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by jwr 9mo ago
Incidentally, radio buttons are a (sadly) forgotten art and are neglected in modern browsers. There are many issues with them, which is why people reimplement them on their own.
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by jwr 9mo ago
Hmm. This renderer is impressive. Will it be available for toy projects? (such as an online page with JavaScript for converting family pictures)
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by jwr 9mo ago
It's all true, but if you think organizing photo archives is easy, boy have I got news for you. Metadata, versions, version groupings, projects, albums, there is lots of structure that most people don't realize exists. Think every
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by jwr 9mo ago
I disagree — developers are not sheep.
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by jwr 9mo ago
That's programmer incompetence. Unfortunately pervasive, especially with devices like parking meters, EV chargers, and similar, where the feedback loop (angry customer) is long (angry customers resulting in revenue decrease) or non-exi
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by jwr 9mo ago
After Apple suddenly discontinued Aperture, which left users like me with huge complex photo archives hanging, I will never trust any professional software tool from Apple again. It is a disaster that I still haven't fully recovered fr
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by jwr 9mo ago
I don't think thinking tokens are affected, as LLMs "think" mostly in plain language, with occasional code snippets.
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by jwr 9mo ago
FWIW, I've been testing MCP tools exposed from Autodesk Fusion ( https://github.com/AuraFriday/Fusion-360-MCP-Server ) and the results are quite promising. It's especially good as a quick starting point.
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by jwr 9mo ago
I program mostly in Clojure and I expected it to be near the top, as it tends to be very concise and expressive (qualities I really admire). I am getting excellent results from Claude Code (Opus 4.5), and I think this might be one of the
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by jwr 9mo ago
Tahoe actually harms their hardware sales. I would normally upgrade to the latest MacBook Pro as soon as they become available, but I know that the next M5 generation will come with Tahoe installed and I intend to keep my current machine fo
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by jwr 10mo ago
Thanks! This should come in useful as I intend to soon dust off the task of migrating my (rather large and complex) app to FoundationDB.
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by jwr 10mo ago
I was also surprised to read this. I have terrible problems with all Google UIs. I can never find anything and it's an exercise in frustration to get anywhere.
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by jwr 10mo ago
This makes perfect sense and is so much better than getting a flood of half-baked "issues" and then closing them automatically with a bot for "inactivity".
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by jwr 10mo ago
It's a nice intro! One thing I would respectfully suggest is using more precise terminology than "ACID". Jepsen has a great resource for looking at various consistency models ( https://jepsen.io/consistency&#x2
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by jwr 10mo ago
I used to work at a company developing an independent H.264 decoder implementation. We would have killed for this kind of source content, especially if the license allowed showing it at trade shows.
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by jwr 10mo ago
I think I described (though perhaps too briefly or not clearly enough) the very specific realistic problems? I'm somewhat amused that every time this kind of discussion comes up, the answer is "you are holding it wrong". I ha
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by jwr 10mo ago
What I meant was that the ansible recipe for building and installing age broke within a year. I didn't investigate why, I just switched it off, but it was a data point. Yes, I know this can surely be explained and isn't a "fa
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by jwr 10mo ago
It has become fashionable to s*t on GnuPG. I just wish all the crypto experts doing that would point me to an alternative that is functionally equivalent. Something that will encrypt using AES-256 with a passphrase, but also using asymmetri
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by jwr 10mo ago
Seconded — "AI" is a great teaching resource. All bigger models are great at explaining stuff and being good tutors, I'd say easily up to the second year of graduate studies. I use them regularly when working with my kid and
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by jwr 10mo ago
It's pretty simple, actually. Do you hold a Russian passport? You're Russian. If you "don't support" the invasion and killing, either start changing the system, or get rid of the passport. Yes, it's inconvenien
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by jwr 10mo ago
Ah, the usual whataboutism that derails rational discussion. While the world isn't black and white, there are rare situations where things actually are totally black and white, and we are witnessing one of them right now.
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by jwr 10mo ago
I… don't think that's what I did?
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by jwr 10mo ago
Polish person here. Don't try to learn Polish. It's insanely difficult, the "rules" make no sense whatsoever, and almost anybody that you'll want to talk to will be able to communicate with you in English. As for Ru
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by jwr 10mo ago
The speed is fine, the models are not. I found only one great application of local LLMs: spam filtering. I wrote a "despammer" tool that accesses my mail server using IMAP, reads new messages, and uses an LLM to determine if they
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by jwr 10mo ago
I think pricing is just one dimension of this discussion — but let's dive into it. I agree it's a lot of money. But what are you comparing this pricing to? From what I understand, getting a non-Apple solution to the problem of run
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by jwr 10mo ago
The author seems unaware of how well recent Apple laptops run LLMs. This is puzzling and puts into question the validity of anything in this article.
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by jwr 10mo ago
Why the "a few million in revenue" cutoff? In a solo-bootstrapped business you don't need a few million (USD or EUR) in revenue to run a successful business and live a really good life. In fact, depending on where you mostly
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by jwr 10mo ago
Fellow (solo) bootstrapper here. Congratulations to the author(s) of the article, and to all the other bootstrappers here. Remember, even if your business is smaller or doesn't have the incredible stellar growth numbers that these peop
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by jwr 10mo ago
Yes! I forgot about this. The EU Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) effectively eliminated the high fixed minimum fees that previously made small-value card transactions unprofitable for merchants. The net effect of this is that in Poland, fo
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by jwr 10mo ago
I have no doubt that Gruber will find reasons why the EU is bad and regulation is bad. At this point it's rather amusing how Daring Fireball (and many other American media) rants against regulation, and in another post complains about

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