TheMagicHorsey

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by TheMagicHorsey 9mo ago
Have you been on the Internet as an adult ever? Have you been on X? What about Facebook? America is "one mouthpiece"? This is one of the most puzzling takes I've ever seen. Americans literally post 10K articles a day abou
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by TheMagicHorsey 9mo ago
In a strange coincidence (or maybe its actually inevitable given the timing) I also saw a podcast with Matklad of Tigerbeetle and had a similar idea--I've been working on a massively multiplayer game as a hobby project, also built in z
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by TheMagicHorsey 10mo ago
I feel like a lot of people go after Jai because of what Jon Blow says about XYZ political issue. Jai seems perfectly reasonable for at least the narrow task of making games in an indie studio. The macro capabilities might be terrifying i
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by TheMagicHorsey 11mo ago
From a Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1bbvvxb/comme... You will often hear historians talk about working hours. They explain how Trade Unions and Socialist campaigners brough
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by TheMagicHorsey 11mo ago
This article radically downplays the role that unions had in killing the UK shipbuilding industry. While it's true that shipbuilders were reluctant to introduce new technologies and techniques due to capital requirements, the much bigg
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by TheMagicHorsey 11mo ago
I wouldn't say so confidently that Airbus is better than Boeing. Its just better than Boeing at THIS moment. They've been trading places over the decades. A company selling commercial airliners is really only as good as the ord
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by TheMagicHorsey 11mo ago
This seems to be a tiny vessel ... just 5000 tons of cargo. Most container ships carry more like 200,000 tons of cargo. Can sails scale to carry that much cargo? If not, I fear the economics will not work out for sails alone. Perhaps sa
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by TheMagicHorsey 11mo ago
This is like that situation where a kid goes up to the dad who abandoned him and says, "You have given me nothing! I had to do everything myself." And the dad says back, "By giving you nothing I have given you everything. L
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
Did you come first in time before the Deepki company? If so you probably have the ability to win. First in time wins, even if you were a small player. It would be their responsibility not to choose a project with a similar name to what y
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
The licensing on this project is wonky. They have an MIT license, but then they say you can't use the software for commercial purposes without contacting them. That's in contradiction to an MIT license. An MIT license is basica
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
Never attribute malice where incompetence is a sufficient explanation. Microsoft isn't intentionally obfuscating the docx. Docx is a shit-show because hundreds upon hundreds of Microsoft business initiatives, executive pet projects, a
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
Are you generally able to quickly understand what is going on in somebody else's codebase written in Rust? I find it quite difficult to understand other people's Rust code. Is this just a familiarity thing? I have not written a
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
Amazing! How was your experience using Rust on this project? I'm considering a project in an adjacent space and I'm trying to decide between Rust, C, and Zig. Rust seems a bit burdensome with its complexity compared to C and Zig
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
The author seems to forget that no matter how he "frames" LLMs and AGI more generally, its really not up to him, or even any one nation (or block like the EU) to make this decision about what future they "want". If you
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
I know these are three sided marketplaces and difficult to coordinate demand and supply ... but why isn't there more locally hosted town and city level options that undercut the national/international conglomerates? Food delivery
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
I wouldn't use Zig for something production critical, but other people like TigerBeetle have decided its good enough for them, and they seem to be doing fine commercially, so I just refrain from saying its not production ready. But one
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
After using Rust on a couple of projects, I understand the appeal of simpler languages like C3, Zig, and Odin. As one commenter very aptly put on the Zig subreddit ... "I used Zig for (internal tool) because I wanted to quickly write
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
What's going to happen is that we are going to see browser forks from places we never imagined ... like China.
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
They were trained to handle the relationships with the companies writing software for x86 and the companies building computers with Intel chips.
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
The sales engineers had a special rotaion program so they could work in different parts of the business and get experience in different areas, and they had special social events, dinners, etc. Their starting salaries were like 25% - 50% hi
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by TheMagicHorsey 1y ago
I used to work at Intel (around 1999) in their Jones Farm campus in Oregon. My employee stock grants from that time are still underwater. This was the heyday at Intel. I left within a year because I noticed that the talent that was respect
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I tested out Gemini 2.5 and it failed miserably at calling into tools that we had defined for it. Also, it got into an infinite loop a number of times where it would just spit out the exact same line of text continuously until we hard kill
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I think it uses Llama.cpp, which doesn't support MLX.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Never heard of these guys. Do they do good work? I know of several examples of worker-owned coups where the product is excellent: Cheeseboard pizza in Berkeley, Moog synthesizers, etc. I've always wondered whether this model could ext
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
You seriously think America's innovation is Saas for a dollar? As opposed to almost everything that makes the modern world move forward, like cheap spaceflight, modern EVs, quantum computing, semiconductors ... the list of American-dr
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Right, because so much innovation comes from places with super high taxation in Europe. Give me a break.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
It looked like exactly what you said. Plastic.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I'm curious if anyone has tried one of the newer e-ink smart watches you see on Alibaba, which use ESP-32 or other low-power SOCs. I saw one recently at a meet-up and the guy who was wearing claimed it was completely open-source and h
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I see decisions of the same type being made in the suburbs around here all the time, and the prioritization is identical. I think the issue is suburbanites and small-town folks generally have not experienced a walkable environment and don&
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I'd love to read a post-mortem from a SONOS engineer about what happened here so we can all learn. Has anyone seen any blog or Blind posts about this?

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