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by audunw 7d ago
Apple threw plenty of shit at the wall when Jobs ran the ship. The hockey puck mouse and the Mac Cube was under Jobs. The first Apple TV. That was pretty much what the Vision Pro is: a side project to test the waters and get some experience
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by audunw 11d ago
There’s a huge difference in relying on others for daily fuel/fertiliser supplies for your survival, and relying on them for parts for vehicles/infrastructure that can run for decades. There’s also the fact that EV batteries - a
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by audunw 17d ago
I don’t think the cookie banner is useless. It’s annoying the hell out of everyone which is creating political demand for another round of legislation that should solve the issue properly. It was a relatively easy fix which didn’t fully sol
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by audunw 18d ago
If you integrate Zed with Claude Code through ACP you get plan mode (and some other stuff like memory)
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by audunw 1mo ago
It doesn’t seem like AIs are accelerating at all if you ask me. We seem to be plateauing. Smaller and open weight models are catching up to the closed weight frontier models on benchmarks. If AI labs were able to use the smartest models to
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by audunw 1mo ago
I think the generators are meant for intentional longer range trips as well. You get the cost savings for a big share of the trip even if you have to use the generators for part of it.
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by audunw 1mo ago
These companies know their value was never in the models. There’s a scramble to acquire as much hardware as possible, and to build as many services that people get soft locked into, such that they have a moat when the open weight models ful
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by audunw 1mo ago
A blockade of Taiwan could be met with a blockade of China. China can survive much longer on their own supply and reserves. But it’s still something to make them think twice. They don’t have the blue water navy to respond to a blockade. Lan
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by audunw 2mo ago
Only bulbs I’ve had fail in the last 10 year was some IKEA GU10 bulbs (maybe 2-3 years). I got them replaced for free with no receipt, and the new design had obvious improvements to managing thermals. It shows that, yeah, bad designs can fa
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by audunw 2mo ago
But the article isn’t saying that no form of planned obsolescence exists. If you think it’s important to make people aware of genuine planned obsolescence, then use examples of genuine planned obsolescence. Using incorrect or highly mislead
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by audunw 2mo ago
This article was about Europe. There is no benefit for Tesla here. It’s all CCS now. Anyone can use Tesla superchargers. Afaik it’s the same in US, isn’t it? Just with the complication that there’s no government mandated standard, but NACS
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by audunw 2mo ago
> You have no such guarantee when you upload government IDs to a server. The problem is that so many people here look at this purely from a USA perspective. An age check in many European requires no uploading of any ID. It’s an API call
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by audunw 2mo ago
We don’t need any of those things, but they’re in no way the source of our problems anyway, and eliminating them will do nothing of significance to solve the problems. So it’s pointless to discuss. We have so many plastic toys because pla
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by audunw 2mo ago
If the energy you need is in the form of heating, it’s actually surprisingly viable to store energy for months. Heat batteries is probably the cheapest and easiest way to store energy for the long term. It’s just that it’s horribly ineffici
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by audunw 2mo ago
Since they did a one-to-one translation to start with, hypothetically, if these were the true numbers, you could probably get a static analysis tool to guarantee you that 97% of the zig code was safe and tell you which of the 3% were unsafe
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by audunw 2mo ago
Why feel bad? If you’re using Zig to write a game or a system tool why should you care if Bun uses it or not? All this drama has very little impact on most users of Zig or its developers (some financial impact, but Andrew had already forese
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by audunw 2mo ago
For posterity here are some comments I’m curious if will be deleted 1. > Id like a clarification on how this is safer than Rust? (Seems reasonable enough) 2. meme image with the words “bait” and “retarded” - should be deleted 3. > Fu
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by audunw 2mo ago
I did notice one comment that was there before but which is now gone. But it was a completely unserious and garbage comment (just a comment dissing Zig) And now I see a bunch more comments that are just utterly toxic, which I also expect wi
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by audunw 2mo ago
I spend quite a bit of time in the Zig community, more as an outsider as I don’t contribute very much. I really don’t see how you could find the community toxic unless you take everything they want to do differently from other languages (wh
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by audunw 2mo ago
I think the point here is to include C library dependencies. Which GC languages in general consider outside the scope of its memory safety.
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by audunw 2mo ago
“Here is the catch: that single integer is wearing three hats at once.” How many times did that point have to be reiterated in unnecessary AI style? Was the article AI generated. I hope so, if not it really shows how bad AI has degraded our
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by audunw 2mo ago
Zig is intended to be as robust as it can be as long as it doesn’t implicitly add code (no destructors that run code you didn’t explicitly call), or increase compiler complexity and compilation time. I don’t think it makes sense to say Zig
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by audunw 2mo ago
That’s totally reasonable. But while each minor version has breaking change, a minor version release itself is generally fairly stable and useable. There are solid production software which is already using Zig, like TigerBeetle and Ghostty
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by audunw 2mo ago
Did you read the article at all? Zig itself is an incredibly fast compiler. And the language and standard library is designed to support writing that compilers. And yeah, that’s all about algorithm and data structures. A large part of why s
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by audunw 2mo ago
The tests and the numbers are interesting. The LLM writing style? Insufferable. It really wouldn’t have taken much effort to cut out the worst of the AI fluff, and maybe add some human touches
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by audunw 2mo ago
The results improving the end user experience didn’t have much to do with the rewrite. Improvements in binary size and speed could be had with similar efforts on the Zig codebase. They spent extra effort to get those metrics to look good to
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by audunw 2mo ago
How can it linger in a higher orbit. Maybe some of the debris gets a kick which increases its velocity, but you need two velocity boosts to circularise the orbit, no? So I figure at worst you get an elliptical orbit which will still decay
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by audunw 2mo ago
I have the exact opposite impression. From everything else I’ve seen around Andrew and the Zig Foundation he is extremely professional and skilled with managing community. In fact I’d say the community and management of the project is Zig
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by audunw 2mo ago
I didn’t read the beginner energy comment as faux positive at all. In fact Andrew has commented about his own beginner energy just recently and shared some embarrassing forum post he made as a teenager. Stinky manager.. I could see, but eve
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by audunw 2mo ago
> You didn't see K&R publish "so-and-so writes bad C", or Stroustrup decrying the Boost maintainers as hacks. The world is completely different now. The VC fuelled culture was not as intense and LLMs certainly didn’t e

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