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by maegul 8mo ago
Also, not just followers. There’s a kinda “merchant” behaviour too I think … signalling and trading in hype perspectives. But to be fair, I’m not sure what the average dev/eng is supposed to do against a climate of regular change, many
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by maegul 9mo ago
Indeed, likely a useful lens on the current moment I’d say. For better/worse, and whether completely so or not, the time of the professional keyboard-driven mechanical logic problem solver may simply have just come and gone in ~4 gener
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by maegul 10mo ago
How do people find these trackpads? I’ve seen them or at least similar in the Kyria at al keyboards[0] and am intrigued but suspicious too. [0] https://splitkb.com/collections/keyboard-kits
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by maegul 11mo ago
I resonate. For me I’m vaguely but persistently thinking about a career change, wondering if I can find something of more tangible “real world” value. An essential basis of which being the question of whether any given tech job just doesn’t
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by maegul 11mo ago
Agreed. And I feel it fair to argue that this is the intended interface between proprietary software and its users, categorically. And more so with AI software/tools, and IMO frighteningly so. I don’t know where the open models people
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by maegul 1y ago
Salient quote under the “AI” question in the FAQ: > we aim for a computing system that is fully visible and understandable top-to-bottom — as simple, transparent, trustable, and non-magical as possible. When it works, you learn how it wo
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by maegul 1y ago
Hmmm … my beginner’s rust is getting too rusty. Is this valid rust (it’d be new to me)?! If not, I’m guessing, from memory, the only way at this in rust is to through traits?
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by maegul 1y ago
Agreed! The only silver lining I can see is that a new perspective may be forced on how well or badly we’ve facilitated learning, usability, generally navigating pain points and maybe even all the dusty presumptions around the education &#x
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by maegul 1y ago
Rings true for my impression too. In the end, she’s a YouTuber now, for better or worse, but still puts out what look like thoughtful and informative enough videos, whatever personal vendettas she holds grudges over. I suspect for many who’
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by maegul 1y ago
> Ironically, the best answer to many of the article's suggestions (thousands rather than millions, easy to modify, etc.) is to write your own software with LLMs. Not sure exactly irony you mean here, but I’ll bite on the anti-LLM b
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by maegul 1y ago
This, for me, has been the question since the beginning. I’m yet to see anyone talk/think about the issue head on too. And whenever I’ve asked someone about it, they’ve not had any substantial thoughts.
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by maegul 1y ago
> I have no idea why you’d want to do that. Browsers are bad at it, dedicated tools are great at it. Fair! I was just aspiring to a place where web pages and documents converge more. Thanks for the recommendations!
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by maegul 1y ago
Are there good deep dives on how far you can practically this? Especially in combination with headless browser pdf generation? Last time I looked into it, a while ago, my impression was that it would get rickety too soon. It’d be a good pla
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by maegul 1y ago
Yea. Having intentionally stayed away from going down the PDF rabbit hole, but now confronting it again recently … what’s the deal with how sparsely populated the space is with solid and (relatively) light weight rendering solutions/ba
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by maegul 1y ago
Certain corners of the world have absolutely cared about and employed the proper use of all the “dashes” well before but all the way up to 2022. I’d imagine LLMs have just consumed some of that material.
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by maegul 3y ago
Ha, yes. But in HN’s defence, I think HN is not willing and capable of correcting toward narrowness when needed than SO is the other way.
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by maegul 3y ago
In the abstract this is an excessive take. The point is that trust is a major component of scientific work and how it functions collectively. A effect being that when that is violated a lot breaks down with a god amount of collateral damage
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by maegul 3y ago
I feel like the new kinda-alternative on the rise is to support federation with either ActivityPub, BlueSky/ATProto or both. That is, instead of going for search engines, go for open social. It’s obviously a new and relatively unpopula
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by maegul 3y ago
So I’m completely out of the loop on the whole de-googling your Android phone thing. How workable is it today and how well would it work on a phone like this?
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by maegul 3y ago
> 1. Always sad for me to know how much popular are wireless chargers, wasting 47% more energy aprox for charging the same as a wired charger. Lots of sibling replies pointing out that the absolute energy loss is negligible and reasonabl
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by maegul 3y ago
The idea of GPT or code generators supplanting the need for libraries and languages with large standard libraries is likely jumping ahead with optimism. But … I think the idea is relevant and, security/QA issues aside, this is a real h
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by maegul 3y ago
This is where I landed. CLI for power user mode.
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by maegul 3y ago
Really hope details come about this with all perspectives being provided. Whether they stuffed up or there are some details that made the situation unworkable for the board, it’s an interesting case study in governance and the whole nonprof
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by maegul 3y ago
> it's hard to imagine a line between "it is possible to build a computer capable of computing <X>" and "it is expensive, on the scale of reasonably-advanced civilizations, to build a computer capable of computi
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by maegul 3y ago
> If it is possible that to make a simulation which matches our experience, then it is likely possible to make an unbounded number of such simulations. Why? This seems to me to be the weakness in the argument. Of all the universes in whi
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by maegul 3y ago
Completely with you. It’s time to move on from Latex. Couldn’t hope more for the success of a better alternative!
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by maegul 3y ago
For me, getting Latex out of the dependency chain is a huge attraction. Just too much cruft and slowness and mysterious errors. Seems way too outdated today. I hope something like typst can provide a nice, fast and modern pdf generator bac
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by maegul 3y ago
Hmmm. Can’t help but wonder if it would have been better to have the function utcnow simply return a time zone aware object instead. Would any usages of the function break?
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by maegul 3y ago
There are theories and principles behind what an AI is doing and a growing craft around how to best use AI that may very well form relatively established “best practices” over time. Yes there’s a significant statistical aspect involved in t
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by maegul 3y ago
I always figured that once Python got the walrus operator it would be a matter of time until arrow functions of some sort made more and more sense on Python.

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