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snarkyturtle··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
It definitely puts it out of the range of every day users but a non-insignificant proportion of people who use it for ai have become multi-millionaires because of ai. So there's definitely no shortage of people who have no problem paying those high prices.
snarkyturtle··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
AFM had a 4096 token context window and this can be configured to have a 32k+ token context window, for one.
snarkyturtle··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Google releasing Gemma 4 yesterday was prescient. Toying around with Zed + Gemma 4 on my laptop is 95% as good as using a cloud provider.
snarkyturtle··on Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Noting that there's an option to require a Bearer token to the API
snarkyturtle··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Warner Bros has had their best summer in years (Sinners, Superman, etc). HBO still makes highly regarded prestige TV series (The Last Of Us, Task, etc). This is just false.
snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: Is AWS down again?
What's updog?
snarkyturtle··on U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
The link to the Science article is a 404. Not a good look.
snarkyturtle··on Eternal September
*Eternal
snarkyturtle··on Ozzy Osbourne has died
He's in everyone's good graces because he's now known as a kookie old man from the MTV show _The Osbournes_ that aired in the mid-2000's. Same reason why Michael Jackson, arguably the most famous person of the 90s, isn't as popular after his death given his reclusiveness and scandals. We tend to remember stars for the last impact that they had — not what they started off with.
snarkyturtle··on Pixar's Newest Movie, 'Elio', Is a Box-Office Dud
Not super great of them to release an original movie so close to Lilo and Stitch, which is still in theaters and just crossed $900M world-wide. And of course, How to Train Your Dragon, as mentioned in the article.
snarkyturtle··on Everything Is Down
The U.S. is notorious for not allowing vacation time, or at least is more focused on the "grindset".
snarkyturtle··on Caffeine in Your Blood Could Affect Body Fat and Diabetes Risk, Study Shows
In the article, "calorie-free caffeinated drinks could be explored as a potential means of helping reduce body fat levels"
snarkyturtle··on Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
Isn't that the use-case for Micro Frontend Architecture? I've always viewed it as a second-coming of Frames. https://micro-frontends.org/
snarkyturtle··on Why Clojure?
So they try to make the least-worst JVM environment which is great if you're dead-set on using the JVM, which has a lot of pros.

For most people Python/Javascript also does the job and you don't need to learn another paradigm — a Lisp — to code for it, which also makes sense.

However, learning a Lisp also makes you a better coder because of immutability and less side-effects. Hence why Clojure is still around.

snarkyturtle··on Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
The proper context, too, is that Liz Lemon is in charge of showrunning a Saturday Night skit show and is facing many challenges. "Lemon, it's Wednesday" implies that there are many things that can go wrong in between Wednesday and Saturday.
snarkyturtle··on Introducing Ads in Threads
It looks like ads generally are posts from business accounts that then get a sponsored badge and some promotion among feeds. From a fediverse perspective, you won't see them unless you follow the pizza hut threads feed (to use a random example.)
snarkyturtle··on Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
Shift-T: triggers a tab switcher

D-U: is Page Up/Page Down

/: find in page

snarkyturtle··on Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo
Zola is infinitely better for templating alone. It does everything Hugo does.
snarkyturtle··on X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe'
I like NPR but I wonder why their slugs have that weird bit of code after the date/time

"nx-s1-5092087" looks like a random string that might trigger some automated firewalls or checks

snarkyturtle··on MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
Wait until you have to work in Mustache/Handlebars, you'd love Jinja
snarkyturtle··on A "Heat Dome" of Immigration
There isn't a point to this article, it just reiterates the PDF, tacks on some half-baked thoughts about the upcoming election then admits that other countries with less immigration are going through the same problems.
snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: What do devs use for quickly setting up a feedback form?
Netlify forms: https://docs.netlify.com/forms/setup/

First-party support, generous free tier (and cheap enough if you go over 100 submissions in a month), simple implementation, just POST to it like any other form.

snarkyturtle··on Apple Readies M4 Chip Mac Line, Including New MacBook Air and Mac Pro
> Is this the year where Apple increases the memory on the base model above 8GB

Nope, the opposite. They're doubling down.

> In an interview with IT Home, Mac marketing executive Evan Buyze spoke in favor of Macs equipped with 8GB of RAM. According to Buyze, the 8GB of RAM in entry-level Macs is enough for most of the tasks that most users do with these computers. He used web browsing, media playback, light photo and video editing, and casual gaming as examples.

Source: https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-8gb-ram-mac/

snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
I think you're thinking about Zola: https://github.com/getzola/zola

But yes, if I were to recommend something, it'd be Zola given that there's just one executable that you need to run and there's absolutely no setup required.

snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
Its templating language is anything but simple, however.
snarkyturtle··on A practical guide to quitting your smartphone
Really it's just social media that's terrible. If all the social media apps go away, you still get left with all the above and can contact people you know. Algorithmic recommendations and flame wars with strangers are the worst things about smartphones — and they're not limited to them either.
snarkyturtle··on Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers
What does "foreign" even mean in the internet? It's not like there are clear lines between plots of land. Everything is everywhere.
snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: How do you setup a new Mac?
Moreover — and this doesn't even need bettertouchtool — three-finger drag is a lifesaver. Not sure why it's buried in Accessibility.
snarkyturtle··on Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
lol those are the people who can't let go of their beloved, outdated stacks, no way can they develop as well as the new kids on the block
snarkyturtle··on GitHub having issues today
Well, git ops might not be impacted on Github, usual Github outages tend to be through Actions/the site, not the actual git operations. Doesn't seem like you can use a local copy but you can use Gitbucket/Gitlab.
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