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by apatheticonion 4mo ago
Seeing that R&D costs are the lion's share, I wonder if we are at a point where the focus can shift to improving the cost of inference. Unless we are genuinely pushing to find AGI, at which point nothing matters, LLMs in their curr
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by apatheticonion 4mo ago
I use DeepSeek every day (via VSCode Insiders and Zed Editor). It's very affordable and, while it's slightly behind Claude (not sure how far behind Fable), it suits my working style well. I'm not using unsupervised multi-agen
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by apatheticonion 4mo ago
Another thing git isn't good at is massive codebases with long histories. IMO git should have a configuration option to pull commits lazily without the need for `--depth` and the `git fetch` dance that goes along with it.
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by apatheticonion 4mo ago
Makes sense. I honestly haven't thought about it too much. I liked that I could move to Turso if I needed cloud storage given the free tier and that the API works with tokio nicely
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
For me, I have a use case that needs to support a few thousand users, probably a few hundred concurrently. The combination of SQLite (libsql, a concurrent implementation of sqlite) and Rust means I can do so from a $2/m VPS and a singl
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
I wouldn't underestimate people in the React ecosystem not to adopt insanity en mass.
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
I wrote Go professionally for years. I don't know how many hours I've spent debugging and reviewing nil pointer bugs and race conditions. Generics were sorely needed but the initial implementation was lacking. I moved to Rust prof
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
Shameless plug. I've been developing a web server library for Rust based on the ergonomics of the Golang standard library. It has a router, middleware, and uses AsyncRead, AsyncWrite for the request/responses. I use this for my pr
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
I wrote Go professionally for years. Moved to Rust and couldn't be happier. There are some annoying syntax quirks but they are minor. After writing web services, GUI apps and terminal apps professionally in Rust, I honestly struggle to
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
You gotta know how to write Rust (and general software arch) first. LLMs + Rust have been great for me. "Write an SQL Repository with this interface" Sweet - no need for SQLc or an ORM
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
I use Rust for web services all the time. It's a dream compared to Go (which I wrote professionally for years). At this point, I can't imagine a scenario not to use Rust for writing a web API.
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
100% this How nice would it be if there were ReadAsync and WriteAsync traits in the standard library. Right now, every executor (and the futures crate) implements their own and there are compat crates to bridge the gaps.
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by apatheticonion 5mo ago
Having written a JavaScript runtime in Rust in the past - Rust is an excellent choice. Not just due to the development experience, but also for embedders who want to consume the project as a a library (rather than a binary, e.g. node). Not
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
They describe themselves as an "established startup" lol. It's just an industry-tailored CRM so it's a form-heavy application, nothing about it is ground breaking. IMO if you're profitable and have been around longe
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
Luckily I am about as frugal as they come (humble beginnings) - but also I'm in Australia and big tech here pays about as much as an average Sr salary in a non big-tech company in the states. At my last job, I was on 220k/y USD TC
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
Appreciate the balanced feedback. It echos what some of the longer tenured engineers have advised me. One colleague whom I have worked with in a previous role and has a similar mindset to me said that he just does the 1 PR a day and spends
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Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
I think there is a strong case that "the right to repair" includes software. If that doesn't mean drivers must be open source, it should at least mean hardware is documented such that a driver can be written from it. But the
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
I agree that MacOS is more polished. However overall, Linux is a better complete package - especially for power users, gamers and engineers. Linux GUIs are _fine enough_ though the jank is still present. The good news is they will get bette
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
It's hard to imagine it'll come close to the complete MacBook package and it'll likely be similarly priced. - Screen - Speakers - The unbelievable trackpad - Battery life - GPU performance (Linux gaming on this would be amazi
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
Haha, I can't imagine Apple contributing open source driver code to mainline Linux. My assumption is that if they ever decided they would provide support for Linux, it would be a private Mac-linux fork. It's hard to imagine they w
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
And yet the file explorer still fails to update when the files actually change https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/30851
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
Really? I get headaches semi-frequently and my first line of defense is ibuprofen, I use acetaminophen sporadically as a last resort
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
You have to surrender your silicon(e) to the state!
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
I'm not sure this is what they meant when they said they wanted to bring manufacturing back to the USA lol
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
They decided to leave the bootloader unlocked. I guess, in today's anti-consumer tech landscape, that's nice of them.
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
Apple helped by not locking the bootloader. I'd don't know if I'd call that going out of their way to make Linux a reality. If they wanted to go out of their way, they could spend a weekend writing Linux drivers - Apple have
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
Why would it wipe billions from their share price? Both Linux and Windows were available on Mac hardware prior to Apple Silicon. If I play devil's advocate, the only reason I could think of is that supporting Linux signals to investors
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
I don't want to take away from the hard work put in by the Asahi project because it is amazing. Linux on Apple Silicon is not a reality on my M5 Pro. I run Asahi on my M1 Pro, but I cannot use my USB-C dock with it and, while amazing,
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by apatheticonion 6mo ago
My only hope, however unlikely, is that Apple will recognise that power users, engineers and gamers would really really appreciate running Linux on Macs and they write some drivers for it. There are literally no PC laptops with the quality

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