MerrimanInd

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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
Like any opposition party, the anti big tech crowd is actually a loose coalition of different goals and interests. I've noticed that as these platforms get through the earlier stages of "will it even work" the differences in
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
I'd go a few layers even broader than this article and say that the modern tech industry has an abysmal track record when building tools for non-software technical fields. Tech builds either their own software-oriented workflows or the
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
Yeah it is and that's a great effort, I've worked with that team on various things. But the industry is still itching for a second compiler with no crossover (can't just be another LLVM frontend or rustc fork) for those certi
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
Another reason to have a second compiler is for safety-critical applications. In the assessment of safety-critical tools if something like a compiler can have a second redundant version then each one of them can be certified to a lower crit
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
IMO Zen Browser fixed a lot of the Firefox UI painpoints while keeping what I like about it. It would be a smart move to make the Zen UI the canonical version of Firefox. Especially since features like vertical tabs, folders, pins, split sc
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
I think you're right but there's also an opportunity to sell picks when everyone is digging for gold. Like AI-driven VS Code forks, you have AI companies releasing their own browsers left and right. I wonder if Mozilla could offer
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
> This would be career suicide in virtually any other technical field. The cognitive load is unavoidable and in some ways worse in industries with highly technical names. At one point in my career I was an engine calibrator at a large au
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
I worked for a company that had 8-12 different employee passwords across various systems. There was no SSO, they each password had different requirements, and required changes at different intervals ranging from 30-90 days. Consequently eve
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by MerrimanInd 10mo ago
Meshcore is another alternative. I haven't done a deep dive into either but have heard that they both fix some Meshtastic issues. https://meshcore.co.uk/
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
> And again the question why not simply write something new. There is a ton of new stuff getting written in Rust. But we don't have threads like this on HN when someone announces a new piece of infra written in Rust, only when there
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
I've heard two arguments for these rewrites that don't always come up in these discussions. There are fair counterpoints to both of these but I think they add valuable dimensions to the conversation, or perhaps may explain why a r
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
> I hope you can see why _genuinely_ “free, forever.” is in our best commercial interests, long-term. I actually can't but I'd welcome hearing more about the strategy. I suspect what you're alluding to is maybe an open-cor
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
People complain about Adobe's subscription model but it's superior to free-to-play consumer software because it still keeps an alignment between the consumer interest and the company's income. Despite its other faults, you co
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
> Would you prefer they just kept charging you for the product? Yes, exactly. Knowing that my interests, my consumer spending choices, are the direct feedback path to their profitability is one of the only ways to provide some concrete a
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
I understand where y'all are coming from and this is not a judgement against Canva specifically. But you can't be surprised that people are concerned after so many years of anti-consumer anti-patterns in software that start exact
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by MerrimanInd 11mo ago
My roommate in college worked at GE's Global Research lab in Schenectady. As a bit of a relic from the heyday of US corporate research they still had an in-house glassblowing department for producing all the necessary glassware for all
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
I used existing templates from the [typst universe repository]( https://typst.app/universe/ ) for the resume then built something much simpler from scratch for a secondary document, a sort of cover letter/case study
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
After over a decade of occasionally updating that one ancient .docx file, I recently rebuilt my CV/resume using typst and it's been a really fun project! My resume is now a private repo with my personal, career, and styling data s
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
What's the overlap between the offline-first and local-first paradigms these days? Both technologically and philosophically?
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
And shockingly one of the engineers on the call still complained to their coworker later that day "that meeting could have been an email". /s
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
Every mechanical engineer educated in the USA knows the name of two famous collapses: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Hyatt Regency balcony in Kansas City, MO. With an engineering ethics class being part of nearly every undergrad curricul
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
It just might. But if people generate a bias against AI generated code because AI can generate massive amounts of vaguely correct looking yet ultimately bad code then that seems like an AI problem not a people problem. Get better, AI coding
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
I'm a big fan of Zed and having met much of the team I think it's some great people building a great product. But I do echo concerns that while the intentions are all honorable the incentives of the pricing structure, business env
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
I don't think that BBC article is technically detailed enough to make that case. The actual study may be, so I'm not saying you're wrong, but "generative AI" is far too large of an umbrella term that encompasses two
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
While that may be true, I don't think the specific name of the team at Microsoft absorbing GitHub is what's concerning users. I can't think of a team up there that wouldn't be a red flag in this case.
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
That's very interesting because in their episode on hiring practices they said that they hoped the materials would be a valuable exercise for anyone deeply engaged in a job search. Hearing that same feedback from the other side of the
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by MerrimanInd 1y ago
There's also an excellent Local First podcast that interviews the engineers building local-first apps and infra! https://www.localfirst.fm/
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by MerrimanInd 2y ago
Historically the entire engine tuning industry's loophole was some text on their website and product packaging that said "for off road use only". But over the years they've become more brazen about marketing for street u
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by MerrimanInd 2y ago
>Much of the anti-OOP noise is the result of people that have suffered from others creating hierarchies of the world too literally. I think one of the problems is that a heirarchy is inherently opinionated. You have to choose the criteri
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by MerrimanInd 2y ago
I love a long, deep-dive, nerdy talk like this! I'll check it out, thanks.

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