cageface

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   by cageface 2y ago

   Or better still just dump the whole ecosystem altogether. There are good alternatives.
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   by cageface 2y ago

   Or, maybe the tech nerd fantasy that bad policy can be circumvented by clever hacking is just that and really freedom depends on taking an active role in government and making sure what legislation and regulation does get passed serves the
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   by cageface 2y ago

   I've traveled all over Asia and lived in many countries for extended periods. It's also been my experience that the Vietnamese are the most welcoming and genuinely interested in talking to foreigners.
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   by cageface 2y ago

   Does your more functional style involve making a lot of copies?
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   by cageface 2y ago

   My very limited experience with GPT and Rust is that the code it generates rarely satisfies the borrow checker out of the box. I’ve had much better luck with garbage collected languages.
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   by cageface 2y ago

   Most of that is games or mobile apps with limited scope. If Apple wants the Vision Pro to replace our Macs it needs a different approach. One look at the wasteland that is the Mac app store tells you everything you need to know.
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   by cageface 2y ago

   There are very few of the big productivity apps that would justify the expense of the Vision Pro. Every review of the new iPad basically takes the same line. Fantastic hardware, pity about the limited OS and lack of apps.
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   by cageface 2y ago

   I think it's also important not to underestimate how chilling of an effect Apple's locked down environment is having here. Like the iPad, it's such a developer-hostile system to work in many devs aren't willing to take t
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   by cageface 2y ago

   I don't think it will be the next GUI. I think it will be an alternative with some advantages for selected use cases and big disadvantages for many others. I don't expect it to be an iPhone-sized market ever.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    Right. From which we can infer people like many things about lisp except for the syntax.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    You could also portray this as yet another case of theory trumping practice, which is also symptomatic of modernism. The idea that a language based on a small, elegant set of composable primitives is inherently better for programming in the
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    by cageface 2y ago

    I think it's quite telling that almost all of the innovations in lisp (garbage collection, first class functions, repl etc) have been absorbed into more popular languages except for s-expression syntax, which remains a small niche de
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    by cageface 2y ago

    That's great but if you're getting paid to write that code you're not getting paid to enjoy it. You're getting paid to write code that doesn't have bugs and security holes. Our profession's tendency to take the
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    by cageface 2y ago

    Sure but is that really enough to get buy in on a whole new language? Especially when the new language still leaves open the door for so many of the critical problems with C?
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    by cageface 2y ago

    I have to admit I don’t really understand the problem Zig is trying to solve. If you’re not trying at the language level to address the core problems of C/C++, like Rust is, then it seems like you’re just making a more ergonomic versio
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    by cageface 2y ago

    I've seen a lot of JS frameworks come and go. Eventually they all become hard to work with as complexity accretes to address more use cases and keep performance up. The same is true of native frameworks. SwiftUI and Compose are great w
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    by cageface 2y ago

    Hooks make it easy to compose logic and effects. The actual implementation has some serious warts but the fundamental idea is great. The React compiler looks like it will eliminate a lot of the error prone manual dependency tracking that us
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    by cageface 2y ago

    This is why opus is kind of two different codecs bundled in one right? It switches between them depending on the content and the bitrate?
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    by cageface 2y ago

    What brought you all the way from the UK to rural New Mexico?
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    by cageface 2y ago

    Ok but this is also going to mean people are going to keep long lived forks, like Android, that do support binary drivers.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    So I suppose you also steal from the supermarket? If not why is that different?
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    by cageface 2y ago

    If you really feel this strongly about it then you have a moral obligation to support with your money and your attention other services that align with your values.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    The Linux kernel team has been hostile to binary drivers in the past. Is that not still the case?
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    by cageface 2y ago

    So go support other video sites with owners and policies you find less objectionable.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    Right. If you don't want to see the ads then pay for a subscription. Using an ad blocker on a site that is monetized by ads is essentially taking the content for free, against the wishes of the creators.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    If you don't like ad supported services then vote with your wallet and pay for services that don't show ads. What makes people feel entitled to enjoy ad supported content for free?
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    by cageface 2y ago

    There's also Tauri which takes a similar approach but uses Rust. I've had good luck with it so far. https://tauri.app/
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    by cageface 2y ago

    Surely you can’t seriously imagine that’s what I’m saying.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    There are plenty of ways to build apps. Not so many great ways to monetize them.
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    by cageface 2y ago

    I grew up taking Chomsky's perspectives on the Vietnam war as gospel. After actually living there for 8 years and talking to many people about it I realized it was a lot less black and white then he paints it.