joeevans1000

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Comment · 6 months ago
I struggled with the same annoyances for years. Then I installed TotalSpaces... but I think that stopped working. Liquid Ass destroyed my iphone and apple watch and I was able, thank god, to stop it from infecting my MacBook. At the cost of the newest updates.

Apple. You suck.

Comment · 6 months ago
THANK YOU!!!!
Comment · 6 months ago
Just a suggestion: have an example obj object, or several, loaded up. It will sound nuts to you, but I probably won't find one and will just unload the app when I need space.
Comment · 7 months ago
Well... I didn't know about them until now. Looks like a cool product, actually. Might have to try them out. What's that old saying?
Comment · 8 months ago
The whole 'software craftsmanship' thing was hilarious from the get-go. Software is not furniture, where the best examples will stand the test of time. It all ends up, good or bad, in a figurative landfill. But if it is a thing, AI is going to soon be a ten armed very skilled octopus. If you weren't having fun all this time, well, the joke's on you. Might as well use the new tools to start having fun now.
Comment · 8 months ago
Good software, bad software, and working software.
Comment · 8 months ago
I switched to Claude and it's so much better. If you haven't tried Claude... try it. You'll be amazed at the improvement.
Comment · 8 months ago
Apple's Chromebook.
Comment · 8 months ago
Please help this noob of sorts. My experience of local models has been abysmal for AI chat compared to hosted models. What is Apple offering, in plain terms, to me?
Comment · 8 months ago
Persona is the same company oftentimes used for the "show your ID to get in the bar and also we'll data harvest you... and share your data with various people if asked". Go ahead and google search on them for more insight.
Comment · 10 months ago
We wish for hardware intefaces. Not screen/hardware interfaces.
Comment · 10 months ago
Way to go, and well done. Just two months to get to a year. Alcohol is pushed everywhere now so what you've done isn't easy.
Comment · 10 months ago
Weird, Safari reloads the page on the demo button clicks and Chrome does not.

UPDATE: the second visit to the page on Safari didn't have the issue. It's interesting to note that some people might have that effect though... reloads on Safari occasionally for whatever reason. Or it could be something rare on my end.

Comment · 10 months ago
You won't be downvoted by me. He wrote a fun book (Kitchen Confidential, which I enjoyed) and it was downhill from there. He detailed some of his sketchy ethics in that book and it was refreshing.

Essentially, he seemed to me to be a bit of a &*$% and people liked that, confusing it for something admirable and for authenticity. He's till celebrated, especially by CNN, who paid a fortune for his show and then lost out on the chance for future episodes... now they peddle his old content on their landing page. Probably to try to recoup their probable losses.

You're not missing anything.

Comment · 11 months ago
Agreed. And this is the real miss of much of the Clojure community. There is a handful of amazing people in there pulling 90% of the weight of bringing noobs in to the language. And the rest don't even seem to notice their efforts. Little awards and grants here and there, yes. But the majority don't even care if the language has wider adoption or not. It works for them and that's enough. But many of the successful projects are toy or side project ones. A large number have comically minimal UIs... sub useful in today's world. Quite a few Clojure programmers use 2D languages in their day jobs, only bringing Clojure in for small parts if at all. All of this is a top down vibe. The core team has never meaningfully addressed the terrible error messages the language spits out because they are able to decode the problem themselves. Empathy or concern for noobs or wanting to grow the language seems a far priority for them. The same for the cryptic documentation, seemingly written for themselves at best. Very talented people, mind you... just not concerned with the things that would have caused adoption of their entirely unadopted language (percentagewise).

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