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by josephg 9mo ago
I mostly agree but ... > In the same way someone working on software shouldn't be required to use an end-user consumption system when they are at work. I'm worried that many software developers (including me, a lot of the time)
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by josephg 9mo ago
Mobile platforms are far more secure than desktop computing software. I'd rather do internet banking on my phone than on my computer. You should too. We can make operating systems where the islands can interact. Its just needs to be op
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by josephg 9mo ago
It gets pretty close. Which parts in particular do you think electron misses from this list?
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by josephg 9mo ago
I've been arguing for this for years. There's no reason every random binary should have unfettered, invisible access to everything on my computer as if it were me . iOS and Android both implement these security policies correctly
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by josephg 9mo ago
Top 0.04% here. Apparently I could have written 1.97 volumes of game of thrones with my HN comments (590 000 words). I don't know whether to be proud or embarrassed. I think I'm a little of both.
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by josephg 9mo ago
I'd love to see some opensource projects actually do a good job of this. Its a lot of work, especially if you want: - Good cross platform support (missing in filepilot) - Want applications to feel native everywhere. For example, all th
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by josephg 9mo ago
No, its not the end of the world. And I agree, LFS isn't going to be the best resource for learning how a compiler works or cron or ntp. But the init process & systemd is so core to linux. I can certainly see the argument that they
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by josephg 9mo ago
You can, but it seems to just select & use the results of previous expressions. I often want to modify & iterate on the formulas I've previously entered. Or rerun them. I think there was a calculator like this about a decade ag
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by josephg 9mo ago
Well, it is a smaller number. I can't wait for the Xbox 370, just to one-up office.
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by josephg 9mo ago
Grow your .NET-work!
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by josephg 9mo ago
Google Plus was the same. Lots of unrelated google products were temporarily branded as part of google plus for some reason, including your google account and google hangouts (meet).
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by josephg 9mo ago
> Well to be fair, you don't need to understand how SystemD is built to know how to use it. The attitude that you don't need to learn what is inside the magic black box is exactly the kind of thing LFS is pushing against. UNIX
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by josephg 9mo ago
That’s certainly an improvement - but why can’t I modify a previous expression? Or tap to select previous expressions? What I want is something like a repl. I want to be able to return to an earlier expression, modify it, assign it to a var
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by josephg 9mo ago
That tells a story. I bet its something like this: 1. There was a small, smart team which made time machine in the first place. They did good work. Building time machine required some pretty deep integrations into macos that not many people
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by josephg 9mo ago
I think the argument is that it’s interactive. You’re no longer just passively reading or watching content. You can join in on the role play. I’m not sure why that’s a bad thing though.
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by josephg 9mo ago
I don’t know if this is still the case, but as of a year or so ago OpenAI would suspend your account if they noticed you using their models for this sort of thing. They said it was against their TOS.
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by josephg 9mo ago
Go into your user settings -> personalisation. They’ve recently added dropdowns to tune its responses. I’ve set mine to “candid, less warm” and it’s gotten a lot more to-the-point in its responses.
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by josephg 9mo ago
About 10 years ago I tried installed Little Snitch on my laptop. I set it up to check with me every time any native app tried to connect to the internet. "Here we go" I thought. "I'm going to actually see what apps are d
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by josephg 9mo ago
Ah, I assumed the page was written recently due to this message at the bottom: >> This page was last updated on 2025-05-09 15:56:17Z << > I think it is at least arguable that Rust does not meet the requirements Absolutely. Th
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yes! A quick google brings up cargo-llvm-cov[1], which is a rust wrapper around llvm source code coverage. It has an unstable --branch command for branch coverage, but branch coverage currently has some language level limitations[2]. [1] h
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by josephg 9mo ago
I'm not sure I buy this from a technical perspective. Rust already meets almost all of the criteria laid out at the end of this post. By all means keep using C if you like it, but the rust team has done an excellent job over the last f
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by josephg 9mo ago
> I'm usually at 14 GB RAM used, which is nuts. Not sure how to fix this trend. I know this isn't an option for many, but I think swapping to linux might be the right first step. Linux would be fast as lightning on a computer l
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by josephg 9mo ago
They all bear some of the blame. Software engineers are hired to be the expert in their field. If you don't learn your craft, managers aren't going to do it for you. Ideally new hires would be mentored by senior engineers who unde
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by josephg 9mo ago
These days there's 200-350 new games released on steam every week. There's plenty of excellent narrative driven games if that's what you're after, mostly from indie developers. If you're looking for deep narrative f
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by josephg 9mo ago
They have added settings for this now - you can dial up and down how “warm” and “enthusiastic” you want the models to be. I haven’t done back to back tests to see how much this affects sycophancy, but adding the option as a user preference
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by josephg 9mo ago
A few years ago my laptop died while I was travelling. I was going to back to back tech conferences - and not having a computer would be a disaster. So, I went to best buy and picked up a brand new $500 HP laptop. It was running windows 11
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by josephg 9mo ago
“The current system” isn’t a thing across our whole industry. You’re speaking about some specific places you've worked. Personally I’ve never felt blamed for bugs that made it into production. I’ve felt responsible for sure, but I’ve n
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by josephg 9mo ago
> I think this just speaks to the necessity of rigor during the interview process. That gets expensive, fast. There's just so much to cover already, between communication skills, programming skills, debugging skills, architecture &#
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by josephg 9mo ago
I think the original agile people had the right idea. Do some planning, not too much. Then write some code - but not too much. Then take what you've learned from implementing and replan. Or if you want another way of thinking about it,
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by josephg 9mo ago
This is what it looks like when trust has broken down at a company. Management don't trust engineers when they say "this needs more time". And engineers don't trust management with the truth (it kinda works - we really c

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