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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Right. The equivalent in handwritten code would be formatting your code by hand. That used to be the normal way to do it! For handwritten code, the evolution of best practices has tended to be: - just make your code look neat and tidy; - fo
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Like almost all of these articles, there's really nothing AI- or LLM-specific here at all. Modularization, microservices, monorepos etc have all been used in the past to help scale up software development for huge teams and complex sys
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
No, I think you’re not reading it literally enough. “Microservices” generally does mean separate HTTP (or at least RPC) servers. Near the beginning, the article says: A microservice has a very well-defined surface area. Everything that flo
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
I enjoyed how it complained about how unclear and ambiguous Markdown’s syntax for bold and italic text supposedly is, then showed an HTML translation with <strong> and <em>.
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
They’re pointing out the hypocrisy in this website. The comment itself isn’t hypocritical as they haven’t taken a stance on US versus EU services.
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Yeah - Muhammad Ali is the most famous victim (or at least likely victim, I don’t think he was officially diagnosed with CTE as it wasn’t well understood back then). In the UK, it’s gradually becoming recognised as a serious problem in rugb
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
From the headline, I thought it might be about sports-related concussions! I was morbidly curious what a "good CTE" could possibly be...
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
One thing I'm curious about, which I couldn't figure out from a skim of your post, is whether the generated test inputs are random, sequential, or adversarial. IIRC there are fuzz testers that will analyze the branches of the code
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
It's not quite as simple as that because the chunks should be self-contained; they need to start with an IDR keyframe, which fully resets the decoder. That allows the player to seek to the start of any chunk. That means when you'r
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Hmm, there's an in-progress rewrite of the TypeScript compiler in Go; is that what you mean? I don't think that's actually out yet, and more importantly, it doesn't change anything at runtime -- your code still runs in a
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Why would you want a language enhancement for that, rather than just writing it in JS code? (or perhaps WASM)
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
There are two main options, put your docs in the repo, or throw them all over the floor. Many companies opt for the floor.
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Sorry if this comes across as overly facetious — I’m sure you have a reason for doing it that way! — but would it not be easier just to bow to convention and rename your .js files to .jsx?
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful and detailed response! You're right, what I had in mind was 2, although a bit more general; I think there have been similar kinds of inconsistency in the Mac UI since the beginning, in various forms, almost
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
I'm seeing a lot of comments here about macOS/iOS unification, but I think people are getting worked up about nothing. What do macOS window styles have to do with iOS? iOS (mostly) doesn't have windows! What does the MacBoo
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
That led me to https://www.folklore.org/Desk_Ornaments.html which is a very fun read. Interesting to note that the UI style of the DAs is actually not consistent at all, some have round corners and some don't. I partic
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Yep, I'm aware. Just like Tahoe, it's intentional and there's a rationale behind it. It may or may not be immediately obvious depending on the user, and people may or may not like the way it looks.
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
I dislike Tahoe too, but this particular thing is not new. I just did an image search for "classic macos" and one of the first hits was from https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/classic-mac-os . Look at
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Clarke’s book The Lost Worlds of 2001 goes into a lot of detail about the process (and is a great read in its own right). His take was that the book should say “a novel by Arthur C Clarke, based on the screenplay by Stanley Kubrick” and t
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
I'm confused about how we can be interpreting the same short article so differently. It says: "This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields." So the living conditions in Canadian oil fiel
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Well, hang on, the brief TechCrunch article we're discussing here links to two different Bloomberg articles. The first is from 2018 about "housing for men working in remote oil fields", the second from 2026 about a data cente
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
What makes it very different? It sounds quite similar to me. Each is a lucrative business that requires lots of physical infrastructure to be built out, and therefore needs a large but temporary influx of construction workers and engineers.
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
I’d like to recommend Kate Beaton’s book Ducks to get a vivid feel for what these “man camps” are like. That book is about camps attached to oil fields in Alberta, but the “AI camps” described here sound very similar.
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by iainmerrick 7mo ago
Especially not in an era where people have ChatGPT open all the time People aren’t generally running ChatGPT locally.
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What if code wasn't a text document?(joethephish.me)
4 points by iainmerrick 7mo ago|1 comments
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by iainmerrick 8mo ago
Obj-C does have a "nonnull" annotation now (apparently added to assist Swift interop). One of the final jigsaw pieces turning it into a really pleasant language.
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by iainmerrick 8mo ago
Yeah, Objective-C++ is surprisingly great. It sounds like a terrible idea, but the bridging works pretty much seamlessly, and Obj-C and C++ don't actually overlap all that much so they don't step on each other's toes. Each la
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by iainmerrick 8mo ago
For better or worse, he’s mostly know in the “street/urban art” world (which is much bigger than graffiti). And one of the features of a lot of the art in that scene is high technical mastery paired with “low” / populist motifs a
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by iainmerrick 8mo ago
They said "shallow and uninspired" but that's separate from "requires immense skill and patience". The point is, whether or not the process is cool and impressive, is the end product really very interesting? It can
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by iainmerrick 8mo ago
I like this idea a lot, and pushed for json5 at a previous job, but I think there are a few snags: - it's weird and unfamiliar, most people prefer plain JSON - there are too many competing standards to choose from - most existing tools

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