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by josephg 1mo ago
A few weeks ago I used claude to reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media. The patch is here, and it works great: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix AAC streams are decoded and
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by josephg 1mo ago
The free version of resolve is incredibly generous already. There are no watermarks, and most features are included. The studio version is a once-off cost, and honestly its pretty reasonable. If you're doing really serious scripting, m
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by josephg 1mo ago
I don't know if something has changed, but if you buy resolve now you can have it activated on two computers at the same time. I've got my resolve studio license activated on my mac laptop and linux workstation at the same time.
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by josephg 1mo ago
What bad faith premises?
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by josephg 1mo ago
Are you replying to the right comment? I didn’t say any of that.
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by josephg 1mo ago
React state bugs are usually not invisible failure modes. Other kinds of software - for example, the backend of a website - have far more invisible failure modes. Security. Correctness. Performance. Bad API design leading to overfetching. E
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by josephg 1mo ago
If anything, I think software needs more of these sort of top down safety rules. I want to companies held financially / criminally responsible for data leaks. Just like restaurants are held responsible for food safety.
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by josephg 1mo ago
The data was cool. Then I tried to tap on one of the other tabs. “This content is easier to read while full screen!” - Ok I’m game. “Hey this is what makes armature special!” - I don’t care, I’m here to look at data, not onboard onto some r
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by josephg 1mo ago
It depends how much you outsource to the llm. If you outsource everything to a llm, I just don’t think you get very good results right now. Language models aren’t great at remembering all the little design decisions that are needed in mediu
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by josephg 1mo ago
Frontend development - perhaps more than any other kind of software development - is “what you see is what you get”. There aren’t a lot of ways a website can be invisibly broken. Systems engineering isn’t like that. Vibe coders beware: A da
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by josephg 1mo ago
Very cool! How does the performance of this wasm interpreter compare to native execution? Are we getting close? And you’re comparing against wasmtime.pulley, which is their optimising interpreter. How does it stack up against wasmtime’s cra
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by josephg 1mo ago
Like what? I'm unconvinced.
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by josephg 1mo ago
How does this compare to Spritely Goblins? I had a good chat with Christine about it at a conference. She said "Ah, you've been infected with the capabilities virus too. My condolences." https://spritely.institute&
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by josephg 1mo ago
The thing I really want is a language or environment with no implicit access rights. So, if I call add(a, b) then the add function doesn’t have implicit access to the filesystem, network or global variables in other parts of the program. If
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by josephg 1mo ago
Sure. But you're stuck with GTK on every platform. "Cross platform, so long as you want to use GTK everywhere" is much less exciting than using actual native cross-platform UI elements.
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by josephg 1mo ago
- Grab the native canvas, draw your own UI - Electron and friends (web toolkits, tauri, etc) - Or my favorite: Just have a UI library which wraps all the native UI toolkits on each platform. Eg: https://daybrite.dev/
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by josephg 1mo ago
If you know this stuff, please make videos / talks yourself going through it. Casey doesn’t have the background for a lot of this. He’s doing great as a C++ dev but as you say, he’s just one guy with one perspective.
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by josephg 1mo ago
Yeah. Casey is just some guy who’s good at software and YouTube. I’ve worked with dozens of people at his level technically. But very few with his interest and skill at making videos. It’s a pity there’s not more people like him. I’ve met s
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by josephg 1mo ago
Prime is an entertainer first and foremost. He talks with confidence, even when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about - which is very often. Casey is far more measured, careful and accurate. Casey feels like an engineering educator first,
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by josephg 2mo ago
Chrome and Firefox are shipping lots of rust code today. They work great on Apple platforms. They’re even both planning to use rust for JPEG XL. What is your claim, exactly? Because as far as I can tell, there’s nothing stopping safari from
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by josephg 2mo ago
You're moving the goalposts. You said: > Shipping unsafe C++ is easier on Apple platforms than Rust. ... Which seems false. I can easily believe that apple might not have rust tooling in their Safari build system. But that doesn&#x2
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by josephg 2mo ago
Is it? I wrote a pure rust iOS app recently. It uses native controls, and looks and feels great. iOS and iOS-sim are both very well supported targets by the rust compiler.
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yep. Also: The rust borrow checker makes it difficult to implement tree like structures with pointers like you would in C or C++. Safe rust trees are (imo) best written using vecs. Rust makes function arguments noalias. Rust adds runtime ar
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by josephg 2mo ago
Humans are famously good at reading large code snippets.
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by josephg 2mo ago
I think LLMs will start being etched into custom chips. There’s already some companies experimenting with it. The benefits are enormous - you get better performance, lower memory usage and no need to load a model in ram. Companies would be
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by josephg 2mo ago
I’ve been thinking about this question for months: with access to good LLMs and unlimited tokens, how many non developers will end up making software? I’m sure some people will. But most people I know don’t think about software like that. T
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by josephg 2mo ago
Did you read the article you linked? The neo beats the performance of this dell laptop in several of the listed benchmarks.
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yeah I had an iriver. That thing was great because it essentially acted as a giant (for the time) USB drive. And it could play any mp3s and you put on it. You synced music by manually managing folders on the device. All my non technical fri
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by josephg 2mo ago
I’ve met people like this. “Oh, green bubbles - I don’t know what I expected” / “I didn’t realise he was poor”. It’s 100% a thing for some people.
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Because LLMs don't understand anything. How do you square that then? They can do amazing things, but they're also not smart? Do you think its possible to solve Erdos problems without any "smarts"? Can you do it with

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