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by bpavuk 10mo ago
> The bottleneck is still knowing what to build, not building. shit, I'm stealing that quote! it's easier to seize an opportunity, (i.e. build a tool that fixes the problem X without causing annoying Y and Z side effects) but
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
side effects are not necessarily a bad thing. unintentional side effects are. with some exceptions, such as UI frameworks, I find it harder to unintentionally create a side effect. also, UI is basically one huge side effect. Kotlin and Ru
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
I'd personally declare dead everything except 3 and 4 because, unlike the rest, polymorphism is genuinely useful (e.g. Rust traits, Kotlin interfaces) trivia: Kotlin interfaces were initially called "traits", but with Kotlin
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
near-infinite until they finish Kotlin LSP alpha. also, hot take: Kotlin simply does not need this many tools for refactoring, thanks in part to the first-class FP support. in fact, almost every non-Android Kotlin dev I have ever met woul
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
this explains virtually everything: - that's why OOP failed - side effects, software too liquid for its complexity - that's why functional and generic programming are on their rise - good FP implementations are natively immutable,
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
concise answers are the best, and I agree with that one. I am still curious, why ? I have my own set of why's and want to hear yours
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
first off, drop the idea of coding "agents" entirely. semi-async death valley is not worth it, you will never get into the flow state with an "agent" that takes less than an hour to spin, and we did not learn how to make
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
it will be easy to prove that it is not technically possible since Git is decentralized. but fines... oh, those fines could be enormous. possibly, AMD could get barred from implementing HDMI at all - all HDMI has to do is to stop selling
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
I am missing some context, did not follow the Linux/Rust drama. which guy?
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
yeah, but you have to download their mobile counterpart as well. you can't have e.g. Chrome desktop and Brave mobile work together. meanwhile, any Firefox syncs with any Firefox
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
modern Zen is a lot better than then :) the only missing from the sidebar thing is Library as a central place to manage downloads, spaces, and history. and although the downloads window looks a bit unsexy, it's totally enough
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
Zen is actually solid these days. being a Firefox-based browser, it has its quirks, (i.e. Theo complained about gradient rendering or whatever, but who cares?) but it's still the best Arc-like we currently have. plus, you get synchroni
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CSS has custom functions(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by bpavuk 10mo ago|1 comments
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
seen excitement around if. [0] just a reminder: CSS had custom functions for months. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092198
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by bpavuk 10mo ago
I, too, am extremely interested in development on Tangled, but I miss two features from GitHub - universal search and Releases. the web frontend of Tangled is so fast that I am still getting used to the speed, and jj-first features like sta
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
but those AI/ML researchers aka LLM optimization staff are not cheap. their salaries have skyrocketed, and some are being fought for like top-tier soccer stars and actors/actresses
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
I do `cargo vendor` sometimes, but that's mostly to enable offline work and use the debugger inside some vague crates (Rust's libraries-but-not-really), and usually I gitignore the `vendor`'ed crates away.
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
well, if you talk about private SSH keys for Git operations and SSH/GPG keys for signing, then you'd better set up a passphrase on them, which GitHub strongly recommends. the passphrase will make it significantly harder to use t
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
I truly hope that PGP encryption will become a new standard for email and communication in general. Someone really needs to move the needle on this.
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
a link without loginwall: https://archive.is/1gzFE
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
wait, I short-circuited here. wasn't the very concept of "libraries" created to *not* have to think about what exactly the code does? imagine reviewing every React update. yes, some do that (Obsidian claims to review every de
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
Ukraine. Sporadic outages as well. Error pages blame Cloudflare Warsaw servers.
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
you missed the point. Zed develops and pioneers ACP (Agent Client Protocol), which I can also use in other editors and with other agents. at the moment, only Neovim is available as an alternative editor, but nothing stops, say, JetBrains fr
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by bpavuk 11mo ago
Well, there are platforms that did figure it out, but it's quite fractured. For US, you have Bluesky and Fediverse (Flipboard, Mastodon). In Ukraine, you can use Threads. Germany seems to love Bluesky and Mastodon, given the amount of
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by bpavuk 1y ago
although Apple has tremendous influence over Swift, Swift for Android is a grassroots effort, as said in the link. if community needs it, community will maintain it, and Apple won't get in the way. why would they?
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by bpavuk 1y ago
yes. there is an aspect you are missing. no one in their right mind wants to bundle Chromium with every app install, and every Discord user hates mobile Discord app, which is, guess what? uses Chromium!
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How it's possible to put an invisible backdoor inside a compiler [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bpavuk 1y ago|0 comments
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by bpavuk 1y ago
that is cool and all, but don't forget that some researchers were caught putting hidden messages ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06185 ) instructing LLMs to praise the paper. it would be good if you made some sort of p
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by bpavuk 1y ago
well, Bluesky and Mastodon posts would suffice, but it's still useless because of how redacted the release is
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by bpavuk 1y ago
and every LLM is a "fork" of Google's Transformers architecture. everything is a "fork", if you give it a serious thought.

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