ksandvik.bsky.social
Programmer, Silicon Valley old-timer, amateur Classical Tibetan scholar, ex-musician. My postings and responses will be all over the map, about technology issues and entertainment I've read or watched, max one post a day, multiple responses. Stay positive!
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Different encodings? Would this fix it:
iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 in.txt > out_utf-8.txt
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Even with non-programming work, I spend maybe 70% of my time inside the terminal (iTerm2).
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Yes I like computers and devices that are not intruding on what I want to achieve and do.
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My latest craze, getting eBooks just in case I'm out from my house for longer periods as a nomad.
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It's good to keep track of those, anyway, might be needed in future when traveling to Europe and other places.
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You need to then live in a country of 1000 lakes.
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Those Ataris were common in studios due to the early day Midi applications running on them (Steinberg and others).
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I've tried various other ones but always getting back to iTerm2 myself.
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I'm actually reading more books nowadays.
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Even corporations would benefit from avoiding allocating resources to employee health costs if this was handled on a global/federal/government level, like in Europe. Would be a win/win for everyone.
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I would use Mail.app for everything if it weren't the lousy integration to Gmail.
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I'm so used to keyboard shortcuts to launch and switch apps (Raycast et rest) so I have not even used the Dock for ages). One main view is all I need.
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You could turn that off nowadays in the preferences.
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Also to note we are EBIT-fanatics (....) so I'm sure they did the same kind of investigation concerning costs. I suspect this is because a majority of the Macs used are with non-technical people and ....
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Yes, it really depends per company. The one where I work uses the 4-year AppleCare subscription, hence we automatically get new Macs every 4+ years or so.
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Many companies purchase Macs with the four-year AppleCare plan that expires after four years. Or then there's time for a battery upgrade which nowadays costs $400+...
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Haven't happened to me neither with my 73k collection but I have all the audio files backed up on a hard drive, which is in turn backed up to Backblaze.
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Beats tabs or spaces nowadays, or is that issue settled now?
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I still remember when BeOS was demoed for us engineers at SGI. And Apple passed the deal due to Gassee asking too much for the company, and the rest is interesting history.
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Maybe this will help? www.howtogeek.com/260693/how-t...
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Rustlings is nice: github.com/rust-lang/ru...
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The cool thing with technical writing is that even if something has been written about, there's always a place for another voice to explain it. The more, the better.
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Toto considered themselves to be a more rock-focused version of Steely Dan, and later albums moved into very complex fusion-rock, but hey, they needed to pay their mortgages.
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Oh I will test it out. I did a quick check yesterday asking for an rsync recipe and the ollama one was broken while Claude worked from get-go, but I will test qwen2 now.
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BTW I've been using github.com/Mozilla-Ocho... for a while now, lazy me is typing one line instead of two to start llama (i.e. self-contained binary).
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It's good for general LLM work. Claude is IMHO still better for asking for code examples (based on me testing both).
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OK, check then any refurbished laptops from the Dell refurbished store. They usually check the battery, display, and other components and replace them before reselling. Dell is a robust PC platform.
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I checked brew install base64 and it installs 1.5, same as the version at www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/bas... - but that's an old tool, released 2007.
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MacBook Airs are quite affordable, especially the M3s that go on sale on Amazon and other places now and then.
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Sorry I ment the one from Apple. Now the second generation was indeed portable, I really liked those.
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Does anyone remember the first Macintosh 'portable'? My back remembers it.
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Long long long time ago when I was forced to use a Windows Dell laptop (like 2001 or so), I installed cygwin to go around all the misery, not sure if that's doable today, as I've used Macs for work non-stop since 2004.
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I looked at Hyperkey but i used caps lock to switch between different language layouts. But I don't mind this 'vulcan death grip" three finger mapping on my left hand as long as I could press the fourth key on the right side of the keyboard.
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For the gnu tools like gsed you need to use brew to install them. MacOSX does not include newer versions of those, especially as many of those have GPL 3.0 licenses.
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Yep. I have control-option-command <char> shortcuts in Raycast for b browser, m slack, i iterm2, and so on... Superfast switching between various apps, in addition to all the quicklinks.
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Claude also provides information about the code generated so it's easy to follow along or save that information for later inspection in case some of the generated code does not work or the generated code is unclear concerning functionality.
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Yep, I installed uv via brew.
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Well, to start with it does not have any GNU version 3 binaries by default, you have to install them yourself.
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If a domain is controlled by a known trusted entity, let's say .gov, or a company controlling it, then it adds trust that the account is valid and not a fake one.
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In one pro-app I was involved in we just copied the sqlite database from time to time.
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The problem is the massive cost of hosting and streaming video, even YT has issues with this, hence more and more advertising.