davnicwil

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by davnicwil 9mo ago
I really appreciate the compliment, thank you! I don't.
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by davnicwil 9mo ago
In the end, I think the dream underneath this dream is about being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details. The details are what stops it from working in every form it's been tried. You cannot escape
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by davnicwil 9mo ago
https://davidnicholaswilliams.com my blog with a few posts that have been on HN front page (eg [0]), but under my old domain davnicwil.com which unfortunately was poached after I accidentally let it lapse. Doh. [0] https:/
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by davnicwil 9mo ago
looking backwards in the supply chain for other externalities is a good point, but I'm not sure any energy production method is exempt from this? Also, by the way, my perspective isn't about nuclear Vs X (wind turbines etc) - I li
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by davnicwil 9mo ago
the waste isn't a win, of course, but is a downside of a tradeoff that is massively weighted to the upsides for society -- that is (otherwise) completely clean always-on high capacity energy production. We understand very well how to s
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
much has been written about the deteriorating quality of iOS. There's bluntly not strong external evidence that software quality is a driving priority at Apple in recent years, so it most probably follows that concerns about maintainab
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I would say while LLMs do improve productivity sometimes, I have to say I flatly cannot believe a claim (at least without direct demonstration or evidence) that one person is doing the work of 20 with them in december 2025 at least. I mean
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
that's actually what I mean by we. As in, different individuals will try different strategies with it, and we the collective will discover what works based on results.
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
> What it isn't is terse Yeah, it's funny, I'm often arguing in the corner of being verbose in the name of plain-ness and greater simplicity. I realise it's subjective, but this is one of the rare cases where I think
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
there could also be an almost chaos-monkey-like approach of cutting off the assistance at indeterminate intervals, so you've got to maintain a baseline of skill / muscle memory to be able to deal with this. I'm not sure if pe
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
It's an interesting one. We'll have to discover where to draw that line in education and training. It is an incredible accelerant in top-down 'theory driven' learning, which is objectively good, I think we can all agree.
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
you're right! The photo syncing is comically bad, again given the alleged importance of photos in the Apple marketing material. That said I've rarely used it in the past and so wasn't sure if it was a newly degraded experienc
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
because even supposing you have an interface for your thing under test (which you don't necessarily, nor do you necessarily want to have to) it lets you skip over having to do any fake implementations, have loads of variations of said
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
the one I've noticed being the worst for lock ups is the camera / photos app, which is frankly very surprising given how central the photography usecase appears to be to iPhone sales and therefore Apple's bottom line. I'
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
It's super interesting that you have this definition given your authorship of django (I mean, actually interesting, not 'interesting' :-) In another comment I used the example of rails as a kind of canonical 'framework&#
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I think absurd is a bit strong. It'd be absurd to call something like rails a library. I think you can probably see that distinction already, but to spell it out React is described as a library precisely because it does just one thing
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I don't agree. What I said about React providing structure and (lifecyle) hooks was true from the first version. The later stuff adds other ways of doing the same thing but a library it remains. That's as self described by the Rea
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
these things are hard, maybe impossible to define. For example I mostly agree with your calls/called definition but you also get self-described libraries like React giving you defined structure and hooks that call your code.
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
they have an excellent set of short intro videos [0] on youtube, that's what I used to get an overview and get set up. [0] https://youtu.be/sPdvyR7bLqI?si=2kIpHtNuJ52jEdmm
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I just think they genuinely don't know. I was years into travelling before I learned about this 'trick'. For my part, I'd just always assumed the charge would be ultimately converted by my bank in any case. Seems obvious
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I agree, I think we were just talking to slightly different points!
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
yeah, I think I misunderstood the point you were making and I'm making a different but related point. So we probably don't disagree. Interesting point on the word augment. I'd always took it to mean something more like a valu
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I think I disagree, if I understand you correctly. Technology is augmenting real world experiences all the time, and not always in positive ways. Whenever anyone does anything with the real world as the destination, the phone comes too, a
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
Coding on metros, trains, buses and planes is exactly the reason I always make sure my dev environments work 100% offline, with dummy services in place of the real ones. One thing I love about coding on public transport is the sense of urge
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
It's always felt pretty intuitive to me that shared goals in a culture should have some real effect on outcomes. It doesn't mean absolutely everyone takes part, of course, but it does mean it's a 'thing' that people
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
that'll be because it's served from cache when you're not logged in
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
very fair! Thanks for confirming
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I have to say I'm similarly not really sure I'm getting it, and I've been following litestream pretty closely over the years (not an expert but certainly familiar). I think what we're getting here is a way to just spin
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
a recent example I came across was losing a single airpod (dropped on street) and getting a find my notification only when I was already several blocks away. Went back, 30 mins had passed, nowhere to be found. This is the kind of thing that
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by davnicwil 10mo ago
I had hit a limit yes, thanks for flagging this! It's fixed now and the emails should come through.

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