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New comment by pzo in "Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode"

pzo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:09:18 +0000

You can as well make it simpler and use those skills:

https://github.com/software-mansion/argent

https://github.com/callstack/agent-device

both callstack and swmansion are mostly react native shops but those should work even in native ios/android as well

New comment by pzo in "Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon"

pzo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:17:48 +0000

I think they would still fail with MeeGo, same like Blackberry failed even though they had really good OS. I remember was going to their conference in amsterdam and were giving their new Blackberry Tablet for free to attract developers to make any app.

If Nokia and Blackberry team up they maybe would succeed. Nokia Mobile still could be around if instead choosing Windows Phone would release Android phone back then.

New comment by pzo in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

pzo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:33:09 +0000

I stopped reading after seeing they compared only with Whisper Small, Base, Tiny

This is useless test and benchmark when you have these day Whisper-V3-Large and Whisper V3-Turbo that you can faster than realtime on 5 years old macbook on apple sillicon (ANE). They didn't even compared to parakeet v2 or parakeet v3. And only english language...

New comment by pzo in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

pzo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:17:31 +0000

but also: "ADDW systems use cameras and sensors to track a driver’s head position, eye movements, and gaze direction"

and

"only recording and retaining data on the device that is necessary for the system to function"

Not sure why such stuff would need to be retained to function. Also if they need to track head position and gaze direction those definitely have to be higher resolution camera and/or pointing directly at your head - so at least capable to store biometric information and hacked remotely since more cars are having telemetry.

New comment by pzo in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

pzo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:36:47 +0000

why not instead fork repo just in case but still use better auth until proven wrong? In case they go evil you just build from you forked one. At that point you would still have to either maintain your own auth or better auth fork.

With current AI your agents probably still will be better with maintaining a fork. Auth libs have pretty limited API surfaces comparing to e.g. ui frameworks.

New comment by pzo in "Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)"

pzo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:13:11 +0000

Even funnier that CUDA in polish means “miracles”

New comment by pzo in "An Introduction to YOLO26"

pzo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:13:15 +0000

FWIW there are today many more alternatives with better license. Here is a good meta repo for object detection with different model variants:

https://github.com/LibreYOLO/libreyolo

New comment by pzo in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

pzo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:32:35 +0000

try to ask even grok about some stuff happenning right now in middle east or related to epstein files - its more and more censored and only sometimes will answer if you ask know what detailed question to ask. One year ago grok wasn't that bad and its supposed to be the less censored.

New comment by pzo in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

pzo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:09:52 +0000

You also need to have time to play all those great games, watch all those great shows and read all those books.

There is a lot of software that are constrained by human eyeballs (entertainment or ads monetized)

New comment by pzo in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

pzo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:53:38 +0000

> Firstly, we might finally become productive enough to exhaust the world’s appetite for software. I don’t see any evidence of this happening, but if somebody wants to make this argument, they should be clear about why this time is different to the entire history of the computer industry so far.

Not all software but how many movies you can watch, books read? Similarly how many games you can play? How many ads you can watch during a day?

Eventually projects will have to be profitable. And even if everybody will make a great game most of them won’t be profitable because you competing for limited eyeballs time

New comment by pzo in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

pzo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:13:31 +0000

Quite a good release although not sure why they invest so much time into their ONNX engine. I don't think they have enough stuff and big pockets to compete with ONNXRuntime, CoreAI, ExecuTorch, LiteRT.

I'm happy they added option for ONNXRuntime. I wish their cv.dnn was mostly that unified wrapper around many different backends (ONNXRuntime, Executorch, LiteRT, CoreAI) and maybe just some tooling around it (performance metrics tools, model downloads etc). Transformers(.js) approach looks better for me.

Wish they also invested more time into better production ready Camera I/O (for mobiles, device/format discovery, manual settings, depthmap support, etc) and better Highgui that could use different backends (skia, webgpu) and on mobiles.

New comment by pzo in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

pzo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:00:03 +0000

how are supposed to use TensorRT on iOS, iPadOS, Android or even Web? Production is not only cloud.

New comment by pzo in "Apple Core AI Framework"

pzo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:49:46 +0000

seems they planning to replace it but overall now I'm really confused about this and mlx and coremltools. They should do better work explaining the benefits (and cons) of it and any feature parity between coreai, coreml and mlx.

New comment by pzo in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

pzo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:30:14 +0000

TLDR; this is just Claude Haiku altrenative, you can probably skip whole article.

New comment by pzo in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

pzo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:02:51 +0000

I did have few days ago conversation with AI to research how the economical environment was just before Great Depression and this doesn't look good if true. Definitely feels like someone try to dump their bags to retails investors and main street.

- Trailing P/E: 1929 peak was 32.6 vs. 32.67 today.

- Shiller PE (CAPE): 1929 peak was ~30 vs. 42.66 today (2nd highest in history).

- Buffett Indicator: Market cap was 124% of GNP in 1929 vs. 259.6% of GDP today.

- Margin Debt to GDP: 3.0% in 1929 vs. 4.1% ($1.304T) today.

- Systemic Risk: 1929 margin debt was 10-12% of total market cap vs. 1-2% today. Modern leverage has structurally shifted from retail to sovereign debt and shadow banking.

New comment by pzo in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

pzo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:50:16 +0000

how many packages have you shipped so far to space? SpaceX could disappear tomorrow and most people wouldn't notice. Your satellite TV might get slightly more expensive. Those rare people that don't have LTE internet access and need starlink are exception.

New comment by pzo in "Debug Project"

pzo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:05:54 +0000

I had the same question when reading website - really poorly explained. Not sure why they also advertise that those genetically modified males are non biting and harmless - all males mosquitos are like that.

New comment by pzo in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

pzo — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:48:08 +0000

> If you are a heavy user of coding agents these plans are a fantastic deal. I just ran the ccusage tool on my laptop to get an estimate of how much I would have spent if I were to pay for API tokens in the past 30 days and got

You think this is fantastic deal only because they use similar like tricks where they inflate the price and tell you something supposed to cost $1000 but they have this today promo for $100.

I was there too and paying for a while. Few weeks ago I tried DeepSeek V4 Pro - expected its gonna be shit but its actually pretty good.

The deal is I pay daily ~$1 for DSV4-pro for ~100M API token usage. And they probably not getting broke because >90% of those token in practice is cache read and they very well optimized for that.

New comment by pzo in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

pzo — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:51:29 +0000

you doing probably something wrong, I used Deepseek v4 pro with opencode and in a day used 100M tokens for ~$2. Majority of tokens are cache tokens and those are extremely cheap in deepseek bordering free.

New comment by pzo in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

pzo — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:19:33 +0000

I compare ultra wealthy to blackholes - overtime they accumulate more and more mass and reduce mass elsewhere. But even in nature we have Hawking radiation (which leads to black hole evaporation). So for me wealth taxation is similar like this slow black hole evaporation which seems fair.