jlarocco

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by jlarocco 11mo ago
IIRC MacRuby used to compile to native code on OSX using LLVM, and was supposed to support native OSX APIs and Objective-C frameworks. It always seemed like a neat idea, and a slick integration, but I guess Apple moved to Swift instead. I&
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
> It's more like how to put a modern day car dash over an F16 fighter jet. Yeah, that's probably a better analogy. > If only it weren't a full time job just maintaining a basic emacs config. I've heard that before,
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
Next up, how to make your Ferrari into a Fiero clone. Seriously, though, this seems kind of counterproductive. The power of Org mode and some of the other tools in Emacs comes from being integrated into the rest of Emacs and the synergies
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
I don't know. I use the Linux and Windows clients, and to me they feel the same. They're not great, but I wouldn't say one is worse. In fact, I'd say all of the modern chat apps are pretty much equally terrible. They&#
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
IMO the real fraud was against the investors. If I invest in your AI startup and find out it's really people doing the work, I'm going to be pissed.
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
I meant they've always had a reputation for being ruthless business people. Charging license fees based on the amount of memory in the host machine instead of the VM running Oracle, and things like that. They nickle and dime everythi
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
It kills me that they leave out features desired by more or less everybody (like ad-block), while they add completely superfluous features like AI and Pocket to the core of Firefox. It's a joke. If ad-block has to be a plugin, AI shou
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
On the other hand, if Oracle can't squeeze a profit out of AI, I'm skeptical anybody else can.
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by jlarocco 11mo ago
> Unfortunately, in my experience, there's often a lot of barriers within companies to upstream. Reasons can be everything from compliance, processes, you name it... It's unfortunate. I sympathize and understand those issues fo
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by jlarocco 1y ago
You might get less pushback if you called it a 3D modeler and not CAD software. It looks like an okay CSG modeler, but it's missing a thousand features that it would need to be CAD software. There's no PMI, no views, no simulatio
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by jlarocco 1y ago
100 pounds of bike plus 150 pounds of person hitting a pedestrian at 30+ mph is still going to do cause serious injuries to both of them. But it's really a moot point because there are essentially zero motorocycles travelling on sidewa
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by jlarocco 1y ago
As a cyclist, motorcyclist, and potential e-bike owner, I'd actually be in favor of making it any bicycle. Anybody moving significantly faster than the flow of traffic is endangering the rest of the users.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> but aren't nearly as dangerous as motorcycles. What a ridiculous statement. I don't think there's any inherrent difference, but until the laws catch up the "powerful e-bikes" are clearly more dangerous. Riding
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I guess it depends on what "A", "B" and "C" means exactly. But the problem with "C" managers is that they won't judge "A" work as "A" work, won't understand why some of t
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, I agree with you, and actually like OOP where it's appropriate. Unfortunately there were so many bad examples from the old Java "every thing needs a dozen factories and thousands of interfaces" days that most people h
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I had never heard of Bending Spoons before. Their Wikipedia article makes them sound like kind of a failure, but the entire second half of the page is talking about all of their acquisitions, more than one of which cost over $1 billion. So
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Because it shows how much lock-in they have. You know nobody is migrating off of AWS or Azure because of these.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Exactly. The elites hire experts to do it for them, while everybody else has to deal with the complex rules themselves. It's like auditting tax returns of the rich - of course they didn't cheat, they already lobbied for the looph
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by jlarocco 1y ago
What people thought about LLMs five years ago, and how close we are to AGI right now are unrelated, and it's not logially sound to say "We were close to LLMs then, so we are close to AGI now." It's also a misleading view
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, that's always how bribery works. From Wikipedia: "Bribery is the corrupt solicitation, payment, or acceptance of a private favor (a bribe) in exchange for official action."
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Why didn't they "vibe code" their own version?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I wonder how long it will be before the first EVs get bricked because the manufacturer doesn't want to ship software updates to the old hardware any more. If it can happen to a $1500 phone or a $5k computer, I'm sure it will happe
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Those complaints are really orthogonal to the EV vs ICE debate, though. Somebody could claim driver aids and infotainment EVs are "degrading" in EVs in the exact same way - in fact they're even more integrated in EVs. And alt
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by jlarocco 1y ago
The hoverflies definitely have an advantage in that respect. They're not consciously thinking about "the mission", just following their instincts.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> Anyone in the bay who's not a founder or working for a meaningless company easily clears $200k. Maybe your attitude is why you can't find a job? Nothing in your post indicates you're "in the bay", and in the ot
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I'm not a big fan of AI, but if it kills off online advertising and marketting, maybe there's a silver lining...
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Is it? Companies like Google coddle users instead of teaching them how to browse smarter and detect phishing for themselves. Google wants people to stay ignorant so they can squeeze them for money instead of phishers.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Those are formulated as hypothetical statements and "what if" questions, but it already works that way in the United States.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
So it's automating away the fun parts, and leaving the humans to rig up automated tests and setup continuous integration... And unfortunately people who get to architect anything are a small subset of developers.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It helps that they can tell people to debug the problem themselves.

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