andrewl-hn

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by andrewl-hn 2mo ago
Meanwhile there are many masters that make these tiles today - I know one personally! - and they all struggle to find clients.
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by andrewl-hn 2mo ago
I suspect they make a big model first. In this case it's Fable. Then they run the shrinker steps to make Sonnet and Opus. Sonnet is smaller, takes less time to make, so it got released first. Opus needed few more weeks to cook. With th
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by andrewl-hn 3mo ago
Just so you know, "move to Europe" is pretty complicated inside Apple ecosystem. You can't move your App Store account from one country to another while you have any subscriptions active. You cancel them, wait for them to ex
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by andrewl-hn 3mo ago
It's less about platforms and more about games themselves. Games on Steam has to follow certain rules that are mostly consumer-friendly. And the fear is that some of these rules will be relaxed to increase Steam's revenue, and as
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by andrewl-hn 3mo ago
I wish I could edit my post. Somehow everyone wrote to me about baldes. These are not the same, though. Blade servers were mounded into units of 4u, 8u, etc, they occupied a portion of the overall cabinet and still had to do "plumbing&
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by andrewl-hn 3mo ago
This design feels very obvious-in-hindsight . Consolidate power adapters and networking, replace cabling with pluggable slots. It's something similar to what IBM mainframes or Sun cabinets could've looked like. Somehow hardware g
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
A lot of it depends on what kind of company / industry you work in. For example, in Rust space there's big divide between LLM-heavy users and light/no-LLM users. Main rust repositories: the language, standard library, formatt
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
A lot of corporate speak is developed in the US and then companies all over the world spread it around. Often the adoption happens without deep understanding of the concept, and without adaptation to local realities. And thus it feels much
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
> Apple very rarely admits mistakes Excep every time they do a big redesign like this. This happened when they moved away from skeuomorphism in iOS7(?) and then backpedalled hard in the following revision because of negative user feedbac
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
Something that not many people consider. It is almost certain that C++ "saved" C by existing. Without C++ there would be an enormous pressure to add more features to C itself. One reason why C committee could get away without ad
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
To be fair, so are many other UIs. Windows 95-style boxy buttons and bevels make the content look organized. Every possible action gets its button that looks like a button. You often see the total set of available actions by looking at a to
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
ChatGPT is a word now. People may use Perplexity, or Google, or Grok to ask questions online. And later they tell you "ChatGPT told me this". It's a new "I googled in Yahoo".
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by andrewl-hn 4mo ago
AI code is uncopyrightable. If you want to be hygienic about it you would let AI commit code as is, and if you don't like the code and decide to change it manually this should be a separate human-only commit. Mixed human-AI commits add
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
I'm surprised they even had them in a first place. Doesn't Microsoft have a deep partnership with OpenAI? Aren't all Copilot things powered by various GPT models? I would assume the two companies have barter agreements of sor
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
Tokens are current era' "lines of code per month" https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
They lay people off and look good in front of investors. Then they hire people, talk about "growth", and once again look good in front of investors. This would never fly if stock market was rational. But it never is.
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
I remember when Mozilla released OdinMonkey that was hyper-specialized for asm.js code, the Chrome / V8 team instead worked on general-purpose optimizations in their JIT that would run normal JavaScript faster but also would help asm.j
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
> Alchemy Yep, that's the name. There was a brief period in late 2000s when Adobe was pushing hard to make Flash embedded into web ecosystem. They made Air as a way to package Web or Flash code into a desktop app. Essentially it was
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
At least some of the projects in these industries now specify strict no-AI-use policies in contracts. I participate in a few of these, and it’s becoming a bit of a pain, because all dev tool vendors insist on adding AI features, and if th
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by andrewl-hn 5mo ago
Let’s be honest. If anyone would be building a brand new company in Poland or any other country with the intention of raising capital or IPOing they would still incorporate in the US or a handful of other countries. So any successful Polish
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by andrewl-hn 6mo ago
A lot of SMBs use Instagram to connect to their clients, so Instagram build-in messenger is a default option for a lot of people (especially women) in many parts of the world. Some places have regional messengers that are very entrenched, l
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by andrewl-hn 6mo ago
> It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. YMMV. I’ve heard a few stories where opened LinkedIn at work was treated as a massive red flag: “this person looks elsewhere, they are not committed to the c
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by andrewl-hn 6mo ago
This would probably push some high-end audio professionals away from Logic. One of the niches Mac Pro has been popular is audio production. And with cheesegrader the ability to slot in many-many different audio interfaces into a box instead
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by andrewl-hn 7mo ago
Very good, actually. But you have to nudge them slightly. Tell them you prefer the modern version of the language, with gradual typing† and function signatures, and you'll get very good results. Perl interpreter comes standard on moder
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by andrewl-hn 7mo ago
That's Reveal.js / Slides.com format. It became very popular in 2010s. The idea behind the 2-d navigation is that you can use left-to-right to move between chapters, and move down to dive into a specific chapter. This allows you t
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by andrewl-hn 7mo ago
The only time you need local dates is for scheduling. Stuff like “Report KPIs for each shift. Shifts start at 8:00 local time.”, or “send this report every day at 10:00 local time”, or “this recurring meeting was created by user X while the
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by andrewl-hn 7mo ago
More like a copy of Java’s JSR310, which in turn took many years to get right.
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by andrewl-hn 7mo ago
Go is modern Java, at least based on the main area of usage: server infrastructure and backend services.
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by andrewl-hn 8mo ago
This is actually against their App Store rules, and likewise the article has the following bit: > Patreon gives creators the option to either increase their prices in the iOS app only, [...] it would totally not fly with Apple. They don
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by andrewl-hn 9mo ago
I routinely have several thousands of tabs opened on my devices, and I never considered myself a hoarder. At some point you adopt a workflow where every browser activity starts with opening a new tab. Plus, so many websites have broken brow

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