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by jmull 2y ago
> Editors of the page appear to be non-experts in the field and biased against me personally for unknown reasons. They are likely non-experts in measuring mountains, but may be experts in updating wikipedia. While it's always possib
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by jmull 2y ago
> It’s 2024—Is SwiftData Ready? No way. At least right now, SwiftData shouldn't used for anything but quick-and-dirty PoC's, demos, or other limited-use, low-stakes things. There are some good ideas in it, especially how it int
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by jmull 2y ago
I'm a fan of this. Not just for debugging either. Giving something a name gets you to think about what a good name would be, which gets you thinking about the nature of the thing, which clarifies your thinking about the thing, and lead
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by jmull 2y ago
I thought the problem was the hefty upfront price to pay for loading the runtime.
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by jmull 2y ago
The "Fair Source Software" is an interesting idea, but it's just a variant of software with a proprietary license to me. I like the built-in commitment to open source the software after a period of time. That's the inter
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by jmull 2y ago
Everyone's welcome to their own opinion, but ones based on nothing are worth just that.
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by jmull 2y ago
> How true are these allegations? You provide a source yourself that book banning occurs. The problem with making books less accessible is that less people have a chance to read them. Banning books is an effort to control the ideas other
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by jmull 2y ago
I don't understand "The Results" graph. The x-axis has integers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, but the text talks about models struggling at the 30 character mark? On the graph they all start getting bad around 3, depending on what yo
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by jmull 2y ago
My advice is don't ever give anyone the idea you know how to debug reference counting memory issues (or really any kind of memory management issues). You'll stay employed, but you won't like it.
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by jmull 2y ago
OK, hats off to htmx for posting/hosting this. Now, it's a bit of a safe bet to write off anyone willingly or willfully using react, but still, actually hosting this took some real flair. IDK, I'm a svelte(kit) man myself, bu
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by jmull 2y ago
It's definitely not a tragedy of the commons problem. Open source doesn't get used up by more people using it. Takers actually have an inherent interest in supporting the open source software they use, in direct proportion to the
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by jmull 2y ago
> but isn't this undermined by the lack of memory safety? IMO, partially. But zig isn't done, so we probably can't judge that yet. Now, zig does have good memory safety. It's not at the level of Javascript or Rust, bu
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by jmull 2y ago
Obviously, no. But it's simpler than all the things the article goes in to. Tech "leaders" get rich(er) if they can convince a bunch of people they have the solutions to their problems. There are various ways to accomplish th
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by jmull 2y ago
Well, VS code isn't abandoned either. Shall we raise the pitchforks against Continue too?
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by jmull 2y ago
I don't get the objection here. Forking is part of how open source is supposed to work.
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by jmull 2y ago
If you need to sleep more, but need to get up at a specific time, you could…
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by jmull 2y ago
> They're all contractors who work for Marketplace ... The site is hosted on completely separate infrastructure from CNN Underscored, just skinned to look similar to it. They even have a different privacy policy just for CNN Undersc
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by jmull 2y ago
RE "...with little or no first-party oversight or involvement..." and "...without close oversight or involvement of the host site..." Why do you think there isn't oversight or involvement from CNN?
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by jmull 2y ago
Is "fake" the right word? I was under the impression that the generic "news"/"information" on many sites is purchased (or otherwise obtained through some kind of business relationship) from some other orga
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by jmull 2y ago
Well, you can't necessarily trust open source for business software. The more deeply your business depends on something, the more careful you need to be when selecting the source for that something. (And the db is often very deeply d
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by jmull 2y ago
The policy says, ...a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.” It sounds like "[the] Most Trusted WordPress Hostin
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by jmull 2y ago
That's an argument for continuing to add the "for" and "id" attributes (or for making the association is some other way accessibility software understands)... But not for keeping the input outside of the label.
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by jmull 2y ago
> It costs those manufacturers next to nothing to make the battery replaceable. Are you sure about that? I notice Apple charges $99 for, e.g., an iPhone 15 battery replacement, not $150. And iFixit charges $44 for an iPhone 15 battery, n
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by jmull 2y ago
> Not this again :) The problem with this logic is that phones are complicated and have a lot of constraints. Phone design inherently involves numerous tradeoffs. So... of course it's possible for manufacturers like Apple and Samsun
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by jmull 2y ago
> It's a little weird to me that getaddrinfo() is considered a "low-level legacy API" I don't think it is considered legacy. The blog post gets that wrong. (Whether it's "low-level" or not just depends
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by jmull 2y ago
> Companies clearly have a strong collective incentive to lower wages. Of course they all have an incentive to pay the lowest wages they can. I did not think we needed to state that. But what I don't see here is a synchronizing mech
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by jmull 2y ago
$myDayJob certainly is. I don’t really know if we’re a whale or not. We sure aren’t a minnow, though.
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by jmull 2y ago
Sharing compensation ranges may not be enough to qualify as wage fixing. It seems like there would have to be an agreement or at least a collective incentive to lower wages. While companies could use the data to ensure their offers are alwa
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by jmull 2y ago
It doesn't look like Apple needs people to be upgrading every other year to do well. Not anywhere close. Apple sold 232M iPhones in 2023, and had 1.83B active iPhone users. Doing a little math, they'd need their existing users to
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by jmull 2y ago
> The vast majority are professionals. That’s good to know. But I guess the money is coming from a bunch of different companies/management structures, so you probably still can’t just tell everyone what to do. > Nobody is asking

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