Think Different by Jakub Jirák: posts, page 28 of 142
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What Climate Models Got Wrong and What AI Might Fix
AI climate modeling promises faster, higher-resolution forecasts. Understanding what it can improve, and what it cannot, requires knowing where current models break.
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iPad Air vs iPad Pro: Who Actually Needs the Pro?
iPad Air vs iPad Pro in 2026: what is genuinely the same, where the OLED display, ProMotion, top chip and Thunderbolt earn their money, and why the Air is the right call for almost everyone.
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How Apple Designs for the Worst Day, Not the Best
Discover how Apple designs products for emergencies and edge cases most users never encounter. Learn why worst-day thinking produces better everyday.
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Prompt engineering for code: Few-shot examples that teach taste, not just format
A field-tested take on few-shot examples that teach taste, not just format with Prompt engineering for code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Handoff, Sidecar, and Universal Clipboard: Make Your Apple Devices Act Like One
Set up Handoff, Universal Clipboard, and Sidecar across Mac, iPhone, and iPad: the requirements checklist, what each Continuity feature does, and how to fix it.
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The Dirt Under the Algorithm
AI-powered soil health monitoring promises to fix a century of degradation. The science is strong. The implementation is messy. Here's where things actually stand.
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Why Fast Hardware Still Feels Slow
Specifications measure computational throughput. Experience measures response time, and the two correlate far more loosely than the spec sheet implies. Why animations, network dependency, and software bloat quietly eat the gains that faster chips were supposed to deliver.
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Logging every turn so you can learn from the agent, not just use it
Cline and Roo Code both keep a task history, but it's built for resuming a session, not for studying one. Logging every turn to a plain file turns a stream of one-off interactions into something you can actually search, compare, and learn a codebase's patterns from.
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How AI Is Rewriting the Crop Forecast
AI crop prediction models are transforming how farmers and commodity traders anticipate yields. Here's what changed and what hasn't.
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The Physics of Heat, Noise, and Perceived Quality
Silence correlates with price so reliably you could price a laptop by ear alone. That correlation isn't psychology dressed up as engineering. It's real thermal physics, and understanding it explains why cheap devices are loud and why the loud ones are usually hiding something else too.
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The overlooked value of structural search and replace
Structural search and replace matches code by syntax tree, not by text, which makes it exact where an AI rewrite is approximate. For a whole class of mechanical refactors it's the better tool, and most JetBrains users have never opened it.
