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mholm

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About mholm

github: mitch-holm (inactive) website: holm.pw

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    Comment #49262858

    Black for Python https://github.com/psf/black

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    Comment #49245069

    > I guarantee you somewhere in their backlog is an item that says "require app store for app installations on macOS" This has been said for over a decade and it still hasn't happen…

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    Comment #49173749

    > He reported returns of 439% for the first half of 2026 > which posted a loss of 67% in July So it's still up 44% this year? The article notes this, but seems unnecessarily advers…

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    Comment #49103234

    98.99999%

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    Comment #49085150

    Yes, they host it on their own infrastructure.

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    Comment #49083477

    I don't believe it's published anywhere, but it's common knowledge to Apple engineers. I can second the poster's assertion that they run Claude internally.

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    Comment #49075133

    The excessive spending was part of the point. The market is watching AI spend very closely. AI spend is a proxy for AI absorption. Expanding your MS contract to include Copilot for…

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    Comment #49023697

    The study itself from late 2025 is also written to be _highly_ favorable to non-ai usage. Developers on a codebase they're already experienced with, largely using these tools for t…

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    Comment #48997877

    These are not competing with Kobo. These are micro-ereaders, often much smaller than a phone. They're characterized by extremely weak processors and minimal hardware. 'Apps' are no…

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    Comment #48981424

    Yeah. I also noticed a fairly significant speed increase when I started using Safari again. Unfortunate. There are just too many features that Safari supports perfectly, that Orion…

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    Comment #48964301

    I'm in the same boat. Nothing else is as rock solid or has the color accuracy of Hue. You can immediately tell when it's some random brand

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    Comment #48927735

    Once you start doing frequent business through PayPal, they begin 'holding' some of your money to form a buffer against chargebacks and fraud. This doesn't happen often at the cons…

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    Comment #48804856

    > It is unlikely this kind of agentic workflow will ever get cheaper This seems like a very '500kB is all you'll ever need' thing to say. This exact scenario has seen a precipitous…

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    Comment #48769972

    What questions? When I go into auto mode, it doesn't come back until it accidentally/intentionally tries to slip the guardrails, or completes the task. My prompt will generally inc…

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    Comment #48620154

    As someone who loved Supreme Commander, I really wanted to like BAR, but I found it felt like death by a thousand cuts. I last played more than a year ago, so things might be diffe…

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    Comment #48565141

    If a teenager on your street said he was going to spend $1,000 to customize his Honda Civic for his needs, you'd believe him. If he says he's going to build a brand new car, better…

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    Comment #48451564

    OpenAI and Anthropic don't make small models. Google happens to already have a billion devices that would benefit from small models, so they made one. Google basically gets 1 billi…

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    Comment #48285183

    Predictable for a year or two, yes. I know how much I'll be paying a decade from now, exempting property tax and insurance fluctuations.

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    Comment #48285133

    I was in middle school in 2007

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    Comment #48282163

    Beyond the financials, the psychological impact of both being able to make greater-than-superficial changes, and having extremely predictable payments for years without worrying ab…

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    Comment #48199185

    Content quality and content monetization are very different. The EU had exceptionally low monetization and brand recognition.

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    Comment #48160369

    I bought an X4 back in November, and bought an X3 in March, after realizing the X4 was too big to fit on the back of a regular iPhone. I absolutely love this thing. It's great beca…

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    Comment #48160345

    Seconding this. I installed a new dictionary to it fairly easily

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    Comment #48143584

    I've seen a lot of people hop into prompting with no trouble, and people who have been using it for years that get bad results. Ultimately, prompting skill is just downstream of te…

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    Comment #48095647

    This has a very different feel than similar pages for other companies. Hardware is still supported if it's within age, most of the software features are just elsewhere and renamed,…