JeremyHerrman (u/JeremyHerrman)

JeremyHerrman commented on Grok Code Fast 1 x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-... · Posted by u/Terretta

bpavuk · 4 days ago

I'd argue that even GPT-5 and Sonnet 4 at their highest reasoning budgets are not enough for "real coding work" because you still have to think about how an LLM should do it instead of what, and put it into a prompt. some harnesses, such as JetBrains Junie or Gemini CLI, make a good job of letting me drift into declarative prompts, but that's still not enough.

JeremyHerrman · 4 days ago

totally agree - they all need a human in the loop at this point. I'm constantly stopping gpt-5/sonnet 4 and steering. Unfortunately with grok it completely misses the plot constantly

JeremyHerrman commented on Grok Code Fast 1 x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-... · Posted by u/Terretta

JeremyHerrman · 4 days ago

fast but not smart. Fine for non-critical "I need this query" or "summarize this" but it's pretty much worthless for real coding work (compared to gpt-5 thinking or sonnet 4)

JeremyHerrman commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

sipjca · a month ago

Been working on https://handy.computer. It's similar to SuperWhisper and others, but is open source and cross platform

It uses whisper.cpp under the hood and should be accelerated on most devices using the Vulkan backend

JeremyHerrman · a month ago

thanks for making this! I'd love to use the microphone key (fn + mic) to trigger Handy but even after turning off dictation it doesn't seem like the system allows that key to be used (I get a dialog prompting me to turn on dictation).

JeremyHerrman commented on Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM downtowndougbrown.com/202... · Posted by u/zdw

spaceisballer · 2 months ago

I have memories of going to the library in the 90s to read MacWorld. Then learning that if I did a few clicks and maybe keystrokes you may unlock something with the processor. I can’t totally recall what it would unlock but it was for the Apple IIci and it’s 33mhz processor.

JeremyHerrman · 2 months ago

Set the monitor to color and the date to September 20th, 1989. Then boot while holding ⌘-⌥-C-I to see an image of the dev team.

https://compmuseum.org/blog/iici-easter-egg/

JeremyHerrman commented on Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament arstechnica.com/apple/202... · Posted by u/CobaltFire

leoc · 3 months ago

Here's what the foreword to Keep It Simple https://arnoldsche.com/en/vergriffen/keep-it-simple/ https://archive.org/details/keepitsimpleearl0000essl/ says about the Platinum colour, also known as Snow White:

> Esslinger had been working with Steve Jobs since 1982 and was of paramount importance for the look of Apple products as an external designer -—as of 1983 also as Corporate Manager of Design. The start of collaboration between Steve Jobs and Hartmut Esslinger went from 1982 to 1983 with “Snow White,” a new color and design concept that was the base for all future Apple products. Besides specifying certain design aspects, the concept entailed introducing a new color. The dull “greige” of the industrial and corporate workplace was to be replaced by a broken white-called “Snow White" in the US. First used for the Apple llc, this white not only made the computer esthetically compatible with living rooms but also psychologically underpinned the user-friendly menu navigation. The new “Snow White” line worked up by Hartmut Esslinger was supposed to be launched with the Macintosh Computer—originally designed by Jerry Manock-but many reasons made this impossible. So the revised version could not be introduced until later: with the Macintosh SE.

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

I know this book is a first hand account from Esslinger himself, but aside from your quoted passage, I've never seen Snow White refer to a specific color, only to the design language itself. Even the other mentions of Snow White in his book refer to the design language, not a color.

The first product to feature the Snow White design language was the Apple IIc, which featured a color known as "Fog" which is distinct from the Platinum used in Apple's products from 1986-1999. For a good side-by-side comparison, check out this image of an original Apple IIc (1984) and the Apple IIc Plus (1988): https://i0.wp.com/lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/iic-and-i...

JeremyHerrman commented on Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015) nyhistory.org/blogs/civil... · Posted by u/LorenDB

kazinator · 3 months ago

These images were prepared for insertion into a stereogram in which the left eye looks at the left image and right eye looks at the right image, through a magnifying lens. When viewing with the naked eye, you must stare past the images into the distance to get them to converge that way.

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

Thanks, I understand how stereograms work and have quite a few of these IRL. I use cross-eyed method to quickly view them (albeit inverted depth) when shown on screen.

I've tried to show my point in these videos which show basically no difference between the two images when overlapped and crossfaded between the two. https://imgur.com/a/RMy3QA3

JeremyHerrman commented on Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015) nyhistory.org/blogs/civil... · Posted by u/LorenDB

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

Is it just me or are some of these examples not actually stereo image pairs?

I'm just crossing my eyes to see the "negative" depth image but some like "McLean’s House" and "Lincoln visits General McClellan at Antietam" don't appear to have any depth changes between them.

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

Here are some videos trying to show what I mean. I overlapped the two images on top and crossfaded between the two. Aside from some minor distortion I don't see any major differences normally found between stereo pairs.

https://imgur.com/a/RMy3QA3

JeremyHerrman commented on Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015) nyhistory.org/blogs/civil... · Posted by u/LorenDB

JKCalhoun · 3 months ago

You need to swap left and right images to use the cross-eyed method on these. You can try downloading as an image, use an app like Preview to Flip Horizontal (that will work).

Otherwise you're seeing a kind of inverse stereo image.

(EDIT: Having said that, I tried a few of the images and the stereo effect is subtle. The soldier on the horse — I was not even able to get that to "snap" for me. I am not great with cross-eyed stereo though.)

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

yes understood that cross-eyed method inverts the depth. My point was that some of the image pairs are from the exact same perspective - so there is no stereo depth no matter if you're using cow-eyed or cross-eyed.

JeremyHerrman commented on Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015) nyhistory.org/blogs/civil... · Posted by u/LorenDB

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

Is it just me or are some of these examples not actually stereo image pairs?

I'm just crossing my eyes to see the "negative" depth image but some like "McLean’s House" and "Lincoln visits General McClellan at Antietam" don't appear to have any depth changes between them.

JeremyHerrman commented on The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus journaldulapin.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/ecliptik

innocentoldguy · 4 months ago

I found an old, unopened Apple box containing a Japanese Apple II Plus while cleaning out my in-laws house last month. I also found a fake-leather carrying case for it (also unopened). Both are from 1979.

It was interesting to discover that the Apple II Plus' ROM didn't support Kanji, but there were third-party add-on cards that added Kanji support. The Apple II Plus I found had a Multitech Kanji Card with it. Multitech later became Acer.

JeremyHerrman · 3 months ago

wow what a find! Does the carrying case feature the standard apple logo or one with no "bite"?

If you ever decide to part with it let me know :)