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by maccard 6mo ago
What data is that? There's an unlabelled graph and a number at the current peak.
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by maccard 6mo ago
It's kind of hard to read this with a straight face. The unlabelled graph with big numbers on top, the priorities that don't match with what we're experiencing, and a list of things that they're doing without a real ackn
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by maccard 6mo ago
Anecdotally, my path was 2010 macbook pro -> 2015 macbook pro -> 2021 M1, with each device lasting about 10 years, and keeping 2 in flight at once. The 2015 one is showing it's age, and is likely to be replaced this year or next.
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by maccard 6mo ago
20 years ago we were complaining about steam being bloated and unnecessary, we were 6 months off vista being a bloated mess and the Office Ribbon debacle being in full swing. PC games were often half baked console ports with atrocious perfo
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by maccard 6mo ago
If you want an example of how this will be abused by companies, https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/12/airport-shops-...
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by maccard 6mo ago
I’d love to see your attempts at this. I think we’re close to something vaguely resembling this at a first glance but nothing that actually works.
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by maccard 6mo ago
The doordash story is very relevant here - they started with a menu and a Google voice number and did the orders and deliveries themselves.
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by maccard 6mo ago
I worked on this for a pretty big game. We recorded the network traffic and played it back and simulated the game - so same problem with patches. It also has the awkward side effect of exposing a metric crap ton of “join in progress” style
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by maccard 6mo ago
Machiavelli nailed this 500 years ago in the prince. If one person always plays by the rules, they will lose to the group who ignore the rules,
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by maccard 7mo ago
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps and has done for the past few years.
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by maccard 7mo ago
If google really cared about privacy, they wouldn't have moved maps away from a subdomain. now if I want maps to have my location (logical), I need to grant google _search_ my location too.
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by maccard 7mo ago
My previous company was overly cost sensitive, but large enough to not notice the waste. IT and procurement managed relationships with the vendor (Lenovo IIRC), and we had the workstations for 3 years officially but most people were 5-6 yea
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by maccard 7mo ago
Thing is though - either of those options is still multiple orders of magnitude faster than running on a remote host. Either will work, either will scale way farther than you reasonably expect it to.
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by maccard 7mo ago
> they're usually resold when the employee gets a new one Are they? Everywhere I've worked they get shoved into a storage closet and ignored for another 5-7 years
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by maccard 7mo ago
Now you understand why people have non technical co founders!
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by maccard 7mo ago
The trick to raising money is being able to convince an investor you are the person to build that platform, not being able to build the platform.
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by maccard 7mo ago
Only if you download an analyse it. You’re free to download the install script and analyze that too in the same way. The advantage that the script has is it’s human readable unlike the binary you’re about to execute blindly.
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by maccard 7mo ago
Given you're about to run a binary, it's no worse than that.
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by maccard 7mo ago
> The difference is that it's actually working this time. Non-programmers are writing full apps You can say this about every step along the way. C programmers replaced assembly programmers. Python programmers replaced C programmers.
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by maccard 7mo ago
So which apps are seeing 10x the bug fixes and improvements in stability and quality? From my side, I see one shot CRUD apps, platforms like AWS and windows actively deteriorating, to the point of causing massive outages and needing to have
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by maccard 7mo ago
> Mind that Anthropic alone is doing 30B/Y annualised already How many crypto exchanges were pulling in hundreds of millions in funding and doing billions in trades in 2021/2022? That blog post is… really something, I’ll give y
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by maccard 7mo ago
I write C++ and C# all day - I think it’s fair to say the same about a project in any programming language!
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by maccard 7mo ago
This is my understanding too - tools like react are like microservices - they’re a technical solution to an organisational problem. HTML/css/JavaScript is an imperfect abstraction, so we got bootstrap. Then we got client side fram
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I feel like there’s a bunch of factors for why it will never be the same for many folks, from the models and harnesses, to the domains and existing tests/tooling. If the argument is “you have to use the right model, harness, test
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by maccard 7mo ago
We’ve been suggesting that programmers are going to be replaced by simpler programming languages, gui programming tools, no code tools, low code tools, and now AI. The real big step was when Claude code came out and introduced the agentic l
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by maccard 7mo ago
Hard disagree. This is JavaScript frameworks building a hierarchy for themselves and ignoring any sort of complexity on the generated DOM. There’s 0 reason for these 8-10 nested divs other than that’s what the framework spits out.
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by maccard 7mo ago
I disagree - this is an excuse. Even the post we’re commenting in now shows that it’s a series of poor abstractions and bad tooling that takes way too long to do the basics, combined with a language and ecosystem that encourages this behavi
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by maccard 7mo ago
It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that we have gotten to a point that building a web frontend takes longer than compiling the Linux kernel..
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by maccard 7mo ago
Disagree - we’re being told on one hand that we are 6 months away from AI writing all Code, and 3 months into that the tools are unusable for complex engineering [1]. Every time I mention this I’m told “but have you tried the latest model a
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by maccard 7mo ago
If you’re downloading torrents and running code with elevated privileges that infects your PC, 99% of people are absolutely hosed at that point anyway. I don’t see th real distinction between being owned at an elevated system level and owne

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