Its using WebGPU as a proxy to estimate system resource. Chrome tends to leverage as much resources (Compute + Memory) as the OS makes available. Safari tends to be more efficient.

Maybe this was obvious to everyone else. But its worth re-iterating for those of us skimmers of HN :)

I just hope Google doesn't kill this one as quickly as they did Stadia etc.

Ever since mobile & cloud era at their peaks in 2012 or 2014, we’ve had Crypto, AR, VR, and now AI.

I have some pocket change bitcoin, ethereum, played around for 2 minutes on my dust-gathering Oculus & Vision Pro; but man, oh man! Am I hooked to ChatGpt or what!

It’s truly remarkably useful!

You just can’t get this type of thing in one click before.

For example, here’s my latest engineering productivity boosting query: “when using a cfg file on the cmd line what does "@" as a prefix do?”

Do you think or worry about not-being able to test these things? (Or is that just me :))

Details: I ack/understand this comes from a dependency (ReAct agents); not directly langmanus.

But, still, curious what the community/hn-tech thinks of testability, veracity, potentially conflicting or overlapping instructions across agents, etc, wrt “prompts” as sources of logic. Ack its a general practice with LLMs.

Running either Grok2 or DeepSeek or even Llama405b requires nearly 400-500gb of memory.

Buying a tinybox with enough gpu memory costs $15k-25k. Or equivalently the same if you build your own.

A distributed Mac cluster costs about the same, if not more, if you’re buying 2-3 M2 Ultra each with 192gb of memory.

So people are absolutely constrained by price/supply here. Every engineer, analyst, scientist would be far more untethered by rules & regulations or policies & terms-of-service nitty gritties if they can trust that LLM they use is completely local, without-telemetry or tracking and is licensed fairly for commercial use (perhaps this excludes llama).

Not a lot of people can afford $15k-30k in spending for a computer (that can run this sota llms). But you can a billion will buy one when it’s $1k

Despite all the layoffs & black founding fathers debacles Google as an institution has had recently, it still has the systems in place to let passionate engineering projects see the light of day.

That’s really cool!

Is there a necessity to always keep a valid visa stamp in my passport? Apart from the ease of travel are there any other reasons to always keep a current visa stamp in my passport? I do have all valid I-797 documents of status and have kept my status current all the time.

Nobody cares about anything. Somebody cares about something. Everybody cares about everything.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. This makes me optimistic. At least, its nice that people care to hold doors open : )

is that really a deal-breaking decision to buy an iMac? Yeah, sure, I agree it's super silly design that they put the port under the mouse; but c'mon, does it really matter?

As far as I can tell, I have never had to explain to my 61 year old Indian mother how to use a Mac as much as I have had to debug every little thing on Windows PCs. Macs & Apple products _truly_ do "just work"

Doesn’t matter what the computer becomes — AI, AGI or God-incarnate — there’s always a role between that and the end-user. That role today is called software engineer. Tomorrow, it’ll be whatever whatever. Perhaps paid the same or less or more. Doesn’t matter.

There’s always an intermediary to deal with the shit.

Hmm, I wonder if that’s the roles priests & the clergy have been playing all this while. Except, maybe humanity is the shit God (as an end user) has to deal with

I set up a whole dotfiles tracking system and periodically keep making backups of the config. Fish has been sole system that has travelled with me to different machines, different companies, running on Macs, running on Linux, running on personal laptops, iMacs, and so so many different versions/instances of workstations on the server in docker, in aws etc etc.

I worked at Amazon in 2017 and we had a whole "developer environment" system built off of Apollo and my Fish config fit right in with the company-defaults for various build systems, log systems, metrics yada yada. I wrote myself a ton of nice aliases, new functions, new scripts.

I moved to Apple in 2019 and brought my Fish config over (sans any Amazon-specific things of course) and all my customizations have ported over nicely. They play well with all the Apple-y unique configs this company now gives its engineers.

Fish has been snappy & delightful.

I guess one could argue zsh could work just as well and has the benefit of being compatible with native bash syntax. But I found zsh and its ilk (oh my zsh) too slow tbh. They're nothing --and I mean zilch, nada-- compared to the speed of Fish. Fish w/ Bass (love the puns in the fish community, btw) accomplishes much of the backward compatibility needs with bash or bash-like syntax; while still performing at the snappy speeds of Fish.

Love Fish! Love Julia's notes! Ahh life is just perfect sometimes!

While we're fanboying over Julia, here's a picture of the time I made myself a t-shirt from Julia's zines of Recurse Center's values: https://x.com/b0rk/status/876571293491109889

Well if your argument is: “a perfectly good 10 year old iPad is held hostage by Apple because they don’t provide side loading” then isn’t that the same case with your perfectly good 10 year old Toyota? Or 10 year old Target Toaster oven or 10 year old Samsung fridge?

I think we will live in a strange world if we start demanding our refrigerators allow side loading YouTube.

There’s hardly any order of dipping, if any.

Why doesn’t the web compete away Apple’s “dips”?

But if there's anything he's proven it's that he can ship product. Tesla cars are phenomenal. xAI looks exactly like what Tesla looked like in 2010. Far too futuristic & optimistic timelines that peers & laypersons would characterize as fluffy grandiose snake-oil.

But I bet they will ship. And it won't be fluffy nor snake-oil.

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1. No error message. Just recover the cached message.

2. The message is deleted

There’s a world we live in where ahem-ahem a certain design focused company would’ve done it this way.

Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of the Mail app to make a decision on whether to recover the cached message or not. It’s those engineers & designers who built that damn cache in the first place. And the server too.

Let _them_ deal with the consequences of messages existing in one but not the other. It’s not the user’s job to care.