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busymom0 commented on Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser   github.com/GoogleChromeLa... · Posted by u/keepamovin
busymom0 · 14 hours ago
Why does setting the quality to 100% make the resulting image size bigger than original? And if there's a reason, I think it should simply just return the original smaller image in those cases.
busymom0 commented on iOS 26.2 Release Notes   developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/ano-ther
busymom0 · 3 days ago
Related: their latest version of Xcode 26.2 isn't allowing app submissions to appstoreconnect:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/810115

Hope they fix this quick as Dec 19th onwards, they are on vacation.

busymom0 commented on The iFixit App Is Here   ifixit.com/News/114706/th... · Posted by u/thunderbong
busymom0 · 6 days ago
Other than the "battery lifespan predictor", I don't see why this needs to be an app when it's all already available on website (and indexed by google search).
busymom0 commented on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness   kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-lin... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
djaouen · 9 days ago
As someone formally diagnosed with one of these mental illnesses, I can confidently say that coffee triggers a beneficial reaction to my illness as well as to other health-adjoint mechanisms in my body. To me, drinking coffee is like breathing air or eating food, and to go without it means symptom flare-ups.
busymom0 · 9 days ago
Is it the coffee or caffeine in coffee? Do you feel the same benefits if you have decaffeinated coffee? Can you replace it with just caffeine pills to get same effect?
busymom0 commented on Prompt Injection via Poetry   wired.com/story/poems-can... · Posted by u/bumbailiff
lalassu · 13 days ago
Can someone explains why does that work?

I mean you can't social engineer a human using poetry? Why does it work for LLMs? Is it an artefact of their architecture or how these guardrails are implemented?

busymom0 · 12 days ago
The last para in the article explains it:

> “For humans, ‘how do I build a bomb?’ and a poetic metaphor describing the same object have similar semantic content, we understand both refer to the same dangerous thing,” Icaro Labs explains. “For AI, the mechanism seems different. Think of the model's internal representation as a map in thousands of dimensions. When it processes ‘bomb,’ that becomes a vector with components along many directions … Safety mechanisms work like alarms in specific regions of this map. When we apply poetic transformation, the model moves through this map, but not uniformly. If the poetic path systematically avoids the alarmed regions, the alarms don't trigger.”

busymom0 commented on 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite   andersmurphy.com/2025/12/... · Posted by u/speckx
maxmcd · 14 days ago
This will block threads while waiting for other threads to write. That might work great for your threading model but I usually end up putting the writer in one thread and then other threads send writes to the writer thread.
busymom0 · 14 days ago
I do open 2 connections:

First one for writing with flags:

    SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE | SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE | SQLITE_OPEN_FULLMUTEX
Second one for reading with flags:

    SQLITE_OPEN_READONLY | SQLITE_OPEN_FULLMUTEX
As you can note, I have SQLITE_OPEN_FULLMUTEX on both of them. Should I only have it for the writing one?

busymom0 commented on 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite   andersmurphy.com/2025/12/... · Posted by u/speckx
busymom0 · 14 days ago
Previously, I had always used Postgres for database and Rust or NodeJS for my backend. For my new website (https://limereader.com/), I used Swift for my backend, SQLite for Database, Vapor for web server in the Swift app and am self-hosting the site on an old Mac mini.

A sqlite related issue I ran into had to do with accessing the SQLite database from multiple threads. Found out a solution easily: for multi-threading use, SQLite needed to be initialized with a `SQLITE_OPEN_FULLMUTEX` flag. Since then, the website has been running seamlessly for about 3 weeks now.

busymom0 commented on How we built the v0 iOS app   vercel.com/blog/how-we-bu... · Posted by u/MaxLeiter
fernandorojo · 19 days ago
Interesting, that actually should work.

Are you on iOS 26.2 by chance? I'm currently investigating a regression on interactive keyboard dismissal specific to iOS 26.2.

busymom0 · 15 days ago
Note sure about 26.2 but on 26.1, setting the following on a native UITextView makes it work:

    textView.keyboardDismissMode = .interactive
Should be doable via react native too.

u/busymom0

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