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sipjca commented on The GitHub website is slow on Safari github.com/orgs/community... · Posted by u/talboren

dylan604 · a day ago

Will modern versions of those other browsers still work on an 8 year old OS, or has it been updated where it is no longer compatible? So much effort has been put into hardware rendering, and the mechanisms for the browser to interact with that hardware has changed within those OS versions. Forcing the user to download an older compatible version of the browser to work with the older OS is also tossing away potential security fixes.

sipjca · 17 hours ago

i mean you're also throwing away security fixed running an OS that out of date, but the person doing this probably doesn't care about security anyway.

sipjca commented on The GitHub website is slow on Safari github.com/orgs/community... · Posted by u/talboren

makeitdouble · a day ago

But Apple is also the one locking Safari to the OS, IE style. Having to buy a new machine to get the latest and secure version of a browser is a pretty heavy requirement.

sipjca · a day ago

i mean there are also lots of browser options to be fair.

should they be locking safari to the OS, definitely not. but users can just go download another browser if they are actually concerned.

sipjca commented on The GitHub website is slow on Safari github.com/orgs/community... · Posted by u/talboren

zackmorris · a day ago

GitHub moved to a JavaScript rendering mode almost as soon as Microsoft bought it. Previously, I had been able to browse it with JavaScript disabled on my 2011 Mac Mini which Apple stopped allowing upgrades on past macOS 10.13. So even if I enable JavaScript, I can no longer browse GitHub, because they didn't bother to make their build compatible with browser versions as old as mine.

It's hard to know which member of the duopoly is more guilty for breaking GitHub for me, but I find that blaming both often guarantees success.

I could like, buy a new computer and stuff. But you know, the whole Turing complete thing feels like a lie in the age of planned obsolescence. So web standards are too.

sipjca · a day ago

How does Turing completeness feel like a lie?

Planned obsolescence is some of it, some of it is abstractions making it easier for more people to make software (at the cost of using significantly more compute) and Moore’s law being able to support those abstraction layers. Just imagine if every piece of software had to be written in C, the world would look a whole lot different.

I also think we’ve gone a bit too far into abstraction land, but hey, that’s where we are and it’s unlikely we are going back.

Turing completeness is almost an unrelated concept in all of this if you ask me, and if anything it’s because of completeness that has driven higher and higher memory and compute requirements.

sipjca commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics

davidw · 23 days ago

Big picture, what's the balance going to look like, going forward between what normal people can run on a fancy computer at home vs heavy duty systems hosted in big data centers that are the exclusive domain of Big Companies?

This is something about AI that worries me, a 'child' of the open source coming of age era in the 90ies. I don't want to be forced to rely on those big companies to do my job in an efficient way, if AI becomes part of the day to day workflow.

sipjca · 23 days ago

Isn’t it that hardware catches up and becomes cheaper? The margin on these chips right now is outrageous, but what happens as there is more competition? What happens when there is more supply? Are we overbuilding? Apple M series chips already perform phenomenally for this class of models and you bet both AMD and NVIDIA are playing with unified memory architectures too for the memory bandwidth. It seems like today’s really expensive stuff may become the norm rather than the exception. Assuming architectures lately stay similar and require large amounts of fast memory.

sipjca commented on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

doctorpangloss · 24 days ago

the value is: the absence of text where you expect it, and the presence of garbled text, are dead giveaways of AI generation. i'm not sure why you are being downvoted, compositing text seems like a legitimate alternative.

sipjca · 24 days ago

it seems like the value is that you don't need another tool to composite the text. especially for users who aren't aware of figma/photoshop nor how to use them (many many many people)

sipjca commented on Fast catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong

ilyakaminsky · a month ago

> i can run it on consumer hardware for vastly cheaper than the cloud

Woah, that's really cool, CJ! I've been toying the with idea of standing up a cluster of older iPhones to run Apple's Speech framework. [1] The inspiration came from this blog post [2] where the author is using it for OCR. A couple of things are holding me back: (1) the OSS models are better according to the current benchmarks and (2) I have customers all over the world, so that geographical load-balancing is a real factor. With that said, I'll definitely spend some time checking out your work. Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech

[2] https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-...

sipjca · a month ago

ty! if there's any way I can help just lmk, always happy to lend a hand or an ear

sipjca commented on Fast catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong

ilyakaminsky · a month ago

Fast is also cheap. Especially in the world of cloud computing where you pay by the second. The only way I could create a profitable transcription service [1] that undercuts the rest was by optimizing every little thing along the way. For instance, just yesterday I learned that the image size I've put together is 2.5× smaller than the next open source variant. That means faster cold boots, which reduces the cost (and providers a better service).

[1] https://speechischeap.com

sipjca · a month ago

ive approached the same thing but slightly differently. i can run it on consumer hardware for vastly cheaper than the cloud and don't have to worry about image sizes at all. (bare metal is 'faster') offering 20,000 minutes of transcription for free up to the rate limit (1 Request Every 5 Seconds)

https://geppetto.app

I contributed "whisperfile" as a result of this work:

* https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/tree/main/whisper....

* https://github.com/cjpais/whisperfile

if you ever want to chat about making transcription virtually free or so cheap for everyone let me know. I've been working on various projects related to it for a while. including open source/cross-platform superwhisper alternative https://handy.computer

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

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).

sipjca · a month ago

No problem! Thank you for trying it and requesting features!

I added a issue (and comment) for this on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/cjpais/Handy/issues/47

sipjca commented on Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/walterbell

hi_hi · a month ago

Doesn't it all come down to "what is the ideal interface for humans to deal with digital information"?

We're getting more and more information thrown at us each day, and the AIs are adding to that, not reducing it. The ability to summarise dense and specialist information (I'm thinking error logs, but could be anything really) just means more ways for people to access and view that information who previously wouldn't.

How do we, as individuals, best deal with all this information efficiently? Currently we have a variety of interfaces, websites, dashboards, emails, chat. Are all these necessary anymore? They might be now, but what about the next 10 years. Do I even need to visit a companies website if can get the same information from some single chat interface?

The fact we have AIs building us websites, apps, web UI's just seems so...redundant.

sipjca · a month ago

yep I think this is the fundamental question as well, everything else is intermediate