topic. They’re amazing at maths because maths has been open source since day 0. They’ve great at algorithms for similar reasons. C bindings ar
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by willtemperley 26d ago
They wouldn't, but build scripts are a particularly effective attack vector.
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by willtemperley 27d ago
Surely non-sandboxed build scripts are just a terrible idea. Both Cargo and npm should look at what Swift Package Manager (SPM) is doing. It’s not perfect but there’s a noticeable absence of supply chain attacks involving SPM, probably part
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by willtemperley 28d ago
Agree on the styling, the diagrams are very clear and match the text perfectly. I like the trailing dots though.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Yes my grandfather had one. It worked well on flat terrain. I think it used a motorcycle battery so batteries were easy to find and charge.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
I suspect you're not a pretty girl that gets stared at. Neither am I, but if I were I'd rather the stares weren't recordable.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
> "Claude did it" cannot ever be a valid excuse. I think this an incredibly important point. As soon as we devolve reposnsiblity to computer progams, society cedes control to the algorithm vendors. Jeff Geerling was called out
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
Yep, “instinct“ and “smoking gun” are LLM favourites. I find it really annoying when the LLM says “good instinct” as if I’m an animal barely able to think.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
I'm against LLM usage in conversation, e.g. when discussing issues in open-source. It's like half-hearing a conversation, I'm missing the context that the other person has with their robot. Second, the person has usually at b
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
The Cornetto is truly important in British culture. For example, the Cornetto trilogy, which i'm surprised wasn't mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
GNOME 2 was lovely. Then GNOME 3 came and I switched to Mac.
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
With all the myths and hyperbolae circulating regarding AI, I'd love to know what it's like at large software companies adjusting to this brave new world. It's easy for a small team to adjust workflows and roles, but I just i
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by willtemperley 1mo ago
I tried that but Claude thought I was already outstanding in my field.
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
I would only take this article seriously if you have to support old iOS versions. NavigationStack has been around since iOS 16, @Observable since iOS 17. and I'm not sure if the author is aware that GeometryReader hasn't been nece
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by willtemperley 2mo ago
> The latest is NavigationStack, which is still pathetic. The only way to navigate more than a level deep is to create an array of one datatype to serve as NavigationStack's "path." But this is designed to be an array of a

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