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Mahyar McDonald
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iOS & AI, sitting in a tree
One thing that peeves me is indie games that are made in Unity or Unreal and ship for the Switch and Windows, but they don't bother to check the "build for macOS" button and end up being Windows only. Beyond galaxyland is my recent example of this.
December 26, 2024 at 6:57 PM
One thing I'm looking forward to in AI is taking a directory of 4000 scanned family photos and automatically organizing them by predicted fuzzy date ranges based on the ages of people inside them.
December 24, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Calendar: Did you know it’s CHRISTMAS!?
December 24, 2024 at 7:49 PM
I have now officially lost one airpod to water. I guess I'm lucky after 6 years of owning them.
December 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM
It's hard to beat the experience of speakers over headphones. My Kanto ORAs just sound better compared to similarly priced headphones.
December 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Does anybody know of a swift formatter that lets you format complicated enum data structures like they are if statements?
December 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Looks like if you want to do local LLM model inference, used 2x 3090s is still the way to go. The M4 series is at most 1.5x better than the equivalent M1 series chip, which was still outclassed by the 3090 by a large margin back then too.
December 7, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Windows night light is surprisingly good, actually goes full red light mode and doesn’t slow down the computer like macOS night shift does
December 6, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Mahyar McDonald
1/2 Using AI has been a big part of my process dealing with crippling nerve pain that I’ve seen over 50 doctors for. I had to try because most of the doctors I saw were clueless and recommended overly specific answers for systemic pain, only getting worse as time went on, taking over my whole life.
There are now 5 reports like this—#AI performing better than physicians + AI—and we don’t have the explanation for why yet (hybrid was supposed to be best)
Gift link nytimes.com/2024/11/17/hea…
November 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Love how zippy the bsky web app is
November 23, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Mahyar McDonald
The era of the exclusive App Store needs to end. Fortunately, Apple's already got this figured out: the Mac is the model.

sixcolors.com/offsite/2024...
The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model
Personal computers started out simple. So simple that you could just type in programs and run them, save them, and even give them to your friends. But over time, things got more complicated. A lot …
sixcolors.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
With AI, devs are going to use libraries less and just make their own janky versions even more, because thats easier than learning a new library.
November 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
November 23, 2024 at 5:51 PM