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jeffbee··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini has levels though
jeffbee··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Why is Gemini represented by points on this cost-quality plane, while competitor's models are represented by curves?
jeffbee··on Gloomberb
Slop is slop when the author could not have done it without the AI.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#:~:text=%E2%80...

jeffbee··on Gloomberb
Any "TUI" you've seen in the past few years is 100% vide-coded slop.
jeffbee··on Gloomberb
Evidence for this being that BlackBerry Messenger and even AOL Instant Messenger had various amounts of traction during the lifetime of Instant Bloomberg.
jeffbee··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
I just use the stock Pixel Thermometer app (actually not even sure if it's stock or you have to install it from Play Store). Some developers online have complained that there is no public API for it, which may explain lack of other apps. I have never used it for its health purpose. I only use it for objects like walls and cooking pans.
jeffbee··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
On the flip side, losing the half inch was the only reason I updated from the P8P to the P10P. Everything else about the P8P was adequate.
jeffbee··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
The Pixel 9-11 Pros are all smaller than the Pixel 6-8 Pros. "Pro" initially meant "larger and better" but more recently just "better" and if you want a huge phone you buy the Pro XL.
jeffbee··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
That eventually became an OS feature, where you could set the LED color for every app.
jeffbee··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
The sensor is damned handy because it has plenty of range and good options in the software for estimating emissivity. I use it in the kitchen.
jeffbee··on Pixel Watch 5
On credit its $10/mo for 24 months.
jeffbee··on Pixel Watch 5
That is pretty interesting. I am keen to know in the end whether better models or better sensors win this game.
jeffbee··on Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
I'll accept crashing in preference to a database acknowledging transaction that weren't durably committed.
jeffbee··on Pixel Watch 5
Only $250 for the LTE version for Google Fi subscribers. But having to charge every day seems like a major regression compared to Garmin. I do appreciate that they are competing on location accuracy, though.

Apparently the GPS is computed in the cloud, which means this only works given LTE coverage or if you also carry your paired smartphone. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pix...

jeffbee··on Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Block device upfuckery layers are powerful against databases. Years ago some colleagues wrote one that provides most of the hazards described by "Parity Lost and Parity Regained"[1] to test FoundationDB, which immediately uncovered several flaws in a project that described itself as well-tested. It's easy to do this with all the probing features that Linux (and others) provide today.

1: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/...

jeffbee··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Rust's std::sync::mpsc contains most of the hazards of Go's channel, and arguably adds some because the Go runtime provides deadlock detection that Rust lacks.
jeffbee··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
This seems to have little to do with Go's facilities. Any concurrent program has hazards like these.
jeffbee··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
What primitives are we discussing? Any Go programmer can and should use the `go` keyword and the `sync.Mutex` type from their first program.
jeffbee··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Isn't any equivalent system going to have more statements in Rust than it would have in Go?
jeffbee··on The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle
My interpretation of the statement was that it means all kinds of these diseases are linked to air pollution, not all cases.
jeffbee··on The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle
The economy does not occur naturally. We can turn the knobs on this equation by just having some taxes. For example, carbon taxes. That should change your calculus pretty significantly.
jeffbee··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
Claude has discovered "bluetoothctl scan on" amazing. Worth every cent.
jeffbee··on Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
It's long been possible (since Alder Lake at the latest) to tune Intel CPUs for task energy consumption competitive with Apple Silicon, but bone-headed OEMs including Apple always tuned them the other way, wasting a lot of power for tiny performance gains. It is inappropriate to say that you evaluated the perf per watt on a Core Ultra 7 265K because what you really evaluated was how HP, Lenovo, or Dell configured that chip. But for years it has been the case that with one of the Atom variants (Gracemont, Skymont, ___mont) tuned to non-ridiculous scaling modes (capped at 2GHz, say) the energy story is quite good. The Apple platform does not have eager scaling and this is part of their efficiency story.
jeffbee··on Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
When they opened retail outlets it was the beginning of the end. That was the peak of their growth rate and the moment when Dell really started to go after them.
jeffbee··on DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
traditional physics-based weather models also rely heavily on humans looking at the output and the evaluation of the output to discard wacky runs. Let's not pretend that existing physical models of the atmosphere stay on the rails all the time.
jeffbee··on Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)
One nice thing to remember is for projects you control, you can dictate the ABI. There isn't a law enforcement bureau that will arrest you for passing parameters in whatever register suits you. You just have to imagine life differently than they did in the 70s when they dreamed up dynamic libraries for reasons that are largely no longer valid.
jeffbee··on U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
Tech sector is not the bulk of it, many sectors doing worse and that is why they got the headlines. "Financial Activities" supersector was terrible this month. Another reason is there is not an umbrella "tech" sector in the NAICS, so it's harder to report on.
jeffbee··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
There's always a competency shortage in this kind of aviation because the crew are inexperienced people trying to get a higher rating and a better job. The big transport aircraft are so easy to fly now, they should probably switch the rules. They can let some kid fly second seat in a 737, but only crack veterans should be allowed to touch a King Air in the dark.
jeffbee··on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
I am not sure what you mean here. I just checked my uploads and all my live music stuff is still there, as well as obscure published records.
jeffbee··on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
This isn't true. I have tons of stuff that I uploaded that they've never heard of
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