andyferris

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by andyferris 7mo ago
I took that as maybe referring to Trump?
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I think the externality of issue tracking systems like Jira (or even GitHub) cause friction. Literate programming has everything in one place. I’d like to have a good issue tracking system inside git. I think the SQLite version management s
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Does Apple make a profit of iPad Pro and Air, do you think? Is it a "failure"? Their mere existance screams "our iPads are a gazillion times better and more powerful than Android tablets". Remember, they NEED to have suc
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by andyferris 7mo ago
Honestly I think these will sell well in high schools. Where I am, our primary schools require iPads, the kids want iPhones (and mabye tend to inherit their parents old phones), and now there's a lightweight laptop for high school chea
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by andyferris 7mo ago
I am a bit confused though here - should the kernel be written by unemployed people? Most contributors won’t have full-time funding.
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by andyferris 7mo ago
But that's the whole thing. Why change the clocks when we could change the definition of school time, business hours, liquor/gambling licensing hours, construction noise hours, etc? Just use standard time and then base our society
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by andyferris 8mo ago
There were parallel anti-competitive behavior cases brought against Apple and Google. Apple was deemed not to be anticompetitive in app stores because there was no existing market of app stores on iOS. Google was more open in allowing other
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by andyferris 8mo ago
Like many things in the US, this should be settled by congress not judges. Things that everyone relies on for life are generally regulated by law. Telecom platforms for instance. I’d say the mandatory software platform I need for my bank, d
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by andyferris 8mo ago
Actually - do they do this in LLM benchmarks? As a measure of overconfidence/confabulation? Seems immediately applicable.
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by andyferris 8mo ago
Bill Gates did... has anyone else followed in those footsteps?
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by andyferris 8mo ago
> stacktraces are only available in certain build modes > zig has pretty good error traces by default These seem rather conditional. If I need to run release-fast in prod, say, do we loose these error traces (for bugs)?
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by andyferris 8mo ago
I don't know. It's more of a sharp tool like a web browser (also called a "user agent") - yes an inexperienced user can quickly get themselves into trouble without realizing it (in a browser or openclaw), yes the agent m
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by andyferris 8mo ago
Honestly, the EU is more likely to change the behavior of e.g. Facebook than a single employee would. (IMO if the US federal government spent more time caring for it's citizens it would consider doing such things more seriously itself)
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by andyferris 8mo ago
I’ve never heard of vigilante justice against someone already sentenced to prison for life, just because they were sentenced in a place without capital punishment? (I mean - people get killed in prison sometimes, I suppose, but it’s not rea
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by andyferris 8mo ago
The hint from quantum field theory (and things like lattice gauge theory) is that charge emerges from interesting topological states/defects of the underlying field (by "interesting topological shapes" I mean - imagine a vort
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by andyferris 8mo ago
The notes explicitly call out you may want to dial the effort setting back to medium to reduce latency/tokens (high being default, apparently there is a max setting too).
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by andyferris 8mo ago
It does use tokens faster, yes.
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by andyferris 8mo ago
The README on gitlab at least has a sentence or two on that: https://gitlab.com/FascinatedBox/lily > An interpreted language with a focus on expressiveness and type safety Personally I think typed scripting language
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by andyferris 8mo ago
The output is the program behavior. You use it, like a user, and give feedback to the coding agent. If the app is too bright, you tweak the settings and build it again. Photography used to involve developing film in dark rooms. Now my iPhon
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by andyferris 8mo ago
My solution has been to lean into harder problems - even as side projects, if they aren't available at work. I too am an ex-physcist used to spending days thinking about things, but programming is a gold mine as it is adjacent to compu
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by andyferris 8mo ago
Interesting. Similarly R&D tax incentives could be made to only apply if the R&D is publically available (for study, and any use)
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by andyferris 8mo ago
My personal take is this is a consequence of the two-party system. In the US you can "identify" as a democrat or republican. Once you do that, you don't _have_ to think, you can let tribalism guide you. If in another country
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by andyferris 8mo ago
Apparently it moved (at least for me): https://m0u9gezmt0.ufs.sh/f/5F1wx5BYZG1wbDc8WftgL2Nrvz9BolE3...
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by andyferris 9mo ago
Do you not have in-person early voting? In Australia you can postal vote if necessary, but "prepoll" voting is much more popular (I believe 37.5% of registered voters, 90% of which actually voted, in 2025). It's just so conve
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by andyferris 9mo ago
What about for socialism with Chinese charateristics?
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by andyferris 9mo ago
I thought Walmart was well known as an early innovator in precise-but-low-margin business operations?
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by andyferris 9mo ago
The organization plans don't work for very small organizations, for one (minimum 5 seats). Any solopreneur or tiny startup has to use individual plans.
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by andyferris 9mo ago
We are discussing Claude Code clones - the market _is_ programming
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by andyferris 9mo ago
True! Though I worry that instead western governments will beat the judges to the punch and start asking things like DNS providers or even HTTPS servers to keep logs that can be subpoenaed much like a telecom company keeps a log of each pho
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by andyferris 10mo ago
I was physically a lot healthier prior to WFH because I was way more active. Interesting trade off.

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