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by iainmerrick 2mo ago
Cocoa and Objective-C are both great, but I think there's one huge problem that they never managed to solve well: responsive layouts. Classic iPhone apps have fixed layouts, and classic Mac apps have a big dynamic document in the centr
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
If it happens out of the box with fresh installations of both Windows and Cursor, I’d say it’s a serious vulnerability in at least one of those. Sounds like this is a golden oldie bug on Windows/DOS, which I assume is now patched by de
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
What’s due diligence? Reading all the code on GitHub? That’s not a great interface, you probably want to clone it and open in your IDE so you can inspect the code properly...
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Only if you think opening Cursor.app counts as “using an AI tool”. Most reasonable people wouldn’t expect an AI-enabled text editor to hack their machine right away -- it should have the common decency to wait until you type something into
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
If you can’t download anything safely, the web can’t exist.
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Ideally, they’ll be able to look back through the logs and find the original analysis from when the bug was submitted, figure out why it was incorrectly filtered, and use that to improve their automation. The general idea of a few layers of
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
It's really ridiculous how little discussion there was about places like Gibraltar and Northern Ireland before the Brexit vote. Looks like NI voted ~55% remain and Gibraltar ~95% remain, but too bad, England voted ~53% leave, so screw
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Honestly? I don't really mind, and I even quite like it! The thing is, "load-bearing" is a useful phrase when discussing architecture. What would you rather have it say, that has all the same nuances in as few words? It&#x2
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
I’m normally one to complain about people complaining about these LLM-isms, but yeah, this one really grates on you. It’s a shame because it’s making an excellent point! It just takes so long to get to the point that the reader loses the
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Your reconstruction is so close, I'm a little surprised you didn't stick with the original controls! Even though the BBC had a rather weird layout for all the non-alphanumeric keys. It's been a very long time since I played T
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
"Compiling" is vague here; for TS I think you need to distinguish bundling from type-checking. If you're talking about bundling the entire app, 120 seconds down to 10 seconds is a great saving, but other bundlers can do it mu
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Typescript's compiler is much slower than Rust's, but it's plenty fast enough for most people and you almost never see complains about it because it mostly doesn't matter But you have to compile Rust code to run it.
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Points for the consistency of the theme, at least.
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
How do you mount your phone in a rental car? Do you bring your own phone holder with you?
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
There are plenty of people who actually do write like that. That’s one reason why LLMs often write like that.
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Even if you could understand human cognition to the level required to say, confidently, that it’s done one word at a time, it’s likely not! I think they’re not talking about cognition, but about output : regardless of what may be happeni
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
Yep, this is my experience too. I think of it more as a very, very smart and fast intern -- you can tell it’s going places, and in many ways is already way better than you, but it still needs an experienced hand to steer it. My rule of thum
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
You can use it if you want, but the browser doesn’t help you at all. It can’t automatically turn a form into a matrix URI, and it can’t do anything useful with relative matrix URIs.
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by iainmerrick 3mo ago
The main advantage of branding is that it’s a zero-cost abstraction -- the boilerplate vanishes at runtime. Just using a string instead of a containing object can give you a lighter-weight runtime.
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
jaywalking in front of your house is illegal In most parts of the world it’s not illegal. That’s a seriously draconian law.
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Well, the native speakers or otherwise self-diagnosed experts who felt obliged to chip in here!
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
I'm a bit dismayed by all the negativity you're getting. Thanks for all your level-headed and detailed responses here. I have a hard time understanding why people object to this kind of attempt to systematize something that conven
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
they're never going to be great at quantifying too many nil checks Why not?
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
People like to complain about AI-written slop, but this kind of thing doesn’t seem any better - vague kvetching with no concrete examples whatsoever. I haven’t noticed this myself at all. I wonder if the author is just getting their own gru
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Even if you think in purely transactional terms like "asset currently worth $1300", what's wrong with holding onto an asset? Especially one that's likely to appreciate, not depreciate, as long as you look after it carefu
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
It works pretty well on iPhone, except the descriptive text fills most of the bottom half of the screen, overlapping the sim which is centered on the screen. If the sim were instead centered on the free space (the top half of the screen) it
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
No, the original "they're made out of meat" works because we're confident that we are in fact intelligent and conscious, despite how ridiculous and unlikely the author manages to make it sound. "They're made
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Just wanted to say, I appreciate your patience and good sense in this thread. It's difficult to tell who's trolling -- probably best to go with the charitable assumption that everyone is honestly trying to convey their opinion, bu
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Yes, I have to say I’m disappointed. Chiang has been very insightful in the past -- I think his recent “blurry JPEG of the web” article was really useful -- but this one doesn’t seem to bring anything new to the table.
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Nice work, this is fun! I've only played against the AI so far, managed to win on Beginner. I think it would benefit from some little animations so it's clearer what's going on. But making that work nicely across both desktop

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