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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
Canada is another option. Canada has significant AI research institutes going back decades ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mila_(research_institute) ) that have produced much of the foundational research that backs tod
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by kettlecorn 7mo ago
This is far too nihilist. Obama and Biden both led to meaningful policy improvements and they were far more stable than the current admin.
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
I think part of this is preempting concerns that the EU could ban or limit X / Twitter. They've already fined X heavily for lacking transparency, like not providing a database of advertisers or allowing researchers to access inter
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
Many of the world's most intelligent and caring people are loyal to values over tribe.
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
Underrated in X's changes is how blue checkmark users are shown first underneath popular tweets. Most people who pay for blue checkmarks are either sympathetic to Musk's ideology or indifferent. Many blue checkmark users are there
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
I meant in a general sense. grok/xAI are politically aligned with whatever Musk wants. I haven't used their products but yes they're likely harmful in some ways. My concern is more over time if the federal government takes a
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
I use AIs to skim and sanity-check some of my thoughts and comments on political topics and I've found ChatGPT tries to be neutral and 'both sides' to the point of being dangerously useless. Like where Gemini or Claude will l
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
A terrible potential is that US products may find themselves unable to get footing internationally, due to broken trust and increased competition, so instead they'll try to rely on every-expanding protectionism and corruption to stay d
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by kettlecorn 8mo ago
The decades long level of trust in the US and its institutions was unprecedented and built off of the tremendous goodwill and momentum post WW2. It was an unusually high degree of trust, and now it's unusually low. Even if the US rever
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
Does your browser support WebGPU yet? It's likely it does not. WebGPU is supported on Chrome and on the latest version of Safari. On Linux with all browsers WebGPU is only supported via an experimental flag.
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
I think a lot of largest tech companies feel that they'll face retribution from the current administration for not being supportive enough but would not from future admins. For many of the smaller players I think there's unfortuna
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
I suspect the wheels are in motion for many such transitions away from US dependency, in software and other fields. Whenever trust is massively breached, and I believe much of the EU feels strongly that the US has breached trust, the natura
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
Frankly I always felt like the "outrage mobs" were almost always consequences catching up to people who did bad things. In a few cases sure it wasn't, but in most cases it was just jerks upset they couldn't just use thei
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
I write notes that are very explorative and rambling on some topics. Like I have probably 100+ pages of notes on programming language design where I use my notes as more of a working memory than a cohesive document. In other cases I'll
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
Sometimes when working through difficult problems I will write pages of notes exploring a topic from a bunch of different angles until my brain is a bit exhausted. I've found LLMs work reasonably well to just copy-paste that blob of th
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
It was always going to be difficult, but classic Microsoft blunders and extreme arrogance set back Windows Phone dramatically. They basically couldn't stick to a strategy and alienated every potential audience one by one. I was trying
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
Twitter was extremely valuable to me pre-Musk. I followed a lot of creative and technical people doing work I felt was great or valuable, and often it gave me insight into trends well before they occurred. It also made accessible brief disc
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by kettlecorn 9mo ago
My X / Twitter account is 17 years old. I made it 2 years after the website was founded, and for a long time I thought Twitter was the most personally positive and professionally valuable social media website I participated in. Often w
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by kettlecorn 10mo ago
As I noted in another comment Figma has used QuickJS to run JS inside Wasm ever since a security vulnerability was discovered in their previous implementation. In a browser environment it's much easier to sandbox Wasm successfully than
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by kettlecorn 10mo ago
Sandboxing. Figma for example used QuickJS, the prior version of the library this post is about, to sandbox user authored Javascript plugins: https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/ It's pret
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by kettlecorn 10mo ago
My criticism of X is primarily rooted in 2 things: the massive degradation of my experience using the platform and a distrust that Musk wouldn't use the platform to manipulate public opinion to achieve political goals. On the first poi
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by kettlecorn 11mo ago
I don't think 'unwrap' is inherently the problem. Any project has to reason about what sort of errors can be tolerated gracefully and which cannot. Unwrap is reasonable in scenarios you expect to never be reached, because oth
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by kettlecorn 11mo ago
One simple reason: for those of us invested in the Rust ecosystem it helps us spot new projects we could consider using.
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by kettlecorn 11mo ago
It needs to be done by the client and not be part of the actual video stream, otherwise it doesn't even work. When done by the client it's cheap.
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by kettlecorn 11mo ago
Dithering is super useful in dark scenes in games and movies. By adding random noise to the screen it makes bands of color with harsh transitions imperceptible, and the dithering itself also isn't perceptible. I'm sure there are b
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by kettlecorn 1y ago
It does have such a dialogue but VSCode's identically named "Delete" option has a nearly identical warning dialogue that moves the file to the trash instead. Zed's dialogue just says "Delete file.txt?" so if yo
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by kettlecorn 1y ago
As I just elaborated on in another comment VSCode and Zed both have "Delete" in the right-click menu as the last entry. VSCode only has 'Delete' and while it has a confirm screen it goes to the trash with the ability to
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by kettlecorn 1y ago
OP here. I have muscle memory from many years of using VSCode before Zed. "Delete" is the last option in the right click menu for both and when you select it both show a very similar dialogue box asking you to confirm. VSCode&#x27
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by kettlecorn 1y ago
I've been using Zed primarily for months but I just switched back to VSCode for 2 reasons, one of which is kinda my fault and the other it's unclear where the fault is. 1. I deleted a few hours of work because I was late night cod
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by kettlecorn 1y ago
I've thought a lot about why software doesn't converge on higher quality and I don't know if I've ever come to a satisfying conclusion. The simple statement is that "Quality isn't what sells" and I think t

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