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tymscar··on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
What do you like more about their ui?
tymscar··on Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
I agree with everything you’ve said, and to add to this why they do this without caring about the company future is because in 99.9% of the times the ones taking decisions aren’t founders who have a soft spot for the company. Those are long retired in the Bahamas. The leaders come and go quite frequently and the good ones that have been here for a while are ready to retire which means the bigger the boom is before they leave the better, with 0 regard to what comes after them.
tymscar··on Copy-on-Write on APFS
Depends on what you mean by homebrew version of cp. cp isn’t a package on homebrew, but I suspect you’re talking about the gnu coreutils which contain the gnu cp.

That one does not have the flag.

However I think you were still using the old macOS cp without knowing because long time ago when I played with this package, they all were prepended with a g. Like gcp instead of cp.

tymscar··on Copy-on-Write on APFS
By far the biggest takeaway for me was to alias my cp command to cp -c.

95% of the copies I make are from my terminal so I wasn’t really benefiting from CoW before.

tymscar··on Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
You are clearly not a dimwit, and you don’t only have way more experience than most people here, you also have some amazing projects under your belt.

However I can’t help but notice that the vast majority of blogposts, talks, tweets, and basically everything else you do now is around LLMs. Do you not think that’s indicative of this being “hyped” and “shiny tools”?

tymscar··on I Spent 24 Hours with GitHub Copilot Workspaces
Youre missing the koolaid. I do wonder if people who cut too much slack to this sort of tech are just doing it because they’re scared of going against the grain. Sort of a vicious cycle.
tymscar··on CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks
Its a different complementary thing. It lets you define your macos settings the same way you would on nixos
tymscar··on Meta Llama 3
I cant get it to write me a simple nix darwin activation script, which is something a newbie can do in a couple of minutes. No model can either, tried Claude 3 Opus, Gpt4 all variants, chat and api, llama 3, mistral/mixtral…
tymscar··on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung
And thats true. A kettle isn’t a “tech product”. If it is one of the expensive IOT kettles, then it’s covered.
tymscar··on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung
We’re not talking about a cheap kettle however, are we?
tymscar··on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung
Im not sure why are you so certain about it. I am living in the uk and the example I gave about the MacBook happened here. The law in question is the consumer rights act of 2015, specifically section 105. Scroll down on the page and read it. I invoked it 3 times already with different companies successfully.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/19/note...

tymscar··on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung
I don’t know where you are from, but in the EU and UK, consumers get 4-6 years of hardware warranty, on all tech products. Look into the legislation. I got a MacBook replaced after 5 years.
tymscar··on Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
Not twitter but here he is talking about that:

https://youtu.be/BdZo4JUBSQk

tymscar··on Dissent – A GTK4 Discord client written in Go
I wholeheartedly agree but working on something you can use is much more fun, and the chances this person uses discord are much higher than of them using matrix
tymscar··on Apple no longer self-hosts their open source code and moved it all to GitHub
Maybe Im misunderstanding, but why cant you just search said string in their github collection? The only reason I could think of is that github search is a bit broken…
tymscar··on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account
I wish it did
tymscar··on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account
Sadly this comparison is very misleading. Steam was a thing for a decade before the windows store and it has been basically the default. The more game stores that appeared over time the worse it has been for the gamers.
tymscar··on Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
Im curios, what sort of area you think needs more research when it comes to these models
tymscar··on Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks
Wow I didn’t know. Thats basically perfect for me. Thank you!
tymscar··on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
Way closer to 0 than to 100k
tymscar··on Celebrating 30 Years of Blender
When I think opensource, the best couple projects that come to mind are Linux, Blender, and Postgres. It’s that good!
tymscar··on Jobs you're applying to might not be real
Im also looking for a job and this does seem very much the case, and I have some hints based on the ways they answer, the exact timeframe between companies with nothing in common and how often they update their listing amongst other things.

I’m thinking of writing a blog post about my experience in the past half a year of searching because it is insane what the market has become.

tymscar··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
That sounds like something I would enjoy playing with? But I can’t find much about it online.
tymscar··on Let the terminal bells ring out
Mine does not as far as I can tell. Heres the manual:

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1700/ROG_MAXIMUS_Z7...

tymscar··on Advent of Code 2023 is nigh
Out of curiosity after finishing my solution, I tried it with chatgpt 4.0 Part1 worked after me explaining a tiny bug. Part2 however never worked. Even after explaining exactly where the bug was in the python solution got came up with, it couldn’t fix it. It was quite fascinating watching it try over and over with different approaches, but it couldn’t even get the example working.

This just goes to show how good of a puzzle maker Eric is if it stumped gpt4 on day1 when last year gpt3.5 did the first 5 days.

tymscar··on Advent of Code 2023 is nigh
Yes, same. I keep seeing people say this on discord and reddit, but that edge case was shown twice in the example.
tymscar··on AI is currently just glorified compression
I agree, however in that scenario, are people fully stopping their content generation? Because if not, the pool will grown larger and the problem you described would still be there but to a lesser extent.
tymscar··on I will always prefer to work from home
Not even close. I can mute slack. I can’t mute the office.
tymscar··on I will always prefer to work from home
And if anything, it’s much better remotely because you don’t have to be hunched over at the same time as someone else on a single keyboard.
tymscar··on A coder considers the waning days of the craft
I agree with you, but I wonder if that “must” you mention there is based on a maximum limit, where every atom in the universe is used to compute something, or if it’s based on something else.
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