rablackburn

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by rablackburn 9d ago
It doesn't have to chase it down, just keep plodding along implementing the new standards as they become accepted. Google likes to make up its own "standards" and push them out on chrome, but Safari tends to be the late-comer
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by rablackburn 9d ago
> Safari has much, much better compatibility, but even then this browser is hated for it's quirks I think this meme has almost run its course. Funnily enough I just had to fix a Safari layout quirk yesterday (for iOS 16 & 17 dev
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by rablackburn 21d ago
> That’s at least a plus. I will happily burn through as much VC money as they will give me to tinker with my projects. The era of VC-funded home-delivery recipe boxes is still my favourite.
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by rablackburn 1mo ago
They probably could have loaded faster if they shipped less than 80mb(!) for a single page
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by rablackburn 1mo ago
The future set of people who once would have "work(ed) for free to design you a state-of-the-art kernel"? If the tail is long enough passionate hobbyists will do it because they love it...eventually.
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by rablackburn 1mo ago
> but way, way better at creative writing than Qwen and even better than Gemma 4 26 and 31b. I suspect this is the only use-case I would consider...and I don't really have a use-case for "creative writing" that I would del
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by rablackburn 1mo ago
> For contrast, the Newcomen steam engine (widely considered the first commercially useful engine) was used for over 60 years before the next major improvements. Now, 300 years later, we’re still finding ways to significantly improve hea
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by rablackburn 2mo ago
Nuclear weapons (so far)? Banning CFCs perhaps? If you want to go older and more localised you could look at forestry and fisheries laws. Sometimes we self-regulate and form a stable state, other times we over-extract until collapse
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by rablackburn 2mo ago
I daresay it's because the assistant training corpus is heavily biased towards one-shot solution answers. Because the correct response to that query is "I have no idea -- you will need to provide more information" and LLM Age
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by rablackburn 2mo ago
> Local community is probably irreparably damaged. But I was a kid with niche interests and I didn't start to find my people until the Internet entered my life in 1989. Sounds like you should start listening to some community radio
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by rablackburn 2mo ago
How many companies have 1000 frontend developers? Do they need 1000 frontend developers? Aside from the Giants maybe some consultancies or hire-firms have that many? But they use whatever the client uses. If you're not in the business
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by rablackburn 2mo ago
> Well, nothing is easier then adding constraints. Which is why dieting and quitting smoking are famously easy things to do! ;) There's something to be said for the "scrappyness" of resource limitations inflicted upon you
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by rablackburn 3mo ago
and in today's world of constant supply-chain attacks, you do probably _do_ need it! We've adapted: - our CI and git hooks so that our dependency or .lock files are visible when they change, and error if they change inconsistently
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by rablackburn 3mo ago
> Tabs vs spaces don't matter they are equivalent. Just to nitpick (because what else is this thread about? :)) They aren't equivalent! Tabs carry more semantic information than spaces. 1 Tab character == 1 Level of nesting Spa
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by rablackburn 4mo ago
Everything old is new again. This is basically the debate over IRC Bouncers all over again.
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by rablackburn 4mo ago
if you type "I use Arch btw" you'll be unshadowbanned
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by rablackburn 4mo ago
Literally implemented PR guards today to prevent the team merging any dependencies that didn’t have explicit versions pinned (and that matched the resolution in the lock file). People lamented semver not being trustable but that ship sailed
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by rablackburn 5mo ago
> In theory this should be nirvana. No more vibe coding! Everyone is a power user. Zero dependencies. But there will be much weeping. If I had to sum up the zeitgeist of the '90s techno-optimism it would be this persistent, confiden
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by rablackburn 6mo ago
> Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less fl
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by rablackburn 6mo ago
Reading this thread I'm reassured that despite everything AI may disrupt, humans arguing past each other about philosophy of knowledge and epistemology on internet forums is safe :')
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by rablackburn 6mo ago
Seems like a pretty clear case of caveat emptor
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by rablackburn 6mo ago
I feel like I should say "spoiler alert" but: > I often wonder is "what will be the minimally viable LLM" that can work from just enough information that if it googles the rest it can provide reasonable answers? It de
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by rablackburn 6mo ago
Fantastic comedic writing (and project, of course). It had me guffawing. To add my own "most relatable" quote to this thread: > As always, please save any important work before running anything I ever write. :') But really
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by rablackburn 6mo ago
Excellent self-owning example: > You mean that dumb app that forced you to move files into a single folder instead of adapting to your workflow was prefect? Users in 2012 were overwhelmingly of the cohort who's metaphor for doing wo
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by rablackburn 7mo ago
Hi Garrett, I love the project -- even if I agree with a lot of the critique in this thread. Critique that is very high quality, professional feedback that you should take as a very big compliment. I think every Front End developer or desig
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by rablackburn 7mo ago
... just to be a (hopefully helpful) pedant: If you were going to do this for the slider approach you can arrange the labels to the `block-start` and `block-end` of the image and support non-RTL scripts/languages natively.
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by rablackburn 7mo ago
The flipping-between is a great hack -- as you said your eyes (really, brain) just do the work for you. I learnt about it in Japan where proof-readers and editors would (or do) quickly lift a top page up and down to spot mistakes with kanji
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by rablackburn 8mo ago
Excellent summary of the implications of LLM agents. Personally I'd like it if we could all skip to the _end_ of Asimov's universe and bubble along together, but it seems like we're in for the whole ride these days. > &quo
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by rablackburn 8mo ago
You mean by the site founded by RCE-native AI agents?
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by rablackburn 8mo ago
> And if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last decade, it’s the bitter lesson: when you have enough data and compute, learned representations usually beat carefully hand-tuned systems. There are still holdouts! Come back to me in

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