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RickyLahey··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
wow thanks i somehow missed that.

I like to disable SIP and gut my Mac OS but i know that's not a very safe choice

RickyLahey··on Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes
calling someone that is rich coming from paul graham. come on guys. what's next? reading mark manson? a16z?
RickyLahey··on Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes
i don't mean the misogyny but the general vibe of how full of himself/sociopathic he was

there are books from the 19 century written by people with much better values

RickyLahey··on Children and Helical Time
i basically never had to work (EU privilege + luck of being born the skill of knowing how to sell to people well) and only worked on stuff that i enjoyed and not a lot of hours (and that turned into millions fast) and my 20s/30s flew like months instead of years and didn't have the intensity of my teen years. I think it's because despite technically travelling and living in different countries a lot, going to a new place is not really a new experience after you visit 7 very different ones. The same with women and a lot of other experiences. Having kids was the only think that surprised me. Making money got old fast (i mean trying to get to the "next" level)
RickyLahey··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
damn you guys are gullible
RickyLahey··on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy
this is peak gym bro science
RickyLahey··on AI employees don't pay taxes
I'm going to be controversial and ask: who pays taxes in tech like they should be paid? i mean small and big corporations.
RickyLahey··on AI employees don't pay taxes
I'm going to be controversial and ask: who pays taxes in tech?
RickyLahey··on Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes
especially reading Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! leaves a bad taste in my mouth after all these years. i can only take the title literally "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
RickyLahey··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
are macs m5 out? can you wait that long?
RickyLahey··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
only slightly better? really?
RickyLahey··on Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
no
RickyLahey··on Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
right, we don't need a lot of things, yet here we are
RickyLahey··on I'm returning my Framework 16
i hear you but the latency between the cpu and ram, the battery life, and the quality of software is way worth a few weird buttons to me. everything has downsides. Windows is completely ridiculous, and between Linux and Mac OS, well, I think it depends on your use case.
RickyLahey··on I'm returning my Framework 16
no. but it gives you access to good hardware and software that works well on it. the only combination of this kind.
RickyLahey··on How I Left YouTube
right. also the whole job is bs to begin with. i don't know why this article is remotely interesting. it's a google job. that just tells me "i have skills but i don't know how to use them to make money"
RickyLahey··on Backing up Spotify
right but i'd rather watch rupaul drag race for the 100th time than write boring code
RickyLahey··on I'm returning my Framework 16
my tip to people who don't like mac os. buy a macbook pro, disable System Integrity Protection (SIP), gut the OS, live in the terminal and browser. works way better than linux (10h+ battery life, SoC with a lot of memory) and you will barely notice that you're on mac os.

It's not windows. there will be no forced updates and surprises.

RickyLahey··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
i don't understand what is going on with people not training their own models
RickyLahey··on A guide to local coding models
depending on your usecase $200/mo is often not much for a coding tool if you're using it for commercial purposes

in my experience cursor is nicer to work with the openai/anthropic cli tools

RickyLahey··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
it really depends what you are using your computer for

a 128GB SoC m4 pro max can do pretty wild data science with close to a terabyte/second speed without the latency of typical offloading/back-and-forth

RickyLahey··on Backing up Spotify
i believe the most popular reason is capo on 1st fret when writing songs, other factors coming 2nd or 3rd (electronic music, sped up old samples, etc)
RickyLahey··on Backing up Spotify
This will be great to train AI on.
RickyLahey··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
sounds like that person isn't a tech lead
RickyLahey··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
i wouldn't touch anything from Mozilla with a twenty-foot pole