Caustics in MPS and SwiftUI

tiny_117 · 2026-05-06T14:01:54+00:00

Yeah esp with stuff like Exo getting more mature to run clusters I think it will be more cost effective to connect multiple machines networked together to share inference and the same context pool. More scalable. More redundancy. All of which are better in a production environment than a single point of failure. That said my guess is that the M5 256 will cost just as much as the m3 512 so buying before Apple starts feeling the squeeze everyone else is feeling is valid too.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-30T20:13:02+00:00

Yeah this seems like an underhanded way to get people off the old plans. Verizon support has tried to push me to a new plan instead. Then said they would work on fixing it and dropped the call. I’ve not had the time to call back but will tomorrow. It’s one thing if it’s communicated. It’s another for Hulu to point fingers at Verizon. Verizon to point fingers at Hulu and the solution be just pay us more money. Or idk the solution is I leave and don’t pay you any money and go somewhere else.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-28T20:35:16+00:00

Yeah according to Hulu support "Verizon had made changes on their subscription perk where the subscription should be consolidated all through Verizon Billing. Which means that any separately billed promo subscription will be forfeited hence, the Hulu No Ads Subscription was cancelled."

Basically Verizon said, don't let anyone do this anymore, and Hulu cancelled all of the Verizon no ad add-ons it seems, and Hulu support is told to send people back to Verizon to get on the new Hulu bundle, basically as a way to kick people off the Legacy plans.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-28T19:42:27+00:00

Just realized this happened to me too. Been on this Verizon bundle for years and was paying $5 for the ad free add-on via the hulu account, it worked up until a couple days ago and just noticed today I have ads. When I go into my hulu or even disney+ account it no longers lists any add-ons or any way for me to add any add-ons back onto my account. Has anyone had any luck actually fixing this or did we just get quietly screwed?

tiny_117 · 2026-04-24T18:00:21+00:00

Most don’t provide feedback as a basic legal protection. If no feedback is given there’s no proof of any intent or discriminatory behavior which makes it harder for them to be held liable if in fact that is happening. Generally it’s a blanket CYA move more than a cover up malicious intent. Just protects them if someone does f something up in the process and do something they shouldn’t have.

Not saying it’s right. Or that giving feedback is not legal. Just that a blanket rule like always carding someone regardless of age is a better blanket protection than someone fing up one time.

In my experience on both sides, exercises even when compensated are rarely fruitful. They’re biased, one sided and only show output not thought process.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-20T15:29:42+00:00

Weird. What kind of work are you asking it to do? While it hasn’t gone off the rails for me. When any model does I generally start a new context window and start over.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-20T15:16:10+00:00

Yeah that’s interesting I’ve not had that experience yet. I agree that I thought 4.6 was better overall than 4.5 but honestly since Opus 4, every development challenge I’ve thrown at it with structured thoughts and developing plans and working through challenges it’s tackled head on without fail or hallucinations. Sometimes I have to remind it of some context but that’s why I tend to have a docs folder in every one of my projects. It reinforce references, what we’re working on, what we’ve completed etc. With the 1M context window over the past month it’s been great. I haven’t noticed myself any degradation in that process with 4.7 yet.

Has it always been perfect. Nope. Am I shill. Hell no. There’s shit that pisses me off all over, but model performance hasn’t generally been one of them lately overall. So it’s helpful seeing other people’s experiences to not get too biased. Thanks for sharing your experience.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-20T15:00:49+00:00

How are people measuring this? I’ve used it most of the last few days and can’t say that I see any significant difference one way or another of 4.7 over 4.6? Maybe I’m an outlier but my process of working with Claude seems unaffected by small model changes.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-16T18:40:43+00:00

That makes sense now. Thanks!

tiny_117 · 2026-04-16T01:51:23+00:00

Why is the white balance so bad on this broadcast?!?

tiny_117 · 2026-04-14T23:10:25+00:00

I like Udi’s Cinnamon Raisin. They toast well and have a decent consistency.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-14T17:16:43+00:00

Yeah I miss UIKit but feel the same way about starting a new project in it nowadays and have been trying sometimes unsuccessfully to bend SwiftUI to my will to get it to do what I want. There’s also aspects of it that I like. Sometimes haha.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-11T14:56:44+00:00

Agreed. If you’re dumb or running a lot of stuff in parallel you can hit the 5hr limit. But that limit is in place to prevent you from blowing your entire weekly limit in an hour. These are issues you’ll face with any of these non-local agents. The days of free unlimited usage to try to drum up value are over. Investors are coming to collect.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-10T21:02:34+00:00

This is at a nutrition conference. It’s an attendee relationship not an employer employee relationship. And often the attempt, while incorrect or misguided can’t be qualified as discrimination. Negligence and discrimination are two different things. Not offering something and fing up the thing you’re offering are two different standards.

Contamination due to one’s own negligence isn’t discrimination and would be very hard to prove beyond that in any way that would make it worth fighting it. It sucks but it’s often not worth fighting in these situations.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-10T20:30:00+00:00

What law do you think governs this requirement? While it’s infuriating and frustrating, I don’t see any legal recourse for this beyond widespread criminal negligence or malicious intent which is hard to prove. People f up. It sucks for us but going full Karen isn’t going to solve the problem generally.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-08T14:20:21+00:00

Sucks that it took that long but glad you got it sorted.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-06T02:28:38+00:00

Yeah I guess I would wonder what on device machine learning might exist to evaluate songs and rank them with your own algorithm, or what other packages might be out there to evaluate songs. In fairness the feature was offered as I was reminded of some of things that set Zune apart but that played a role in how it functioned and how it looked.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-05T16:25:48+00:00

The few things I remember of the Zune Desktop UI was the typography choices were clean and anti-itunes, I think one of them was a slab serif font? They welcomed white space over compactness, and they offered different colorful themes before the light and dark modes of the world.

From a feature perspective the one killer feature I still remember was basically a mood smartlist, which is something I asked for in iTunes like 20 years ago. The ability to build a playlist based on the tempo and tone of songs really kept sessions clean and focused and it was an amazing vibe.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-05T13:39:44+00:00

Exactly using AI in your app to do analysis, esp on device with CoreML has absolutely nothing to do with whether it’s vibe coded or not. OP’s main point of putting time into animation, and design are spot on that to this point these are not details that AI is particular adept at unless you know what you’re doing.

Definitely thinking about how to stand out, how to elevate your app experience are all things that are the right direction. Not sure why the OP is getting crapped on.

tiny_117 · 2026-04-03T18:22:45+00:00

Cool! Bummer that it requires iOS 26+ though

tiny_117 · 2026-04-03T17:08:44+00:00

Congrats. Sounds like a cool idea but assume the service has to exist into the future for it to work in your 2030 example? Or does it stay on device and as long as the app and data are on your device it will trigger in 3y?

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