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Apple Supplier TSMC May Operate Intel's Chipmaking Facilities

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Google's free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits

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www.pingcap.com 2y ago

TiDB – open-source, distributed SQL database for transactional apps

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iPhone, iPad, and iPod Benchmarks – Historic

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PostgreSQL 16 Beta 2 Release Notes

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SpaceX files request to put payloads on satellites for T-Mobile direct-to-cell

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Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated for 2022

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Methane and NOx Emissions from Natural Gas Stoves and Cooktops in Homes

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Another former Facebook employee has filed a whistleblower complaint

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Why satellites are manufactured in clean rooms

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This might be how law enforcement agencies break into the iPhone

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Tesla “Shadow Mode”

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Starship

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Moore’s Law is not Dead

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AMD’s 2018 Roadmap: Desktop APUs in February, Second-Generation Ryzen in April

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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor

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Fake news and botnets: how Russia weaponised the web

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Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors

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TIOBE Index for October 2017

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The Intel Core I9-7980XE and Core I9-7960X CPU Review Part 1: Workstation

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Google turns Raspberry Pi into a dirt cheap Home competitor

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www.theregister.co.uk 9y ago

That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

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www.engadget.com 9y ago

Russian government turns to the ghost of Nokia's mobile OS

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www.engadget.com 10y ago

Regulator: Tesla crash shouldn't hinder self-driving research

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Not an apples to apples comparison#. iOS uses way less ram than android, plus has memory compression. That’s why Apple gets away with less ram and much smaller batteries with equal or better performance.

# pun intended

It works great for a number of reasons

- it’s functional making it much easier to reason about for LLMs (eg no side effects)

- it’s compiled (including the html template), so the LLM get instant feedback if something is off and can fix it quicker

- it’s more concise than other frameworks (language, framework, no front/backend split) and consequently you hit the max token limit much less frequently

- it has excellent tailwind support

I told a business partner to just use claude for certain tasks a year ago, and it failed miserably in python where it succeeded in elixir/phoenix liveview. This was a regular occurrence. LLMs have obviously progressed since, but the principle still stands that they work much better in elixir than python.

So in short: it’s great and arguably better than most other languages and frameworks

I disagree with that conclusion. I see tailwind as a cleaner more succinct version of css that is much easier to manage and add features too.

Sure it’s not as dry, but I’ve been bitten in this regard because css framework and templates are so intransparent, preventing me from simply changing padding or margin.

CSS is too detailed and too verbose. Frameworks like bootstrap are too high level and don’t give enough control. Tailwind hits the sweet spot whilst allowing me to be detailed if I want to. It allows me to just get it done.

Munich is a bad example - they were effectively „bought out“ by Microsoft by investing hugely into the local economy in the form of offices and employees. It was also two parties that kept flip flopping with different priorities. Linux itself had some hiccups but was fine from what I recall.

Had similar thoughts until googling what the cheapest Chromebook on Amazon costs: $139.

I’d still get a Neo and for students it’s probably the right choice - chromebooks are just a browsers after all.

But pricing wise this laptop is a decade too late. The netbook of the day (chromebooks?) are just unbelievably cheap. Apple will still sell millions of these and keep on eating up market share.

Tidewave.ai does exactly that. It’s made Claude code so much more functional. It provides mcp servers to

- search all your code efficiently - search all documentation for libraries - access your database and get real data samples (not just abstract data types) - allows you to select design components from your figma project and implements them for you - allows Claude to see what is rendered in the browser

It’s basically the ide for your LLM client. It really closes the loop and has made Claude and myself so much more productive. Highly recommended and cheap at $10/month

Ps: my personal opinion. I have Zero affiliation with them

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Apple M5 chip 9 months ago

The beta has been accessible to the public including the electron devs for 2+ months.

Curious what the better frameworks are these days? Are they tied to specific hardware like arduino was? And what language do they use?

I've been using elixir / phoenix / liveview for a year now, basically since LLM coding has been a thing and it's been transformative. The usual "getting started" problems were so diminished that i feel like i hardly missed a beat. The usual "this won't compile / how do i do this in a new unknown language" issues that previously could have taken hours to resolve were basically gone. My LLM pair programmer just took care of it. Coming from python / django / cue, it's a breath of fresh air. It's so much easier as all the paradigms come built in with the stack (async workers, etc). The elixir / erlang library is surprisingly complete.

With regards to producing code, it seems to be doing very well. The most impressive thing it did for me was a PDF OCR from scratch using google cloud. All i had to do was plug in my credentials, hook up the code and it just worked. Magic.

Highly recommended.

No reference here but found this out the hard way too. Google search Ali is Utterly useless in fact and entirely different search results vs using the web. Bing is better. Haven’t tried ksgi yet

It’s actually much more that the ozone layer, which filters uv, is much thinner than it was even 60-70 years ago. The ozone layer might be growing again, but at a very slow pace.

Simple fact is, we’re much more exposed to uv than prior generations.

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Disagree.

Just get one of the tailwind UX kits and use their classes as your standard style guide. I personally use flowise as it’s free with paid more complex components if needed, but there are a bunch of others out there that fill the same space.

it's perfectly fine if everything can run on a single server instance. which is probably the majority of things.

i've run production instances with 2PB of data being scraped per month by 100+ CPUs and 256GB of RAM using docker compose. some of the machines (smaller instances) have run flawlessly with zero reboots for years on end. both on cloud and on-prem.

i'd say its 100% production ready.

So the problem is 1) port mapping and 2) backing up data volumes?

There are simple solutions to each

1) you simple have a separate docker-compose file for a different environment, ie docker-compose.dev.yml for your dev server. in this file you simply define the parts that differ from the primary / prod compose file. that way it's a simple command. line variable that initiates a dev vs prod vs any other type. for details see https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/multiple-compose-fil...

2) this is literally as simple as running a small bash script that creates a backup, tars and gzips the file and then uploads it to an S3 repository. Sure, maybe not out of the box, but generally pretty simple. Likewise i'd always have a script that does the inverse (downloads the latest backup, loads it into the db and restores the files).

Not exactly rocket science...