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raydev··on The real cost of owning a home
How would you keep it from filling up with weeds in any reasonably grass-friendly climate?

I just pay someone $50/week to mow my lawn and I pay zero attention to it. If we have a mini-drought and the grass turns brown, oh well.

raydev··on US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
Unfortunately we get the inflation anyway from military action in/around Iran.
raydev··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
Hopefully there's a way to opt out of the inevitably worse experience for those of us who like scrolling through TikTok.

The web was already getting bad with ads and popups, but the EU's sloppy legislation loopholes somehow encouraged all websites to show cookie popups (and never remember my selection), so the experience is even worse.

raydev··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
This style of layoff seems far more common post-2020 than targeted "restructuring". I've lived through a few layoffs now, survived most of them, but each time and at each company I've gotten by on an apparent roll of the dice and nothing more. Every time I've seen some truly important ICs get let go, their EMs having no input.
raydev··on The RAM shortage could last years
> We're doing Electron because the ability to create truly cross-platform interfaces with the web stack is more important to us than 300 MB of user memory.

It's closer to 1GB but trust me, everyone is well aware of your priorities.

raydev··on The RAM shortage could last years
It won't be "happening" until Slack, Teams, and Discord leave Electron behind. They are the apps that need to be open 24/7.
raydev··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
If the page is lazy loading content then the local ctrl+f is not going to work, obviously.

If you’re hinting at an argument about whether lazy loading content should exist, that’s a separate discussion. In my experience, pages that override ctrl+f do it for a good reason

raydev··on AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
That is a great question for those in power to figure out before the masses get upset enough to harm them.
raydev··on Meta: A Cautionary Tale [video]
Content creator Michael Palmisano of Guitargate shares his experience of having his verified business account on Instagram deactivated without any warning, explanation, or clear path for appeal

The state of Maryland has agreed to investigate and take his case to Meta

raydev··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
It's been more than 10+ years that I've been able to Option+Click the green button to fill the screen. Works for any app, and always has, unless that app explicitly disallows resizing. That's not recent.
raydev··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
The video you linked is from 2019. A lot has changed with Thunderbolt capability and the Studios now have enough ports/bandwidth to handle audio processing needs to multiple boxes.
raydev··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
Like I did with regex some years earlier, I worked on a project for a few weeks that required constant interactions with jq, and through that I managed to lock in the general shape of queries so that my google hints became much faster.

Of course, this doesn't matter now, I just ask an LLM to make the query for me if it's so complex that I can't do it by hand within seconds.

raydev··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Luckily I'm near the median age, so it actually has been like that for most people. :)
raydev··on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain
Respectfully, whether it "actually happens" is irrelevant. We want to prevent it from happening.
raydev··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Why are you comparing prices from a time when most people in the US weren't even born yet?

Comparing with the 90s seems reasonable because nothing is dramatically different about the experience except there are generally better seats now.

raydev··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
I remember my parents complaining about how expensive concessions were when I was a kid in the 90s too, and sometimes we would hit the gas station first and stuff snacks in my mom's bag to sneak them in to the theater. They also complained about prices if we couldn't do the Tuesday matinee.

Not sure anything's changed. The movie theater experience has always been expensive and I think your bill is pretty much in line with inflation.

raydev··on MacBook Neo
> And yet same specs iPad + Magic keyboard will cost you twice as much

It's not about specs, it's about capability. You compare the Neo to the wrong iPad.

The base model iPad + keyboard folio match the MacBook Neo price, which seems to be intentional. iPadOS requires less resources to run but is functionally equivalent outside of being able to run arbitrary programs.

Which makes me wonder who the Neo is for. If someone wants to build software they should be paying more money. The average person is fine with an iPad, and it will even give them a touchscreen, the Neo won't.

raydev··on MacBook Neo
I think you're undervaluing touchscreen capability, which even the cheapest laptops offer now. Kids and non-tech folks have come to expect it by default.

Now that Apple is attempting to compete in this space, they'll have to pitch these folks on what macOS without touch capability offers over Windows with touch capability.

Maybe it will still sell well enough, maybe people aren't that stuck on touchscreens.

raydev··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
Apple refuses to remove things without clear replacements, for better or more often worse.

The 6k XDR has been replaced, apparently they've got something coming for the Mac Pro. I don't know why it wasn't the Mac Studio update last year. Maybe we find out at WWDC this year.

raydev··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
- at worst you're getting a 7 year old monitor

- the new 5k XDR has 4x as many dimming zones so it would objectively look better than the old XDR

- not sure what the market for used 6k XDRs is like, but there's a good chance you'd be paying new 5k XDR monitor price for an old 6k XDR used monitor

raydev··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
It's impossible for them to support a 10-bit 6k@120Hz monitor with current hardware and keeping the old one around would be embarrassing. The Pro 5k will probably sell better/be more profitable anyway.
raydev··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
Current hardware and standards have them backed into a corner.

No Mac today supports 6k 10-bit @ 120Hz because the DisplayPort 2.1 standard can't handle it uncompressed and that's the best Macs offer. HDMI 2.2 just came out last year and would likely be able to handle it over a TB5 cable, but again, no hardware support.

So say that Apple did update the Pro Display XDR, what would it have exactly? More dimming zones for sure, the new Studio XDR has 4x the dimming zones. But they are clearly not confident in OLED tech for standalone monitors yet, so no OLED.

Anyway, their updated XDR would be shipping with the same ol' 60Hz. Reviewers and social media and tech nerds would rip them to shreds, it'd be a PR clownshow. I can already see the "Apple really expects us to pay $7k for a 60Hz monitor in 2026" viral posts.

And Apple being Apple would never explain why a monitor is lacking a feature like 120Hz, because it would mean acknowledging people had higher expectations. So we get an expensive 5k 120Hz monitor instead.

raydev··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
The 5k iMac was introduced in 2014. There was one change in 2015 that added P3 color gamut, so it appears to have been the exact same LG-manufactured panel for at least 11 years.
raydev··on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment
Hopefully I'll soon be able to build a new high end gaming PC and not be forced to pay 1980s era prices for it.
raydev··on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
Google gave an official response in the article: background play is limited to Premium users, so anyone experiencing this behavior is already not using their wallet.
raydev··on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
Consumer laws should regulate free content delivery?
raydev··on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
Do quick oats have the same effect?
raydev··on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
Oats group saw a decrease of 10% but the number for the control group is not given.
raydev··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
I'm not sure what Karpathy finds so interesting about this. Software is now purpose built to do exactly what's happening here, and we've had software trying it's very best to appear human on social media for a few years already.
raydev··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
I've finished my research: it will do that until a human updates it or directs a machine to update it with that purpose.
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