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syspec··on Claude Code 2.0
Wouldn't it stand to reason that they would provide a sort of utility for a collegue as they read through the generated code.
syspec··on Kagi News (iOS)
This is awesome! Downloaded it and played with it and as a non Kagi user, I'm impressed!

But please please let me select text!

I wanted to look up a word, so I double taped it to select it, then I realized non of the text in the articles is selectable

syspec··on Ubuntu: The Indigenous Ethos of Restorative Justice
This article leans HARD into the noble savage trope. It critiques Western justice for being reductive, then idealizes indigenous systems without asking the same hard questions.

It ends up mirroring the same blind spots it thought it was exposing.

syspec··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
You should hear the long form of the acronym!

TACOBELL

- Trump Always Chickens Out Before Eventually Losing Loudly

syspec··on Coders End, from Typers to Thinkers
When I code, typing is about 10(?) ercent of the time spent.

That's true for most people

syspec··on Coders End, from Typers to Thinkers
I feel exactly the same way!

I love love love coding. When I'm done with work, and I have time between family stuff, I code to relax!

If I have a fun project, I could easily code from when I wake until I go to sleep, and have before having a kid.

It's a pure joy second only to family

syspec··on Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code
What's beast mide, and how do I trigger it?
syspec··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
Does this work for others when working in other domains? When creating a Swift application, I can't imagine creating 20 agents and letting them go to town. Same for the backend of such an application if it's in say, Java+Springboot
syspec··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
Is it possible that this is the result of basically all the benchmarks being focused on coding (and a few standardized tests).
syspec··on Ollama's new app
I've been using Open WebUI and have been blown away, it's a better ChatGPT interface than ChatGPT!

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

Curious how this compares to that, which has a ton of features and runs great

syspec··on Show HN: BreakerMachines – Modern Circuit Breaker for Rails with Async Support
This thread is getting a bit scary, are you okay?
syspec··on Show HN: Todo2 – AI Project Manager Inside Cursor
Please add this prompt for your marketing copy:

Make it more succinct.

---

I love AI generated code, but man you can spot ai generated marketing copy on landing pages and READMEs.

So much copy, so many emoji bullet points

syspec··on Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS
Ah, I guess he was talking to the person behind you
syspec··on Nvidia CEO criticizes Anthropic boss over his statements on AI
I use Claud Opus 4, and it's pretty good at writing code. For very common languages.

It makes a lot of mistakes in its own code, trivial ones, like creating functions and calling them with the arguments reversed.

The idea that it's going to blackmail me somehow by showing me what /looks/ like an email, sounds laughable.

syspec··on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
You can use DualShocks on Apple TV or iPad games - it's supported. Of course on Mac as well
syspec··on Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake
Fair enough
syspec··on Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake
What's the relation of your comment to this blog post?
syspec··on New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda
I think the significance is the the sun will actually have engulfed the earth by that time
syspec··on Migrating away from Rust
That's BS, does your team of 5 work for free?

Imagine you all cost 100k/year to employ by the larger company (since you all apparently don't make money).

Then imagine you are all now cost 105k a year to the parent company.

It's no difference.

syspec··on Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture
Very well stated.

It's really weird to come across such articles, because they always add this mystic to these cultures that actually ends up coming across as the generic "in touch with nature" noble savage archetype

syspec··on Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity
Suspend functions appear as regular JVM methods with an extra Continuation parameter. Tools like runBlocking make them straightforward to call from Java.

My main point was that you can use Java code as is without modifications from Kotlin, and that if you wanted you could have Java code in your project and it will work just fine. Of course if you wanna start calling co-routines from the Java part of your project to the Kotlin part, hey that's up to you.

syspec··on Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity
The beauty of kotlin is they don't need to. I use kotlin on the backend (never did android development). It's amazing. Better version of java than java. Use any and all java libraries transparently (there's nothing to change or do), heck you can even have the java and kotlin in the same codebase (something I haven't really done, but tried it for fun)

Java and Kotlin both compile down to .class Java bytecode.

To the JVM, there is no difference

syspec··on Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity
Here's the list:

Python, with a rating of 23.08%

C++, 10.33%

C, 9.94%

Java, 9.63%

C#, 4.39%

JavaScript, 3.71%

Go, 3.02%

Visual Basic, 2.94%

Delphi/Object Pascal, 2.53%

SQL, 2.19% ---

Delphi is the 9th most popular language according to this. More that swift kotlin typescript ruby zig

syspec··on You might not need WebSockets
It's a good well worn tactic. You list in very high detail every single step of any process you don't like. It makes that process seem overly complex, then you can present your alternative and it sounds way simpler.

For example, making a sandwich: You have to retrieve exactly two slices of bread after finding the loaf in the fridge. Apply butter uniformly after finding the appropriate knife, be sure to apply about a 2.1mm level of coating. After all of that you will still need to ensure you've calibrated the toaster!"

syspec··on Apple's mouse is so bad Tim Cook uses another brand at work (2024)
Am I the only one in the world who absolutely loves the Magic Mouse. Aside from gaming it's just so comfortable, scrolling is a dream with inertia no one else has figured out how to mimic, and the gestures are natural.

Plus horizontally scrolling on long lines of code (or terminal output) is unbeatable.

syspec··on Apple's mouse is so bad Tim Cook uses another brand at work
It's likely The LG monitor at the time was the only retina monitor available. The Cinema Display was rather old, and newer Apple displays were not yet released
syspec··on A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift
> It would be a long time until Swift is even remotely ready for something like this and I don’t feel there is a burning need to have “yet another wasm platform”.

I mean, well, it actually already exists? It's been around for a long time and works pretty great, with multithreading, access to JS objects, etc. The author of the linked thread topic is the original author of it.

https://swiftwasm.org/

syspec··on Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
Prediction: This sale won't happen, in fact, no sale will happen.

The idea that a TikTok ban was signed into law will be quietly forgotten. IMO, that's been the strategy of ByteDance.

Just ignore the law because US politics is very fickle and moves on quickly to the next news cycle.

If the executive does not enforce it, then the law is just toilet paper.

syspec··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
So everyone else's kids have to have a lower IQ because of that?

Bad parents are gonna be bad parents.

syspec··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
How does one go about doing that? For that price?

I'd love to give it a go for my family

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