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by mcdow 16d ago
can’t speak for Proton, but it’s no wonder Windows doesn’t see Wine as a threat. because Wine sucks to run. any normal person would just run Windows instead of having to fool with Wine. it’s for us hobbyists, because we don’t mind a little
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by mcdow 16d ago
not saying $TECHCO doesn’t know about X project. i’m just saying that if the average person doesn’t know about it, it’s unlikely to get shut down, as it poses no threat.
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by mcdow 16d ago
from the faq: > Is this... legally sketchy? No. Consider projects like ReactOS, a from-scratch effort to create an OS compatible with Microsoft Windows, GNUstep, which provides an open implementation of Cocoa APIs and other things, or Da
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by mcdow 17d ago
yep, i have a little helper in my zshrc for this sort of thing: alias git-hot-refs="git branch --sort=committerdate | tail"
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by mcdow 17d ago
i inadvertently do this at work anyway. i burn through my monthly token budget on boring-but-valuable tasks, and then i spend the rest of the month doing stuff by hand.
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by mcdow 19d ago
that’s the issue with these newer models. they are able to string together a sequence of “not-serious” bugs in a system that ultimately results in some serious vulnerabilities. it may not be an issue for ffmpeg, but it might be for an appli
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by mcdow 21d ago
every tool present in an IDE is available elsewhere. it’s not that the IDE-avoidant aren’t using sophisticated tools, they just aren’t using them packaged up in a single application.
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by mcdow 1mo ago
it’s funny because it’s unexpected. one of those members is not like the others. the rest are tech companies. it does make me wonder what prompted them to join. it would suggest to me there are forward looking people in Brazil’s government.
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by mcdow 1mo ago
lol the government of brazil is in there
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by mcdow 1mo ago
y’all seem to be missing the fact that Java is a mature product. it has left the “move fast and break things” era of it’s development. code is a liability, and they likely have more to lose than gain by allowing AI contribution.
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by mcdow 2mo ago
“no open source project will succeed with this level of unprofessionalism” y’all clearly are not acquainted with some of the things Linus has said on the LKML
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by mcdow 3mo ago
Haven't done any research into this, but I wonder how tough it would be to build a decent 3D printer. Maybe there are open-source designs out there.
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by mcdow 3mo ago
there’s another thing that started to get quite popular in the late 2000s… smartphones
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by mcdow 5mo ago
Chrome, Android, and Gmail are optional to use.
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by mcdow 5mo ago
They might be buying time to sell the relevant stock
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by mcdow 5mo ago
I’m working on a combination of a semantic embedder and vector database with a focus on Apple devices https://github.com/emmettmcdow/dve It should be drop in semantic search for any text. No need to worry about what mo
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by mcdow 5mo ago
I’m looking forward to using a RISC-V computer in 20 years
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Show HN: On-device embedding and vector search for Apple Devices, built in Zig(github.com)
2 points by mcdow 6mo ago|0 comments
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Open Source Does Not Mean Free(emmettmcdow.com)
2 points by mcdow 8mo ago|0 comments
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Zero-cost speed: making your code fast with structure of arrays(emmettmcdow.com)
1 points by mcdow 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mcdow 8mo ago
It's the phones dude. It's literally just the phones. Get rid of the phones and you fix it.
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by mcdow 8mo ago
https://emmettmcdow.com
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by mcdow 8mo ago
This is awesome! I’ve been looking for a way to batch export my notes out of Apple notes, will this work for that purpose? I totally agree with you that most notes apps miss the mark. I’m working on one now which I hope satisfies the same r
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by mcdow 9mo ago
Is any company actually doing this? I haven’t heard of anyone that has this setup. Maybe contract work, but never a full time employee working 4 days.
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by mcdow 9mo ago
This is tangential but the whole Tiananmen Square thing is kind of odd. When I visited China many people were more willing to discuss it than I had imagined. Some spoke about it unsolicited. It’s a tourist destination you have to buy ticket
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by mcdow 10mo ago
From the comments here it sounds like most people think the amount Anthropic paid for the company was probably not much more than the VC funding which Bun raised. How would the payout split work? It wouldn’t seem fair to the investors if th
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Ask HN: Have you ever seen a perfect codebase?
10 points by mcdow 10mo ago|13 comments
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by mcdow 10mo ago
Super cool!
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by mcdow 10mo ago
Why does Steam/Valve care so much about Linux? I know as devs we all would prefer to use Linux/Unix. But developer experience isn’t a good business justification.
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by mcdow 10mo ago
This is true but there is another cost. If you carelessly write you can end up with a system which is a mountain of bandaid fixes; an incoherent and unmaintainable mess.

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