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by bogwog 4y ago
Can you give a good example of a market problem that can’t be solved through increased competition?
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by bogwog 4y ago
You’re getting downvoted, but I think this is a really good question. Why didn’t market competition solve this issue? I don’t know enough about this to be able to answer. Maybe John Deer was guilty of anti-competitive behavior that suppress
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by bogwog 4y ago
Is this the beginning of a new conspiracy theory?
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by bogwog 4y ago
I'm sure Starbucks would trade you a Double Frappe Latte for Apple Stock, if they had the facilities to accept it.
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by bogwog 4y ago
I expect it to be implemented in the most passive-aggressive way possible. Also, it will probably have the same bullshit tricks that Google uses to make it difficult, meaning it will only be useful to tech nerds.
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by bogwog 4y ago
> The Rust teams are far more equipped to handle the development of Rust than anyone entertaining this fork (unless, of course, a significant number of members of the Rust teams decide to move over). As a form of protest against the sill
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by bogwog 4y ago
CrabLang - the world’s most unpolished programming language!
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by bogwog 4y ago
This seems like an extreme niche. What is the benefit of offline installers? Doomsday prepping? Because it’s certainly not more convenient than what Steam does, and Steam doesn’t require an internet connection to play games.
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by bogwog 4y ago
> Steam is possibly one of the least worse monopolies that have existed. It doesn't block the products from being sold on other platforms, takes care of quite a lot for those who use it. They do require that the price of your game o
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by bogwog 4y ago
That would be a pretty awesome installation at Universal Studios. But I guess making it not say offensive things might be a problem… or not, depending on the character.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Why would I invest in games/hardware for Stadia if Google themselves admit that it might get shutdown at anytime? Lying to consumers is the safer (short term) bet.
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by bogwog 4y ago
What words would you use to describe someone who looks down on others because they're actively looking for a job? The three that come to mind for me are: "cynical", "elitist", and "asshole"
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by bogwog 4y ago
Can you recommend a language that doesn't crash?
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by bogwog 4y ago
> Surely it is Firefox' team's responsibility to use system calls in a sane way, say not almost 50x more than the competition? The docs for that function don't say anything about performance: https://learn.micro
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by bogwog 4y ago
I’m coming from the perspective of someone who has been working with it for a while, and coincidentally very intensely hacking away at it recently. The thing about waf is that it’s more designed like a framework than a typical build tool. I
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by bogwog 4y ago
I get that, but again, there's no reason Waf can't be used as a base for building that. I actually use Waf for cross compilation extensively, and have built some tools around it with Conan for my own projects. Waf can handle cross
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by bogwog 4y ago
No offense, but I think you're reading too much into my casual comments here to guide your understanding of waf, rather than the actual waf docs. Waf isn't optimized for clean builds (quite the contrary), and neither you nor I kno
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by bogwog 4y ago
I've been using Waf for a couple of years, including on retro thinkpads from ~08. I've never run into issues with the startup time for waf and/or Python. Even if the interpreter were 100x slower to start and execute than it c
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by bogwog 4y ago
It’s true that Waf doesn’t come with dependency management out of the box (EDIT: unless you count pkg-config), so maybe that’s why (besides NIHS). The way I handle it is with another excellent project called Conan ( https://conan.
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by bogwog 4y ago
I agree, that’s also pretty much why Starlark exists. However, there are many cases where you do need complex build logic. Personally, I always go for declarative CMake first, then waf as soon as I find my CMakeLists looking like somethin
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by bogwog 4y ago
I don't think that matters so much. For building a system, you definitely need dynamic linking, but end user apps being as self contained as possible is good for developers, users, and system maintainers (who don't have to worry a
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by bogwog 4y ago
I feel so lucky that I found waf[1] a few years ago. It just... solves everything. Build systems are notoriously difficult to get right, but waf is about as close to perfect as you can get. Even when it doesn't do something you need, o
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by bogwog 4y ago
What a huge contrast lol. $335k salaries vs $3.99 per prompt.
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by bogwog 4y ago
I go to cool app website, I click download, I get a '.deb' file, I click .deb file, it opens some installer GUI (instead of Ark because I'm lucky today), I click install, I get error, I google error, I find cryptic commands t
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by bogwog 4y ago
In other words, they’re actually incentivized to help make LLMs as accessible as possible, rather than try to keep them locked up to hide them from competitors. Which makes me wonder if Nvidia is doing anything with LLMs too?
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by bogwog 4y ago
I think the term is "mail fraud", and it's very illegal
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by bogwog 4y ago
I had the same concerns about shipping speed, but then I just said fuck it and cancelled my Prime anyways. It turns out that waiting a few more days for items actually isn't a problem for me. It also brings the added benefit that I no
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by bogwog 4y ago
I'm sure Amazon can commit more resources to solving this problem than some random individual on HN can commit to a ~3 sentence long comment. If they wanted to solve this problem, they would have already. Clearly, they don't care.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Captchas are futile. I remember many years ago when I was in highschool, I came across a shady job posting on an eBay listing. The work involved solving captchas. There was a web page they set up that just displayed one captcha after anothe
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by bogwog 4y ago
I don't have the link, but someone estimated that training a Llama clone from scratch would cost around ~$80k. That's pocket change for most corporations and some individuals.

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