alkonaut

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by alkonaut 6d ago
of people with a laptop? Maybe half (Just a guess). But most of those are not using it for anything complex. But it doesn't matter, it's that 1% of excel users and their sheet that is the problem. You'll find where it is WHEN
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by alkonaut 6d ago
Whatever is in those Excel sheets. In any nontrivial org, you'll find it if you try. We found users designing roof trusses in Excel with heavy vbscript macros...
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by alkonaut 6d ago
But then we'd still be left with a C or C++ codebase.
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by alkonaut 6d ago
Conversion of legacy nontrivial C++ code bases into Rust (or anything else for that matter) feels like it should be one of the "Millenium problems" for AGI. That and full self driving - including the nuances of gesturing to a huma
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by alkonaut 10d ago
The 10% excel sheets are exactly the problem. You can replace 90% or even 99% with either some online simpler office suite or none at all. But it will turn out there are business critical things running in 2003 format excel sheets with macr
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by alkonaut 10d ago
The long tail of ms Excel does not get replaced easily. For 90% of customers and 90% of workflows you see either no use of a program, or use cases that can be replaced with anything. But eventually you'll find the power users who do bu
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by alkonaut 13d ago
Is the aircraft built in LA but then test flown in Plattsburgh, NY? It seems like a long way to transport a prototype on the ground for a test?
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by alkonaut 13d ago
It's a prototype. But yes, the seats are going to take the trend of "lighter seats" even further. For example, for such short flights it's probably worth not having tables in the seats. BUT, where current aircraft are us
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by alkonaut 13d ago
I don't think it's the daily work commute being solved. More weekly meeting in Cleveland for someone who works in Chicago. Which today is a 5h one way drive and a hotel stay.
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by alkonaut 16d ago
Issuing this digital ID for all the _other things_ I do with it already has to deal with all this! Of course the debate would revolve around ”is it fine to have a national government issued ID be the ultimate proof of your identity/hum
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by alkonaut 16d ago
But unless you want to also do all your "human" development inside a VM, how do you cooperate effectively with the agent(s)? I want to run my IDE directly on the hardware, not inside a VM. So while the agents develop in a sandbox&
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by alkonaut 16d ago
That is a massive headache. But also for desktop dev (the boat I'm in) there are things like usb device tunneling/drivers, 3D performance and so on. Windows Sandbox would work pretty well otherwise (And also solves the licensing i
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by alkonaut 16d ago
The problem with sandboxing is that the regular dev env (massive IDE:s, cloned megarepos, installed dependencies and so on) just won't sandbox very easily. I can't set up a "second machine" or an "isolated environme
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by alkonaut 17d ago
Every place on earth has some legal definition of who is human. The system I’m thinking of isn’t a technical/captcha one, it’s a human curated list of humans. Just an electronic ID. Those already exist but the challenge is making them
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by alkonaut 17d ago
Proof-of-humanity can’t come soon enough. We’re talking about privacy-preserving proof of age, but as we see here the real utility of such a system will be proof of humanity.
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by alkonaut 19d ago
As the CEO of HTMX I find it disturbing that we have more CEO’s than users.
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by alkonaut 19d ago
I don't mind apps, even apps that are basically just browsers showing a web site. The biggest reason is that apps, at least on iOS, just behaves better. It might be that the auth persists longer or that there are notifications or whate
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by alkonaut 19d ago
Was snorkeling this winter in some tropical waters in asia and noticed how dead everything looked, compared to the same place 20 years ago. When I asked about it, the locals said "It's all from the same El Niño in 2015. It all die
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by alkonaut 19d ago
I'm assuming that the config scenario can be re-routed so the app thinks its opening that file but instead gets routed to different ones transparently. If the file picker enumerates N different directories immediately (which aren'
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by alkonaut 20d ago
Can't it request and be granted that permission, transparently to the app? E.g. the app does EnumerateDirectories("~/photos") then without requiring modification to the app, the call is interecpted, the user is presented
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by alkonaut 20d ago
> a human should decide if my contribution is worth it. Otherwise, that project is not worthy of my modest contribution. But that's the problem at hand: if there are 999 low-effort automated AI contributions for every human contrib
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by alkonaut 20d ago
I haven't been exposed AI reviews in OSS but I like them for work. Quality of PR review feedback is the most revolutionary bit of AI I think. More so than automated coding. I guess one issue with the AI reviews in OSS is that your dial
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by alkonaut 20d ago
I just think when you close PR's outright, you tend to get angry responses. And as a maintainer, you don't want to deal with angry responses. People who post bot PR's but can't accept having their PR's closed by a b
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by alkonaut 20d ago
Ironically this seems like a perfect use for AI from the maintaner side. "Find low-effort/AI-like PR's without associated issues from new contributors. Discuss with the contributors in the PR about how contributions should b
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by alkonaut 20d ago
Is it possible to avoid these risks in mountainous areas? How many people are living in valleys downstream from lakes with these risks? If one simply concluded that with current climate changes, it's not safe for humans to live under t
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by alkonaut 27d ago
> Plenty of other companies manufacture hardware and run stores. How does that matter? Are you suggesting we must treat a massive company the same as a not-massive company? Once they reach a certain size, they're at risk of being a
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by alkonaut 28d ago
Yes indeed if this wad important enough in people’s lives or the economy as a whole I should be regulated, divided or possibly even nationalized.
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by alkonaut 28d ago
This guy equates ”ambition” with ”career ambition”. Getting children means splitting your ambition between work and family. And family always comes first. There are no excuses for anyone, no matter how ”ambitious” or entrepreneurial, to wor
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by alkonaut 29d ago
I think the fundamental thing here is that this isn't merely a store. The Apple ecosystem is large enough to BE a market in itself. It's not about the market for apps, or the market for smartphones. Those markets are comparable to
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by alkonaut 29d ago
The ONLY interesting market share here isn't how many apps Apple create, or how large share of the smartphones they have. It's how much of the distribution of apps they control on iOS (which easily reaches the bar of being a marke

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