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johaugum

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    Comment #48710672

    Siri was invented by a Norwegian (Dag Kittlaus), named after his own daughter! Steve Jobs later called and bought his company.

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    Comment #47671120

    On index benchmark results: >Still not quite as fast as Go, but it's close. Honestly, I don't know why the memchr-based implementation is still slower than Go's assembly here, but …

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    Comment #46999949

    >We already see some of the most popular coding agents today – like Claude Code and OpenCode – send these accept headers with their requests for content. Expect this to be used to …

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    Comment #46900462

    As you mentioned, that depends on what you mean by planners. An LLM will implicitly decompose a prompt into tasks and then sequentially execute them, calling the appropriate tools.…

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    Comment #46898610

    > a lot of people seem to have found a really nice alternative to actually having to use their brains during the day. Or have they have found a way to use their brains on what they…

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    Comment #46898341

    Skimmed the repo, this is basically the irreducible core of an agent: small loop, provider abstraction, tool dispatch, and chat gateways . The LOC reduction (99%, from 400k to 4k) …

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    Comment #45919774

    Can confirm, has been flawless for me. I waited until 2 weeks after release to upgrade, possible I avoided some initial friction that way. The only device I’ve found more sluggish …

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    Comment #45829687

    Isn’t that exactly what the title says?

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    Comment #45575259

    Some would say it has lately become a bit of a kangaroo court.

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    Comment #45573076

    > I'd like some day to be able to bike down the street with my kid, and have the drone take some photos. Personal drones in public spaces are becoming a real nuisance. They’re dist…

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    Comment #45545077

    Paying is necessary, but not sufficient, to win. In her case, the campaign started too late. And despite being a household name, her policies were less known.

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    Comment #45527520

    I cook all of these on a regular basis, and have done so for 15 years, and I’ve never had Xanthan gum in my house. I wouldn’t even know where to find it in my grocery store.

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    Comment #44260234

    Not really. Early rockets included multiple private contractors like Douglas, Boeing and NAA, but those were basically government projects top to bottom. Single vendor commercial r…

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    Comment #43421191

    Meta’s Llama models (and likely many others') have similar restrictions. Since they don’t fully comply with EU AI regulations, Meta preemptively disallows their use in those region…

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    Comment #42749029

    “The city” refers to Manhattan specifically, not New York City in general. Being in the other boroughs, you might say “I’m heading to the city later”.

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    Comment #39148596

    This is a strange take given that the headset supports iPad apps (like the Netflix iPad app) by default, no “bothering with it” necessary.

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    Comment #36729879

    Statements like these offer zero value, maybe you could qualify it with some reasoning?

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    Comment #36710129

    > We're talking about a government notification system. This exists, and is called Wireless Emergency Alerts. Every phone sold in the U.S. today supports this out of the box.

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    Comment #36468126

    > in the US you need to be able to drive to function as a member of society so if someone has a DUI pulling their license is almost as bad as giving that person house arrest for th…

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    Comment #36273149

    > But for movies and TV? Where do I find the good stuff? There’s a trove of incredible foreign movies and TV shows out there. Scandinavian and Asian (Korean in particular) content …

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    Comment #33618058

    Just like how the US requires the same for EU travelers visiting the US? Seems reasonable to require the same going the other way. IIRC, it was the US that first introduced these r…

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    Comment #33618048

    > They want to do this so they can collect your biometrics and look secure. It likely has more to do with reciprocity, as the US places these same burdens on travelers (including t…