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TheHalfDeafChefon New iPad mini

Depending on what you subscribe to, streaming services are now as expensive (if not more) than cable was if you got premium channels. I hear also Disney will add ads to all tiers as well.

TheHalfDeafChefon Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

I have been seeing this more and more with “top” tier publications but “Character.ai’s bankruptcy is the one of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble.”

A simple grammatical mistakes like this should have been caught on review/edit phase.

Either that or writers are relying too much on AI.

(Edit: fixed a grammatical mistake. See?)

TheHalfDeafChefon What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance

This was an interesting tangential read. Fascinating to read about the first Sim City games and the assumptions/calculations it made in scoring. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476193

TheHalfDeafChefon Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu

Having a read through and so far enjoying the cadence and pacing.

Just wanted to note, before I forget, that there is a typo @ https://arialdo.codeberg.page/ju-ju-tsu/preface/at-a-glance....

Impatietn —> Impatient

TheHalfDeafChefon Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all

At least it is opt-in; but thus begins the creep.

TheHalfDeafChefon How LLMs work

Not really “smarter” though? It’s just a big probability engine.

(Not trying to flame bait or anything. I just wouldn’t call LLM as exhibiting intelligence. It is great at making connections based on probability but doesn’t have a semantic understanding of what it is doing)

TheHalfDeafChefon Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Had it for 3 days running with nary a request. Perhaps it's the chosen model that I am serving (Gemma 4 26b)? I did see some WARN logs right after startup but the description don't suggest any problems that would block accepting requests or processing them.

TheHalfDeafChefon I modified Firefox's memory allocator to improve responsiveness on macOS

As informative as this is, what is with the tendency to use Twitter where a blog posting would be more appropriate? Reading this with the character limit break cadence and understanding.

TheHalfDeafChefon FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns

I am curious about this. Has there been an analysis comparing the contents in the two respective countries? Something that would be illustrative of this claim. I am not doubting you or your statement. Just looking for information to back it up.

My search consistently yields marketing stats. Perhaps I am using the wrong key words?

TheHalfDeafChefon Qrclip – Transfer the clipboard to your phone instantly through the command line

Would this be able to transfer your clipboard from Linux to an iOS device? Or at least via a roundabout way (like say a script that uses ssh to a MacOS based machine to utilize its `pbcopy` & `pbpaste`)?

TheHalfDeafChefon KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

It would appear so. Although KDE Connect can apparently work with MacOS (you'd still need an android phone).

TheHalfDeafChefon Ask HN: I am a coder and I am thinking of buying Dell XPS 13. What do you think?

Notwithstanding the other issues mentioned, but the MacBook Air is not exactly user repairable. IIRC, it is a SOC. So any part that breaks the entire thing needs to be replaced. I got a MacBook Pro 2018 and though it works it still makes wary.

TheHalfDeafChefon Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript

Faster to parse as a developer. I can't speak to whether computationally it is faster.

Additionally, doesn't this somewhat also bring in the methodology of dealing with the error cases first?

TheHalfDeafChefon Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript

I consider myself an advanced-beginner programmer untested in the real world (looking for my first coding job though!), and I understood it relatively quickly. It does appear more concise than many if-else statements. After the initial “what?”, I was able to quickly parse through it. I think this is faster than using the standard form.

[edit: fixed typo]