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by 9dev 9mo ago
> The apocalypse is delayed, permanently. Until it isn't. The Cuban Missile Crisis could have put a very permanent end to it all, hadn't cooler minds prevailed, but that was a binary moment. There's absolutely no guarant
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by 9dev 9mo ago
These are questions worth posing. Everyone working in tech right now plays a part in a lot of horrors haunting the world right now, and all of us are partly guilty. If your answer to this is, "I don't care about the environment, e
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by 9dev 9mo ago
I looked into the iOS issue once, and in the EU at least, it should be possible to add a minimal implementation of the store API to an app, so other iPhones could download the app from an iPhone hosting it. After discovering the amount of
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by 9dev 9mo ago
No, but humans existing is the one, fundamental constant of our existence. AI, and its usage for the most minuscule of tasks, is a choice.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
> Also, while a body itself uses only 100W, a normal urban lifestyle uses a few thousand watts for heat, light, cooking, and transportation. Add to that the tier- n dependencies this urban lifestyle has—massive supply chains sprawling a
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by 9dev 9mo ago
It doesn't matter what the model is actually doing at the end of the day, when training and hosting it involves massive amounts of energy.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Where does that number come from? Does it factor in the energy required to build the servers used to train the model? Does it factor in… the training?
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Using your brain is so vastly more energy efficient, we might just only need half of that 30 GW capacity if fewer people had these leftpad-style knee-jerk reactions.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
The way I use them, is for annotating possible extension points or refinements that would improve things, but are more of the "nice to have" kind, or stuff someone coming across might want to take care of later. Many of these don’
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Hey Felix, would love to give you feedback, but the language redirect of the website is trying to route me to de-de, and thus I can't see the page. You might want to fix this.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
You could make that argument about HTTP, SMTP, Slack, or the English language. It turns out that yes, the actual concrete points of collaborative interaction do need to be standardised to a degree, unless you're thinking of everyone sh
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by 9dev 9mo ago
> I feel it's not worth the effort to spend time and learn the hidden features. And that's the only issue here. Many programmers feel offended by an AI threatening their livelihood, and are too arrogant to invest some time in a
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by 9dev 9mo ago
> You can always be like: "This here pattern in these 20 files is Good Code™, use the same collection of approaches and code style when working on this refactoring/new feature." …and then add that to your CLAUDE.md, and
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by 9dev 9mo ago
No, sorry. I just can't listen to him for more than a few seconds, it's something about the way he speaks, the fast cuts, the flashing, it's simply too much for me. I hate that all content that would be better off as text ha
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by 9dev 9mo ago
I'm working on a self-hostable ebook library ( https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri ), and currently tinkering with searching over book content. Have you written about your approach to search somewhere, perhaps? Wo
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by 9dev 9mo ago
> We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, ke
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by 9dev 9mo ago
An open source, self-hostable ebook library for yourself, and/or family and friends. Will include professional and automatically gathered bibliographical metadata, direct reader connectivity, calibre sync, OPDS, an (optional) public br
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by 9dev 9mo ago
If you do, make them play that scrambled egg GIF from TFA in an endless loop. They'll eventually get it.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Even ignoring your flawed understanding of the UK's government, what is your glorious bill of rights worth at the end of the day? Your president just does whatever the hell he wants, ignoring any checks and balances as he sees fit. Fre
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Vite is currently working on a rollup rewrite in Rust, called rolldown[1], that will provide dramatic speed improvements. It’s a drop-in replacement for the most part, and slashed our built times down to 12%. [1] https://vite.dev
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Don't forget Colombia…
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by 9dev 9mo ago
So, Trump is going to go after Iran now, right? As he said he would?
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Also, you probably don’t need to customize it at all, it’s more than good enough out of the box.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Expressing "I want to build a Java app in a single file that I can execute on Windows, MacOS, and Linux" is absolutely straightforward and non-ambiguous in English, whereas it requires really a lot of arcane wizardry in build tool
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by 9dev 9mo ago
There’s no incantation though. You ask Claude in whatever terms feel right to you to do the thing, say "update the gradle config to build a multi platform jar", and it does make it happen. This is not your average abstraction laye
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Point is I don’t want people to get shamed for their tools over some vague idea of intellectual purity.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
The most awful thing is that you can’t punch it in its face for that reply, due to its not having a face.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Thank you, that summary answered all questions I had, in the order I had them.
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Hard disagree from me there. I don’t care what language a tool is built with, I’m neither interested in their choice of code editor, nor whether they use AI in the process or not. It’s a means to an end, not some flaw to be ashamed of and f
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by 9dev 9mo ago
Claude will only ever ask if it is allowed to connect to the domain name, so if it got a malicious link from a web search, you’re SOL anyway.

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