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by brokencode 4mo ago
With sponsored links and aggressive SEO, “Google it” has been falling apart as a source of facts for a long time. There is an incredible gap in the search literacy between different users of Google. Some will accept what they find in the to
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by brokencode 4mo ago
Where do you see that it’s low capability? And Google is trying to make something affordable enough for a mass market, ad-supported audience. They aren’t hyper focused on enterprise like Anthropic is. And that’s okay. There’s room for diffe
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by brokencode 4mo ago
I don’t think abysmal is the right word. The hardware was widely praised except for being dorky looking and a few other complaints. The price and lack of content and developer interest have been the main problems. And ultimately, people jus
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by brokencode 4mo ago
I guess it depends on how you define ambition. If you are talking about in an absolute sense, yeah of course, the Dart project had to build a whole language, VM, and ecosystem. That's way more ambitious than Deno. Though if you look re
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by brokencode 4mo ago
I thought this was just like a fun proof of concept.. I didn’t realize they actually merged it to main. That seems pretty crazy to me. There’s no way they had time to review the code. This just seems so wildly irresponsible for such an impo
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by brokencode 4mo ago
Not really. At least not directly. But it is used to implement various parts of Windows, such as the File Explorer, so any improvements are helpful for general system performance.
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by brokencode 4mo ago
Microsoft has long had a tick tock cycle for Windows. 98: great. ME: bad. XP: great. Vista: bad. 7: great. 8: bad. 10: great. 11: bad
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by brokencode 4mo ago
I seriously hope Microsoft consolidates all their Windows app dev on WinUI and invests heavily in making it great. I also wish that they’d make WinUI work on macOS as well similar to Avalonia, but I think they probably won’t.
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by brokencode 4mo ago
For a new project, teams can decide whether to use Go, but there are many millions of lines of existing Python servers out there. Not to mention that there are differences in ecosystem, familiarity, and ergonomics that may make a team want
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by brokencode 4mo ago
Pretty smart for SpaceX though. They’re turning an asset they made for a money-pit (Grok) into probably a major source of revenue ahead of their IPO.
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Really depends on the repo you’re working in. If it’s very large, especially if the tool needs to refer to documentation for a lot of custom frameworks and APIs, you often end up needing very large context windows that burn through tokens f
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by brokencode 5mo ago
But at least you know how the sausage was made by the end. You have no idea how high or low quality any PR from a random person online is, and taking any amount of time to review a PR could be a total waste.
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by brokencode 5mo ago
I think the only thing that will save us is smarter models. Slop coders are not going to stop making slop. They’ll still use even smarter LLMs badly no doubt, but I’m thinking that maintainers of open source projects will be able to more ef
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Well previously lazy contributors simply would never have made a PR because it was too much work. Now they can have an LLM make a PR with virtually no effort at all. It’s obviously an imperfect rule, and maybe it’ll change over time. But I
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Why review thousands of lines of LLM generated code from some random person you don’t know when you could use an LLM yourself to do the same thing, except with probably a better design and more thoughtful approach? Maintainers should get to
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Just curious, what’s wrong with Azure?
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by brokencode 5mo ago
How long do you figure it’d take to solve the problem yourself?
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by brokencode 5mo ago
I don’t see anywhere that it’s something they specifically decided not to support. Probably they just haven’t gotten around to it yet? Multithreading is notoriously difficult to get right.
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Are you suggesting that governments shouldn’t require safety features because car manufacturers might implement them badly?
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Can we have one thread about Claude without people trying to shovel Caveman? Much of the token usage is in reasoning, exploring, and code generation rather than outputs to the user. Does making Claude sound like a caveman actually move the
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Would it be possible to increase the cache duration if misses are a frequent source of problems? Maybe using a heartbeat to detect live sessions to cache longer than sessions the user has already closed. And only do it for long sessions whe
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Running businesses and dealing with customers can be a major pain. There’s a lot of soft work in any business on top of the technical work. Why bother with all that when you can simply charge an extortionate rate and customers will pay it a
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by brokencode 5mo ago
New companies can enter this space. Google’s competing, though behind. Maybe Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, or Apple will come out with top notch models at some point. There is no real barrier to a customer of Anthropic adopting a competing model
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by brokencode 5mo ago
Gigawatts seems like more a statement of the power supply and dissipation of the actual facility. I’m assuming you can cram more chips in there if you have more efficient chips to make use of spare capacity? Trying to measure the actual com
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by brokencode 6mo ago
Who says it works if the “author” isn’t thoroughly testing and reviewing it? People who do this want the fun part of pretending they’re implementing a feature without actually putting in the hard work it takes to make something for real. Th
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by brokencode 6mo ago
True, but that doesn’t invalidate what I said about the vast majority of sites that aren’t globally known, prestigious news companies that people are willing to pay an expensive subscription for. Most publishers of content online are ad sup
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by brokencode 6mo ago
I mean yeah, you pay for the internet. But many sites are free to use only due to ads. Such as news and magazine sites, many of which are actively dying due to a lack of revenue. I personally wish these sites could all switch to paid models
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by brokencode 6mo ago
That’s a starting spot, but how about some testing and benchmarks? Where’s the value added if the person just tells Claude to do it and then submits a PR? The maintainers may as well vibe code it themselves if that’s all the work the would-
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by brokencode 6mo ago
Imagine trying to launch fighters when there are explosions on the deck from swarms of drones. And of course the fighters themselves could be hit and destroyed. An aircraft carrier that can't launch fighters is pretty much worthless.
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by brokencode 6mo ago
I agree that this conflict in Iran doesn’t really indicate that the aircraft carrier is any weaker now than it ever was. Though I do worry about the possibility of a more sophisticated opponent being able to launch swarms of drones and miss

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