Andrey Soloviev

le chat doesn’t disappoint

The merchants of complexity will try to convince you that you can't do anything yourself these days. You can't do auth, you can't do scale, you can't run a database, you can't connect a computer to the internet. You're a helpless peon who should just buy their wares. No. Reject.

@AirbnbHelp Sure thing. Done! Thank you.

@MindRave Hi there, we would like to look into this for you. Could you DM us the email address associated with the Airbnb account? Thank you. twitter.com/messages/compo…

@AirbnbHelp Hi! There’s construction work at our Airbnb’s doorstep, and the host didn’t warn us. We spoke to support, but the ticket was closed unexpectedly. I opened another one, but now I can’t upload or reply—the text box is missing on both mobile and web.

@awilkinson Not so sure. The iMac went from a chunky box sitting on your desk to a thin rectangle, because the tech allowed for it. Could be the same with AVP: if it’s the “future of computing”, then that future will allow it to be smaller and lighter, and they’ll def go for it.

I’ve spent 24 hours with the Apple Vision Pro. I’ll start by saying this: I am the ultimate Apple fanboy. Going back decades, no matter what Apple releases, I’ve been all in, to the point where my friends make fun of me for it. Even when Apple ships something objectively bad, like the original Apple Maps, I’ve always defended them and been confident they would figure it out. In the past, I’ve felt like I can see where they’re headed and that the first wobbly step is a step in the right direction. But after using my Apple Vision Pro for the last day, I keep asking myself the same question: “Would Steve Jobs have shipped isolating digital ski goggles that leave a red mark on your face when you take them off?” Sure, there’s all the rough edges. The slightly blurry field of view, the wobbly video passthrough in low light, the weight. Those will all get polished and fixed iteratively, as Apple always does masterfully. But I struggle with the actual form factor and idea of this device. And the fact that Apple has never made “quantum leaps” but is highly iterative. Today’s iPhone is just an iteration of the original iPhone. The form factor is the same, just evolved. Bigger. Lighter. Faster. Better software. Same with the Apple Watch. The one from 10 years ago looks basically the same as the newest one, its just been refined a ton. 
Yes, it’s a massive improvement. But the device’s core form is pretty much the same. But Apple didn’t make the Apple Watch round. They didn’t make it 70% thinner. The rough size and dimensions are the same. It’s the same product, just grown up. But in the case of Vision Pro, I just can’t see this form factor—even a highly evolved 5-10 years our version of it—as a breakthrough product. Unless Apple changes their typical approach (which I can’t imagine it will) and produces a radically different Apple Vision that resembles a pair of glasses—without the light shield/ski mask/isolation, I struggle to see this being a device that most people use in the longterm. Let me ask you this: Can you imagine sitting at your kitchen island with your kids running around wearing an Apple Vision Pro? Or donning your digi-goggles in a coffee shop full of people? Of course, there will be people who will. But there’s something inherently isolating and weird about this device. To me, the one killer app is watching movies, but even that has its problems. Yes, it’s incredible to be able to transport yourself to an IMAX-sized theater with Spatial Audio. Until you realize that you can only do it alone. What about when you want to sit as a family and watch a movie? Do you and your kids all throw on your Vision Pros and join a SharePlay? I doubt it. Is it neat to turn down the volume on the world and work from the side of a crystalline lake? Yes, but it’s a vitamin not a pain killer. Who asked for this? It feels like a novelty Can I skip ahead a few decades and see this as the future? Of course. If I can simply wear special contact lenses or glasses and get the same experience, that will be magical and incredibly useful. But I believe that technology is decades away. I’m with @zoink — this feels like the Apple Newton. Correct in direction, just a decade too early in the wrong form factor. An impressive tech demo that should have stayed in the lab. I hope I’m wrong.

@cramforce “Eh” on the “business critical” argument. Slack is nice and all, but there are tons of alternatives to re-establish communication between teammates if your chat goes down for x amount of time. From WhatsApp, to email, to Tuple, to a myriad of other temporary emergency solutions.

We're all on the same page that running a sophisticated piece of business critical software with a database, exposure to the internet and stuff costs more than renting a single computer, right?

@radaarshow @edbangerrecords Oh hell yesss 🔥

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@devonzuegel If you and your family/friends are iPhone owners I suggest giving the social features built into iOS a go. Shared albums, group chats, etc. Work pretty well and with no ads. Throwing something into a shared album works like posting on a social network.

As I get older, I realize it's a huge bummer that we collectively decided in our early 20s that Facebook was uncool It's the one place where I added everyone I knew in real life, and it would be a great way to stay in touch now I want to know when friends go through big moments like getting married, changing careers, falling sick, and having kids. But my social graph is scattered across the globe, so there isn't really a natural touchpoint to know those things

@sschulz279 @MKBHD Yep.

@MKBHD 120hz is only on the pros right?

NEW VIDEO is up - Hands-on with the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro! Full video: youtu.be/enR58PYHaWw

@kwuchu @erikras @thekitze @peer_rich But Notion is an editor. Ark isn’t. And we are saving stuff to disk in a web browser - the web page itself.

@erikras @thekitze @peer_rich You aren't saving stuff to disk in a web browser app but if you are, you can use Shift + CMD + S and it will run "Save Page As". Also, it still works properly in document editors like Notion or whatever that have a save command.

arc is getting super fkn annoying and every day I'm wondering why am I even using it. who moved on to something else?

@heyeaslo Fully replacing native, perfectly optimized & functional apps with VC-funded software that might vanish overnight isn’t such a great idea. Plus, some of these don’t cancel each other out. E.g Notion & Notes - wildly different use-cases.

Delete Safari, Notes, Calendar and Mail.

@KevinCotoDev @JohnLiquidity @DanHadzami @xirclebox @fredoiq Apply is cool but every time I read through the file afterwards, seeing the “@apply flex p-2 m-4 text-white font-semibold” (whatever), all I see is are CSS rules written in a bizarre shorthand way. Hurts readability more than it helps imho. But that’s just my experience.

@JohnLiquidity @DanHadzami @xirclebox @fredoiq I love apply. It really seems all of these devs talking about readability Tw don't know about this feature.

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You can earn up to $25-45/hour right now helping to train AI models. You don't need a technical degree! You just need some relevant topic experience and an Internet connection. Here's how:

@vanschneider The Wire is still number one for me but Succession & BB are up there too. I’d say Succession is definitely the best thing I’ve watched in recent years.

@chrisalbon Haven’t tried training, but there’s been quite a lot of work done on running this stuff on CPUs, or using MPS inference for Apple Silicon GPUs (new). Llama.cpp works pretty well with 7B, 13B models on M1 Pro, for example, and with some tweaks python projects work as well.

@Quentin_Leconte Seulement? Pfft. Si c’est pas au moins quelques Go et que ça bouffe pas la moitié de ton disque dur c’est pas marrant. Sinon, il me semble que ça inclut la V8 et tout ce qui vient avec dans le build, non?

86Mo pour un Hello World… 🤡

@SICARMY__ Ah yes. "Deathpack". Prob opening for Webpack. 🤔

@dan_abramov All. The. Time.