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Comment · 8 days ago
Please share it. Fellow M1 (Ultra) user here
Comment · 18 days ago
Ah, the “good“ old times of interactive flash websites.
Comment · 1 month ago
I understand where you’re coming from but for me, LLMs were a godsend. It helps me every day to stop procrastinating and finally write tickets, specs, reports, “professional“ messages, documentation and a bunch of other stuff.

I give it (low effort) bullet points, general direction, plain (and usually too honest/direct and sometimes even insulting) message I would’ve sent, references and other stuff and things come always out better than what I could’ve ever produced.

For me, the alternative would be to not write at all or spend a disproportionate time on getting some motivation to even write a single paragraph.

Comment · 2 months ago
Since the “magic“ is in the harness: can anyone recommend a good OSS cyber harness?

I’ve been experimenting a bunch at $work and for large heterogeneous code bases, just using codex or claude seems to work better than experimenting with tools like code graph/graphql to save on tokens

Comment · 3 months ago
You‘re describing Wire. One could quibble about the FOSS part but it is open source (gplv3 or agpl). It’s used by a bunch of European governments and agencies, as well as American agencies, has regular security reviews and thanks to MLS, supports groups with more than 2k clients. Self hosting is a bit of a pain, but people are doing it.

Give it a try

Comment · 3 months ago
Can you give some pointers to which papers specifically? I also have multiple e-paper displays and would love less noise
Comment · 6 months ago
I remember Covid and the supply chain crisis that unfolded in Europe and the west. Most of the companies you’ve mentioned weren’t cranking out anything during that time as all of them realised that "low cost electronics" are not always readily available and that we forgot how to make them or don’t have the capacity to produce them in significant numbers anymore ourselves. A lot of basic electronic components were not available during that time and we still haven’t fully grasped the complexities of our supply chains and where they begin.

I also remember, that EE for a while stopped using the term "jellybean parts". Turns out that most jellybeans are produced in Asia.

Comment · 8 months ago
Isn’t apple actually an early investor and co-owner of ARM?
Comment · 11 months ago
I recently used this https://makerworld.com/de/models/1765102-10-inch-mini-rack-g... to generate various mounts for my home lab mini rack. The idea is that everything needs to fit into the same width of rack, but every device is slightly different so custom creating these becomes annoying quickly. This generator was a godsend
Comment · 11 months ago
The unkind world we live in would see this role being abused quickly and a person not lasting long in this role. For one, in the wrong team, it might lead to devs just doing 80% of the work and leaving the rest to the janitor. And the janitor might get fed up with having to fix the buggy code of their colleagues.

I wonder if the janitor role could be rotated weekly or so? Then everyone could also reap the benefits of this role too, I can imagine this being a good thing for anyone in terms of motivation. Fixing stuff triggers a different positive response than building stuff

Comment · 11 months ago
I‘d also like a dark mode.

And: on iOS you can reduce the white point quite a bit which makes the display appear very dark indeed. You can even tie it to a shortcut which is quite handy

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh wow, thanks for linking evolu! To bad it's typescript only... I'm looking for an e2ee sqlite sync for kotlin. Are you aware of any solutions?
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds like you really need to have a look at loco.rs! Given the right constraints, I’m fairly productive with CC
Comment · 1 year ago
I‘m sorry, but you’re comparing apples to bedrooms. Israel vs. Iran is a war/conflict between two proper countries‘ militaries - which means that both belligerents stick to certain agreed upon rules and military traditions, such as trying to separate the civilian from the military world/infrastructure. In lack of another word (haven’t slept, please forgive me for the choice of word), there’s “honor“ and a notion of equality and respect (somewhat) between the foes, even if Iran has declared it wants to wipe Israel off the map.

All of this does not apply to the conflict with Hamas. With them muddling the lines, it’s extremely hard to fight a “clean“ war. You’re between a rock and a hard place - either you lose but with your head held high and your moral compass intact, or you stoop to their level thereby slowly losing your values but win in the end. If that win is worth it or not, is heavily debated in the rest of the world, but only debated in the fringes of Israeli society. But no military expert is able to suggest a real alternative of fighting Hamas without inflicting heavy losses on one’s own army.

I find the committed war crimes abhorrent and wish they’d be heavily prosecuted at least.

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