jonplackett

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Making creative things with tech since the flash era - plackett.co.uk
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Comment · 1 day ago
I think this will be different - you already have to include screenshots specifically for iPhone duo. I can easily see Apple just rejecting iPhone apps that don’t support it properly.
Comment · 1 day ago
Still waiting for my Duo so I have no authority really but…

Complaining about app support in the first week of release is silly. It will obviously get better very fast. Apple will force developers to make all new updates work well.

Comment · 1 day ago
That sounds fun. What do you mean?
Comment · 2 days ago
It literally all gets transferred with the backup.

I went from an m1 MacBook to m5 earlier this year. It was almost too smooth - I just felt like I had the same computer and not a new one. Which in a way was disappointing.

Comment · 2 days ago
You haven’t tried upgrading recently. It is incredibly easy.
Comment · 2 days ago
I was expecting there to be more like a ‘studio mode’ where you can fold it over to make it a screen interface that has some kind of bigger iPad style Ui. Where you could also use a stylus.

Basically a product for the people currently carrying around a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro.

Just touch on a laptop screen makes no sense. I’ve never felt the need to do this.

Comment · 4 days ago
This makes a lot of sense.

It’s probably just unavoidable. Like when Apple release a new MacBook Air first and it is (in some ways) faster than the old MacBook Pro.

I think the planets thing is a bit confusing though. I hadn’t really thought about it being based on the size of the planet. I assumed it was based on how far away they were with terra therefore being the base one.

Comment · 8 days ago
This is literally an ad for ModelCompare.

The link to ask yourself is a frikkin sign up link.

Downvote.

Comment · 9 days ago
If only someone had invented a way to easily make great websites automatically? Ah well, I guess that’s just a pipe dream.
Comment · 11 days ago
Xi gave a speech about it a while ago. The idea is that ai should increase productivity for the whole economy not just centralise it in 2 or 3 ai companies.

Of course screwing over America’s crown jewel companies is a helpful side effect.

Comment · 11 days ago
Probably because it’s a discussion about DeepSeek and you didn’t include that in your comparison so it came off a bit big-lab-fan
Comment · 11 days ago
What still is true for all fields of LLMs: if you can’t tell they do it suboptimally, you are just not that knowledgable in that area.

It still applies to all things LLms can do from law to code to art to ideas.

They can do it - and very acceptably - but only to the untrained eye.

Comment · 12 days ago
I don’t really get why this is surprising.

If you just looked at the sound wave of these being spoken you’d see one is more skirt than the other.

Even the letter b is more sounded than the letter k

Comment · 13 days ago
You know what else slows aging? Eating properly and exercise.
Comment · 14 days ago
Today’s email:

“Your discount expired, here is one more at 40%”

It’s almost as if the expiration was just some kind of pressure marketing trick….

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