kettlecorn

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by kettlecorn 6d ago
I'm far outside the music creation space so you're basically asking me to spitball something, but I'll try! I think "make it observable" is a good principle for a lot of software, but also is useful here. Like if yo
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by kettlecorn 7d ago
I've thought about it a bunch over the years and my advice is to follow a few principles: procedural elements should almost always impact how the player plays, procedural elements should cross-interact with each other as much as possib
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by kettlecorn 2mo ago
I expect in the future it will become hybrid. Formal specs provide guardrails for LLMs / AI but within those guards LLMs will author traditional compiler programs and at times drop-down to manually compile / prove certain snippets
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by kettlecorn 2mo ago
If you pair LLMs/AIs like Claude with a formal verification framework you essentially have a new sort of compiler.
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by kettlecorn 2mo ago
I don't think this is accurate. AI is driving the cost of software towards 0 and these AI models themselves are software. Releasing the models for free accelerates the trend but if you're a startup that needs leverage it's a
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by kettlecorn 2mo ago
Yes it's only relatively recently that US politics has taken a turn towards being more defensive and protectionist. The tech industry along with US foreign policy has become much more zero-sum in its ideology in recent years, and I thi
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by kettlecorn 3mo ago
That's not accurate. I Googled for a recent performance benchmark and found this which indicates Wasm offers a notable performance gain: https://medium.com/@hashbyt/webassembly-vs-javascript-perfor...
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by kettlecorn 3mo ago
WebAssembly is used in all sorts of ways. It's used heavily by major web apps like Figma, it's used to run non-Javascript languages on Cloudflare Workers, many compute-heavy web libraries rely on Wasm modules, many web games rely
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by kettlecorn 3mo ago
I agree with that, but I don't think it's incompatible with my observation. Apple has often in the past positioned itself as an aspirational product for those who aim to be tasteful, talented, beautiful and wealthy. The risk of be
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by kettlecorn 3mo ago
In a time where people are increasingly disillusioned with the tech industry & billionaires the imagery Apple puts forward of a literally siloed utopian ultra wealthy landscape probably does rub people the wrong way, at least at a subco
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
Yes that first sentence is correct and that's an unfortunate side effect. The Rust ecosystem eventually needs to evolve its multithreaded Wasm approach. Atomics are still only supported on Nightly Rust but it's been that way for 7
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
I am unfamiliar with this project and only skimmed this post but if this uses Rust for the main binary blob it should be possible to have the main thread blob shared with the other threads even with the blocking. The blog post cites the con
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
The green card process can take 9 to 20 months and applying for a green card demonstrates an intent to immigrate so it's highly likely attempts to return on other temporary visas like a student visa will be denied. So they likely have
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
Also not a lawyer. I believe the issue with what you're describing is that if you're on a temporary visa, like a student visa, applying for a green card shows intent of immigration so you cannot return to the US on a student visa.
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
"This is not something done to us by leadership. This is a democracy; we voted for this." In many ways the current evils of the US are abusing the ways our government is least democratic. The way the Senate and the electoral colle
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
I have wondered if a pseudo-social / pseudo-technical solution of some sort of trust graph could help. Like you would say who you think is credible and human. An algorithm would evaluate trust on your behalf and it would look to the pe
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
What do you feel is immature in the WASM ecosystem right now?
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
I think your comment can be split into two questions: 1. Games derive some appeal from their intentionality and hand-crafted nature. Will these less-intentional experiences be as appealing? 2. Can these less-intentional tools still be used
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by kettlecorn 4mo ago
The US also profited an exceptional amount from selling arms & software to Europe, far more than the US was spending on military aid to Europe, which was largely contingent on trust and friendly terms. Over a decade or so the US is on c
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by kettlecorn 5mo ago
A problem is that most municipalities require excessively wide streets with on street parking for any new developments. Japan-width streets, despite their increased safety & land-use efficiency, are prohibited most places.
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by kettlecorn 6mo ago
I'm not sure they really feel significant guilt. I think they're reflexive people and for Andreessen the long period where he was massively invested in the shadiest crypto companies required pushing a culture of conformity. A lot
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by kettlecorn 6mo ago
It often seems like the contemporary American "conservative" feels that in order to oppose progressives they must become regressives.
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by kettlecorn 6mo ago
Side note: OP's account is named "Philadelphia" and this appears to be the first Philly related thing they've posted since 2013.
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by kettlecorn 6mo ago
I'm not a fan of this "us vs. them" framing. Arguably the greatest threats to the US's future is ourselves. If we fundamentally corrupt who we are as a nation we've already lost before the competition with rivals ha
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by kettlecorn 6mo ago
I developed tinnitus a year ago (I'm in my early 30s). I was living in an environment where it was noisy in the morning so I took to wearing sound cancelling headphones and earplugs to sleep. A few weeks into it I noticed a persistent
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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
Obviously it's a subjective discussion but it's still a meaningful subjective discussion. I was deeply into Microsoft products for a while. I got my start coding an indie game for the Xbox, I spent years using Windows Phone and de
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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
Apple certainly puts out experiences that leave much to be improved but to be pedantic the word 'subpar' implies below the 'par'. If 'par' is set by Microsoft then Apple easily clears it. Nowadays Chromebooks o
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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
Apple's UX quality, design focus, and respect for its customers is higher quality and more consistent than Microsoft's. Apple is also imperfect and I feel leaves tremendous room to do better, but they are still much better than Mi
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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
At this point I think few people really will care about that spec difference. The accumulated brand trust of Apple, and the negative brand trust of Microsoft outweighs the numbers. Even many technically savvy people believe Apple can delive
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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
Microsoft has for short periods in its history put out good UX and design, but fundamentally the company doesn't defend taste and design. The company treats good design almost like a marketing expense only worth doing if it creates sho

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