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MoonWalk
·yesterday·discuss
This demonstrates why forcing people to use E-mail addresses as user IDs is a stupid, stupid policy.
MoonWalk
·2 days ago·discuss
Thanks. I thought V8 was the runtime.
MoonWalk
·2 days ago·discuss
I was wondering how this kind of change makes its way into environments like Deno. I'm building a project on Deno too.

As I understand it, Deno provides the "language server" for editors like VS Code. So how does Deno use this... whatever it is from Microsoft? What exactly did they deliver here?
MoonWalk
·3 days ago·discuss
I don't understand what this is, based on this statement:

"Astro supports every major UI framework. Bring your existing components and take advantage of Astro's optimized client build performance."

But isn't Astro a framework itself? And then apparently you need Node as well. The frameworks upon frameworks in Web development are baffling.
MoonWalk
·3 days ago·discuss
I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker?

Good name for this app, BTW.
MoonWalk
·8 days ago·discuss
This is a good point. I'd rather have something with the S3 option, so I can serve the pages from my house but the images from a speedier source.
MoonWalk
·8 days ago·discuss
And a Delete key. I DETEST keyboards that lack Delete keys.

WTF, Apple?
MoonWalk
·8 days ago·discuss
Mmmm, not a membrane keyboard. This is a membrane keyboard: https://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retro-games/hardwar...
MoonWalk
·9 days ago·discuss
I agree, if they needed YouTube to show a list of defunct ice cream flavors.
MoonWalk
·9 days ago·discuss
Whatever that means.
MoonWalk
·9 days ago·discuss
"Content and/or functionality on this page requires you to accept cookies."

Fire the developer.
MoonWalk
·9 days ago·discuss
Because someone saw fit to downvote it.

For some reason it's fashionable on HN to promote douchily obscure posts, and condemn those who call for better.
MoonWalk
·9 days ago·discuss
If you hadn't brought that up, I would have.

Sony should not be let off the hook for its offensive (essentially criminal) behavior.

I won't even review Sony's decades-long efforts to undermine industry standards...
MoonWalk
·10 days ago·discuss
Thanks for the reply. I've been programming professionally since the '90s (no background in ML or neural networks and whatnot), and I realize that the weights are numbers. So I was asking whether different weight sets can be applied to a model at will.

I'm really just trying to get a handle on the different layers so I can set up an environment and put it to work for limited coding assistance. For my purposes, I think an all-local setup is the best way for me to learn and should be enough for the coding tasks I have in mind. Mainly I want to automate tedious tasks away, like "modify these Swift classes' members and JSON deserialization routines to match what's coming out of my server API."

Thanks for the link! Reading it right now... and yes, this looks great. Appreciate it.
MoonWalk
·15 days ago·discuss
So you can apply different weights to those "non-open" models?

Also, I've read a bunch of descriptions of AI components, but none of them has said what the weights are applied to in the model. I guess that every model contains a dictionary of words and phrases, and the weights map relationships between them?

All the descriptions simply talk about weights being applied to "input," but neglect to say what that input is compared to. If a user submits a query, are the words in the query weighed against the words in the model?

Can you recommend a primer on this whole process?
MoonWalk
·15 days ago·discuss
And "analysts" flip out on the stock, when these products are < 15% of Apple's revenue. Clowns.

Breakdown by segment (FY 2025):

Mac: $33.71 B — 8.10% of total revenue

iPad: $28.02 B — 6.73% of total revenue
MoonWalk
·15 days ago·discuss
Thanks. You used to be able to do it from the menu itself, though. I don't even remember the method...

And now the file system is just an irritating mess. Why are there mirrors of your home-directory structure, most of them "forbidden," littering the left pane? I waste so much time every hour of every day hunting down my most-used directories. Yes, I pinned some shortcuts on my desktop, but that means herding windows out of the way to get to them.

Finder blows, but somehow I navigate better with it now than I can with Explorer.
MoonWalk
·15 days ago·discuss
Thanks for the reply, and that option. Pretty cool!

But the crossbars aren't serifs!
MoonWalk
·15 days ago·discuss
Downvote all you want, but a fact is a fact: The article doesn't define the abbreviation before using it.
MoonWalk
·15 days ago·discuss
Thanks!