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by hliyan 11mo ago
Yes, but QT is precompiled. If QML can be served over the web and JIT compiled locally, that might be closer to what I'm talking about.
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by hliyan 11mo ago
You have completely misunderstood the proposal. None of those drive OS native UI widgets through markup and scripts downloaded from the web.
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by hliyan 11mo ago
I've been wondering whether it's time to reserve browsers for their original purpose of reading documents and move web applications to a different paradigm: perhaps native controls/windows rendered and controlled by cross-pla
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by hliyan 11mo ago
I kept reading, waiting for a definition of spatial intelligence, but gave up after a few paragraphs. After years of reading VC-funded startup fluff, writing that contain these words tend to put me off now: transform, revolutionize, next fr
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by hliyan 1y ago
Another reason: https://radiant.computer/notes/no-linker/
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by hliyan 1y ago
They have the compiler tool chain but don't even have a bootloader yet: https://radiant.computer/status/ Still early stages https://radiant.computer/log/
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by hliyan 1y ago
Inter-process pointer sharing, ability to persist and restore pointer-connected data structures, address-translation-independent memory protection, to name a few reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_address_spa
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by hliyan 1y ago
If by service, you mean the cloud machine -- I mean a plain vanilla machine running an OS of your choice (e.g. Windows or Ubuntu). Switching to another service provider means taking your file backups + reinstalling your software on the new
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by hliyan 1y ago
I wonder if the future should simply be a cloud version of a personal computer. Rather than subscribing to a lot of SaaS where your data distributed across various platforms, you "purchase" a cloud computer (could be a tiny SOC +
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by hliyan 1y ago
This is true even of some third world countries like Sri Lanka (where I live). There is a web-based system called RAMIS (Revenue Administration Management Information System). Any taxpayer can log in using their tax identification number an
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by hliyan 1y ago
Perhaps if a company is providing a service that might be considered critical (e.g. primary email address / identity provider), then there should be regulations about the level of customer support, especially some sort of human respons
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by hliyan 1y ago
If you reframe this as: a commercial entity progressively dominates a service that is increasingly becoming necessary for survival in the modern world (e.g. primary email / identity provider) or in a given profession (Android developer
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by hliyan 1y ago
It's interesting that there is a generation of developers now who seem to believe that the Internet is an achievement of pure commercial, market dynamics and are surprised to learn about ARPANET and its early development within academi
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by hliyan 1y ago
Wouldn't this be better as a browser extension where the user can highlight some text on it and have it explained, like these: https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/ai%20explain?filter...
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by hliyan 1y ago
Do any of these models know how to say "I don't know"? This is one of my biggest worries about these models.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Very questionable reasoning: using a traffic analogy to argue against medical reality.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Ten years ago, I wrote something [1] arguing that it is impossible to escape ads by paying, as long as the product is content: > Here’s why I believe you will not escape ads by paying for your content: people who can afford to pay for co
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by hliyan 1y ago
The headings tell you nothing, and doesn't seem to have much to do with the paragraphs under them. You have to go 2/3rds of the way before you hit this: > some number of dollars per AI company’s monthly active users going into
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by hliyan 1y ago
The Japanese seem to have this in their DNA.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Boring Company. Whatever happened to those tunnels?
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by hliyan 1y ago
What would his thoughts on India be? It is neither totalitarian nor controlled by corporoates to a level that we seen in the US. It is an extremely large "democracy" with only limited signs of central orchestration. That said, pet
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by hliyan 1y ago
I recently heard a US journalist/author named Chris Hedges say something to the effect that the US has the symbols, the iconography and the language of a democracy, but internally, corporates and oligarchs have seized all the levers of
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by hliyan 1y ago
Consider that you have no agency if a gun is pointed at you, and that you do have agency if the gun is a water pistol. In your mind, does everything in between exist in a spectrum, or do they fall into one of the two buckets into which the
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by hliyan 1y ago
Should a private contract that requires a citizen to sign away a fundamental right (the right to say something that is not confidential, is objectively true and does not incite violence) be enforceable? Not sure if all three conditions appl
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by hliyan 1y ago
Or make it in a wedge shape? This may sound crazy, but in 2012, I had a Samsung phone (maybe a Galaxy Nexus -- can't remember exacly). It had different thicknesses at the bottom and the top, and a smooth curvature in between that was p
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by hliyan 1y ago
Zulip self-hosted is billed monthly. Still a form of rent. You don't own the version you bought perpetually.
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by hliyan 1y ago
We need to return to a world where we primarily own things, not rent them. If the software executable can be thought of as a machine, we should be able to own the version/instance of it we purchased the license for. We may not own the
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by hliyan 1y ago
Perhaps this increasingly common attitude of "ethics don't scale" is a good reason to consider legislation that enable the breaking up of large commercial entities when they commit more than a certain number of scale related
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by hliyan 1y ago
I think it is time we all start moving away from renting software back to owning it (or at the very least, owning a perpetual license). The subscription model is does not exist on a stable plateau. Every company that runs on a subscription
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by hliyan 1y ago
Can you back that last claim up? The push was from plastic manufacturers. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/birth-ban-histor...

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