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by cageface 3y ago
I like Svelte but I’m not sure I’d describe it as “minimalist”. It’s a new language with its own compiler and reactivity system.
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by cageface 3y ago
Their competitors are also engaged in a lot of market abuse for which they’ve mostly emerged unscathed.
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by cageface 3y ago
The ad business supports android development.
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by cageface 3y ago
Google deserves a lot of recent criticism but at the same time I think they provide an important counterbalance to Apple and Microsoft. I especially don’t want to see Android go away as the only competitor to iOS.
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by cageface 3y ago
I found the OP 1 especially difficult for this. I never got used to the tape recording workflow. It's a pity because I really liked it otherwise.
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by cageface 3y ago
Even the term hallucinate gives them too much credit. It's more accurate to say they just make stuff up that sometimes happens to be accurate or useful.
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by cageface 3y ago
I find grid based systems like Ableton great for getting short loops together but making the jump to a finished track is a lot harder. I have folders full of sketches I've built up in years of using it but very few things I'd call
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by cageface 3y ago
I agree. I think they will be useful for a lot of things and in some domains you can probably get away with using their output verbatim. But I also think that a lot of people are getting caught up in the hype right now and we're going
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by cageface 3y ago
This was my experience as well. The time it saved me didn't add up to the time I spent in the debugger fixing subtle bugs in code that looked fine but didn't quite work. I think it would be very easy to ship hard to find bugs in p
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by cageface 3y ago
Right but they're limited to concepts that are derived from linguistic tokens. Human reasoning can include nonverbal inputs. For example asking GPT what would be a reasonable way to stack a list of arbitrary objects on top of each othe
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by cageface 3y ago
My experience with Github copilot is that the time it saves me typing out boilerplate has been more than lost when I have to spend time carefully debugging bugs in the code it produces. And those are the bugs I catch right away. I expect th
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by cageface 3y ago
Maybe in casual conversation but that's not how I experience my though process about anything non trivial at all. I usually spend a lot of time thinking about the concept in non verbal terms and that process involves recalling images a
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by cageface 3y ago
It also demonstrably is either flat out wrong about a lot of things or completely invents things that don't exist. It's a random process that sometimes generates content with actual informational value but the randomness is inhere
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by cageface 3y ago
What novel genius ideas has the machine created so far?
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by cageface 3y ago
Only if the words were chosen simply at random in sequence and of course they're not this simplistic. They're constrained by the attention models so they do much better than this but they're still random. You can control the
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by cageface 3y ago
The other difference is that over time we build up a network of people we consider to be knowledgeable and honest. Current LLMs can never match that because their output is controlled guessing.
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by cageface 3y ago
I've been thinking about this lately and it seems to me that what these models are very good at is generating text that has the right structure, but of all the permutations with the right structure only a few actually contain useful an
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by cageface 3y ago
This is why I continue to support them despite all their issues. Not because I trust them to do the right thing out of principles at all, but just because their financial interests are more aligned with the open web than the other big tech
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by cageface 3y ago
Ableton is great but these days I prefer Bitwig. It does most of what live does but lets you do more modular stuff without the massive context switch into Max.
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by cageface 3y ago
No business with a mobile component can afford to ignore iOS. And a lot of apps launch early on iOS or have better features on iOS or never even launch at all on Android. Less so these days but it's still a thing. I was just in Japan a
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by cageface 3y ago
Defenders of Apple's policies always say you can just use other tech if you don't agree with them. The same principle applies here. If an app requires you to use a third party app store and you don't like it then choose anoth
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by cageface 3y ago
I think the gamification was a bit part of why I stopped using it. It made it feel more like a chore than something I enjoyed doing. I also realized that while it wasn't bad for teaching some basic vocabulary it was terrible for gramma
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by cageface 3y ago
Of course that is a completely different situation and one I would welcome but that’s not where we are now and I’m guessing not where we will be any time soon.
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by cageface 3y ago
In a world where you have all the musical masterpieces of history available to you with one tap why would you waste time listening to algorithmically generated mediocrity?
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by cageface 4y ago
This hasn’t happened on Android where side loading and alternative app stores have been available for years. Why would iOS be different?
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by cageface 4y ago
With the focus on server side rendering Nextjs 13 feels a lot more like Rails too. Other frameworks like Remix & Sveltekit seem to be heading this way too.
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by cageface 4y ago
I think it's fair to say that what this current generation of AI enables is cheaply generating a limitless amount of content of not great but acceptable quality. And I think you're exactly right that this is going to make it extre
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by cageface 4y ago
React Native is a lot faster for building out prototypes but slows down when you start building more complex screens and can be very brittle to maintain over time.
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by cageface 4y ago
Yeah that and things like ORMs are less mature.
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by cageface 4y ago
I've been doing backend dev in Node/TS for the first time recently after working mainly in Python or Ruby for many years. And overall I have to say I'm not very impressed. The tools and frameworks are immature and it's a

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