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by bloppe 1y ago
Protobuf's main design goal is to make space-optimized binary tag-length-value encoding easy. The mentality is kinda like "who cares what the API looks like as long as it can support anything you want to do with TLV encoding and h
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by bloppe 1y ago
This isn't really WYSIWYG because it keeps the formatting symbols like * or # etc.
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by bloppe 1y ago
It can do both
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by bloppe 1y ago
Lying to investors is illegal, and investors have incentive and means to sue if they think they were defrauded. The problem is proving it. I'm sure a lot of founders genuinely believe AGI is about to appear out of thin air, so they&#x2
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by bloppe 1y ago
Ask a FOSS maintainer and they will not be nearly as optimistic about AI reducing the amount of bugs. A lot of AI generated pull requests are broken or useless and the up wasting a lot of the maintainers' time
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by bloppe 1y ago
At any given moment, there are 6 LTS versions of Ubuntu. Are you proposing that there should be more than that? The tradeoffs are pretty obvious. If you're maintaining a platform, and you want to innovate, you either have to deprecate
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by bloppe 1y ago
Don't tell that to the investors investing hundreds of billions in AI
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by bloppe 1y ago
FWIW I've submitted PRs to tmux and the maintainer Nick Marriott is very easy to work with. The codebase is well organized and things work pretty well. Reading the code made me like tmux even more.
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by bloppe 1y ago
Lol read the article
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by bloppe 1y ago
Nobody's arguing in favor of producing nothing . We're just saying there's something called comparative advantage and it's about maximizing efficiency. The US has no business manufacturing chips for strictly economic re
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by bloppe 1y ago
You're applying macroeconomic theory to microeconomics and it isn't working. individuals will broadly try to maximize their own productivity and minimize their own costs. I'm not gonna pay an extra 20% for the same product ev
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by bloppe 1y ago
20% decrease would be only 80% price rise for the customer
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by bloppe 1y ago
He's probably talking about ASML
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by bloppe 1y ago
An I the only one who has to constantly tell Claude and Gemini to stop making edits to my codebase because they keep messing things up and breaking the build like ten times in a row, duplicating logic everywhere, etc? I keep hearing about h
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by bloppe 1y ago
Technological change can cause short term labor disruptions. They may or may not be broadly negligible. The more important point is that, throughout history, the societies that embrace new technology always end up better off (across the boa
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by bloppe 1y ago
To be fair, the author claims he removed any mention of "ls" from the file. But also to be fair, the post is annoyingly click-baity. I'd be impressed if the LLM could generate more than 2 lines of code from a strace.
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by bloppe 1y ago
I agree that I get a lot of value out of LLMs. But I also have to clean up after them a lot of the time. It's a far cry from being able to replace a skilled developer working on something non-trivial.
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by bloppe 1y ago
This inevitabilist framing rests on an often unspoken assumption: that LLM's will decisively outperform human capabilities in myriad domains. If that assumption holds true, then the inevitabilist quotes featured in the article are conv
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by bloppe 1y ago
To believe that automation must reduce demand for labor is called the lump of labor fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy "While many workers fear that automation or artificial intelligen
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by bloppe 1y ago
And yet odds are you continue to spend increasingly large sums on Apple products every year
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by bloppe 1y ago
I agree in principal. The more interesting development would be if the current FTC takes this as a queue to silently drop the initiative, or if the single judge who decided it would have a different impact than the FTC claimed was acting in
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by bloppe 1y ago
Ok let's say there's existing code that requires that a type is not Clone. Then that type definitely would not have #[derive(Clone)] applied to it. So it would not be affected by the change. So it would not be broken. It's on
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by bloppe 1y ago
I don't see how "the hard way" is a breaking change. Anybody got an example of something that works now but wouldn't work after relaxing that constraint?
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by bloppe 1y ago
"Two programs could have similar behaviour but structured very differently, the difference being that one utilizes caching as an abstraction and one explicitly has the concept of different tiers of storage." The author is comparin
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by bloppe 1y ago
This is a misunderstanding of free market advocacy. The status quo for mobile apps is not a free market. Free markets are defined by meaningful choice. If there are undue restrictions on switching providers for any service -- it doesn'
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by bloppe 1y ago
If that's true, sounds like a slam dunk lawsuit waiting to happen for Nintendo
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by bloppe 1y ago
It matters so much that the BIPM decided to abolish the leap second starting in 2035. See this post for a lot of the reasoning: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering... It makes a lot o
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by bloppe 1y ago
Idk if you just have a bone to pick with libertarians, but monopolized markets by definition are not free markets, regardless of how they arise
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by bloppe 1y ago
https://expertbeacon.com/why-epic-games-is-cheaper-than-stea... Maybe you like paying an extra 20%. That's your business. But fees like that affect the viability of lots of business ideas, including games. Having lower
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by bloppe 1y ago
Why do you think that's the only way? Payment processors have long been able to differentiate recurring transactions from one-offs. Capital One has subscription management.

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