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bimguy··on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
A few times now, I gave Claude all my IronPython scripts and asked it to make to see if it could improve the code. It proceeded to break nearly all of them.
bimguy··on Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
This whole article reads like a promotion for Apples Keynote masked behind a ridiculous concern "to finally upgrade my presentation tool". I'm guessing he didn't mention that Keynote comes with a price tag of the cheapest Mac computer... while the other is completely free.
bimguy··on The FAA’s Hiring Scandal
Testing for ability is exactly what they were originally doing before the NBCFAE got involved in the FAA's well established hiring process.

I get your point, but to be clear this is already what they were doing since 1989 up until 2013.

bimguy··on Converted a MacBook into a PC
I notice that the bluetooth antenna is unplugged not sure if you're using the wifi/bluetooth card from the Mac.
bimguy··on Converted a MacBook into a PC
It's lit by the backlight in the LCD display. In other words, he didn't do anything extra.
bimguy··on Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
I read a Virginia Woolf recently, To The Lighthouse. In which the mother describes her teenage children as having "incurable laziness". Which I found hilarious.
bimguy··on M4 MacBook Pro
It would depend on a countries consumer laws. I used to work for AASP's in Australia and they definitely used refurished phones for replacements and refurished parts for the Mac repairs. Not everyone who uses this site lives in America...
bimguy··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
I wonder how long before the incoming lawsuit from Apple / other tech giant / patent troll.
bimguy··on Rescuing songs that record labels forgot existed
I myself archive vinyl only LP's for arguably the most elite of the music trackers. The music industry should honestly be ashamed of themselves for neglecting so much good music from the past and a lot of times making it extremely hard for artists or management to digitize their catalogs due to greedy legal reasons.
bimguy··on Intel to lay off 15,000 employees
Blaming missing the AI boom on your revenues just shouldn't fly as an excuse. Good hardware makers should be innovating in other ways not just focusing / relying purely on AI and other tech trends for their revenue.
bimguy··on Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
This has got to be one of the most out-of-touch comments I've ever read on HN. Most users of the internet aren't tech saavy and should not be preyed upon because of it.
bimguy··on The Origins of DS_store (2006)
Rixsteps take on .DS_Store - a much more enjoyable read. https://rixstep.com/1/20030521,00.shtml

And a follow up article - https://rixstep.com/2/20061212,00.shtml

bimguy··on Coup Attempt in Bolivia
You think referencing other coups is somehow unrelated?
bimguy··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Google also taxes for transactions on their Play store, but yes, Apple takes it to the extreme. You don't have to buy into the walled garden though.
bimguy··on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
Just more hypocracy from the US. US have been funding and training paramilitaries in just about every continent for decades now. Don't your government have anything better to do then throw their weight around the global arena?
bimguy··on What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like
Despite people downvoting me I did read the article. I don't assume this is all fisherman since that Chinese boat mentioned seems to be conveniently taking out cables and the Chinese gov is not responding to their investigation requests. Still doesn't change the fact that fishing operations destroy the ocean floors, a simple amount of research can confirm this.
bimguy··on What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like
Ah excellent, fishermen not only destroying the ocean but also the infrastructure of countries. When will peoples appetite for destroying the ocean be qualled?
bimguy··on Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data
You would assume that, yes, we will learn lots from the only spacecraft that is continually travelling further and further into unexplored space...
bimguy··on Scandal at America's top science fair
I believe you're confusing "mistake" with "accident".
bimguy··on CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
This is an awesome project. I work with Revit(Python coded) so immediately tried shift + mouse wheel click drag. If you can get anywhere near Revit that would be impressively scary for Autodesk.
bimguy··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
If that was true then Putin would also be immune to ICC prosecution, so, it doesn't seem to work like that.

> it prosecutes cases only when States do not are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely.

And if you read the last part of the sentence you quoted it should make it pretty clear that it doesn't work like you have interpreted it.

bimguy··on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
I wonder how many kids would read more if Taylor Swift or Mr Beast or 'Insert favourite youtuber/celebrity here' started promoting book reading.
bimguy··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
Great write up by the way. Even some technical people might not know about this, not all technical people are network experts after all.
bimguy··on FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator
Being Australian, I don't know much about the company other then it's a popular telecom provider in North America so it's interesting to see that they had their hands in workstations at some point.
bimguy··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
You are not a big fan of the EU after this? They seem to care more about privacy and rights of the people within the majority of the countries that make up the EU then any other outside country that I could name.

Then again, I'm not American so I can easily see the influence your country has on most other countries, so to say the "EU have enormous capacity for overreach at the expense of participating countries and their citizens" is completely ignorant and oblivious.

bimguy··on Features lost across versions of macOS
Must have been flagged by Apple's marketing team :D
bimguy··on Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners
If you think it's ethically/morally sound to copy someones free code to make financial gain for yourself then I'd imagine corndog is probably your friend and that you two were made for each other.
bimguy··on A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
For years I had no idea of this forum, no Apple technicians I worked with ever mentioned this site. Rixstep.com linked this forum (in 2016) in one of their articles and that's how I found it. Definitely felt like being given a gift. HN is/was a true hidden gem.
bimguy··on Ancient Rome's failed building projects
Remember, we aren't talking about modern society with access to a ton of recording essentials, we are talking about a very select few educated individuals (given the overall population) that were probably preoccupied writing much more important things then a building project failure.
bimguy··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
I love Piracy. 99% of the content on streaming services is recycled garbage. Good for the new generation but not for me.
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