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by cageface 2y ago
Presumably we around here know, right? No that's the problem. Here and also among other smart, informed people I know I keep seeing people post unchecked LLM output.
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by cageface 2y ago
Right but this is way too often glossed over in the rush to hype the new models. I see even many people that should know better failing to treat their output with appropriate skepticism. So much money is being dumped into this stuff now the
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by cageface 2y ago
This would be a useful analogy if Microsoft promoted the calculator as the next epoch-making trillion dollar revolution in computing and then swept aside the numerous mistakes it made on simple inputs as no worse than the average human.
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by cageface 2y ago
Sure but AI boosters alternately ignore these issues or dismiss them every time they come up. If it’s an extremely error prone tool with limited use cases let’s be honest and call it what it is. “People also make mistakes” isn’t a good enou
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by cageface 2y ago
Sounds like this is the plan for version 3, right?
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by cageface 2y ago
What system has 7 year old web views?
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by cageface 2y ago
Right that's the tradeoff. If you need exactly the same environment on multiple platforms and you're willing to pay a high price in memory and disk space then use Electron. On the other hand, if you can work around browser incompa
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by cageface 2y ago
This is just the reality of web development. You'd have the same issues if you were developing a PWA. Blaming Tauri for this doesn't seem fair. It sounds like Electron is a better fit for what you're trying to do.
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by cageface 2y ago
I use Tauri for my sync app that syncs music between my mobile app and desktop library. It's been a pleasure to use. Tauri 2.0 looks like it's going to be a real contender for mobile too.
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by cageface 2y ago
One of the few things I don’t like about Dart is that it uses final for constant values. It seems like a small thing but it adds up. Let would be much better.
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by cageface 2y ago
No thanks. The extra noise of these keywords scattered everywhere would be a huge loss in readability in a language that is already way too verbose. As others have said, this is a very common convention in many languages now. You get used t
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by cageface 2y ago
On a mac you could give my new app a try: https://plastaq.com/minimoon
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by cageface 2y ago
New York Review of Books is excellent. https://www.nybooks.com
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by cageface 2y ago
English is spoken everywhere and other countries have even more severe water problems and far more profound language difficulties. These are hardly damning charges. Americans will have to stop watering their Kentucky grass in the desert but
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by cageface 2y ago
Also this is a new account with negative karma. Evaluate accordingly.
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by cageface 2y ago
The US has abundant land and natural resources, a single language and fairly uniform culture, no real threats on its borders and, and least so far, a reliably peaceful means of getting rid of bad leaders. It may not be as dominant going for
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by cageface 2y ago
I agree that React is fast enough for a lot of things without worrying too much about performance. I've also worked on several apps where we had to work really really hard to get decent performance out of React and the resulting code w
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by cageface 2y ago
React is also considerably slower than svelte in this benchmark in selecting, clearing, adding and creating rows and also uses a lot more memory. For a lot of apps React is fast enough but you're definitely starting at a non-negligible
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by cageface 2y ago
This is because mobile is where all the money is. All the vendors have neglected their desktop SDKs to such a degree that Flutter is now in many ways the best desktop UI stack. Even Apple has sorely neglected their desktop APIs. Play around
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by cageface 2y ago
React can handle dense interfaces with a lot of elements but you have to be very careful with memoization and it's extremely easy to accidentally introduce significant performance regressions if something in your memoization chain brea
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by cageface 2y ago
This is kind of a no true Scotsman argument. The point is that most of the key ideas of lisp have been enthusiastically adopted by many very popular languages but lisp itself remains a small niche.
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by cageface 2y ago
The actual work of mobile development is much easier now than it used to be. The tooling and APIs have evolved and matured and the hardware is so much faster now that you have to spend a lot less time worrying about performance. The issue w
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by cageface 2y ago
That’s been true in the past but it’s not hard to make the argument that this time will be different and we just won’t need as many workers.
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by cageface 2y ago
Going to see accelerate .
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by cageface 2y ago
Flutter is quite good now. Performance is actually better than SwiftUI out of the box and the ecosystem and tooling is mature. Unfortunately with all the short-sighted cost cutting Google has been doing lately it's even harder to have
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by cageface 2y ago
Not only is Android a mess but the Google Play Store is terrible too. There's now this insane requirement that devs have to find 20 testers on their own for two weeks before publishing anything and, incredibly, the Play Store review pr
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by cageface 2y ago
He addresses this pretty clearly in the post. They don't want to be beholden to other companies to build the products they want to build. Their experience being under Apple's thumb on mobile strongly shaped this point of view.
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by cageface 2y ago
The Mac is clearly not Apple's priority right now. The relatively sad state of SwiftUI on the Mac vs iOS is more evidence.
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by cageface 2y ago
All the people I know that are still active on Twitter because they need to be "informed" are constantly sending me alarmist "news" that breaks on Twitter that, far more often than not, turns out to be wrong.
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by cageface 2y ago
Welcome to the life of powerless serfdom on digital marketplaces. Similar things can easily happen to you on the app stores, ad sales accounts etc. When people depend on these platforms for their livelihood and they have no real competitors

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