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fearface | 6 months ago | on: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

I let the AI first generate a outline of how it would do it as markdown. I adapt this and then let it add details into additional markdown files about technical stuff, eg how to use a certain sdk and so on. I correct these all. And then I let the AI generate the classes of the outline one by one.

fearface | 1 year ago | on: Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split

First of all, they are not violating any license or terms in any form. They add value and enable thousands of people to use local LLMs, that would not be able to do that so easy otherwise. Maybe llama.cpp should mention that Ollama takes care of easy workable access to their functionality…

fearface | 2 years ago | on: Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC

No, weird that you’re comment is so high up, but shows how little crypto knowledge is around in HN. A Bitcoin is a Bitcoin, but it consists of smaller units called Satoshis. Like Dollar and Cents. Since the beginning of Bitcoin. A fork is a copy of the underlying source code of Bitcoin, which in itself has no value at all. You would also need to find people who run nodes for your fork and start convincing exchanges that your fork should be supported too…so no, this is not splitting Bitcoin

fearface | 2 years ago | on: Unwrapit provides a way to handle errors in JS/TS

I think the idea of try/catch is to let the error bubble up to the place where it can be handled. It usually results into having error handling in a few central places. Your example in github is IMO not how to make best use of try/catch.

Here’s lots of typical exception handling patterns: http://wiki.c2.com/?ExceptionPatterns

Persobally I prefer exceptions over boilerplate “if’s”, but good to know that there’s a wrapper for the people who don’t.

fearface | 2 years ago | on: Container Training

You don't need to split an application into containers, you can have your full app in a container no problem. You can have all your jars in the container. Using containers doesn't mean you know have to split your apps in different ways, it means you ship the runtime, compiled code, whatever libraries are required and all that in a bundle.

fearface | 3 years ago | on: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

I fully agree to that experience. Next thing I tried was to have three screens with different DPI’s. It’s possible (that’s a lie, since you can’t adjust DPI and scaling properly in Linux at all, you’ll end up with a half working ugly system and irrational behavior when you move windows around), but sadly my notebook needs to work in more than one place…

I’ve invited a a long time Linux user who claimed to never had any problems whatsover to have a look. His verdict was that I should have only one external screen and use the same screen in the different places.

This stuff works with Windows and Mac out of the box.

fearface | 3 years ago | on: Spotifyd

What if you link it to a playlist that starts with your song?

fearface | 3 years ago | on: Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC

I’m not a native speaker, but for me it sounds valid to call the company that produces the majority of Apple chips: Apple’s chipmaker.

It doesn’t exclude that they produce for other companies, but it concludes that Apple gets most of it’s chips from them. Right?

fearface | 3 years ago | on: I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)

That’s not cheating, that’s not a problem at all. Neither ethical nor otherwise. You happened to know a working solution, this was by chance, but you also managed to sell it, explain it and it’s a solution you developped.

fearface | 3 years ago | on: I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed

If this is the app: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/school-morning-routine/id16068...

The I notice quite few things: - low fps animations - delay until the keyboard popups - no support to save the password or use e.g. an Apple account to login - no scrollbars in the modal and the back button out of view

So in general, this would not make the cut for the native apps my employer produces. Especially the low fps is a deal breaker.

Tested on an iPhone XR

fearface | 4 years ago | on: Gunicorn

JavaScript didn’t not have any async or parallelization keywords at all. Essentially it’s just passing a delegate that is called later. This was stabdardized into Promises and all the async/await is another wrapper around the promises.

It works well, because in the end, it’s just passing a function that should be called when the process finished.

fearface | 4 years ago | on: macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux

Same story here, and little anecdote: In a pure mac shop we had a guy apply and he brought his Linux notebook and 5mins into the interview he started hating on hiw bad macos is. Before he had to show some of his work in his linux notebook we had a little coffebreak, after we came back somehow LUKS crashed he wasn’t able to boot the system or restore the disk. We gave him a USB Stick and 3hrs to solve it or admit that he was wrong about bashing macos.

fearface | 4 years ago | on: How to Ride a Motorcycle – 1942 British Military Training Film [video]

Great recommendation, except I don’t consider the one/two finger on the break generally recommendable: - not all bikes can be safely stopped two fingers - the remaining fingers might get in the way of the lever

Somehow it’s popular in the US, but not in Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland (it’s where I went racing and had instructions).

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