elcritch

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by elcritch 8mo ago
> Getting macOS code signing and notarization working in CI was honestly the hardest part of this project. If anyone is distributing a macOS app outside the App Store via GitHub Actions, I'm happy to answer questions — the workflow
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by elcritch 8mo ago
The byzantine and overly complex nature of FreeIPA is a feature not a bug. It lends itself to consulting money for RedHat et al in those legacy markets. Sure, the server might be free but good luck getting it running.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
Also I believe one of the core LadyBird devs was an ex Apple employee on WebKit which has been using Swift as well.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
For more complex projects I find this pattern very helpful. The last two gens of SOTA models have become rather good at following existing code patterns. If you have a solid architecture they can be almost prescient in their ability to modi
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by elcritch 8mo ago
Well for some. Google has been using liquid cooling to racks for decades.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
Followed by 5 ads and a link to use copilot! ;)
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by elcritch 8mo ago
Nim compiles fast.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
Apple chose the colors well. For whatever reason the shade of green they chose just gives a bit of ick.
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by elcritch 8mo ago
I don’t trust them. I run tests and I review the code generated by the LLMs. About 1/5 times I’ll just git reset the changes and try again. You have to push for them to add tests. It also helps if you can have the LLM just translate fr
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by elcritch 8mo ago
That's the great thing about LLMs. Especially with Nim it's so easy to make quality libraries with a Codex/ClaudeCode and a couple hours as a hobby. Especially when they run fast. I just made Metal bindings and got 120 FPS de
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by elcritch 9mo ago
No I was referring to the original comment twisting words. They intentionally invoke the horrors of dictators running over protesters to disperse them. Your comment showed the actual event, thanks. It showed an armored vehicle slowly pushin
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Nice subtle twisting of words. There’s an enormous difference between driving slowly through a crowd of protestors with no injuries versus running over protesters with a tank.
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Secure boot and attestation both generally require a form of DRM. It’s a boon for security, but also for control.
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by elcritch 9mo ago
It’s slower but generally spits out more reliable code, IMHO.
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by elcritch 9mo ago
That was not my intent. H1-B visas were sold as helping talent shortage. There are many genuinely talented immigrants and always have been. Fantastic! A previous company hired an H1-B visa and he was truly a talent in robotics. However that
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Excellent, get ready for more large outages at AWS and a proliferation of bugs across the rest of Amazon’s empire. For the last few months I still randomly get errors opening audible. You know, to buy more books.
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by elcritch 9mo ago
That’s just another way of admitting that H1-B was always about lowering costs rather than lack of talent.
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Result or Error types may just be normal values, but they add overhead to the code as well when they’re ubiquitous. Once they’re the standard error method then case every function has to intertwine branching for errors paths vs normal paths
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Dasung looks to be getting there!
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by elcritch 9mo ago
If those prediction markets can be used as an alternative way to put resources into "reporting" then it could be valuable. The downfall of journalism has been preceded by the loss in economics from newspapers with M&As causing
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by elcritch 9mo ago
It seems that their leaders are and have been planning to take over Taiwan for decades. At least according to most of what I’ve read on the topic from all the various sources. If or when China’s economic and/or demographics issues beco
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by elcritch 9mo ago
In my view a corrupt government tends to also be less effective at basic governance while looking out more for the government. Hence police don't pursue thieves but will arrest people for twitter/x posts. Add in things like suspen
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Okay who’s going to clone this using AI and have it read the entire book? Anyone?!
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by elcritch 9mo ago
I think they took the window manager from it to make running gtk apps easier. Admittedly gershwin or similar have a long way to go, but gnustep has the basic design from openstep. There's another similar project but from the ground up.
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by elcritch 9mo ago
I'm hoping something like this takes off on FreeBSD: https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop I've only owned macbook laptops but have run Linux at work since 2002. The lack of cohesion and non-st
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by elcritch 9mo ago
This looks both cool and over-engineered. For some reason it gives me a bit of flashback to Java6 days of EE Bean servers though with crates upon crates. Plus take the winnow library parser example. I’m not sure it’s gonna be easier to foll
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Yep, but folks love their veneer. The morals of the American people and that of the state department / industrial complex aren't the same. Oddly in this case the US government seemed to do something that many Venezuelan expats sup
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Like others I don't use too many of the features but Oh-My-Zsh is so easy to install. Even better recently I discovered that FreeBSD has a package for it! `pkg install ohmyzsh` and 5 seconds later it's ready. Plus I figure it&#x27
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by elcritch 9mo ago
As a counter I’ve had OpenAI Codex and Claude Code both catch logic cases I’d missed in both tests and codes. The tooling in the Code tools is key to useable LLM coding. Those tools prompt the models to “reason” whether they’ve caught edge
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by elcritch 9mo ago
Something like Ada/SPARK might be a better choice for something like SQLite as well.

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