marbletiles | 10 days ago | on: Shall I implement it? No
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marbletiles | 1 month ago | on: Acme Weather
It’s that depth of thought and expertise that feels missing from most of the vibe-coded launches we’ve seen recently. I actually wouldn’t mind if Acme had vibe coded parts, but I bet they didn’t.
marbletiles | 1 month ago | on: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
marbletiles | 1 month ago | on: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/arrest_of_mr_darren_b...
This is why the Daily Mail causes rolled eyes (along with Spiked and the rest of the right-wing agitprop).
marbletiles | 3 months ago | on: Is it a bubble?
That difference - and the assumed delta in difficulty, training and therefore cost involved - is why the latter case is newsworthy.
marbletiles | 3 months ago | on: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
marbletiles | 3 months ago | on: Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
Your car analogy isn't great, but we see a similar dynamic playing out with EV vs combustion, and we did with film-vs-digital cameras. "Don't buy a digital camera if you like film" sure didn't help the film photographers.
marbletiles | 4 months ago | on: TextEdit and the relief of simple software
"ls" is code. You type it into the machine's keyboard, and it understands your code and performs that instruction. The statement is not "radically" wrong, it's an oversimplification that both communicates correctly to the lay reader, and to the proficient reader who understands the nuances and why they're irrelevant here.
marbletiles | 5 months ago | on: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
Entirely normal behaviour for a competitor to provide “HR assistance”.
marbletiles | 5 months ago | on: Benefits of choosing email over messaging
People who are known at time of sending. A slack message can be searched by those joining the team much (much) later, those who move teams, in-house search bots, etc. Mailing lists bridge this gap to some extent, but then you're really not just using email, you're using some kind of external collaboration service. Which undermines the point of "just email".
marbletiles | 6 months ago | on: I'm absolutely right
marbletiles | 7 months ago | on: Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)
It also presumes that dealing with automated traffic is a solved problem, which with the volumes of LLM scraping going on, is simply not true for more hobbyist setups.
marbletiles | 7 months ago | on: Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning
marbletiles | 9 months ago | on: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
Which will be more keystrokes, not fewer – it's faster to get to the formatting buttons than it is the punctuation keyboard on iOS, and even on Mac the shortcut commands are often faster too.
Notes was a fanastic example of a rich-text environment, but if Markdown input helps the die-hards that is great, so long as I don't have to ever see, use or be aware of it.
marbletiles | 9 months ago | on: When will M&S take online orders again?
In practice the distinction has long been lost both for employees and members (customers), but the intent of the organisational structure was not for nobody to care; quite the opposite
marbletiles | 10 months ago | on: Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
You get baseline security by trading away the unlimited upside, but you are still incentivised to produce your best work by knowing if you help create a huge success you’ll get additional compensation for it.
marbletiles | 1 year ago | on: MacBASIC
marbletiles | 1 year ago | on: MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX
I’m so tired.
marbletiles | 1 year ago | on: Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)
marbletiles | 1 year ago | on: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence