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by jlarocco 1y ago
It actually sounds like you agree with the article quite a bit. If your product doesn't solve problems on the difficult side of the "complexity cliff" then vibe coders will copy it and drive your profit to zero.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's not how it works for most language standards, though. Most language standards are prescriptive, while Rust is descriptive. Usually the standard comes first, compiler vendors implement it, and between releases of the spec the
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by jlarocco 1y ago
But there's a real risk that in the long term all of the "serious" AI hardware research will get done inside a few big companies, essentially shutting out smaller players with a hardware moat. Unless they start selling the ha
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by jlarocco 1y ago
The article says the judge called them out for not doing enough due dilligence. The fact that they didn't do enough research doesn't mean it's okay to scam them, though.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
This is why I hate software engineering as a profession. You're going to write the "stupid code" to get things out the door, get promoted and move on to another job, and then some future engineer has to come along and fix the
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Honestly, "That's just not how that works" isn't a very convincing argument. If you can't explain why it doesn't work that way, there's no reason anybody should believe you.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Definitely! My understanding of knot theory is limited to having watched a few YouTube videos and reading the first introductory chapters of a book. A neat topic, but not one I'm going to dig too deeply into.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I'm with the OP on this one. Intuitively (to me, anyway) I wouldn't expect it to work in general. I'm surprised it took so long to find a counterexample, but it doesn't surprise me at all to hear it doesn't work.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Aren't "local-first apps" in this context the ones where you vist "example.com", and it caches a bunch of HTML and Javascript and saves data locally using the "local storage" APIs? And then periodically ma
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by jlarocco 1y ago
As a user the simple answer is that I'll always use a regular application instead of a "local-first" web app when I have the ability. "Local-first apps" are the worst of everything - crappy, dumbed down web UI; phon
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Sure, but let's not pretend that doesn't kill diversity and entrench a few big players.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I think you misread my comment because I didn't say anything like that. In any case HPE may have 60k employees but they're still working to create a smaller platform. It actually demonstrates the point I was making. If a company
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's gas lighting to equate the two at this point. Systemd is strictly better than what came before it, while Wayland still has missing functionality and breaks a lot of use cases.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's sad to see people be so nonchalant about potentially killing off smaller platforms like this. As more barriers to entry are added, competition is going to decrease, and the software ecosystem is going to keep getting worse. Firs
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't think anybody is using gaming GPUs to do serious AI at this point, though.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Sure, but "the game" also includes scenarios like the cheap producers cutting you off for political reasons before you have the technology to produce your own.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Why throw out numbers when we all know you haven't actually measured that it's >80%? In any case, the tooling around XML (DTDs, XPath, XSLT, etc.) is the reason to use it. I would go so far as to say the (supposed) >80% not
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by jlarocco 1y ago
100% They couldn't pay me to use it. I fully expect it's violating the user's privacy in every way they think they can get away with.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, I definitely agree the newer tools are better, but sometimes the arguments against C++ get blown out of proportion. It definitely has a lot of flaws, but in practice most of them have solutions or workarounds, and on a day-to-day basi
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, these companies are pushing AI so hard they don't see it's destroying the value they had. I don't want to watch an AI reading Wikipedia, showing stock photography, and I doubt anybody else does, either. And lately they
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's really not that big of a deal once you know how it works, and there are tools like CMake and IDEs that will take care of it. On Windows and OSX it's even easier - if you're okay writing only for those platforms. It&#x2
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I know Wells Fargo gets a bad wrap (and rightly so) for some of their behavior, but IME they've always had their stuff together with online access and banking.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's not really bad advice, it just has different implications in Javascript. In other languages, you'd have a few dependencies on larger libraries providing related functionality, where the Javascript culture is to use a bunch of
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's a little out of touch. Most people don't have the financial resources to be out of work for a month or two, much less indefinitely. For most people it has nothing to do with the factors you listed. I've been laid off
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> People made acceptable quality content and uploaded it to YouTube for free. It also helped that tons of copyrighted content was uploaded and the policing and take down was originally pretty lax.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I'm pretty sure he's always been. https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It would be some kind of securities fraud for their CEO to say it to the media if it weren't at least partially true.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Yeah, same on Debian. Even Teams video calls work fine. A lot of times it works better than the Windows client I use at work.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
What type of problems do you have? I use YouTube in Firefox on Linux almost every day and as far as I can tell it's working perfectly. I don't go to the home page, though, only access videos via search (using !yt on Kagi) and by
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I've heard he's pretty smart at making money.

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