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manmal

7,123 karma · joined December 1, 2011

iOS developer since iOS4. Masters degree from UT Vienna.

Living near Vienna, Austria.

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manmal··on Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
I like sprinting a couple times up our hill, ca 10s each, 4-6 times. It’s full out, and when I‘m untrained (like now), I‘m quite exhausted afterwards.

But the dopamine boost I get from this is immense. It lasts 24-48h. I‘m in a general good mood for this period. Sometimes, a little more competitive than normal - that’s a downside.

Normal jogging or long walks don’t have this effect, at all.

manmal··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
When it takes longer than 36h, just revoke and submit again. It's probably just stuck in some queue.
manmal··on GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
Exactly my thoughts today. They have to make it cheaper after demoing what’s possible initially.
manmal··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Depends what actors you trust. They are equally bad but personally I‘m way more comfortable with the Discord story.
manmal··on GPT-6 Astra
If you came at it from the perspective of imitating what the human brain does, we now have a very very powerful speech center and short term memory, and vision catching up. The other parts are missing. I‘m sure that’s being heavily researched.
manmal··on GPT-6 Astra
I‘m using mostly the browser automations for things like that now. Same for research - ChatGPT is banned from reading many pages, but Codex can read anything I can.

But isn’t it funny that Cloudflare is blocking AI on their pages, but on the other hand is researching and marketing things like „you can put a browser in a CF worker“

manmal··on GPT-6 Astra
Have you? It’s a dumb model that gets a lot wrong. Codex voice is IMO only good for when I cannot dictate into the good models. The delay introduced by letting it work with a good model kills it for me.
manmal··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
I guess `caffeinate` doesn't go that far because it can easily lead to overheating.
manmal··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
I think I'd use Discord instead. Clankers are happy to set it all up for you.
manmal··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
If author runs the local model for privacy reasons, then I don't understand why they give Telegram access to all their conversations. It's well known that Telegram doesn't end-to-end encrypt bot accounts.
manmal··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
The Amphetamine app from the App Store keeps a MacBook awake even with the lid closed.
manmal··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
They are better at many things I‘m a novice at. At least at the operational level. I can’t rely on the semantics being fully correct because they tend to get subtle things wrong or just don’t ask. Like tax forms - not a good idea to put them on full auto. You‘ll leave money on the table.
manmal··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
Codex with computer use, yes. GP mentioned it.

> Codex requires you run the desktop app and additional authentication requirements. The result of this has been codex is almost always relegated to fleet worker rather than orchestrator.

I’m often using my MBP but also the Mac Studio remotely via the mobile app. What’s missing in your mind?

manmal··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
One of the Codex employees on Twitter promised (threatened?) that the next gen of Codex will be cloud focused, and less local. I wonder now if that means it will be a more powerful GPT Work.
manmal··on Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic
I got a 404 when heading to the examples.
manmal··on Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic
I haven’t used Haskell much. I thought to try it with agentic help, but then read this post that its compilation times might make it unviable. But what’s your experience?
manmal··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
They have exactly one guy as the expert in this video and he contributes all the facts. That’s bias.
manmal··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
That video is quite biased. Just tell your clanker to critique it. It will point out that those numbers are quite cherry picked, and leaving out important details. E.g. the „GHG would reduce by only 2.6%“ study assumes that all crop production stays the same, which doesn’t make any sense.
manmal··on I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
My problem with memory is that it goes stale, and updates to facts are often not changing all locations of that fact. Such a system should make it easier to maintain a single source of truth, and versioning, no?
manmal··on Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
I guess you also get very high bandwidth that way? I‘m not sure that would come for free though.
manmal··on How Dactyl Works
Isn’t it just for development purposes? I see it as a web sandbox for iOS development.
manmal··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
They aren’t reasoning though, are they?
manmal··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
How do they like it, compared with 3.8 and DS4?
manmal··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I didn’t expect an answer I can actually agree with - keep up the good work ;)
manmal··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Sorry for the snark, but are you trying to cure cancer? What could possibly need 24/7 research in our domain, that doesn’t need your input every 30 minutes?
manmal··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
A Mac Mini is easy to match by a PC in terms of inference, and the PC will win without getting noisy.
manmal··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
1-2 RTX5090 will be better value than Macs because they have the memory bandwidth for somewhat fast local inference.
manmal··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
The upgrade to 6E was a big jump in my network (Wifi7 Unifi Wall AP). On the same spot, the M3 MacBook (6E) has basically zero lag over VNC, while the M1 MacBook (6) has a noticeable lag. It’s a bit mind blowing how big the difference is.
manmal··on What we lost when search stopped making us think
I‘m outsourcing all tedious searches to ChatGPT now. Anytime I try searching anything non-obvious, it seems to be buried in the Nth page. Both Google and DDG have this problem. Chat spares me the brain power of sifting through the endless slop and grift, and I can easily click through and read the actual content.
manmal··on Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness
> There is no framework here. The entire frozen layer is seed.py

Slop language in the second paragraph. I refuse to read on.

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