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by klabb3 6mo ago
> run afoul of antitrust laws Now, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
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by klabb3 6mo ago
GP here. I agree, git is the best example in the spirit of my comment. Maybe the reason it wasn’t pointed out is precisely because it’s so obviously good that it’s no longer a conscious choice, and then we forget life before it. Even those
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by klabb3 6mo ago
From 20y experience and CS degree, I see software engineering as a constant struggle against accidental complexity. Like quicksand, every movement you make will pull you deeper, even swimming in the right direction. And like entropy, it gov
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by klabb3 6mo ago
Continuity with what exactly? IME Windows has been a mish mash of GUI frameworks to the point you teleport through time whenever you click around in control panel, since.. the XP era? I mean, I don’t disagree with you in principle, but the
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by klabb3 6mo ago
1. total abandonment of desktop as a platform, and the massive hurdles to distribute desktop software 2. move to Cloud and use electron wrappers because not even MS can bother making native apps on their shitty platform 3. Make Windows so s
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by klabb3 6mo ago
GP here. I agree in spirit but there’s a technical difference between ”approved to distribute” and ”approved in an App Store”. Specifically, you can distribute software for Windows and Mac outside of their stores, but you still need to have
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by klabb3 6mo ago
You are not wrong that regulation is desperately needed, and that EU is doing good things. However, even the EU which are doing the right thing on an anti-trust pro-competition basis, they fundamentally succumb to the same misconception – t
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by klabb3 6mo ago
It's much worse than you think. Press coverage -> manual intervention is at best a bandaid covering up a major wound in a flaw that happens with independent software distribution. The old model where the user decides which software
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by klabb3 6mo ago
> This is exactly what the ID cards I'm talking about are. You tap them to the phone or a desktop reader and it works. You just invented something that already exists. Great, thanks for clarifying. Please be mindful not everyone are
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by klabb3 6mo ago
> How is that Bob's problem? It isn’t. Bob has a different problem: that there are millions of Bobs with access to the same tools, meaning the value of Bobs labor is commodity priced. That may be good for some Bobs and bad for other
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by klabb3 6mo ago
Why not just have the Secure Enclave in the ID card and use NFC to communicate with it? Think about it, you literally have dozens of computers between you and the provider. Routers, middleboxes, load balancers, servers etc, all insecure or
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by klabb3 6mo ago
Rust is a language for fast prototyping? That’s the one thing Rust is absolutely terrible at imo, and I really like the production/quality/safety aspects of Rust.
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by klabb3 6mo ago
> The problem arrises when Bob encounters a problem too complex or unique for agents to solve. It’s actually worse than that: the AI will not stop and say ”too complex, try in a month with the next SOTA model”. Rather, it will give Bob a
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by klabb3 6mo ago
> So if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things. Yes, but how does he know if it worked? If you have instant feedback, you can use LLMs and correct when things blow up. In fact, you can often try all options and see which works,
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by klabb3 7mo ago
> Copilot [has] seen a 96.47% uptime That’s… one 9 of reliability. You could argue the title understates the problem. > You don't need every single service to be online in order to use GitHub. Well that’s how they want you to use
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by klabb3 7mo ago
LLMs were used to produce the review, not understand the paper.
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by klabb3 7mo ago
> And if this simpler solution was actually better for the company, it should be highlighted[…] Simpler than what? The reason this phenomenon is so pervasive in the first place is that people can’t know the alternatives. To a bystander (
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by klabb3 7mo ago
Contrary to HN popular belief, there are neither incentives nor benefits to building native ui apps, for neither consumer nor professional apps. The exception is apps that only make sense on a single platform, such as window management and
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by klabb3 7mo ago
What do you mean? With every launch they change the orientation of the camera array so you can tell who has the new model, and thus, is a better person.
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by klabb3 8mo ago
> Musk miscalculated on 1) cost reduction in LIDAR and 2) how incredible the human brain is compared to computers. And, less excusable, ignorant of how incredible human eyes are compared to small sensor cameras. In particular high DR in
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by klabb3 8mo ago
> I should have the right to […] use a "free" store that is not under control of Google Yes, but we also need to stop thinking like we’re trying to please the ghost of Steve Jobs. There is no ”store”. There are installers. Yo
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by klabb3 9mo ago
> It feels like this has been completely lost, even on platforms like mac where consistency used to be important. There are two kinds of consistency: across apps within a platform and across platforms within the same app. As someone who
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by klabb3 10mo ago
> Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here Nope, you are just more informed than me, thanks for the correction. I was extrapolating based on general trends in all forms of media (like games and movies too). It would be interesting to kn
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by klabb3 10mo ago
The people I know who go through the trouble of pirating and downloading vast libraries of music are all musicians themselves, or at the very least total music nerds. They don’t want to lose access to their stuff, plus if they ever need to
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by klabb3 10mo ago
> it is prudent to not depend on those who have a fundamentally different and incompatible world view. Like Saudi Arabia and formerly the Saddam regime (when he sold oil in USD)? While compatible world view is used as an argument against
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by klabb3 10mo ago
> Eufy would be better if they'd fix their roller brush design and didn't lean so heavily into making you buy their replacement components. It's designed around buying Eufy refills. FWIW there are 3p replacements that are
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by klabb3 10mo ago
> Quite the opposite is true (I believe) since a ton of users would leave Firefox for alternatives. Yes but keep in mind that’s not an individual problem that is solved by switching browsers. If a browser engine dies, the walls get close
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by klabb3 10mo ago
100% agree, I should have phrased it less black and white. In theory a spec is all you need but in practice solid reference implementations can iron out ambiguity plus it can uncover issues in the spec.
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by klabb3 10mo ago
We need a protocol , not an implementation, so language is a minor detail nobody should need to care about. It should be easy to use implement by lib developers in various languages, and easy to use for app developers. It should be designe
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by klabb3 10mo ago
> Then you have a schema layer that could change in backwards compatible ways. Every new addition is optional. Also known as the rest of the fucking owl. I am entirely in factual agreement with you, but the number of people who are even

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