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fearface··on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
I let the AI first generate a outline of how it would do it as markdown. I adapt this and then let it add details into additional markdown files about technical stuff, eg how to use a certain sdk and so on. I correct these all. And then I let the AI generate the classes of the outline one by one.
fearface··on Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
First of all, they are not violating any license or terms in any form. They add value and enable thousands of people to use local LLMs, that would not be able to do that so easy otherwise. Maybe llama.cpp should mention that Ollama takes care of easy workable access to their functionality…
fearface··on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
No, weird that you’re comment is so high up, but shows how little crypto knowledge is around in HN. A Bitcoin is a Bitcoin, but it consists of smaller units called Satoshis. Like Dollar and Cents. Since the beginning of Bitcoin. A fork is a copy of the underlying source code of Bitcoin, which in itself has no value at all. You would also need to find people who run nodes for your fork and start convincing exchanges that your fork should be supported too…so no, this is not splitting Bitcoin
fearface··on .NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
Microsoft and many others.
fearface··on Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS
The core usecase might be to have anchor and a cert-manager in k8s connected to it and then be able to generate valid certificates for non-public services. Also they would use solely private DNS.
fearface··on Unwrapit provides a way to handle errors in JS/TS
I think the idea of try/catch is to let the error bubble up to the place where it can be handled. It usually results into having error handling in a few central places. Your example in github is IMO not how to make best use of try/catch.

Here’s lots of typical exception handling patterns: http://wiki.c2.com/?ExceptionPatterns

Persobally I prefer exceptions over boilerplate “if’s”, but good to know that there’s a wrapper for the people who don’t.

fearface··on The Blue Flash: A careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
The reason why there’s a ton of attention in nuclear disaster is because of the damage potential.
fearface··on Container Training
You don't need to split an application into containers, you can have your full app in a container no problem. You can have all your jars in the container. Using containers doesn't mean you know have to split your apps in different ways, it means you ship the runtime, compiled code, whatever libraries are required and all that in a bundle.
fearface··on Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset
TIL some people believe desktop computing is more natural than spatial computing
fearface··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
I fully agree to that experience. Next thing I tried was to have three screens with different DPI’s. It’s possible (that’s a lie, since you can’t adjust DPI and scaling properly in Linux at all, you’ll end up with a half working ugly system and irrational behavior when you move windows around), but sadly my notebook needs to work in more than one place…

I’ve invited a a long time Linux user who claimed to never had any problems whatsover to have a look. His verdict was that I should have only one external screen and use the same screen in the different places.

This stuff works with Windows and Mac out of the box.

fearface··on Spotifyd
What if you link it to a playlist that starts with your song?
fearface··on Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC
I’m not a native speaker, but for me it sounds valid to call the company that produces the majority of Apple chips: Apple’s chipmaker.

It doesn’t exclude that they produce for other companies, but it concludes that Apple gets most of it’s chips from them. Right?

fearface··on I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)
That’s not cheating, that’s not a problem at all. Neither ethical nor otherwise. You happened to know a working solution, this was by chance, but you also managed to sell it, explain it and it’s a solution you developped.
fearface··on I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
If this is the app: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/school-morning-routine/id16068...

The I notice quite few things: - low fps animations - delay until the keyboard popups - no support to save the password or use e.g. an Apple account to login - no scrollbars in the modal and the back button out of view

So in general, this would not make the cut for the native apps my employer produces. Especially the low fps is a deal breaker.

Tested on an iPhone XR

fearface··on Gunicorn
JavaScript didn’t not have any async or parallelization keywords at all. Essentially it’s just passing a delegate that is called later. This was stabdardized into Promises and all the async/await is another wrapper around the promises.

It works well, because in the end, it’s just passing a function that should be called when the process finished.

fearface··on macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
Same story here, and little anecdote: In a pure mac shop we had a guy apply and he brought his Linux notebook and 5mins into the interview he started hating on hiw bad macos is. Before he had to show some of his work in his linux notebook we had a little coffebreak, after we came back somehow LUKS crashed he wasn’t able to boot the system or restore the disk. We gave him a USB Stick and 3hrs to solve it or admit that he was wrong about bashing macos.
fearface··on Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows
We’ve build app with the business logic in Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/
fearface··on How to Ride a Motorcycle – 1942 British Military Training Film [video]
Great recommendation, except I don’t consider the one/two finger on the break generally recommendable: - not all bikes can be safely stopped two fingers - the remaining fingers might get in the way of the lever

Somehow it’s popular in the US, but not in Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland (it’s where I went racing and had instructions).

fearface··on The Gospel of Consumption
And your 2k include the cost of the car, related insurance and services, road tax?
fearface··on Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants
Yes
fearface··on Capturing Reality is now part of Epic Games
Why are you glad it’s Epic?
fearface··on Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
C# and F# support is vastly superior in Rifer to the VS Code epxerience.
fearface··on When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)
Forks don’t mutate the origin chain.
fearface··on Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc
My LG CX turns on in less than 2s and shows the picture from the HDMI input. The TV can’t access the internet.

I use OpenRGB to disable all lights, or sometimes I’m in the Cyberpunk 2077 mood and make it yellow.

I’m curious that people want to pay more to get less.

fearface··on How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
Who would provide large-scale hardware support to AWS for this approach? Certainly not Apple as it’s not their hardware. Also in a few minth from now people will want M1 cpu’s and you wouldn’t have worked towards that at all. If someone is fine with the Hackintosh experience, there are ways to do it in AWS already now.
fearface··on Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
It’s not so much about the bugs, but how much overpromised it was compared to what they delivered. Even the 48mins gameplay trailers has many scripted segments and is not representative for the game.

https://reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kcve8s/promised_...

fearface··on Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?
Investors have very little risk appetite, enterprise makes big money, but innivation is usually pressured into low-cost as much as possible. It’s hard to find a developer job where you get decent pay and interesting work with a swiss company. Source, I’m a software developer since 20 years in Switzerand
fearface··on .NET 5.0
You can do that just with different config files or env vars too. No need to complicate code for stuff that can be done easily differently as well.
fearface··on It’s OK to Not Care About Politics
It’s not ok, to not care about politics.

Everything that happens in the public space is political. As citizen of most countries, you have political rights and options. It’s ok to not care whichever label match to you, but you should care about actual policies, about changing values and who best represents you.

fearface··on Tables: Tracking work for teams
Which inferior product are you referring too?
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