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by klabb3 2y ago
Thanks. My personal use case is a client with business logic written in Go with intermittent connectivity, some data is private to the device, some private to the server, and with some data synced from server to clients. Many events are tim
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by klabb3 2y ago
What is the realtime and reactivity support in Turso? It’s starting to look attractive but do updates propagate automatically without polling?
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by klabb3 2y ago
This can be explained easily – there are simply some domains that were hard to model, and those are the ones where AI is outperforming humans. Natural language is the canonical example of this. Just because we focus on those domains now due
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by klabb3 2y ago
Reality is probabilistic yes but it’s not black box. We can improve our systems by understanding and addressing the flaws in our engineering. Do you want probabilistic black-box banking? Flight controls? Insurance? ”It works when it works”
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by klabb3 2y ago
Better than broken JS libs but my main concern is the layouting yank, when there are many options and how to reach them without accidentally closing the select. > It doesn't trigger built-in mobile operating system components. Yeah
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by klabb3 2y ago
The remaining foothold of windows for home use is games. It’s the only reason I still have a windows partition (well, app development to be fair but that’s not everyone). A lot of the previous moat like Word seems to have moved to the cloud
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by klabb3 2y ago
My understanding: the US was a manufacturing center as a first mover after war economy and others being crippled and indebted by war. Then Germany and Japan caught up resulting in the collapse of the bretton woods system (1970s) which then
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by klabb3 2y ago
Were you also against the FCC implementing local number portability after Verizon etc refused to hand over your number to a different provider? The point is that capital incentives alone do not drive interop, and when interop is low, you ge
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by klabb3 2y ago
So an attacker should sign their malicious webp or jpeg files beforehand? That doesn’t help at all. No, I agree very much with parent here. I think compile time safety and rust fanatism has been oversold, but let’s face it this is the p
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by klabb3 2y ago
This is a bad argument. Even the most authoritarian and vile government atrocities come wrapped in veils of excuses, plausible deniability, etc etc. It’s one of the more creative government exercises in everything from reeducation camps, du
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by klabb3 2y ago
> against progress of advancements for arts and sciences. No it’s always against commercialization. That’s why we have exceptions like political commentary, satire and in particular arts and sciences . The issue is about making money
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Calling all humans for duty… Do your part keeping the dead internet alive!
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> There are three parties here: HP, the people they hurt, and the class action lawyers. You need to break apart the class action members from ”people they hurt”. The members of the class can be more narrow and easier to prove. The lawyer
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by klabb3 2y ago
> would be akin to how most humans see a ball in flight and just instinctively know (within reason) where the ball is going to go? Generally no. If I show you a puddle of water, can you tell me what shape was the ice sculpture that it wa
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The naming is similar to the popularity of greek mythology in western products. (e.g. all the products named "Apollo") Popular? So you’re saying that all the VPs who have come up with the mind bendingly unique and creative na
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by klabb3 2y ago
Just got to reading this. > how to apply server-side changes to a client when the client has its own pending local operations I liked the option of restore and replay on top of the updated server state. I’m wondering when this causes per
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The users aren't the issue, the developers are. Just to clarify, you are referring to companies, not necessarily their developers. > Companies as reputable as the New York Times are willing to forgo easy subscription flows insi
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Apple's 30% cut makes them tons of revenue Compared to? All taxes mean fewer transactions – and purchases that never happen don’t generate revenue. This is not easily measurable. Most SaaS or similar services probably go through o
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The one piece of discussion or attempt at a systematic approach I've seen to 'synchronisation' recently is to do with Conflict-free Replicated Data Types https://crdt.tech I will go against the grain and say
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by klabb3 2y ago
Sama as the spokesperson regularly makes grandeur statements, often very vague, can’t show it because ”safety”, trade secrets etc. I think it’s widespread culturally, especially in earlier VC-centric times when investor fomo and mystique is
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by klabb3 2y ago
I do love (1) the non-commercial and (2) the long form non-realtime aspect of the indie web but I still wish it was more accessible to other nerds, not just in tech. It’s also hard to search and to connect with people. A lot of the modern f
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by klabb3 2y ago
That’s fair, but I was referring to releasing in response to external events. It’s very clear they are trying to one-up each other and create hype, vagueposting etc. I don’t think sama is alone in this but everyone especially from the Thiel
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Fake it til you make it vibes. I understand why he would do it, what I find strange is that it inspires confidence in the market.
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> IME this is a longstanding pain point with Go. Understatement of the year. But it’s really not limited to encoding but generally lack of sum types is excruciating after having tasted them (in Rust, in my case). They click instantly as
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by klabb3 2y ago
The permissions alerts don’t come from the App Store, they come from sandboxing and the permission model. This is a property of the OS, and everyone agrees that this is better than the anarchy of desktop OSs. But they were created decades e
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Occasionally I think "maybe Windows wasn't as bad as I thought", and then I hear or read something about it that makes me go, "Ohhhhh THAT'S why I got the hell away from that trash heap." Same, but there’s
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In a way yes. For models in physics that should make you suspicious, since most of our famous and useful models found are simple and accurate. However, in general intelligence or even multimodal pattern matching there’s no guarantee there’s
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by klabb3 2y ago
Let me spell it out: the arbitrary color lets you identify the ones who use Android. Some people think the reason for using Android is being poor. Others don’t want to be seen as poor, because social posturing is important to them.
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by klabb3 2y ago
> I guess it was just a talking point to shit on Apple’s approach? Apple is not a sports team. What people are shitting on is a vendor-specific messaging app. It would be the same if there was a Samsung chat.
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by klabb3 2y ago
Not to Google. Green bubbles were a big social shaming issue affecting the sale of Android. This is all in the US only afaik. So in other countries with a similar iPhone market share there isn’t a green bubble social stigma.

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