samdoesnothing

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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
It's just moving the goalposts. "If it compiles it works" to "it eliminates all memory bugs" to "well, it's safer than c...". If Rust doesn't live up to its lofty promises, then it changes the co
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
I think it's pretty telling that there are people in this thread trying to pre-empt the expected criticism in this thread. Might be worth thinking why there might be criticism, and why it wouldn't be the case if it was a differe
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> All bugs is typically a strawman typically only used by detractors. The correct claim is: safe Rust eliminates certain classes of bugs. I'd wager the design of std eliminates more (e.g. the different string types), but that doesn&
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> Anybody who thought the simple action of rewriting things in Rust would eliminate all bugs was hopelessly naive. Classic Motte and Bailey. Rust is often said "if it compiles it runs". When that is obviously not the case, Rust
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
If rust is so inflexible that it requires the use of unsafe to solve problems, that's still rust's fault. You have to consider both safe rust behaviour as well as necessary unsafe code.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> Since this isn't the 1800s anymore there won't be any major revolutions I'm sure they were saying the same thing in the 1800s
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
The best part about your account is the people who don't understand the satire and unironically agree with you :D
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades That's just blatantly untrue?
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
A lot of people are criticizing this for unnecessary complexity, but it's a little more complicated than that. I actually think it makes sense given where they are at right now. The complexity stems from Vercel and Next.js - had they u
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
200 years ago that was true, now it's easier than ever to run a business with zero land.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Design is subjective of course. I love their new website and much prefer it to the old one.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Unlike Linux, that wasn't built in as a feature!
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
You're right. That's why I never took the Covid vaccine and I convinced everyone I know to avoid it as well. You cannot trust big pharma after all the evil things they've done.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
This is a gross misunderstanding of what the corporate veil is.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
As someone who's owned an f250, I never once had to look up arcane commands to type in a terminal to get it started.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Odd, it's not a problem in dynamically typed languages or languages like Kotlin, Swift, etc. I think it's more just what you're used to.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Writing isn't about the produced artifact, it's about the process of taking abstract thought patterns and translating them into written text. In the same way that art isn't about coloured pixels on a screen or paint on a canv
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> For example, I've had Gemini 3 produce really high quality UI/UX mockups and wireframes Is the author a competent UX designer who can actually judge the quality of the UX and mockups? > I write about web development, AI to
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
I don't think people should be obligated to spend time and effort justifying their reasoning on this. Firstly it's highly asymmetrical; you can generate AI content with little effort, whereas composing a detailed analysis requires
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
The point is that they get to rewrite it in their favourite language.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
And when people point out they're both team sports you freak out, you can't compare them at all, totally different yadda yadda yadda. You're just so zoomed in that the differences are maximized.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Yeah you guys clearly have it all figured out there eh.
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt for sure because I can see it's style rubbing off. Someone linked this article you wrote from 7 years ago. https://www.sanity.io/blog/getting-started-with-sanit
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Comparing the two articles, they have a completely different style. I wasn't totally convinced the linked article was AI generated but I am now. Clearly the author can write, so I'm a bit saddened that they used an LLM for this
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
It's like a reflection of Nvidia, Oracle and, OpenAI selling each other products and just trading the same money back and forth. Which is of course a reflection of the classic economist joke about eating poo in the forest. "GDP is
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
Would be nice but you could probably edit it enough or splice different chat outputs together to break it. Honestly with the way the world is going, you might as well just ask AI to generate the chat logs from the article. Who cares if it&#
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
There are some obvious tells like the headings ("Markdown is nice for LLMs. That’s not the point", "What Lee actually built (spoiler: a CMS)"), the dramatic full stops ("\nThis works until it doesn't.\n"),
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
I'm really getting tired of gen AI and this article is like a perfect microcosm. Partially or at least fully AI generated, discussing a vibe-coded CMS built by an AI startup. It's several layers of marketing and no serious enginee
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
My source shows an even 5/5 split for best performance in 2024. And 7/10 of the worst performers are Republicans (lol they can't even insider trade without messing up). > The previous democratic president and a significant
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by samdoesnothing 9mo ago
> Apple is actively preventing competition for app stores on the iPhone. Walmart is actively preventing competition for grocery stores inside Walmarts. Not everything is a monopoly and not everything needs to be totally competitive....

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