Jerry Combs

[Jerry Combs @PointBlueTech]

@ray_at_work @gfodor First, dealing with the windows versions wastes tokens. Second, there is not feature parity between the versions.

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@theaungmyatmoe @matteo_spada Are you kidding me? It’s never worked. Works fine everywhere else in the Apple ecosystem but not for connect.

[W. C. Collier @WCCollier1]

I can tell you how this encounter would have gone in our little town, with our quintessentially American police force…

Something interesting to note: Aside from a rule, American police are doctrinally far more heavily armed and also far more aggressive that British police. By that I mean the doctrine itself is more aggressive. We are more apt to detain, more apt to use force, and more apt to use deadly force as a matter of doctrine.

Yet in my experience, at least in conservative towns, those same American police are far more laid back in their interaction with non-violent offenders. And they are far more likely to laugh in someone’s face when he tries to report a “speech offense.” So we get a report of a disturbance and racist language. Two units are dispatched. We roll up.

“Hey, what’s going on, guys.”

“He was calling me this that and the other thing.”

“Okay, bud, we’ll get to that. You want to step over there with this officer right quick? You can give him your statement. Hey, man, what about you. You okay?”

“Help. I’ve been stabbed.”

“Okay, where have you been stabbed?”

“My chest. I can’t breathe.”

“Let me look at that. … Oh, wow. You have been stabbed. Three forty, detain that male. Dispatch, I need EMS for an adult male with multiple stab wounds, reporting trouble breathing. Say right here, bud! Keep your hand on that!” And the officer runs to grab a first aid kit and begins the MARCH algorithm, to include chest seals.

Meanwhile, 340 is drawing his gun. “Turn around and put your hands on your head! Do it now! Get on your knees! Both of you, down on your knees now! Face away from me! Do not ****in’ move!”

And every patrol unit not on a call converges on the scene at maximum Mach, to join in detaining everyone nearby and securing the scene for EMS.

Would that have saved Nowak’s life? Potentially, with some allowance for geography. Our little town has a typical EMS response time to a call like that of merely a few hundred seconds. Despite the severity of his pulmonary hemorrhage, EMS might very well have been able to drain and reinflate his lungs sufficient to preserve his life.

What I would draw your attention to, though, is the contrast in police attitude. The police of the UK, despite being largely unarmed and tactically useless, are bullies. They present from the first moment in gestapo-like fashion, as the face of a not only oppressive but disdainful government, very reminiscent of the agents described by Solzhenitsyn (in Gulag) in the early stages of the autocratic takeover, who, though haughty with power, are nonetheless at that stage few, and probably could have been resisted and counter-bullied by a mass-aligned population. But, as Solzhenitsyn describes, the population succumbs to the prisoner’s dilemma. No one wants to be the first to stick his neck out, the first to put his head before their batons. So, weak as they are in fact, they bully successfully.

American police are the same way in liberal enclaves, bullies, highly corrupt, but my point is that it is not their armament, or even their aggressive use of force doctrine, which makes them so. It is ideology. In countless towns across America you have police forces which are orders of magnitude more heavily armed, and orders of magnitude more violent in nature, who revel in a good fight, who yearn for it and itch for it, and yet are far less violent in practice because they aren’t bullies. They are, as Grossman calls them, sheepdogs. They like to hunt wolves, not bully sheep.

And because they fancy themselves dangerous, like Great Pyrenees among coyotes, generally, they tend to be much more relaxed even around potential offenders. The hand is ready, but the demeanor is easy. Even investigating family, we usually don’t handcuff as quickly as these officers handcuffed a man lying on the ground accused of words. We separate parties. We deescalate, we get everyone’s side of the story. We invite the suspect to surrender himself to arrest peacefully…

[Jerry Combs @PointBlueTech]

@JoshuaEbner @johnloeber It’s been a while since I’ve been there but Adobe was pretty bad.

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@anshrathodfr I've just released a Certificate toolkit, an LDAP Browser, and a JSON editor with JQ support. More to come.
https://t.co/qjvMheHn27

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https://t.co/UdDHeIc545

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New App launched today! link In Comments.

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@unclebobmartin How can you control for the variability of model response time and model load? I’ve found no way to get consistent results.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

“I am Muslim” is analogous with “I am American,” not with “I am Christian.” If you don’t understand this, you will never understand what is actually going on.

“I am Muslim” means I am a citizen of the ummah, the Islamic state that lost its territory to infidel Arab puppet leaders, the Zionists, and the Christians, and that empire must be restored.

“I am Palestinian” means I am Muslim. The term “Palestinian” was invented to mask “Muslim,” because the religious war needed a secular label.

In this framework, saying “I am Palestinian” means “I am Muslim,” and that Jews can't take what is believed to be Allah’s land.

Demanding Sharia law in the West means replacing the constitution of the infidel government and establishing the Islamic constitution, essentially occupying the land or restoring it under the rule of Allah.

Saying, “I am a Muslim and I want Sharia law,” means: I am a citizen of a foreign state, and I want my constitution to replace your constitution.

The UAE banning the Muslim Brotherhood is, in effect, the infidel government of the UAE banning the political activism of a foreign state, Islam, on its territory.

[Jerry Combs @PointBlueTech]

@_imdawon If apps are not showing up, make sure that apps are selected in the Spotlight config. If they are then rebuild the index.

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@peterpme If your copy and pasting then you have no idea how to write code with an agent

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@natebjones One of the reasons I no longer use a laptop as my primary workstation. Once you’ve moved to a Mac Studio with 4 5K monitors, a laptop is a bit limited

[Jerry Combs @PointBlueTech]

@caiobchi @mitsuhiko There is a browser extension that works on windows

[Jerry Combs @PointBlueTech]

@HSVSphere There was a time when Apple did not depend on file extensions. Type information was a file system attribute. They started using extensions because MS users couldn’t grasp the concept.

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@_cruzctrl1 D. I’d spend it riding mountain bikes in Palo Duro Canyon

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@dreamsofcode_io With agents, you can get better results by doing multiple native implementations. Abstract what you can and deal with the rest. With good design and management, you will get a better product and it won’t cost a multiple.

[Jerry Combs @PointBlueTech]

@opdroid1234 I wouldn’t try. Native development for each platform is the way to go.

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Are you really so helpless that you can’t jump into a completely foreign codebase and understand it within a few hours or even a few days? Even if you need to learn new concepts or even a new language, it’s something that any professional developer should be able to do. The code produced by LLMs or other humans is not magic, it can be understood.

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@RandomPerson242 @enjojoyy None of that takes 24 hours and you shouldn’t let the agent cook that long by itself anyway. Break it up into manageable chunks