brundolf

7 ms·

31.
by brundolf 1y ago
I think software people tend to underestimate the value of superficial familiarity. By all means, adhere to your new concepts and mental model. But even things like coloring, placement of the menu bar, the icons that you use, the organizati
32.
by brundolf 1y ago
Feedback: the UI feels like a direct reference to VSCode, which is familiar to software developers, but not to lawyers. If you're hoping this will be adopted by lawyers, I would focus on making the UX familiar to them . Look at softwa
33.
by brundolf 1y ago
> [Clarc] is much faster and also will easily let HN run on multiple cores This was all running on a single core??
34.
by brundolf 1y ago
Yes and this is just garden-variety abstraction and toolmaking, which is what programmers have done since the very beginning
35.
by brundolf 1y ago
Something I've been thinking about is that most claims of AI productivity apply just as well (and more concretely and reliably) to just... better tooling and abstractions Code already lets us automate work away! I can stamp out ten ins
36.
by brundolf 1y ago
Amazing, no notes
37.
by brundolf 1y ago
Apple's online services have always been a shitshow for me. Tiny details are bad or broken in ways that would never be acceptable on other major online services (or Apple's non-services software!) I don't know what's rot
38.
by brundolf 1y ago
Exactly. People on HN get angry and confused about low software quality, compute wastefulness, etc, but what's happening is not a moral crisis: the market has simply chosen the trade-off it wants, and industry has adapted to it If you
39.
by brundolf 1y ago
Agreed. It's become a pretty useful tool for individual people to use for individual tasks. But to hyper-scale to a point where it justifies crazy valuations - even short of super-intelligence - it has to scale beyond users. It has t
40.
Llamafile(github.com)
1 points by brundolf 1y ago|0 comments
41.
by brundolf 1y ago
I knew it transpiled to a function call, though I didn't know babel lets you parameterize that without writing a custom plugin
42.
by brundolf 1y ago
Right, but only with a custom transpilation step. It would be nice if there were only a single standard JSX transpilation that all the frameworks and platforms ingested the output of
43.
by brundolf 1y ago
Something I wish is that you could "render" JSX agnostically and just get a JSON data structure describing a tree of tags, which is not specific to the platform or even the framework, and then you could pass that off to whichever
44.
by brundolf 1y ago
It's a common fallacy to equate "there's a limit to how much we can guarantee" with "guaranteeing anything is a waste of time". Each guarantee we can make eliminates a whole class of possible bugs That said, Ru
45.
by brundolf 1y ago
I almost want to call this nominative determinism I always thought it was called godbolt because it's like... Zeus blowing away the layers of compilation with his cosmic power, or something. Like it's a herculean task
46.
by brundolf 1y ago
> Isn't this a runtime problem and not a compile-time problem? buy() or sell() is going to be called with dynamic parameters at runtime, in general. Yes, but the strength of Rust's type system means you're forced to handle
47.
by brundolf 1y ago
Wait, Godbolt is someone's name ?
48.
by brundolf 1y ago
Many people, especially in our subculture, tend to feel like if they can't solve an entire problem forever, if they can't Change The World, what they're doing is futile and pointless But most people can't change the worl
49.
by brundolf 1y ago
JS-first developers want something that works the same way client-side and server-side, and the mainstream front-end dev community shifted to JS-first, for better or worse
50.
by brundolf 1y ago
And even without that, high-quality module systems and tooling make your code extremely portable, for both Bun and Deno. I run a Deno server for a small project and I don't host it on Deno Deploy Which- this is one of my favorite thing
51.
by brundolf 1y ago
My understanding was it was basically the same business model: make a runtime people love, add some APIs that node doesn't have, and then offer an integrated hosting platform which supports all of those out of the box and hope people p
52.
by brundolf 1y ago
It's amazing for scripting, I use it for that all the time too. Just the basic premise of "we can have nice things [static types and a standard library] in scripts" is lovely I hope it doesn't die, but I always thought t
53.
by brundolf 1y ago
Yep. But wonderful at aggregating details from twelve different man pages to write a shell script I didn't even know was possible to write using the system utils
54.
by brundolf 1y ago
I find this type of problem is what current AI is best at: where the actual logic isn't very hard, but it requires pulling together and assimilating a huge amount of fuzzy, known information from various sources They are, after all,
55.
by brundolf 1y ago
Not what OP is about, but idea I just had: We should have the technology now to hand-write pseudocode on a piece of paper (or whiteboard or chalkboard), and have it translated and executed. Maybe you even hook up a projector, and project th
56.
by brundolf 1y ago
The plastic frame probably helps by making it super light. And that + the lack of paint definitely helps cut manufacturing costs
57.
by brundolf 1y ago
Theory: code is one of the last domains where we don't just work through a UI or API blessed by a company, we own and have access to all of the underlying data on disk. This means tooling against that data doesn't have to be made
58.
by brundolf 1y ago
How much of it is AI, and how much of it is that we have too many computer science graduates now because of the gold rush? The same thing happened ten years ago with law school: everyone thought if they got a law degree they'd be set.
59.
by brundolf 1y ago
Devil's advocate: couldn't this be better for privacy than other age checks because it doesn't require actual identification?
60.
by brundolf 1y ago
My dad and I used to make a habit of going to the Plano, TX location together and just walking around. I'd want to look at the software and the games, he'd want to look at the big TVs. It was one of the few activities we could do

More ›