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Ai helps me build better, more deterministic outcomes that it itself can't. I mean I'm building a mailing list manager that blends names of couples. Yes, AI can do this but it's inconsistent. I can direct AI to code precise outcomes step-by-step. Coding is solved? Not sure, but my directing code is solved.
A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
I've been twice the past year to buy their keyboards in-person in Lexington Kentucky US. They treated me very well. I can say this much, the full-size keyboard has a slightly nicer feel to it than the 10-key-less version, the key travel that is.
I've been using LLM's to do my OpenSCAD work for over two years now. It's always where I start (and end).
Macbook 12" was the best form factor computer ever.
Glad to hear. I thought all those videos recently of him were AI.
Posted by
usermac on Saturday May 02, 2026 @01:08PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I deal with the professional LLMs, of course, but I'm really intrigued by the possibility of local coding offline. I've got a MacBook Air M4 16gb. Does it have any chance at all of doing coding? NOTE: I am not too worried about the context window because the way I work is very targeted and surgical. I'll have it look at one file and have it do something very exact to that file.
And in Hanks vid he mentioned it might become expensive to host on Vercel as I recall.
Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.
Posted by
usermac on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I would just like to know, most machines don't have a ton of memory. If I put a super small LLM, and if I were to have unit test, do a loop until it passes this unit test. Is that a real possibility or is it just out of the question?
For an org I worked for not long ago, I had them buy many of the previous incarnations of this monitor. They all died of an internal power supply issue within a year each. Even the replacements I got died within a year.
I spent some time last week adding Forgejo/Git to my local NAS via docker and tailscale.
Relative of mine is a real estate agent in the Louisville area. This year she sold two homes to two UPS pilots. One of them, his first day was yesterday. The day of the crash. He was bumped from that very flight.
Posted by
usermac on Monday April 07, 2025 @10:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.
When I search using the search engines, they lie and tell me about a maker who I know is not US based or am I wrong and they have a plant here in the US?
I recall Macs being AppleTalked together to move anything anywhere—it was magic.
I read it—hilarious. Thanks. "move fast, break things" really got me.
I, for one, welcome our dark background.
With all the press, I'm thinking about just buying the stand, putting it on my desk... alone.
And I have a 4+ year old Perl script I use daily. Yeah, yeah, I know I can install Perl myself but when I distribute it I was expecting it, Perl, to be there—never mind that it is an out-of-date version—I wrote it accordingly.
Posted by
usermac on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:49PM
from the bing.com dept.
The first two lines, wow—You very clearly wrote what I've struggled to think of how to convey. Thank you.
I installed it an noticed they have their own App Store.
How do I find A220 and E190 flights just to see if I have them available to me?
Two things... one personal and one technical. I was in that war. I was a silent conscientious objector (I thought the war was about oil and money.) I went because I had an obligation to go. I have many stories but the best one is this. When the war ended, we sold our portable hospital to the Kuwaitis. We went to Kuwait City to deliver it and saw the destruction; the six miles of death. When I jumped off the truck and the people, families rushed up to me(us) and kissed my cheek, bowed and kissed my feet—I could not make them stop. They would raise up and say in cryptic English "We thank The United States, President Bush and you." I was touched and changed—it changed my opinion of the cause. What if I was sent back home directly after the war? To this day I would have said what I thought before.
Technically, this website is well done. Just scroll down and down. It's a little long but I like some of it.
Now that you put it that way, I am a "dark" employee. ha ha
It's pretty sweet. I just fielded a full online order system and did it in 30 calendar days flat. It wins five-star reviews from my users and raving compliments.
When you run out of work simply go visit an old client—not to ask for business, not to ask for anything, just a visit to see them. Within about two weeks, that client is calling me with a project to do. It is magic. I did this many times.
That was an enjoyable read. Just funny. Alright, I might not be a "dark" employee but we do run our shop on... FileMaker! Since 1993 as best I can tell.
What is EdgeDB? It is new to me.