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by fl0ki 7mo ago
"Former Googlers" were probably used to using protobuf so they could get from a function call straight out to a struct of the right schema. It's one level of abstraction higher and near-universal in Google, especially in inte
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by fl0ki 7mo ago
I've been using a work-issued one since 2018, and my only complaint in 2026 is that some of its rear USB ports are failing.
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by fl0ki 7mo ago
For those who don't already know, you can get a lot of PC gaming performance out of these machines using Sikarugir. You can install all of Steam via winetricks and go from there, or launch DRM-free games directly. https://gi
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
"I'm now completely immersed in the problem" is my new catchphrase, thanks for sharing.
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
It's really nice springing for 64G RAM and being increasingly glad you did for every year that passes. (And this year more than most)
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
There are two kinds of post on HackerNews: (1) Trolling Walter, (2) Other
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
You also have the directive in go.mod which sets this for the entire module, which is very similar to the Rust edition approach, but each Go version is a small "edition".
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
This is the only way, because anything less would create a loophole where any abuse or slander can be blamed on an agent, without being able to conclusively prove that it was actually written by an agent. (Its operator has access to the sam
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
Once you have those real world integrations, no spec is ever complete enough. You can have a whole industry agree on decades-old RFCs and still need "but actually" details diffused through every implementation that actually gets u
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
This sounds like all of the things you should be doing anyway in a team environment, only now you can't trust your own judgment of where to spend the effort or knowingly leave gaps, because agents with no judgment of their own will be
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
Security for thee, convenience for me
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
Somehow I doubt the people who don't even read the code their own agent creates were saving that time to instead read the code of countless dependencies across all future updates.
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
It really bothers me how many comments on this topic (here and elsewhere) draw a false parallel between LLM-based coding as an abstraction and frameworks and compilers as an abstraction. They're not the same thing and it matters. Frame
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by fl0ki 8mo ago
Fascinatingly, I am not aware of any real issues with how Rust did nested modules. It even treated crates as top-level modules for most language-level purposes. I am sure there are nuanced reasons that C++ can't do quite the same, but
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by fl0ki 11mo ago
In fairness, it's one thing for an implementation like a building to be as over-enginereed as possible in its own right, but it's another when a standard has to ensure that multiple implementations can interoperate. I'm not s
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by fl0ki 11mo ago
Putting aside that several of these were acquisitions, these are all great examples of things where Google introduced something for free because it would make the money through advertising, both directly and through ecosystem effects. Even
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by fl0ki 1y ago
I had an Oura Ring 4 for a few weeks, and it's one of the only tech gadgets I have ever returned. Thankfully it didn't swell and trap my finger, but it hit some kind of internal deadlock that didn't go away until the battery
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by fl0ki 1y ago
As someone who does not use Stage Manager, I don't find that the other ways macOS has become more like iOS were, to me, bad ways. The most notable changes I find were that the Settings app became far more organized and consistent, and
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by fl0ki 1y ago
Hello, I am the other person who liked Unity. Now that we have met, the prophecy is fulfilled. Seriously though, the fact that macOS still doesn't have an option to fully extend the dock horizontally or vertically drives me nuts. If yo
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by fl0ki 1y ago
"The best thing about standard libraries is that there are so many to choose from"
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by fl0ki 2y ago
See also The Board in Control (2019).
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by fl0ki 2y ago
Shout out to Michael Larabel for performing this much testing for every chip and distro, this close to their release, and with this thorough presentation every single time. I honestly don't know how he does it. It seems like more testi
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by fl0ki 2y ago
> fundamentally it's not adding any energy to the fluid. That's just what the big corporations and congress want you to believe. /s
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by fl0ki 2y ago
The suckless.org initiative is a great example of this. Boasting about how certain software inherently sucks less because it has minimalist C code, rather than having defense-in-depth against security holes. Newsflash, a few decades ago the
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by fl0ki 2y ago
The show Vikings does feature a character with the similar name Athelstan [1], but he's a monk captured by the vikings, not a king who conquered the vikings. [1] https://vikings.fandom.com/wiki/Athelstan
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by fl0ki 2y ago
Sounds like you still have TouchID instead of FaceID. The pandemic was quite a wakeup call for this, with far more people wearing masks than gloves, people using FaceID were set back much more than people using TouchID. Then Apple just made
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by fl0ki 2y ago
I'm finding it hard to believe that BlackRock doesn't understand Goodhart's Law. Surely they wouldn't be where they are without being able to rationally optimize for the objective of profit. Presuming competence, it seem
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by fl0ki 2y ago
Apple CarPlay may have given automakers just barely enough of an "out" that the pressure is reduced. The only time I use the system's own interface is to update its firmware once a year, and the only time those updates have n
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by fl0ki 2y ago
Wait until you see where Apple News, Weather, and Stocks get their external data. Believe it or not, Safari even supports opening web pages not made by Apple and not even served from Apple servers!
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by fl0ki 2y ago
This reminds me of a depressingly common mistake in web design that seems to affect almost every internet banking system and most government web sites. You know the one: having an "inbox" of automated messages with a number in the

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