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There are probably larger gains in some areas like testing and coding. other areas, less so as they depend on messy data. I can tell you that only some areas of project management …

we would ask recommendations and discuss experiences of watching various movies with strangers or with people we regularly saw at the video store

The 27 betas? No, they are generally faster than 26.

Do you have any reference for that? I have a hard time seeing how that would be true once the components were coalesced but maybe before that.

Apple AirPods and Google buds both can do automatic translation. It's still a little too slow and is a little clumsy to use but it's getting better fast.

Both are in the same order of magnitude.

more likely that this is a harder problem than regulators assume.

You really should keep that child strapped into their car seat. If you are concerned about blocking visibility, none of the screens are high enough to block view of the area in fro…

The things that CarPlay does are not the things that are controlled with buttons. Navigation, music, audiobooks, notifications work best with a screen. The driving and vehicle feat…

Both the article and the original comment are referencing July, not June.

Then there is this one. Seems to be a trend. “Pong in S Favicon” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608681

No, that post is about Claude for Foundation Models. That is not the same as Apple Intelligence. the Swift package for Claude for Foundation Models is about sending calls to Claude…

Consider that they described the development process as taking Siri down to bare metal and rebuilding on a new architecture. I don’t think our previous Siri experience will be part…

It’s mostly that it takes energy. If fresh water is we drink that. There aren’t a lot of places where only salt water is available so, for most animals, it isn’t worth it to have e…

They are working on it. It is in Firefox Nightly behind a flag.

Our Okta is setup so that it usually does the two-factor before asking for password.

That is a series hybrid. The Chevy Volt was one and the current Honda CRV is another. Both of them work mainly by the gas engine driving one of the electric motors as a generator w…

FYI it was Apple that bought a struggling NeXT.

It is a very manual process and would probably be an inefficient way to collect that data.

Also, the Touch Bar seemed to be abandoned as soon as it launched. It only ever launched on the Pro line. There were never any feature updates. They never made it flexible enough f…

Funny, I was just thinking about getting an old Intel Mac mini that I could use to play around with Haiku and a few other things. Maybe I’ll revisit those plans.

center to center.

Pixels have pitch, which is the distance between pixels. That is what is usually meant when talking about px as a measurement. It is analogous to dpi or ppi or the metric version.

What is your concern about prompts to go OpenAI? Apple has a contract with OpenAI that explicitly prevents them from logging, storing, training, or making any use of your prompts o…

BTW there is a linguistic tradition of “hill hill”. When new immigrants come to an area and ask the locals what that hill is called, the locals say “big hill” in their language. Th…