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finestructure

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Physicist & techie. #CERN alumnus.
Co-creator https://mas.to/@SwiftPackageIndex.
Hummingbird app https://hbird.app. Europe • he/him

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rene, to random
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Sometimes I wish I had the average person’s ignorance towards IT issues. Every time I tell my wife or friends who are not in It about some new problem, like AI training on user data, or companies doing cross-service tracking for detailed user profiling, they just shrug and keep scrolling through Instagram. Ignorance is bliss.

finestructure,
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@rene @nicklockwood Haha, pwned 😄

I've given up trying to argue with my partner about these things and so you can imagine my surprise when I saw her use DDG on her laptop recently!

finestructure, to beeper
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I've used for several weeks now across , , , , and it's been a great improvement to the messaging mess:

• I've actually had an easier time keeping up with Slack than in Slack itself
• Initially I ran clients side by side but Beeper updates just as fast and I've since stopped running most except for Discord which I use for calls
• Even so, it's great to run it in parallel to Discord, because it's easier to text chat in Beeper while in a video call

finestructure, to StarCitizen
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#StarCitizen’s graphics are simply stunning. And that’s just the little tutorial habitat. Which I’ve not yet managed to leave 🤣

Apparently, I need to eat and drink first, which I failed at yesterday. I’d picked up a box which I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to put down 😅

Today I managed to eat and drink. But drinking isn’t correctly advancing the tutorial so all that’s left is to admire the amazing level of detail.

It’s a very beautiful alpha 👌

inthehands, to random
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This is a perfect case study in how LLMs (don’t) work.

Please consider carefully what human processes a systems like this could actually replace. https://toot.cat/@devopscats/112445057997076822

finestructure,
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@inthehands I’m now thinking of LLMs as “taking the cabbage across the river”.

finestructure, (edited ) to Starfield
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Spent an hour last night in and came away impressed with the visuals. The writing, um, doesn't quite keep up? Lowly miner touches a stone and then is offered a ship to leave the derelict moon?

Arthur at least managed to pull the sword without fainting before gaining the kingdom 😅

Let's see if this gets better after this rather weak opening! 🤞

finestructure, to random
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Since there’s talk of the Core Technology Fee again, it’s 50 Euro Centibels, and 100 of them make a Eurodollar.

pilky, to random
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One thing I don’t get: what’s the downside of Apple allowing macOS to run in a VM on iPad? It doesn’t take anything away from those who don’t want to use it. You just ignore the feature and keep using your iPad as-is.

Apple doesn’t even need to build it themselves, just allow the tech they already have to run and be allowed on the App Store, that way someone like Parallels can come along and provide it (which would also allow Linux, Windows, etc)

finestructure,
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@helge @pilky @lapcatsoftware VMs can’t sign into iCloud, which sadly also makes them as a means to bring macOS to the iPad less useful than people think.

finestructure,
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@helge @pilky @lapcatsoftware You can sign into iCloud on VMware? TIL!

finestructure, to random
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30 hours into #Everspace2 and it's great fun. It's not the most compelling story in the world but the graphics and the mechanics are great. An excellent space shooter, and native to the Mac to boot.

I'll be damned if Rockfish Games aren't looking into or even already working on Everspace for the Vision Pro. Feels like a no brainer. Surely Apple must be talking to them about it?

finestructure,
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@helge No, it's not.

finestructure,
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@mattiem You mean the iOS game way back? Yes!

finestructure,
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@mattiem No, it looks like Everspace 1 (from 2017) was something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everspace?wprov=sfti1

I definitely played this on iOS, maybe 10 years ago? It was a Rockfish Games title, and a space shooter. Could have sworn it was called Everspace 🤔

finestructure,
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@mattiem Ah no, it was Galaxy on Fire 1 by Fishlabs (original Rockfish) that I played. GoF2 is still on the store. Everspace’s predecessor:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/galaxy-on-fire-2-hd/id465072566

finestructure, to random
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Just listened to @1026613 where they interview Alex Cardinal, CEO of Nomi, an AI chatbot company.

The CEO tells the story of how their product is helping his own partner, whose mother has dementia, by having someone to talk to about the stress of the care.

I can’t help but think that’s not the kind of product endorsement he thinks it is...

finestructure, to animals
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Having slept all night, Hobbes is taking a well-deserved break resting his head on the metal foot of the coffee table.

Let it be known to the jury that there’s a comfy chair with a cushion right behind him, and that he’s been fed twice already.

finestructure,
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@akmarinov Which part of “twice” was unclear?! 😄

finestructure,
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@akmarinov Hobbes, I know this is you

gastonrampersad, to random
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Every day, software just gets more and more shit. I wonder about the cognitive load that people carry just to work around the bits of software that are broken. (This is the preferred currency list in Apple’s App Store Connect btw).

finestructure,
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@gastonrampersad You looking for Irish dollars there? 😆

finestructure, to random
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Folks who squash their merges, I’m curious why you are making that trade-off. I’m guessing the pro argument is a cleaner merge graph?

The big argument against it for me is that you lose granularity for git bisect. I've often been able to narrow down breakage (sometimes long past the merge) due to individual commits in the merge. If I'd merged in a giant blob all I'd have had to go by is that giant blob. (1/2)

finestructure,
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@jjoelson Exactly, that's the problem.

finestructure,
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@cocoafrog Look at my screenshot - these commits •don't• end up (directly) on the main branch. That's the beauty of it. You can roll up the merged branch and it's as if it was squashed. Yet the whole history is still there.

finestructure,
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@maxd How do you access squashed commits on GH and how would you run a bisect where you’d need lots of merges unsquashed?

finestructure,
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@maxd Sure, I knew about that - but how does that allow me to run a bisect across the whole tree? I’d have to click through lots of PRs and on top of it I’d resurrect lots of branches for everyone in the upstream. That doesn’t seem feasible.

finestructure,
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@cjwirth @maxd Ok, I can see how you can work around the lost (or obscured) history.

I'm not sure I'd want to lean on GH preserving dangling commits and resurrect the branch for everyone (it's also something you have to have permissions for - i.e. you can't bisect just any open source project for instance) but at least it's feasible.

It most certainly isn't faster than just going through the git history you already have locally, given the process. That's the power of bisect 🙂

finestructure,
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@lukasa @maxd Yeah, that's why I pointed to Fork, which allows you to roll up your branches, just like bzr seems to be doing (I've never used it!).

It would be a great feature to have in git itself so you don't have to rely on your git client quite as much.

finestructure,
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@fork_dev Oh nice, it’s the branch detail on hover that's new, isn't it?

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