nemothekid

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by nemothekid 8d ago
As you get larger there is a fire everyday and ever more competing priorities on which fires get put out. How much money does movie maker bring Microsoft? Now which executive would want to prioritize movie maker so much that they would dire
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by nemothekid 13d ago
If the correctness of my program depends on the ordering of data (for operations that would otherwise be commutative), that seems like that should be something explicit rather than implicit. I'm not sure if I agree that "hidden se
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by nemothekid 19d ago
The problem in practice with CCSV files, is they are no longer human editable, nor will tools like Excel automatically parsed them (maybe, I haven't checked in ~10 years, however I doubt CSV parsing has improved at all). If the files a
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by nemothekid 24d ago
> If you don't believe us, maybe you'd believe TigerBeetle which is also single threaded by design. If SpaceTime was as rigorously developed as TigerBeetle, with TigerStyle, that would have been worth reading into as well. I d
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by nemothekid 24d ago
If Opus 5 can do it, there will probably be a Chinese OSS model that can do it before the end of the year.
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by nemothekid 26d ago
This makes sense for a verifiable task like a regex engine - but those are clearly defined and I doubt an LLM will have a meaningful speed increase over current human regex engines. Anything else kind of just feels like "make GTA 6, ma
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by nemothekid 27d ago
The SpacetimeDB launch video came up on my YouTube feed - and I was surprised the video didn't go at all into how it was implemented. I assumed it was proprietary magic, but then I was surprised to find it was opensource. That confus
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by nemothekid 27d ago
> There’s no reason why this can’t be replicated elsewhere. The key is to make the programming language reasonably robust with at least 80% of common non-UI dev needs built in and put the remaining 20% and UI bits into a small family of
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by nemothekid 28d ago
> Guess we all to suffer with braindead supercomputers in our pockets Complete non-sequitur. You don't have to suffer, you can just buy a different platform. Android has had alternate stores for decades. This is concern trolling. I
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by nemothekid 28d ago
> open platforms instead of being at the mercy of a private corporations protection racket as if it's the 19th century But your gripe is not about open platforms . Your gripe is that Apple iOS is not an open platform. Those are
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by nemothekid 28d ago
Your approach is fine, if that is something important to use then use linux . What I dislike is taking a platform where the sandbox is a feature , and crying you aren't allowed to shit in the sandbox.
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by nemothekid 29d ago
> All in all, still extremely anti-consumer. One thing that ticks me off about this conversation is they are always framed as anti-consumer , instead of anti-developer . It's Tim Sweeney, Mark Zuckerberg, and the ad networks who
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
I understand the author feels he missed an opportunity to catch a bug in Sqlite - but this still feels like catching something in hindsight. Just knowing the bug the is in Sqlite's concurrency engine is a huge win. But reading over tai
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
> Was the Union army complicit in the crimes of the Confederacy by simply allowing them to drop their arms and walk away as well? The world is complicated and full of nuanced takes depending on context. I think the irony here is you are
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
> jump into architects or prod management but not the opposite way. This has nothing to do with any intrinsic difficulty with coding and more to do with the industries penchant to rewrite everything every couple of years. The reason you
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
This feels like post-LLM coding romanticization. Before LLMs, people would regularly say stuff like "I could build this in a weekend" under a "Show HN" post. How many times have people said "I could build Twitter
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
The problem is that is speculation and the market barriers are currently too high for losing business to be a threat. The two outcomes are (1) you overbuild, you end being wrong, you go bankrupt and lose everything or (2) you are right, but
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
> We aren't losing in Iran because of military incompetence, but policy incompetence. My point is these two things are inseparable, and to conflate them is simply Call of Duty-esque military fantasy. It's a feel good war story
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
> Why is pay.cloudflare.com so hard to establish? An engineer who vibes up a marketing site, and attempts to put it on the same origin as *.cloudflare.com now has to jump through 1,000 hoops of security clearance, customer notifications
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
> As for controlling Hormuz, the US military absolutely could control Hormuz. I'm confident it's quite capable of it. It's that the US public wouldn't support the immense cost in lives and treasure it would take to do
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
I'm not sure that any of that actually matters. Wars are not Call of Duty. It's politically difficult to invest actual manpower in Iran and Unless China were to nuke Hawaii, an all out war with China would also immediately be poli
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by nemothekid 1mo ago
The number is large - but I'm not quite sure it's existential. The hyperscalers have been making a ton of money and I'm not quite convinced that 200B of debt for Amazon is "world ending".
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
> If the computer can't do it better than a human being, then what's the point? Because the benchmark wasn't testing "can an LLM draw a pelican like a human". The original article was testing the relative capabi
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
Sorry, rather the word "scamming", I should have used the word "user-hostile". I don't think Facebook is scamming users, but as it stands Apple is in the way from them using every device api to siphon every possible
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
It's posts like these that make me very unempathetic to developers who complain about Apple. I'm looking at the screenshots, and I can't understand what the app does nor how the new screenshots are representative of app funct
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
> The idea that surveillance undermines high trust societies seems insane to me. Only because, I'm betting, that you view street surveillance as something that binds others, but not yourself. I doubt you would make this argument fo
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
I think he's being a little facetious - what he probably means is that if you attempt to get any true scientific rigor of that is going on in biological or chemical systems you end up facing the limits of physics in being able to expla
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
`Cargo.lock` is a lockfile machine generated by Cargo. It's similar to package-lock.json. In any case, its machine generated the old fashioned way.
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
> There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from the main way bugs are
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by nemothekid 2mo ago
> What's the problem if a site is vibecoded? Typically if a site is well designed, that used to be a signal that a lot of resources had been invested into the project. Now that signal is rather noisy. Here, is particularly bad, as

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