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daveidol

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daveidol··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
You raise an interesting point. Although wouldn’t Anthropic be the best experts on when a model would be most applicable or likely to falter?

I guess my opinion would really depend on the exact wording and details of the arrangement. Lots of people jumping in with strong stances based on pretty limited details.

daveidol··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
No it’s Product Marketing Manager. A common title and one part of the holy trinity (PM, EM, PMM) at bigger companies.
daveidol··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
That one gets a worse rep than I think it deserves.

You could always pay the one time fee for heated seats like in the past. It was just an option if you don’t want to pay upfront.

daveidol··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
And of course those criticisms can and should be dismissed if the creators goals are purely to maximize engagement
daveidol··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Yeah, sadly most people don’t know or don’t care most likely.

Unless it’s in their face causing them friction they will just continue to use it as an appliance.

daveidol··on How AI text watermarking works
Yeah if kids are sufficiently motivated all it takes is one vial YouTube tutorial.
daveidol··on Force-Fed by ICE
I don't see the relation here, to be honest. How is immigration enforcement about racists wanting to be lazy?

The people paying illegal immigrants minimal wages under the table are far more analogous to slave owners in my mind.

daveidol··on The Warp Agent CLI
So this is a competitor to something like OpenCode or Pi? I suspect for most developers, they are using Claude Code or Codex CLI mainly just so they don't have to pay-per-token and can use the subscription products - which I assume can't be done with Warp Agent?
daveidol··on All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time
I think you may be confusing 'the right' more broadly with the current Republican party. There are absolutely coherent conservative viewpoints that mirror/oppose those that we consider 'the left', which aren't "reactionary" by nature.
daveidol··on All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time
What is "reality"? Is there really any such thing as ground truth for most things?
daveidol··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
It’s too bad we didn’t start out with Deno
daveidol··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
This is an absurd statement. A “kill list”? Please.
daveidol··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
The blame should be on Microsoft and LG, both.
daveidol··on Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T
Hasn’t that always been the way? A little Super PAC and some lobbying to grease the wheels
daveidol··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Sound advice, honestly, especially the "no I'm always the victim attitude" piece.

The more politically-charged parts of your comment apply to both sides - it's fine if you have political opinions, but nobody wants them shoved down their throats, or brought up at work. If you come across as someone who is going to put politics over work, or cause conflict, then people aren't going to want to hire you and deal with that.

daveidol··on The AI Hate Progression
Yeah I saw the headline and was interested to read a well-reasoned macro perspective on how and why attitudes have shifted towards AI, misconceptions, predictions on the future, etc.

Instead I got another one-sided unhinged rant that looks straight out of a typical Reddit post.

daveidol··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Do you do your dev work on the windows machine (referenced in the docs), or do you remotely access it from a separate machine? I ask because I have a RTX 3090 kicking around in a gaming desktop, but I don't use it for any dev work (I use a Macbook Pro).
daveidol··on Leave Me Behind
Well said. People love to make everything black and white / good and bad. But things are rarely that simple.
daveidol··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
I grew up and live in the southeast. I also lived on the west coast for a decade.

I find your comment completely off base.

daveidol··on US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
Seat belt laws are an interesting example though because they only apply when driving on public roads. You can drive your car with no seat belt on a private track all day if you want to.
daveidol··on Tailscale's new macOS home
Well said!
daveidol··on ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
I’d argue putting everything in terms of black and white is the bigger issue than understanding nuance
daveidol··on Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
That’s still like 10 uses vs unlimited uses on macOS
daveidol··on Hold on to Your Hardware
Not my 70yo mom. She used to have a big gray PC but switched to a Chromebook (one I gave her) about 15 years ago, and now only uses her phone and tablet.
daveidol··on Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
As a kid I used to buy bootleg Japanese Dragonball Z tapes from a legit store at the mall!

They sold them under the counter. I just wanted to know what was going to happen ahead of all my friends haha.

daveidol··on The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer
Seems like the wrong link to me. Just a dude working on a car.
daveidol··on Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
Is there anything like this for the Logitech keyboards (eg MX Keys Mini)? I want to remap some keys there too but don’t want to run Options+
daveidol··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Their margins may not have changed actually. https://youtu.be/IGCzo6s768o
daveidol··on Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
I agree with Epic. It should be like on windows or macOS where you can register, get notarized, and then distribute without scare screens. I don’t see why phones are inherently different than computers.
daveidol··on Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
I don’t want to be too flippant, but I think there is a real trade off across many aspects of life between “freedom” and “safety”.

There is a point at which people have to think critically about what they are doing. We, as a society, should do our best to protect the vulnerable (elderly, mentally disabled, etc) but we must draw the line somewhere.

It’s the same thing in the outside world too - otherwise we could make compelling arguments about removing the right to drive cars, for example, due to all the traffic accidents (instead we add measures like seatbelts as a compromise, knowing it will never totally solve the issue).

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