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firecall··on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
Often preferable to API documentation too!

Claude at least will give me an example relevant to my code with real world implementation code.

firecall··on iMac G4(K)
At least Framework released a new Desktop

And they tried to be fun with it!

The 3D printed tiles on the front are a very cool idea and just perfect right now I think! :-)

https://frame.work/au/en/desktop

firecall··on Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission
Australian research has also made some excellent contributions!
firecall··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Yes, totally.

Although you could use a backup USB cellular modem, plugged directly into the Mac!

At some I imagine I'll inherit or acquire a cheap older M1 Macbook Air, which will be perfect!

I also have whole home battery backup and solar, so I technically have a UPS for everything!

Where I live the power tends to go out from time to time!

I monkeyed around with cheap ex-lease Dell Micro PCs with Intel 8th Gen to 11th Gen CPUs. But they not as performant as I'd like, and once you've experienced modern CPUs like Apple's M series, you dont really want to go back!

firecall··on File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
This is so great, and I've been sharing it with anyone I know that is on Windows or has to suffer Explorer in Windows 11!

Thank you for providing a column with Folder Sizes as well! This is so useful, and yet MS still don't provide this feature in Explorer.

I have a question about "Empty Recycle Bin":

Is it possible to provide access to Emptying the Recycle Bin that doesn't require right clicking on the desktop icon?

It sounds trivial, but this would be a killer feature for me and a couple of other people I know!

It's so handy in Mac OS to be able to right click on the Trash Icon in the Dock!

firecall··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
A MacBook Air solves this problem very nicely!

Not only does is have a built in UPS, but also comes with a screen, keyboard and trackpad for you need to do admin tasks physically att the console!

firecall··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Also, I wondered if by complying with British law that they may somehow be breaking laws of another country?

Hypothetically, if Apple just provide a back door to the data they have on US Senators for instance, then providing that information may be considered treason by the US.

That's a totally made up example, and I have no idea, but it seems like it's possibly an issue.

Which is all about the issues around data sovereignty I suppose!

firecall··on Ollama-Swift
“Can we take a moment to appreciate the name? Apple Intelligence. AI. That’s some S-tier semantic appropriation. On the level of jumping on “podcast” before anyone knew what else to call that.”

Apple didn’t invent the term Podcast though!

firecall··on Sunsetting Create React App
I genuinely thought CRA had been deprecated and development had ended a couple of years ago?

Edit:

Maybe it just stopped being a recommendation in the React Docs?

https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/5487

firecall··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
vive le rasoir national!
firecall··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Fingers crossed!
firecall··on Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that featured false information
“the Google executive Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes.”

So what you are saying is that Gemini is basically useless?

Good to know. Thanks for clarifying that Google!

firecall··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
I disagree with the often stated claim that HN is social media!

To me, HN is more like an online forum.

IMHO for a service to be defined as Social Media it needs to at least have a 'social graph' of some kind.

HN has never suggested an account to follow, or tried to suggest trending posts or topics to me.

Yes, HN does have a voting system. But that to me doesn't make it social media. HN posts are not measured and promoted based on engagement.

firecall··on Bluesky now has 30 million users
Bluesky - the Social Network where everybody posts screenshots of the awful things people post on other social networks!
firecall··on Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
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firecall··on Notes on OpenAI o3-mini
As n occasions user and fan of Cursor, it would be good if they could explain what the models are and why the different models exist.

There’s no obvious answer of why one should switch to any of them!

firecall··on Ask HN: What's the best MP3 player I can buy today?
Plex Amp is actually a very good player app!

You need to run a Plex server I believe.

But is great and works like you want an MP3 player to work!

firecall··on For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
For points 1 and 2:

I recommend and use Cloudinary. Cloudinary can take care of all that for you!

For point 3:

You can add laoding="lazy" to the image tag, and get lazy loading for free, supported by the browser:

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Laz...

firecall··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
I honestly don't mind the current Google Search Results page design and additional features.

For me, it's the web in general that isn't the same. Google Search is probably just as good, but I have an idea that the content to be indexed isn't what it was.

Has the world changed, or have I changed?

Probably both.

The WWW of content isn't the same, and i don't search for the same things anymore.

My use of search has become integrated in my patterns in the physical world. I need to know what products are in stock, where things are, when a restaurant is open and so on.

For those searches, Google is generally excellent I find.

Also, I actually find Google's AI Answers to be pretty decent.

Even if I do ethically disagree with denying the original content authors those page views.

firecall··on The Power Mac 4400
IIRC no in the real world cared about the left sided mounting of the drive.

I've never heard that complaint mentioned before, so that article is the first I've heard of it.

My anecdata is working at Apple and Apple Dealers in the mid 90s to 2001.

But then not many of them got sold in my sphere IIRC. We were selling 8600s and then G3s into Ad Agencies etc.. at that point.

firecall··on Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children (2023)
I’ve heard other parents say this exact thing.

Where does this concept of Christmas parenting originate I wonder!

firecall··on Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture
Ah man.

Fuck.

That’s just horrible.

Amazing pictures. And then the worst thing.

Sigh. The older I get the more I despair at humanities activities.

firecall··on Elon Musk becomes the first person to reach a net worth of $400B
Here’s a basic question I have:

So he’s only worth that much on paper. He’d have to sell everything to get a big pile is cash.

Would there be enough money sloshing around to buy all his shares and assets at the indicated value?

I guess there is, but surely he wouldn’t get that much if he had a fire sale? LOL

What about all the billionaires combined?

Bezos, Musk and so on.

Could they just sell everything?

Do other people have enough money to buy what they have?

I suppose they do if you extend the net wide enough…

Just seems crazy to me and meaningless.

It’s madness :-/

What are they hoarding it all for?

I just dont understand it at all.

firecall··on Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair
Indeed, I knew that LOL

I mangled my comment and never made my broader point!

Which was that originally Copyright would expire at some point in our lifetimes :-)

As I understand it, no one originally thought things should be uncopyable forever more!

firecall··on Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair
> If you have a kid under 20, ask them what "copyright" means. They'll probably describe it to you in terms of corporate bullying rather than anything that has to do with intellectual property or copying.

Instead of the original intention which was to grant the right to copy.

Copyright should be energising capitalism, not killing it. But yet here are!

firecall··on Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
Based on your comment, I remembered I used Feedly when Google Reader went away.

Logging into Feedly was like going back in time!

I must have imported all my Google Reader feeds into Feedly.

It's a Time Capsule of a bygone age! :-D

firecall··on RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video]
I have no idea, but thats cool :-D

Could have been some sort of Race Condition maybe, which is more likely on an older resource constrained system?

Maybe if the copy protection process became unavailable, the game loaded anyway as a way of providing a better user experience?

I'm probably being too generous there LOL

firecall··on Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
According the recent hit comedy movie “Hit Man” staring Glen Powell, they don’t exist!
firecall··on Facebook's Little Red Book
It is in fact the Facebook Phone!

Or at least a mockup of one.

It has the front-facing camera in the top right corner, which is a hint!

Googling suggests the Facebook phone was an HTC device?

firecall··on Facebook's Little Red Book
Correct - it's not an iPhone.

It's the Facebook Phone!

(probably)

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