JamesSwift

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by JamesSwift 5d ago
"Whats new" is, I hate to break it to you, 99% AI-related. Its a pretty unique point in time here and likely will continue to be for at least 12-24 months. This is likely to go down as being as reality-altering as the internet but
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by JamesSwift 5d ago
You get other things like mutual exclusion, a clean baseline regardless of whats in the main directory, and potentially in the near future a way to tie into lifecycle hooks for eg creation/deletion [1]. That last part is nice in the ne
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by JamesSwift 7d ago
> Money is fungible and instantly redeeming rewards for a statement credit is almost always the optimal way to use credit card rewards. Uhh I have no credit cards where redeeming for credit is the optimal play. Every single one has &#x27
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by JamesSwift 11d ago
That seems narrow minded. Theres both "learnings directly related to the thing studied" and "learnings downstream from the thing studied". If you imagine mathematics being a huge sudoku puzzle of unknowns you are trying
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by JamesSwift 15d ago
Time-to-fix is lower, but time-to-new-bug is also lower
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by JamesSwift 17d ago
Ehh I love Casey and have learned a ton by watching how he thinks about things in his handmade hero series, but he is fairly narrow minded in his views of dev. Not that theres anything wrong with that, for the kinds of dev he does his appr
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by JamesSwift 22d ago
Yeah I had the same thoughts about what they chose to DIY vs hire out. Insulation is so simple, and trim can be done at your leisure. But thats also not likely to save much overall since the contractors also know how simple those are.
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by JamesSwift 26d ago
I assure you there are legions of nixos users doing similar things but getting fully custom configs on the other end
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by JamesSwift 28d ago
To more fully flesh out what my thoughts on this: I think because more devs cant run things locally, we are not getting the "open source gains" that you would get by having the network effect of more eyes on the work. Theres still
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by JamesSwift 29d ago
They are both on borrowed time. The only thing keeping them afloat business wise is that current hardware costs are prohibitive which keeps local models artificially constrained. The next era will be open weight / local model for the m
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
I mean what Im hearing is "once we have AGI it will be easy". Sure, agreed. But AGI is going to unlock a lot more than software dev including having people just one-shot Lovable replacements. I also just fundamentally disagree its
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
Im bullish on more people being able to build software than pre-AI but bearish on the general population being able to. The unfortunate truth of AI is that it requires you to think like a dev to be effective. And thats just not how a lot of
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
I was wondering why I suddenly started seeing these in my feed, I figured I would have to write my own extension to fix it. Oh well, I cant be mad at the uBO team. Much appreciation for all they have given me over the years
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
This is pretty common in rum drinks, especially tiki. Like you said, rye offers something unique separate from traditional “bourbon” and so the flavor profile of the end drink is different
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
Famously, stock is settled on a delay (and generally doesnt involve physical products that are not fungible). Im sure theres a lot to glean from how they handle concurrency but Im not sure they are solving the same problems.
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
Awesome, thanks for taking the time to put this together, that really is impressive pre-LLM. We wont be at this level for a while but its great to have resources to look at for examples of others have solved things.
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
Im thinking through this for my team, any previous writeups on it? Or do you mind brain dumping the high level of how you had it setup from a design perspective : D
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by JamesSwift 1mo ago
The whole point is to force the cloud providers to go through a contract negotiation for licensing rather than keep the door open for them. Nothing prevents the parent project from specially licensing to individual parties.
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
You can easily spin up a linux builder vm or I just have a dedicated remote builder on my network which I offload to
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
Intel is very very close to dead now as apple has officially EOLed them and software communities are following suit (eg homebrew and nix). I just picked up an apple silicon because the writing was on the wall that it could be any day that I
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
Most generics code is for library authors. Having generics allows you to write ergonomic algorithms for eg channels instead of forcing every single app developer to reinvent the wheel and run into the same footguns
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
The true power of LLM powered interfaces is the malleability of the whole thing. Sure you can write traditional software to handle “more like this”, but how hard would it be to handle “more like this but uptempo”, “more like this but not th
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
Im wrapping a lot of that up into "intent". If they intended it to rhyme, then you will necessarily "lose something" in translation. The same with elegant word choice to fit within certain metre, etc. Sure, a direct tran
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
This also doesnt touch on translation also having an element of the audience in it as well. You see this in debates on what the best translation of the Odyssey is, with some preferring one version for being more "classical" in lan
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
Translation = words + intent. Literal translation frequently loses the intent encoded into the chosen language, especially for creative writing. If I translate "youre a real piece of work" literally into another language, Ive like
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
Its an easy value add for a pressure-wash / soft-wash business
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
We should be clear about software vs hardware transcoding being different things. Hardware transcoding is "free" for even commodity hardware. Yes, lower end systems might have trouble keeping up with a blu-ray remux as its source
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
Yep, total agreement here. But they really nail the "it just works" of playback, so all things considered I stick with it.
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
The way they do their list rendering is infuriating for large collections. Instead of showing titles + shimmer, its just big blobs of loading placeholders. So to find where you are in your list of movies you have to stop scrolling and let t
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by JamesSwift 2mo ago
I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall. I really hate its list performance on larg

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