pianoben

10 ms·

1.
by pianoben 19d ago
slop slop slop, tastes delicious
2.
by pianoben 19d ago
Not since the venerable Joe McCarthy has America taken this threat with the seriousness it merits. I can only count the days until we get a proper House Antifa Terrorism and Extremism committee. NSA, if you're reading, please relay th
3.
by pianoben 25d ago
96.5% accuracy at 85 WPM. Would've been better except that they had _one_ space after periods and I'm still used to two - the UI didn't really indicate it very well for me. Full stops should mean something dammit! (/s
4.
by pianoben 1mo ago
Just like you can recognize Hemingway's prose voice from a few sentences. After dozens-to-hundreds of hours with Claude, you can tell .
5.
by pianoben 1mo ago
Oh, that's awesome, thanks for making it! I'll take a look.
6.
by pianoben 1mo ago
> Homelab tinkerers are essentially a non-market. Sadly, I agree. > They barely want to pay [...] Not so! I've conservatively dropped $10k on my homelab so far, and have cobbled together a passable VM host/network/home
7.
by pianoben 1mo ago
I have seldom wanted anything as much as I want an Oxide rack at home. Maybe in 40 years we'll start to see the first ones show up in surplus auctions...
8.
by pianoben 1mo ago
So Panfrost is an OpenGL ES implementation for Mali-type GPUs then? Thank you for that. Still confused about the role of a compiler here because I'm uninformed. So Kraid is a GLSL compiler that is specific to those GPUs? Neat.
9.
by pianoben 1mo ago
Windows and especially Macintosh UIs from the late 90s/early 00s were by far the most functional UIs we've ever had since the dawn of the desktop era - user research was a serious discipline, accessibility was baked in to the fr
10.
by pianoben 1mo ago
I'm very confused as to what Kraid actually does and who it's for. It's a compiler of some sort, but for what? GLSL? What's significant about it beyond the target backends?
11.
by pianoben 2mo ago
Sanskrit is an amazing language - it is so BIG! Because of its extensive case system (10 different cases, IIRC), word order is highly flexible. The formalized rules of how spelling changes based on word adjacency (sandhi), and the ambig
12.
by pianoben 4mo ago
> I'm surprised how few competitors there are in the Dropbox space. There used to be many more - Sugarsync, AeroFS, Syncplicity, just to name a few - all bit the dust. Box.com found a niche serving business document flows; Gdrive,
13.
by pianoben 4mo ago
Right! Naturally, our Congress is full of technical and administrative expertise and totally has the time, patience, and will to cleanly and carefully craft the wide body of regulation we've grown to require for a smooth and healthy
14.
by pianoben 4mo ago
Nobody pays MSRP at that scale
15.
by pianoben 5mo ago
Gotcha, I must have encountered them later on then - thanks for posting the receipts! I was a happy user for a while, but eventually some bugs drove me back to iTerm2 (in my case, hanging forever after certain terraform commands finished).
16.
by pianoben 5mo ago
Warp was always an AI thing, as I recall - the seem much heavier on AI bandwagon nowadays, but their whole thing was a terminal for teams where you could share knowledge and command palettes and generate stuff.
17.
by pianoben 6mo ago
The semantics are very relevant, since you presented it as a supply-chain attack. If you call a library vulnerability a supply-chain attack, then your argument has lost coherence. > The OC is somehow under the illusion... Avoiding packa
18.
by pianoben 6mo ago
Log4Shell was hardly a supply-chain attack - just a latent bug in a widely-used library. That can happen anywhere. Maven to this day represents my ideal of package distribution. Immutable versions save so much trouble and I really don&#
19.
by pianoben 6mo ago
As if Apple doesn't berate you with unskippable notifications to sign up for iCloud, buy more space, etc etc?
20.
by pianoben 6mo ago
I don't see the incongruity. It's one thing to mandate that retailers not sell alcohol to children, but it's quite another to require that all computers must report on the identities of their users just so that children don&
21.
by pianoben 6mo ago
If parents want that solution, then the proper thing is for someone to build that solution and make a fortune selling it, IMO.
22.
by pianoben 6mo ago
> while ignoring the fact that these laws provide tools allowing parents to do just that These tools are called "parental controls" and already exist - we don't need laws to compel their production. ...unless, of course,
23.
by pianoben 6mo ago
Or, and hear me out, _maybe our computers shouldn't spy on us in the first place_?
24.
by pianoben 6mo ago
In the finest of artistic traditions. Reminds me of the story of one of my favorite pieces of classical music, 'Scarbo' by Maurice Ravel. It's one of the most technically difficult pieces played today. Ravel wrote it becaus
25.
by pianoben 8mo ago
Maybe I'm wrong about the state of Java in Android today - it's been a few years since I did that work full-time. But I do remember when Kotlin broke on to the scene in 2015, and most of us were thrilled to finally move beyond
26.
by pianoben 8mo ago
Android folks have good reason to have anti-Java bias. Their bias, as it happens, is against old Java, which they are constrained to use as fallout from the Oracle lawsuits of yore. Kotlin breathed new life into Android in a meaningful
27.
by pianoben 8mo ago
> what about interop with Java? From the proposal discussion[0], the runtime representation on the JVM will just be `Object`. [0]: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/discussions/447#discussioncom...
28.
by pianoben 10mo ago
complexity in software is invisibly-preceded with "unnecessary", and usually indicates software that is difficult to maintain or even to verify its behavior. A really cool software architecture can scratch a similar itch as a goo
29.
by pianoben 10mo ago
Gemini was so much fun during lockdown - I loved the distraction of a new simple protocol, and the challenge of writing a gui client for it. Can't say I'm surprised that it hasn't taken the world by storm, but it's still
30.
by pianoben 1y ago
Lol I "love" that the first benefit this company lists in their jobs page is "In-Office Culture". Do people actually believe that having to commute is a benefit ?

More ›