rafterydj

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by rafterydj 5d ago
No disagreements on things not working right on Mac/Linux, it's definitely a frustration! I would argue against the idea that it's the default for most enterprise dev. What you refer to as creative/web culture I would re
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by rafterydj 6d ago
Why is it that the derisive "oh you just disagree" statement usually speaks to a missing "...and therefore aren't serious"? What are you actually saying constructively here, if anything at all? I, for one, happen to
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by rafterydj 6d ago
When it is not the mandated option, under what circumstances is Windows the best choice for software dev? The only domain I can think of is gaming, and Valve is seemingly coming up fast to eat Microsoft's lunch in the next few years.
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by rafterydj 11d ago
Wow. Only enough reserves to be measured in decades? Once it's gone it's gone. Genuine Carboniferous coal, one day a thousand years from now, might be a rare museum item! I have a habit of thinking about history in very long terms
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by rafterydj 13d ago
I don't know, that just seems like a category error that breaks apart when you get closer to any individual project. Use-after-free is still possible in Rust with unsafe. Assuming nobody _can_ write memory safe C is a good assumption f
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by rafterydj 22d ago
This I think is a medium-term path/window only. Eventually the low hanging fruit of "whatever we can do a small release quickly to get $1M ARR" will be relatively picked clean. Sort of like how the App Store boom had things l
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by rafterydj 1mo ago
Do you utilize RSS? I've been trying to find a good RSS reader that incorporates some of the ideas his advocates, but I prefer Linux. Right now I'm using Thunderbird for it, but I'd love a good recommendation!
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by rafterydj 1mo ago
This is unfortunately a feeling I share. It wasn't until LLMs have become nearly ubiquitous at this point, and there has been zero realistic technological response to the dangers they present. Not to mention I suspect there may be some
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
Academically, is it a bad thing companies are selling phones preinstalled with grapheneos? I mean in the long run, it should be a good thing to separate out the hardware phone market from the OS it comes with IMO. And for large scale adopti
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
Most of the people I've encountered that use Java are working on enterprise codebases that are a couple decades old at this point. And I'm totally unfamiliar, but I thought Kotlin was vaguely "Java for Android" - other t
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
Interesting! I am curious to ask someone who has been working on no-code tools for so long: I've been reading about no code platforms from the 1990s, and how all of those ended up failing. The reason I've seen cited most is that t
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
I read that as him beginning the healing stages. Acknowledging his flaws as soon as he could even if he couldn't change what he already said - because that post did blow up, if he had taken the whole thing down it may have just exacerb
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
I don't understand this, if I'm honest. WebAssembly is the compilation target. It's a Scheme compiler for wasm, right? Why is it pretending to be a way to rewrite websites? Wouldn't that be a job for literally any possib
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
This is frankly one of my worst fears.
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
Maybe it's because I haven't had my coffee yet, but I cannot understand what you are saying. What do you mean by "be epistemically sound enough"? You are using it as if to say "if your code is grounded in sound abst
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
I see this get mentioned a lot but I still am skeptical that AI can generate tests we can trust more than any other code we know we cannot trust. Yes tests are conceptually isolated and that helps, but I've personally seen unit tests g
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
is the author of this post in thread? i do not like the AI voice it reads like.
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
If you know it, and I know it, and everybody knows it, why the hell are we paying huge amounts to mince words over the proof?
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by rafterydj 2mo ago
If your business plan is selling software to people, 98% is not plenty at all. If your web app crashes one out of every fifty times I launch it, it's not good. The business side of things is reasonable to prioritize right up until it i
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Yeah that raised my eyebrow as well. "Popularized" maybe, but "largely built" I think is a mis-characterization.
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Not technology - that's only downstream of politics. No political administration in my lifetime (!) has made policy decisions against the interests of tech monopolists. The closest we got was Lina Kahn's FTC.
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
I feel like I'm going nuts. There are other commenters saying this is a good practice they've also done for other injuries. You are saying you are an actual radiologist and immediately clock the problems with its advice. I have se
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
I don't think it is, to be honest. Politics - particularly politics relevant to large democracies - appears to be a function of visible truth, and not truth itself. See all the articles about "X slams Y" or the endless "
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Oh dear. I've been using Omarchy! Had no idea. Thanks for the info. Was already kind of annoyed at the "manual" not being very comprehensive - think I'll switch to another distro or fully yank control away from Omarchy a
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Disagree. There's a power imbalance between how easy it is to write something by hand and slap a human label next to AI output. "Let the reader decide" is not fair in a world where the reader then sees >90% AI writing in i
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Personally I think it should be optional, but meaningfully optional in a way that's technically sound and easier than it is now. I kind of feel like long term I'd want "professional/public" code I'd put my name
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Yes but Qt comes with the drawbacks of being tied to Qt. With Electron + React, you'd be able to rip out any components you need and place them in other web apps. The browser is (psychologically) avoiding vendor dependencies to a great
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Man, I've really been falling into his stuff. So refreshing to hear someone speak from a perspective of care. It's good for my soul in this world of slop.
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Not a product manager but I habitually try to play devil's advocate as one. I think it's popularity, full stop. You _could_ vibe code a native app no problem - but then you're targeting one set of hardware. If you're alr
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
I don't think we can stop publishers from rent-seeking behavior, I am only trying to get at the idea that we should clearly communicate to a user when something is truly bought and owned vs rented. If that information is clearly and lo

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