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by grahamlee 5d ago
The Sun model of beefy server, ultra-thin client worked incredibly well and presaged the widespread adoption of virtualisation that eventually led to cloud computing and containerised software. Unfortunately that model made it very easy to
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by grahamlee 2mo ago
And it's not actually that much information "about the security content". For example: "Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data. Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restric
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by grahamlee 2mo ago
Ctrl-H is the rubout/backspace command on old terminals. So if I say it's nuts^H^H^H^Hunwise to ignore UNIX history, I've erased the first word and replaced it with the second.
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End of Line: Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools(sicpers.info)
3 points by grahamlee 2mo ago|1 comments
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Free Software and LLM Contribution Policies(sicpers.info)
3 points by grahamlee 3mo ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 3mo ago
Agreed, congratulations are in order!
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by grahamlee 5mo ago
If you look at the Open Source Definition, you see the four freedoms: https://opensource.org/osd That’s unsurprising because the OSD is based on the Debian social contract, and Debian is a GNU distribution.
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Art or Tool?(sicpers.info)
1 points by grahamlee 6mo ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 6mo ago
so many peripherals now come in external boxes that communicate _incredibly quickly_ over Thunderbolt 4/5 that the need for PCIe is marginal, while the cost to support it is significant.
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Preprint Review: "Intelligent AI Delegation"(patreon.com)
3 points by grahamlee 6mo ago|0 comments
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AppScript: Objective-C Without the C(codeberg.org)
1 points by grahamlee 6mo ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 7mo ago
but the point of an EULA is to restrict distribution, so AGPL3 can help there.
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by grahamlee 7mo ago
It's clear that we're entering a new era of copyright _expectations_ (whether we get new _legislation_ is different), but for now realise this: the people like me who like copyleft can do this too. We can take software we like, po
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I made a 1990s UML+Java Dev Shop out of AI(patreon.com)
1 points by grahamlee 7mo ago|0 comments
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Patterns in AI-Augmented Software Development(library.chironcodex.com)
10 points by grahamlee 7mo ago|0 comments
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When to Vibe Code?(youtube.com)
2 points by grahamlee 7mo ago|0 comments
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Opinionated Read: How AI Impacts Skill Formation(sicpers.info)
1 points by grahamlee 8mo ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 8mo ago
I’ve been making the case (e.g. https://youtu.be/uL8LiUu9M64?si=-XBHFMrz99VZsaAa [1]) that we have to be intentional about using AI to augment our skills, rather than outsourcing understanding: great to see Anthropic confir
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by grahamlee 9mo ago
OK thanks for clarifying your reasoning!
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by grahamlee 9mo ago
As the submitter, I want to point out that I submitted this post with the original title. The one that makes it clear a16z are behind the social media astroturfing. The mods changed the title.
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A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote(404media.co)
292 points by grahamlee 9mo ago|170 comments
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by grahamlee 10mo ago
These modern times that literally began in 1769. Oxford English Dictionary, “literally (adv.), sense I.1.c,” June 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9189024563 .
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by grahamlee 10mo ago
What you lose by using composition is that the composing object is no longer a subtype of the constituent object, so you can't use it as a "decoration" of the original object in a program that expects an instance of the origi
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by grahamlee 10mo ago
Article author here. Your idea "gluing together things that don't know necessarily know about each other" is basically what the GoF book means: composition is "this object has a reference to that object and uses its publ
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by grahamlee 11mo ago
Author here. I wrote “ But even a modestly more recent language like Java has visibility attributes that let a class control what its subtypes can view or change, meaning that any modification in a subclass can be designed before we even kn
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by grahamlee 1y ago
David Chisnall is now at MS Research and does cool things with CHERI making a computing platform that's memory-safe by default.
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by grahamlee 1y ago
That makes 4 and 9 the only two uninteresting numbers, which is interesting, so they’re out too! Douglas Adams said the same about 42. It’s the answer because it’s completely banal.
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GNU G-Golf Gnome: (Guile Object Library For)(gnu.org)
3 points by grahamlee 1y ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 1y ago
_A Discipline of Programming_
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by grahamlee 1y ago
Dijkstra also advocated for proving the correctness of imperative code using the composition of a set of simple rules, and most programmers ignore that aspect of his work too.

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