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terhechte

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About terhechte

https://terhech.de https://appventure.me

Mostly Swift, Rust nowadays.

Podcast: https://contravariance.rocks

Twitter: https://twitter.com/terhechte

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@terhechte

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    Comment #49248735

    Its working fine; to the detriment of the whole club of stochastic parrot folk https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069787

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    Comment #49240285

    This is incredible. Even though Apple seems hell-bent on repeating their iPad mistake on Vision Pro ("A baby computer because our users are morons and we have to keep them safe fro…

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    Comment #49215102

    For any horrible web administration UI: - Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store Whenever I dread loggi…

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    Comment #49020682

    You can run DeepSeek Flash just fine on 128GB using lower quants. Antirez' DwarfStar supports it really well. The bigger the model, it seems, the less it is affected by high quanti…

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    Comment #48967737

    I'm using this in one of my side projects, Emyn ( https://github.com/terhechte/Emyn ) a macOS virtual camera app for composing camera video, app windows, backgrounds, effects, note…

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    Comment #48879019

    I'd rather have a ai-written article then no article at all. I think this is a real struggle. Writing an article takes time that could be spent on improving the product. Would I pr…

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    Comment #48850555

    It is really slow on openrouter and I ran into many http errors.

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    Comment #48442780

    There's a couple of great images in this article: https://nmb.bm/history/look-down-look-down/

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    Comment #47479431

    Thank you for NeoVim! I also use it every day, mostly for thinking / text / markdown though these days. Have you compared against MLX? Sometimes I’m getting much faster responses b…

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    Comment #47445775

    you can also use Claude Code programmatically with the `prompt` parameter in the cli.

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    Comment #47436183

    ChatGPT allows setting a "personality" profile Settings -> "Base style and tone". Try the "Efficient" setting. Its great. no emoji, no clickbait.

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    Comment #47428999

    How is Peter "early in their career"? When he sold PSPDFKit for 100mio in 2020 he had been working on it for 13 years, and before that he'd worked as an engineer.

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    Comment #47312021

    Any proof for this claim?

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    Comment #47308324

    Shuru should do exactly what you want: https://shuru.run

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    Comment #47073784

    Did you try an MLX version of this model? In theory it should run a bit faster. I'm hesitant to download multiple versions though.

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    Comment #46998051

    so your definition of consciousness is having petty emotions?

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    Comment #46998018

    I agree that macOS has become worse, however your examples don't really count: Window snapping was implemented some time ago: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/macos-sequoia-win…

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    Comment #46807054

    I like doing side projects, I don't like wasting a day of work potential on any of these web apps: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Appstore Connect, Google's Android App Store, RevenueCa…

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    Comment #46798192

    I tried a virtual boy the first time some months ago. I was super impressed with the quality of the graphics. I've used a Quest 3 and a Vision Pro and obviously these are very diff…

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    Comment #46772400

    KDE has a setting to switch the cmd & command keys so that e.g. command+c copies instead of ctrl+c. This works in all KDE apps (it will not work if you install any Gnome/GTK app, t…

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    Comment #46672094

    There're multiple task solutions for Claude or other llms that let it define tasks, add implementation notes and ( crucially ) add sub-tasks and dependencies. I'm using Beads ( htt…

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    Comment #46475814

    There's a mix of both worlds that I've tried for a while and want to pick up again in 2026: Use macOS so that I can utilize the great hardware and the well integrated drivers (e.g.…

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    Comment #46327681

    Tim Cook is famous for locking in their prices years in advance.

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    Comment #46299214

    Do you perchance have this on Github? I like the idea but would love it for another language, so would be interested in your add-on.

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    Comment #46271727

    I don't know the space, so I found the article interesting. Please explain, what's wrong with it?