Readit Newsrwalle commented on SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017) tcl.tk/community/tcl2017/... · Posted by u/fanf2
I wonder -- if they were to restart from scratch today, would they do the same thing? If not, which stack would they choose?
rwalle commented on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazo... · Posted by u/swyx
Surface Books are nothing like Macbooks - Macbooks don't have a touch screen, pen support, or reversible screen tablet mode, and the whole structure is completely different. Surface Pro, Surface Book, and Surface Laptop Studio are some of the most original laptop form factors I've seen.
Exactly.
Too bad Microsoft only cares about enterprise customers and never made the Surface line attractive to regular consumers. They could have been very interesting and competitive alternatives to MacBooks.
rwalle commented on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazo... · Posted by u/swyx
> The Guardrails on Claude Sonnet 3.5 API are not stricter than Openai’s guardrails in my experience.
Both Gemini and Claude (via the API) have substantially tighter guardrails around recitation (producing output matching data from their training set) than OpenAI, which I ran into when testing an image text-extraction-and-document-formatting toolchain against all three.
Both Claude and Gemini gave refusals on text extraction from image documents (not available publicly anywhere I can find as text) from a CIA FOIA release
Not sure if they are tighter in other areas.
Have you had luck with Google's AI Studio with regard to text extraction?
rwalle commented on M4 Mac mini's efficiency jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/marinesebastian
The Mac mini M4 performance is around 4-5x in DaVinci Resolve for me - compared to my HP laptop (i5-1135G7).
Rendering HDR video was around 12fps there on the i5 - the same project in the Mac mini gets 60fps.
The M4 10 core GPU seems on par or better with a mobile RTX3060(65W) for video tests (NR / Deflicker) so I'm also impressed about the M4's efficiency. A lot of power per Watt.
It's becoming a dedicated video rendering machine for me where all the SMB auto mounting issues with macOS seem solvable. Pretty happy so far with the base model price even in the EU. The power button placement is an annoyance for me, though.
i5-1135G7 is from about 4 years ago. If you look at the latest offerings from Intel/AMD the gap should be fairly small.
rwalle commented on M4 Mac mini's efficiency jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/marinesebastian
For what it's worth, the apple silicon machines are much more efficient on RAM than most - a 16gb m1 absolutely mops the floor with the 32gb of ram I have in my thinkpad with an i7. It's not really even close.
Your comment might win you the argument on a random non tech forum but not here.
much more efficient in what? mops the floor by what? which year's i7?
Don't get me wrong, I 100% believe what happened, but if you mean "my macbook is faster than my i7 thinkpad" you should use those exact words, but not bring RAM into this discussion. If you want to make a point about RAM, you need to be clear about what workflow you were measuring, the methodology you were using, and what the exact result is. Otherwise your words have no meaning.
rwalle commented on Making the Web Boring Again washbear.neocities.org/br... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I don't think they really have a chance if I'm honest.
I would rather like Apple to take the lead on this one. They have a ridiculous amount of money and control over a not insignificant portion of the market. They could use this for good if they tried simply from having enough momentum to kill anything bad dead by not implementing it.
It's not an ideal situation of course. Having the planet's core infrastructure completely open for contribution would be better.
(if only the EU used their fines to do that...)
Well, if Apple really wanted to do more, they would have implemented new APIs sooner and be in sync with Chrome and Firefox regarding features they support. (Currently Safari is often 1 year late in supporting lastest features.) I would not count on them.
I really like the idea, really tried following the process several times. But each time it just turned into a copy-incomprehensible-commands-into-the-terminal exercise at some point, and I lost motivation. Did anyone experience the same?
Haven't tried it, but I guess if you were doing this again today, ChatGPT would help a lot.
rwalle commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche
As a reminder,
https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...
> Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer
> Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what’s next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees’ personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.
I have worn my AVP for about 6 hours a week since it came out. Not once, for one second, did I have any motion sickness.
It’s a completely solved issue. The head tracking runs on a completely different chip and hyper visor layer from the OS so even with a kernel panic the tracking doesn’t fail.
Not once, for one second, did I have any motion sickness.
See the problem here?