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by barnabee 5mo ago
It can easily not appreciate if more of it is built than is needed (glut of supply) or nobody wants to live in that places anymore (lack of demand). There are multiple real examples of both, even in America.
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaires%27_Row
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Texting the rich when they’ve managed to get into the position of paying far less tax than almost everyone else is also the obviously right thing to do .
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Now do cars and food… There’s no reason that the cost of something you need “must be recouped” in future by you having and using that thing.
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by barnabee 5mo ago
There are many airshows in Europe, including the world’s largest military airshow (RIAT in the UK). UK list, for example: https://www.air-shows.org.uk/2025/04/uk-airshow-calendar-202... Rest of Europe: https:&#x2
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by barnabee 5mo ago
> That does not extend to using their proprietary BambuNetwork cloud service (somebody else's computer) As I said, I believe people have a right to "adversarial interoperability", so I respectfully disagree
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by barnabee 5mo ago
They have no rights to prevent people modifying and using AGPL software however they want. They should have no rights to control how people use hardware they bought. ToS for hardware should simply be unenforceable. People should have full r
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by barnabee 5mo ago
> it only works on Firefox for me, not on Chrome Sounds like a feature, not a bug
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by barnabee 5mo ago
I've taken the approach of writing and even directly reviewing almost no code for this, otherwise I'd simply not have time for it as another side project. It's also interesting to see how far I can push this "vibe engine
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Probably the most fun I’ve had with LLMs has been slowly making a programming language as a side project. I used to give up somewhere around the type system, too, but this time I’m approaching something vaguely useful. It even has a basic L
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by barnabee 5mo ago
ExpressLRS[0] (drone / radio control protocol) also uses LoRa, I wonder if anyone's tried mesh networking it… [0] https://www.expresslrs.org/
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Not sure it's harder. Rust type system makes it much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with nils and errors, at least. Biggest issue is probably the number of 3rd party dependencies every non-trivial Rust app ends up needing.
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Now that LLMs can breeze through the Rust boilerplate there's no reason to ever write Go again. It's one of the dullest, most mediocre languages out there and despite a nice toolchain and the fact it's undoubtedly a "saf
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by barnabee 5mo ago
People are skimping time in every part. I am watching people who can't code build and deploy dashboards and sites with Claude Code (desktop app - they don't use the CLI), then go cap in hand to developer friends to get it hosted o
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by barnabee 5mo ago
A lot of good and interesting things started out as toys We should build more toys
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Everything from complex backend logic and processing to new user facing festivals, ops and infra tools, analytical apps, etc. A lot of engineers now describe the problem, discuss the outline of the solution with the LLM, and then get it to
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Because a lot of engineering is pattern repetition, which is not very fun for engineers either, and LLMs can do it much faster?
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Yes, it is trivially true much of the time. Even so-called UX and product experts get stuff wrong all the time. Going from idea to prototype to feedback in hours or days rather than days or weeks feels like a superpower, at least in the ver
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Iteration speed is far more important than the volume of features delivered, though we are tackling aspirational features that would previously have been considered too complex or niche, too.
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by barnabee 6mo ago
It’s no more exhausting than the alternative. It feels good being able to build more and experiment more. The biggest downside is the feeling that people sometimes turn their brain off and aren’t even doing basic checks on some of the slop
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Different teams are using it in very different ways so it can be tough to compare meaningfully. Backends handling tens to hundreds of thousands of messages per second with extremely high correctness and resilience requirements are necessari
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Where I work: - Development velocity is very noticeably much higher across the board. Quality is not obviously worse, but it's LLM assisted, not vibe coding (except for experiments and internal tools). - Things that would have been tac
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by barnabee 6mo ago
I think Google might just be institutionally incapable of making good UX
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by barnabee 6mo ago
I prefer OpenCode over Claude Code, and it works with basically everything. Give it a try. ymmv
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Hopefully the US’ self imposed isolation will mean that when they do, they aren’t able to force the rest of the world to follow suit.
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Yes, doesn't need to be "communist" or even fully socialist. I think governments should invest in their economies - mostly by investing in research, education, infrastructure, health and wellbeing of citizens, etc. but also
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by barnabee 6mo ago
Bad: let tech (now "AI") companies, built on the collective (often in theory IP-protected) output of humanity, own and mediate an ever increasing proportion of the value created in society. Intellectual rent-seeking, if you will.
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by barnabee 6mo ago
I'll be satisfied if we just manage to seize the means of our otherwise impending servitude under corporate techno-fascism…
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by barnabee 6mo ago
A lot of people here aren't going to like it, but the only reasonable way out I can see is to eventually socialise ownership and control of AI. I don't see an alternative that isn't really bad.
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by barnabee 6mo ago
I only ever used Copilot through OpenCode and for a while it was a crazy good deal. Quite possibly two orders of magnitude cheaper than API credits. It was great while it lasted.

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