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nish__··on Apple's Dimensional Drawings
It's so we can make cases.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Makes perfect sense.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
It's accidental. This mixup is essentially a meme at Shopify this point.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
You're never going to win against a black box algorithm. Just let Spotify do it's thing or go back to hosting your own music if you don't like it.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Shopify has gotten quite a bit better tho.
nish__··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Most people have friends and family to "glaze" them anyway. I don't see it as a major danger. Also, it's gotten better with the glazing lately anyway.
nish__··on iPhone Duo
Been using a galaxy fold for years now. This is the future.
nish__··on Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
I knew this would happen.
nish__··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
Right. But when when a group blows up hospitals, schools and other infrastructure and murders 70,000 civilians (Israel)... Why is that not disignated terrorism?
nish__··on PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history
At the end of the day, nothing beats hydro electric power. It's hidden, consistent and the technology is very mature. Really the OG of renewable energy. If we could get our appliances running efficiently enough, I think we could run the whole grid on it.
nish__··on GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Wouldn't any metal app have to be written in C++17?
nish__··on Incident with Github.com
Amazon. I fired up a vps to replace GitHub.
nish__··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Tobacco tax is actually crazy. I can get 200 cigarettes for $10 CAD from the natives because it's tax free.
nish__··on Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
At what point are we going to realize that computers will never work for floating point math. If your numbers are not exact there will always be a better solution for what you are doing that does not involve a computer.
nish__··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Intellectual property is a dead concept.
nish__··on Claude Sonnet 5
If RAM prices come down, running your own models will be relatively affordable.
nish__··on TypeScript 7.0 RC
Stuff like this is worth the wait.
nish__··on PostgreSQL is enough (2024)
> Nothing is easier to setup and administer than the database you already use.

What about the filesystem you already use? 99% of projects don't need a relational database at all.

nish__··on Swift Package Index joins Apple
What does Sherlocked mean?
nish__··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
They should look into what Brazil is doing to store energy long term:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/849994733672039/posts/136230...

nish__··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
Then learn? Otherwise, you have to trust those that do.
nish__··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
If you're this serious about security, you should be manufacturing your own hardware.
nish__··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Because money.
nish__··on Stop Using JWTs
27 billion? Do you work at AWS?
nish__··on Codex for open source
Especially considering they trained the damn thing on our code.
nish__··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Enforcing the global use of the petro dollar is what keeps Americans living cushy lives so be careful disrespecting the military personel.
nish__··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Won't matter if they're not publicly traded.
nish__··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
What is Nvidia spending so much on Google services for?
nish__··on Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)
No. "Cloud" is a marketing term for VPSs.
nish__··on The dead economy theory
I don't use it. What am I missing?
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