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by bborud 5mo ago
For the vast majority of software you want a managed runtime. Some of the problems Rust “solves” are problems you shouldn’t be having in the first place because we mostly write software that doesn’t need direct control over memory. Borrow
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by bborud 5mo ago
Communication is tricky because it isn’t just about the words, but how they land. On the surface it may not seem like belittling someone’s pain. In reality this is exactly what it feels like for those on the receiving end. It also doesn’
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by bborud 5mo ago
Was the anger directed at the moderator?
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by bborud 5mo ago
When a company screws over entire segments of their customers people get angry. And they don’t get less angry when their frustration is belittled by someone how essentially says “your dissatisfaction means less to us than the words you cho
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by bborud 5mo ago
Collaboration need not be subversive. In fact, it can be the opposite. As you point to, by using open standards. Devices are not a real problem. You don’t need scale to get hold of affordable readers in bulk. There’s lots of them availa
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by bborud 5mo ago
What I don’t get is why the publishing industry never got its act together, listened to customers and got its act together. Yes, like many industries I have worked in I can imagine that they are unable to cooperate because of petty greed an
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by bborud 5mo ago
Yes, this struck me as rather odd and unprofessional too. Do you really want to depend on a company where customer facing representatives can’t handle people being upset? Especially when to company has just announced changes that limit wh
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by bborud 5mo ago
Domestic cats are not ‘nature’
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by bborud 5mo ago
And just when we thought Google couldn’t make themselves less attractive.
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by bborud 5mo ago
https://www.swish.nu/faq/private/how-do-i-pay-by-tapping-the...
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by bborud 5mo ago
We have a similar system in Norway and it works with contactless payment already using the phone. Why would you think that contactless payment would require Visa or Mastercard?
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by bborud 5mo ago
I suspect they mean that while a lot of sites put on a good show of pretending to give you a choice, they probably either ignore your wishes anyway or they make sure to ask you so often that occasionally you’ll forget and they’ll share your
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by bborud 5mo ago
Nothing they do actually improves society so in a healthy society we would be able to outlaw what they do. But we don't. So we can't.
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by bborud 5mo ago
As someone pointed out: the risk is not so much spying but the chances of someone pulling the plug and your systems going dark. First the systems have to be up. Then we can deal with the spying and nonsense.
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by bborud 5mo ago
Let me ground this a bit: at the core, LLMs are systems trained to predict the next token in a sequence. They can learn extremely rich statistical structure from language and become surprisingly capable, but extrapolating from that to somet
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by bborud 5mo ago
No, I don't. Do you? If so, why? Extrapolation from guesswork?
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by bborud 5mo ago
I'm not terribly worried. The reason I am not worried is that software isn't my only marketable skillset. That is deliberate. Even though I see myself as primarily a software engineer, in the past decade I've worked in ar
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by bborud 5mo ago
A former colleague of mine used to work for a boss who would periodically stick their head into the office where the programmers were and yell "I can't hear typing! Why are you not working!?". The reason I just remembered th
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by bborud 5mo ago
I'm not fond of functional languages. It isn't that I don't get why they are a really good idea (they are). I just can't stand the syntax, the lack of proper standard libraries, and the lack of mainstream-big-ecosystem&#
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by bborud 5mo ago
It has varied over the years but it isn't actually relevant since I am talking about when I write software. Writing code just isn't what takes time.
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by bborud 5mo ago
Are you, perchance, assuming that since you spend most of your time struggling with actual code, this is so for everyone else? Or are you saying that I'm lying. That I am secretly hammering away at my keyboard while pretending not to?
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by bborud 5mo ago
We never noticed how easy the code writing part had already become because it happened slowly. Through mechanical means, through the ability to re-use code, and through code generation. Heck, even long before LLMs about 10% to 30% of my
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by bborud 5mo ago
You are supposing that AI is achieving human level expertise and capability is a given. I am not so sure. Right now that's much further from the truth than one might think at first glance.
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by bborud 5mo ago
> The AI is coming for that too. To some degree yes, in practice, not so much. In practice you have to be in the world, talk to people, know how to talk to people, know how to listen, and be able to understand the difference between wha
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by bborud 5mo ago
Multiple times per week I have the same conversation. It goes something like this: - AI will make developers irrelevant - Why? - Because LLMs can write code - Do you know what I do for a living? - Yes, write code? - Yes, abou
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by bborud 5mo ago
This is why I have I have started planning to transition away from Gmail for all domains I manage. Gmail doesn't actually get any better as a product - just more annoying as they try to upsell me on crap I don't want or need. It
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by bborud 5mo ago
Again, you are not getting the argument. IPv6 is dead. It is better go give up and see what else can be done. Stop and think about what I'm saying before you react. Are you suggesting we spend another 30 years beating a dead horse?
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by bborud 5mo ago
Microsoft is enshittifying VS Code. I have already started looking for a lifeboat. Imagine what this is going to look like in 2 years.
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by bborud 5mo ago
You appear to not understand my argument. IPv6 is over 30 years old. The world has not embraced it. It isn’t going to. It is time to call it and try to figure out something that will work. You do understand that one need not have a better i
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by bborud 5mo ago
Why are we, in 2026, still talking about ipv6? It is time to give it up and start over. Yes, it is unlikely we can agree on an ipv4 successor. But at this point we should be able to agree ipv6 is not going to be it.

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