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New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "New iPad mini"

TheHalfDeafChef — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:43:17 +0000

Depending on what you subscribe to, streaming services are now as expensive (if not more) than cable was if you got premium channels. I hear also Disney will add ads to all tiers as well.

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work"

TheHalfDeafChef — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:31:08 +0000

I have been seeing this more and more with “top” tier publications but “Character.ai’s bankruptcy is the one of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble.”

A simple grammatical mistakes like this should have been caught on review/edit phase.

Either that or writers are relying too much on AI.

(Edit: fixed a grammatical mistake. See?)

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance"

TheHalfDeafChef — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:45:55 +0000

This was an interesting tangential read. Fascinating to read about the first Sim City games and the assumptions/calculations it made in scoring. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476193

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu"

TheHalfDeafChef — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:51:39 +0000

Having a read through and so far enjoying the cadence and pacing.

Just wanted to note, before I forget, that there is a typo @ https://arialdo.codeberg.page/ju-ju-tsu/preface/at-a-glance....

Impatietn —> Impatient

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all"

TheHalfDeafChef — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:29:17 +0000

At least it is opt-in; but thus begins the creep.

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "How LLMs work"

TheHalfDeafChef — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:42:13 +0000

Not really “smarter” though? It’s just a big probability engine.

(Not trying to flame bait or anything. I just wouldn’t call LLM as exhibiting intelligence. It is great at making connections based on probability but doesn’t have a semantic understanding of what it is doing)

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

TheHalfDeafChef — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:58:21 +0000

Had it for 3 days running with nary a request. Perhaps it's the chosen model that I am serving (Gemma 4 26b)? I did see some WARN logs right after startup but the description don't suggest any problems that would block accepting requests or processing them.

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "I modified Firefox's memory allocator to improve responsiveness on macOS"

TheHalfDeafChef — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:17:38 +0000

As informative as this is, what is with the tendency to use Twitter where a blog posting would be more appropriate? Reading this with the character limit break cadence and understanding.

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns"

TheHalfDeafChef — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:58:09 +0000

I am curious about this. Has there been an analysis comparing the contents in the two respective countries? Something that would be illustrative of this claim. I am not doubting you or your statement. Just looking for information to back it up.

My search consistently yields marketing stats. Perhaps I am using the wrong key words?

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Qrclip – Transfer the clipboard to your phone instantly through the command line"

TheHalfDeafChef — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:39:17 +0000

Would this be able to transfer your clipboard from Linux to an iOS device? Or at least via a roundabout way (like say a script that uses ssh to a MacOS based machine to utilize its `pbcopy` & `pbpaste`)?

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

TheHalfDeafChef — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:10:16 +0000

It would appear so. Although KDE Connect can apparently work with MacOS (you'd still need an android phone).

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Ask HN: I am a coder and I am thinking of buying Dell XPS 13. What do you think?"

TheHalfDeafChef — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:26:43 +0000

Notwithstanding the other issues mentioned, but the MacBook Air is not exactly user repairable. IIRC, it is a SOC. So any part that breaks the entire thing needs to be replaced. I got a MacBook Pro 2018 and though it works it still makes wary.

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript"

TheHalfDeafChef — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:00:28 +0000

Faster to parse as a developer. I can't speak to whether computationally it is faster.

Additionally, doesn't this somewhat also bring in the methodology of dealing with the error cases first?

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript"

TheHalfDeafChef — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:45:21 +0000

I consider myself an advanced-beginner programmer untested in the real world (looking for my first coding job though!), and I understood it relatively quickly. It does appear more concise than many if-else statements. After the initial “what?”, I was able to quickly parse through it. I think this is faster than using the standard form.

[edit: fixed typo]

New comment by TheHalfDeafChef in "Vscodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode"

TheHalfDeafChef — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:49:55 +0000

On Linux (Arch) how does this differ from https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/ ?