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by klabb3 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yes. Wasm does to my knowledge not have an answer for this, even if some projects patch in their bridge logics. Networking and file systems, and the permission model, is "the rest of the fucking owl". Linux isn't standardized
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by klabb3 2y ago
> it wouldn't be rather trivial in some sense for users to build the same capabilities but for personal protection from malign influences. Yes the implication of AI in economics and society is like that of scraping, spam, scalping o
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by klabb3 2y ago
I really hope so! I have no doubts they will fight hard, and that will be good for everyone. But going decentralized? No way. The motivation isn’t privacy for the sake of human rights, is what I’m saying. Heck, I’m happy as long as Apple th
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by klabb3 2y ago
I fancy the old fashioned term ”middleware” myself. But given it is, in fact, the current year, I suspect we’re going to have to accept ”agents” for the time being.
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by klabb3 2y ago
I totally agree and disagree. Yes it’s their culture but it’s not unfair at all. Its the only big tech company that sells privacy to consumers. They could do that because unlike the competition they weren’t an ad company and thus didn’t n
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by klabb3 2y ago
And then do this with sentiments and arguments around political issues. Murdoch could only dream of this power. And it will be close to impossible to analyze from an outside perspective given the noise and upcoming personalization in respon
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by klabb3 2y ago
Was hoping HN would pick this up. Scroll is completely broken on Firefox (iOS), flickering vscroll. Very common with journalistic expose-style articles. For the love of everything, please stop scrolljacking. Layout, images, go nuts. CSS is
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by klabb3 2y ago
What are the challenges with replicating raspberry pi success of open(?) hardware for other form factors such as tablets, ”smart” (I prefer dumb) displays, and yes watches. Without bells and whistles, but still appealing enough that people
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The differences between these webviews are vast and you end up with different UIs or cobbled together adjustments for each OS to split the differences. Like frontend developers do all the time? Why would this be an issue for apps but n
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yeah such are race to the bottoms. Because some assholes did turn cancelation into a Kafkaesque nightmare, now people don't want to subscribe in the first place. Who could have seen that coming? Genius MBA logic. And now honest busines
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yes. Exhibit A: the infamous green bubble stigma (US phenomenon only). Also, Apple should not be in the business of making social apps. Hardware and OS is plenty lock-in aka fiefdoms as it is.
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Once you "accidentally" ship an entire browser inside your app That’s not needed. Generally there’s a webview available on the system of choice. All major platforms have it, including mobile and many Linux distros. > vulne
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by klabb3 2y ago
Tauri doesn’t bundle Chromium and Node. My app bundle is 10MB and it even bundles a sidecar binary in Go. A hello world electron bundle is 100+ MB.
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by klabb3 2y ago
Why is webview a problem? I hear this a lot but not sure why (with the exception of gtk WebKit on Linux which has legit perf issues). We’re on web right now and I’ve never heard anyone complain hackernews is sluggish and that they want a na
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yeah but.. it’s just the way of gases and liquids under pressure. Even if you could sustain the pressure with gas it would be an unnecessary implosion risk if it’s pierced. As long as it still functions fully including on the surface, I wou
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by klabb3 2y ago
What would happen at a call boundary from untyped -> typed and typed -> untyped?
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by klabb3 2y ago
> First JavaScript is unfortunately not just for web apps. It’s also for desktop apps. A bit of a tangent but I’d say server is bigger than desktop. Like it or not JS (or TS) is the only cross platform development language that’s feasibl
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Record/Tuple objects are immutable primitives with structural equality TIL and also god that would be amazing, almost to the point of making JS/TS actually nice if done right (what’s next, pattern matching?). The number one f
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by klabb3 2y ago
> because you haven't been properly compensated for your contribution to the content on the internet Copyright is - like it or not - the way we regulate commercial intellectual "property". I can see different IP doctrines,
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by klabb3 2y ago
> I just feel some of the arguments smell similar to concerns levelled at the earliest compiler developers about the perils of abstraction Like you, I am a sucker for abstraction (often to my detriment). I just don’t see any resemblance
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by klabb3 2y ago
All those layers are stable and deterministic. You can open it up and check, in most cases, how the upper layer calls the lower layer, should it be necessary. If you have an LLM between you and the code, there is not even such a thing as
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by klabb3 2y ago
> As soon as your situation exceeds textbook level, I’ve found them to always be a waste of my time Doubly so. A very knowledgeable and helpful tutor would say ”you’re asking for advanced or detailed guidance. I don’t know the specifics,
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by klabb3 2y ago
> non-parallel XOR of input stream I remember this one in particular making me upset, simply because of another extra buffer pass for security reasons that I believe are only to prevent proxies doing shit they never should have done in t
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by klabb3 2y ago
It's not a very good man-in-the-middle if it can't handle a ubiquitous protocol from 2011 based on http/1.1. More like an incompetent bureaucrat in the middle.
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by klabb3 2y ago
> based on my belief that the brain is nothing special physics-wise and it doesn't manage to realize unknown quantum algorithms in its warm and messy environment Agreed (well as much as intuition goes), but current gen AI is not a b
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by klabb3 2y ago
And how does the recommendation algorithms work? Without user data, it’d be nowhere near as potent at being addictive and dominating in the collective human attention economy. Oil isn’t useful in its raw form either. Do you think we’d be pl
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Do people believe that the US government's control over Instagram/Twitter/whatever are similar to the level of control China's government has over TikTok? Control comes in different flavors. Is the US government cov
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by klabb3 2y ago
Sure it’s different. But the point is early stage development is not the hard part. LLMs so far perform well within training data, which there is a ton for crud. We can’t say how it performs maintaining projects yet, it’s not clear it can b
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by klabb3 2y ago
This has been the argument for every CMS and no-code solution ever. 80% of apps are just crud. 90% maybe! We can just anticipate all the needs and have plugins and drag and drop builders. Coding will be restricted to just a small set of sen

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