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by alberth 2y ago
Congrats, fascinating work! Q: has the GC of Nim caused any challenges? (And if not, would you attribute that to Nim unique GC that does NOT “stop-the-world”?) https://nim-lang.org/1.4.0/gc.html
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by alberth 2y ago
I don't disagree. But it's the author who is implying that "legacy = bad" Note: I genuinely love Windows 2000 UI/UX (and wish it still existed today)
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by alberth 2y ago
> “Feel Like Legacy Software” Is a bit ironic to state given their blog design is reminiscent of OS X ‘brushed metal’ theme from 24-years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)#/media...
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by alberth 2y ago
I wish SQLite would officially fork itself and: - So make breaking changes as needed. (it was first released in 2000 and has fantastic backwards compatibility, but hardware & OS have radically changes over the last 24 years - as well as
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by alberth 2y ago
Here's a better example. ~50 years ago, laws were written that stated "all communication companies are consider utilities and as such, all utilities should have common access to 'telephone' poles for use to lay down cabl
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by alberth 2y ago
That sounds good, but doesn't work in practice. New technology advancements make once very well understood laws, now ambiguous. Take AI as an example. How many laws have been written over the past few decades that could not have predic
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by alberth 2y ago
Whirlwind week. First, Zed found to allow silent (non-consented) background binary downloads [0] Now, launching on Linux. Both of which are big news in its own right. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902826
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by alberth 2y ago
TL;DR; Under Chevron, a court defers to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, as long as the judge finds the interpretation to be reasonable. If the court limits or upends the Chevron doctrine (which the SCOTUS did), the ruling woul
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by alberth 2y ago
So odd they publish to Medium, and not their own NYT platform.
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by alberth 2y ago
Slightly OT: does anyone know why OpenBSD decided to build their own version of git, as opposed to using jujutsu (or another alternative)? https://www.gameoftrees.org/
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by alberth 2y ago
If DockYard.com had a security incident for a free/beta service, I'm sure you'd want users to show some compassion. (It doesn't make it right, all I'm saying is - showing compassion goes a long way with developers w
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by alberth 2y ago
While I share similar concerns, I also want to point out that: - Zed is (currently) free - still pre 1.0 release - being developed quickly by a small group of developers For those of us who enjoy Zed, we should give appreciation
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by alberth 2y ago
Really interesting article. Unfortunately, Notion is still painfully slow.
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by alberth 2y ago
I miss the lack of bombardment of ads & popups. I’m looking at you FastCompany.
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by alberth 2y ago
The mantra of "fail-fast" can be painful for customers (even though it's cheered in these forums) ... Especially when the definition of what "success" looks like is defined by a major player who expects major outcom
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by alberth 2y ago
> I spent 6+yrs @ AMD engg in mid to late 2000s helping design the CPU/APU/GPUs that we see today . Is that a far statement to make, given ~20-years has passed?
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by alberth 2y ago
Does Apple do anything like this with their hardware/software combo?
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by alberth 2y ago
Is 10,000 comments a large enough sample size to gain insights from?
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by alberth 2y ago
While I agree, he also admits his biggest miss was phone/hardware (which is what catapulted Apple). https://youtu.be/v9d3wp2sGPI?feature=shared
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by alberth 2y ago
Intel for a few decades didn’t do to shabby.
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by alberth 2y ago
> making the actual profit margins from AI-centric companies close to 0 The same thinking stopped many legacy tech companies from becoming a “cloud” company ~20 years ago. Fast forward to today and the margin for cloud compute is still o
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by alberth 2y ago
There’s websites decided to pointing out which standards various browsers do & don’t support. https://caniuse.com/ (An older not as relevant one is http://acid3.acidtests.org/ )
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by alberth 2y ago
Q1: given that all browsers support non-standard functionality (e.g., CSS attributes not ratified yet, etc) - how will you decide which non standard specs you’ll implement and which you won’t? (or will you just use Chrome as a reference spe
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by alberth 2y ago
As a comparison, that’s roughly: Moderna COVID: ~$1 per vaccinated person Flu vaccine: $25-90 per person Seems like the US got Moderna vaccine for crazy cheap. https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/flu-vaccinatio
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by alberth 2y ago
I didn’t realize HeyNote applied Commons Clause to their license. https://github.com/heyman/heynote/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/kjk/edna/blob/main/LICENSE
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by alberth 2y ago
Unitary Executive Theory The movie “Vice” explains well what this is about. It’s was originally imploded by President George W Bush. https://youtu.be/_UPvTdDB-h0 —- SCOTUS essentially ruled in favor of this theory.
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by alberth 2y ago
> Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time! As someone who doesn't know this kind of stuff well, will this cause OpenBSD to have to update the statement above? https://www.openbsd.org EDIT:
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by alberth 2y ago
> If you can’t easily explain why something is difficult, then it’s incidental complexity, which is probably worth addressing That’s how I feel about git.
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by alberth 2y ago
Slight OT: can anyone recommend websites that have good technical documentation? What I mean by “good”, is the design & layout of the technical documentation is easy to consume and visually appealing. (I’m revamping my customer facing t
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by alberth 2y ago
What’s worked for me … Only eat what’s in your refrigerator, and don’t eat anything from a pantry or freezer. Sugar (and carbs) are predominately found in pantry and freezer goods.

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