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by drob518 10mo ago
I’d tweak it to say that a foolish consistency is the absolute worst design principle. All things being equal, consistency is a good thing, but it sometimes gets prioritized to the point of absurdity and becomes counterproductive.
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by drob518 10mo ago
In this specific case, yea, the programmers might be at fault, but most of my gripes with Liquid Glass are not like this. They are design issues. This seems like maybe more of a bug stemming from an underlying design issue (corner radius be
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by drob518 10mo ago
Yep, Jobs knew what he wanted and he generally had good taste. He would push everyone until he got what he thought was right and spend extra to get it. Supposedly he sent the original iPod team scrambling to find a new headphone jack just b
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by drob518 10mo ago
Yea, the programmers aren’t to blame here. In fact some of the visual effects they have achieved are pretty cool. The designers are at fault because they prioritized visuals over usability. Literally nobody I know thinks “Liquid Glass” has
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by drob518 10mo ago
Apple really screwed the pooch on this last set of UI upgrades. They have been known as UI experts for decades and then they produced this unusable mess. I’ve upgraded my iPhone and iPad, but I’ve been delaying upgrading MacOS, hoping that
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by drob518 10mo ago
I have no problem with systems programming issues. That complexity is essential complexity inherent in the problem itself, regardless of language. I have a problem with C++’s accidental complexity. I find C much more tractable. It certainly
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by drob518 10mo ago
About 28 years ago, I figured out that I’m just not smart enough to use C++. There are so many foot guns and so much rampant complexity that I can’t keep it all straight. I crave simplicity and it always felt like C++ craved the opposite.
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by drob518 10mo ago
Well, perhaps “performant” isn’t the word you should be using. All code should be performant, where performant is defined as performing at an acceptable level. You might be tempted to then ask if it needs to be ultra high performance? That’
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by drob518 10mo ago
Cool, thanks for the link.
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by drob518 10mo ago
Why not just use a circular buffer for the scroll back? Why use blocks at all if you’re just going to recycle them anyway? That said, great write-up.
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by drob518 10mo ago
That’s awesome. Clearly, you are an Org format rockstar. But be that as it may, if Markdown is inadequate for a variety of tasks, why do people use it for a variety of tasks? Your rebuttal is just “Here’s a task or two that I do that I thin
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by drob518 10mo ago
I really like this idea. I’ve seen teams get stuck quibbling about details too early while using Figma. I see how this totally sidesteps that problem, similar to working with analog drawings, but with the advantage that it’s still electroni
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by drob518 10mo ago
“Adequate” is a very relative term. Adequate for what? The fact that Markdown is widely used quite successfully demonstrates that it is adequate for a wide variety of tasks. Yes, Org mode might cover more of the long tail, but Markdown clea
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by drob518 10mo ago
I’m not sure I see the benefit in that.
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by drob518 10mo ago
I don’t like using “-“ for bullets and “*” for headings. I do love underlines for underlined text, slash for italics, and asterisks for bold. Other than that, po-tay-to, po-tah-to. Let’s all just pick one and use it consistently. I do agree
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by drob518 10mo ago
Simple is frequently superior.
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by drob518 10mo ago
Forty years ago, I was on my way to college to get a computer engineering degree. I had already been programming in 6502 assembly language and was frustrated that I didn’t understand the hardware side of things as much as I understood the s
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by drob518 10mo ago
My life is complete. I can die happy.
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by drob518 10mo ago
I suspect scaling will not die a slow death, but rather slow for a while and then all at once. Further, I think we’re at the knee. We know scaling doesn’t work for resolving the fundamental issues we have with large models at this point. If
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by drob518 10mo ago
If you’re counting it fast, you can run things together a bit: One, two, three, four, five, six, sev, nate
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by drob518 10mo ago
So, what, exactly, is the correct day of the week to raise prices?
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by drob518 10mo ago
Indeed. Ah, the thrill of a 300 baud modem! :-)
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by drob518 10mo ago
Hacker News is universally read by cynics and skeptics. Hopefully, that was negative enough.
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by drob518 10mo ago
True, but that’s a different issue. Further, while it can go on for a long time, as those of us who lived through the dot com bubble remember, the AI bubble will pop, because all bubbles must pop. Look for peak-hype, then sell your nvidia i
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by drob518 10mo ago
The “hopes you weren't paying attention” part of the headline seems needlessly inflammatory. All I see is demand rising into a supply-limited market (GPUs and RAM). That doesn’t seem nefarious, just high-school economics.
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by drob518 10mo ago
Exactly. They don’t want you to just use their hardware. They want you to use all of it.
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by drob518 10mo ago
And that address is going to be contained in a linear address space (possibly with some holes).
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by drob518 10mo ago
I agree with the OP, but, unfortunately, posts like this generate more heat than light. Like a lot of things, what and how to comment code comes down to “do the right thing,” not a list of rules, where everyone will always find counter exam
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by drob518 10mo ago
Agreed. IMO, it makes sense to have a way to triage possible issues, confirm that they are, in fact, legitimate, and then create issue records to reflect them. As long as users have a way to report anomalous behavior, then, as you say, it’s
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by drob518 10mo ago
Well, if we don’t care about utility I could define infinitely many transcendental numbers with no utility other than I just made them up. The number that is the concatenation of the digits of all prime numbers in sequence, for instance: 0.

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