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by maccard 5mo ago
Almost all of my tinkering is “download this thing, cache it (because it’s huge), run a program or a series of programs on it, and package the output up somewhere.” When I’m writing the thing that does the work I’m not tinkering any more..
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by maccard 5mo ago
By the time I’m memory constrained even on my laptop the processing cost of whatever I’m doing has gone beyond shoving it in the first scripting language I can find. Every device I write code on has at least 16GB RAM - most of them are 64 o
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by maccard 5mo ago
> In this case, the company offering this service should be responsible for making it possible to host the service independently before discontinuing it So AWS are now contractually required to offer all of their managed services to be s
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by maccard 5mo ago
Oh I agree - I don’t think saying hackers will find a way is a good solution at all!
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by maccard 5mo ago
Dedicated hackers already find a way around limitations. By that logic there’s no reason to do any of this.
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by maccard 5mo ago
There is lots of software not specific to games out there that comes with very murky licensing when it comes to redistribution. That’s fine because it’s predominantly used for backend, but now we’re talking about distributing binaries (or s
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by maccard 5mo ago
Here’s a few, as someone who has worked in games for 12 years. Most games have code and design decisions that hark back 25+ years. Every single unreal engine game for example is based code written in the mid 2000s and some parts of the engi
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by maccard 5mo ago
And if you believe that nobody in Spain breaks that law I have a bridge to sell you.
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by maccard 5mo ago
I taught a “gifted children” university level course that kids between 13 and 17 attenddd. We lost about half of the people on the first few days when they actually had to write code.
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by maccard 5mo ago
Sorry - you said it’s “grunt work”, not low skill. > There's very little value there. As opposed to the 373rd X-as-a-service crud app with AI features?
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by maccard 5mo ago
And none of those people are “low skill”.
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by maccard 5mo ago
This should be true for all software then, not just a subset of software.
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by maccard 5mo ago
The ignorance in this comment is offensive.
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by maccard 5mo ago
As opposed to making a crud app for a SAAS?
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by maccard 5mo ago
Where are those aliases stored?
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by maccard 5mo ago
> but with a good harness they are able to achieve things with SotA that I couldn't last year. What happens if you run last years model in a SOTA harness? IME, the quality of the harness has a much more significant impact on the qua
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by maccard 5mo ago
I agree. They’ve also devalued prime - I used to know that prime meant next day, now it just means “free delivery” but it could be 2+ weeks depending on where it’s coming from. argos are great. I ordered something from them for next day del
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by maccard 5mo ago
If you know of one of those shops report them to your local trading standards.
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by maccard 5mo ago
We don’t have the fakes problem but Amazon in the UK has a growing amount of stuff that is just resale of stuff from temu. I suspect if you tested the top 10 chargers on Amazon that weren’t anker, you’d find the same problems.
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by maccard 5mo ago
GitHub’s instability started when they announced they were wholesale migrating to azure. They’ve been struggling with uptime since before the enormous surge in agentic coding they’re seeing. I don’t doubt that AI has massively increased the
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by maccard 5mo ago
> It was made abundantly clear when Go was released that it was intended to "feel like a dynamically-typed language". If I google this quote a comment from you comes up here on this exact topic, where you seem to have completel
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by maccard 5mo ago
So the /r/palestine group are paid but not actually told what to do?
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by maccard 5mo ago
> Why is iota a massive kneecap to the language? It is semantically identical to enum in C and Typescript. iota is a massive kneecap _because_ it's semantically identical to enum in C and Typescript. > Is your argument actually t
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by maccard 5mo ago
Something can be highly succesful in spite of having glaring design flaws. Nobody is claiming go isn't wildly succesful, but it's _in spite_ of these issues. It was clear over a decade ago that iota, gopath, and lack of generics w
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by maccard 5mo ago
I wanted it 10 years ago.
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by maccard 5mo ago
That’s whataboutism - no language is perfect, but given when go released it’s fair to hold them to a higher standard than languages what were designed 25 years earlier. As an aside - D, Zig, Rust, even typescript got most of the lessons lea
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by maccard 5mo ago
There’s a fine line between being willing to change your mind and getting the basics wrong. Go has repeatedly gotten the basics wrong.
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by maccard 5mo ago
> Essentially, you're given free rein to edit as you see fit with an encouragement to make many uncontroversial edits & befriend normal editors. You do not know who else is part of the project and do not interact with them on Di
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by maccard 5mo ago
You've completely missed the point - It's not about bitflips it's about errors that are outside the scope of what's fixable.
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by maccard 5mo ago
I’m not in the US but assuming everyone who disagrees with you is receiving kickbacks is a bit much. I agree this is a terrible idea and doesn’t make sense past a few seconds of thinking but the reality is it’s very popular with an awful lo

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