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121.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
> Cavendish painstakingly recorded those oscillations to measure the gravitational force of the larger spheres on the smaller ones, and from that he could infer Earth’s density. I can't wrap my head around this sentence. How is the
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
> What’s notable is that all of these bugs landed in a production Rust codebase, written by people who knew what they were doing So does this mean that neither did the original utils have any test harness, the process of rewriting them d
123.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
Does this mean that "Let Opus 4.6 churn in a terminal window my whole workday for a fixed price my employer barely notices" was never sustainable?
124.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
> We have a few more picky customers in Germany. Describe making business in Europe with one evergreen sentence
125.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
So let me get this straight (Pretend I'm 50, a developer since childhood, but I can't CSS to save my life) are there shops where developers, even front end developers, have to talk to designers who are't just sketching an ide
126.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
That lens (Sigma Cine 18-35/F2) is a big lens, but it looks almost too big there, like it was composited in, or the perspective is somehow strange.
127.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
Let's say I have the canonical example of a stack from main via a backend-pr and a frontend-pr. When my stack is done I send it for review to one frontend reviewer and one backend reviewer. Usually when you develop a "full stack&q
128.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
I also kind of wish Rust had a two-tier system where you could opt into (or out of) the full thing. The lighter version he describes would make some assumptions that reduce not just the mental overhead but importantly the _syntax_ overhead.
129.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
What’s the current state of it in terms of stability, performance, features?
130.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
When you use LLMs with APIs I at least see the history as a json list of entries, each being tagged as coming from the user, the LLM or being a system prompt. So presumably (if we assume there isn't a bug where the sources are ignored
131.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
Yes for a meaningful context you should need both the source repo and the work tracking system. But today most systems have apis (jira, ADO, gh, ...) so this should be fairly doable, especially using a bot like copilot cli. But it's no
132.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
That's orthogonal to this. That requires special hardware and using those doesn't really rule this out as an additional measure.
133.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
My point is: the "security through obscurity is bad" and "security through obscurity isn't real security" are both incorrect. They apply to different threats and different contexts. When you have code running in the
134.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
What would be "actual security" in this context? This isn't about security of the same kind as authentication/encryption etc where security by obscurity is a bad idea. This is an effort where obscurity is almost the only
135.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
Trusting the messages to contain specific keywords seems optimistic. I don't think I used "emergency" or "hotfix" ever. "Revert" is some times automatically created by some tools (E.g. un-merging a PR).
136.
by alkonaut 6mo ago
That would mean in a way accepting that they are suddenly a service company with the aim to create revenue by selling services to customers for money.
137.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
The roadmaps look messy if you look at them as coming from one company. But if you remember that windows and .net (or DevDiv) are more like competing companies then it makes more sense. Then for one side it’s Win32, MFC, WinSDk and for the
138.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
Not only do I not keep up with the tech itself, I don’t even keep up with how to pay for it.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
It’s the one constant about this administration: you’re always wondering ”is this incompetence by not knowing what they’re saying or incompetence where they know what they’re saying”
140.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
This is dumb enough that it can’t be accidental. I genuinely believe the strategy is to create vague but recognizable brands but avoid labeling _products_ with recognizable names. Microsoft seem to think that it’s better to have some names
141.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
Do you regularly talk to anyone in a Microsoft shop (like most enterprises)? If you work in a ms ”partner” company there’s rarely a choice between the Microsoft product and something else. Azure over AWS is a given etc.
142.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
Copilot cli isn’t as good as Claude but it’s not just fancy autocomplete either. Copilot cli seems to be converging with the rest and you can use mcp servers, skills, launch fleets of agents that use tools etc.
143.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
> its not even source available It _wasn't_ even source available.
144.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
Great, it became a $1000 gpu while you were reading that.
145.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
This would be _extremely_ valuable for desktop dev when you don't have a DOM, no "accessibility" layer to interrogate. Think e.g. a drawing application. You want to test that after the user starts the "draw circle"
146.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
MAUI is a Microsoft project, this is not?
147.
by alkonaut 7mo ago
This isn't Microsoft. This is an open source project. .NET has been on Linux for ages.
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
I think that's the trajectory they are on https://avaloniaui.net/blog/avalonia-partners-with-google-s-...
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
The most infuriating part about git's default behavior is that it's so ignorant about what actual reality users live in. For example: when merging or rebasing it's really important to know what I did myself, vs what someone e
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Even for me (a software developer who reads these articles) it's really hard to actually know whether the software is any good. Are there unlockable features? Are there subscriptions with reasonable costs? What happens if I don't

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