mixologic

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by mixologic 5d ago
The Free in Foss is not "Free as in beer".
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by mixologic 5d ago
The only llmism I sensed is the use of "load bearing". Im usually queasy after reading llm slop, and stop before the end. This didn't have that effect. Maybe the llms are getting better, but either way, this article reads l
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by mixologic 10d ago
> Our implementation uses Highway's portable SIMD functions, so we do not have to re-implement about 3,000 lines of C++ for each platform. Would they do the same thing today or have an LLM re-implement those 3000 lines of c++ ?
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by mixologic 1mo ago
Nothing absurd about that. What do you think an "Executive producer" is? A "Director" ? Does Peter Jackson get credit for creating the Lord of the Rings Trilogy films? Christopher Nolan for his films? But did he make th
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by mixologic 3mo ago
US States aren't allowed to have permanent DST, but they can have permanent standard time.
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by mixologic 3mo ago
Its a nightmare because it erodes trust. Doctors are not "always right" which is why "always get a second opinion" is codified in culture. But AI's problem is that its completely full of shit, sometimes, and the peo
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by mixologic 3mo ago
Read up on the "chicken tax" for how long the auto industry has navigated weird assemvly games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
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by mixologic 3mo ago
"killed" is a bit of a stretch. High prices on all gear is here to stay. This is the new normal. Unless that simply means that nobody buys consoles/pc's. But you cant compare the price point with what it used to c
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by mixologic 4mo ago
Never, ever put a form into a popup. Ever.
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by mixologic 4mo ago
Privacy and Bot defense are opposite ends of the same fulcrum. If you permit privacy, the site/service has to trust users to behave and follow the rules. If you track users, then the users have to trust the site/service owners no
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by mixologic 4mo ago
Right now the only codebase I care about them fixing vulnerabilities in are the 3800 repositories that got stolen from GitHub. "Vulnerabilities in the software that makes the internet" is honestly lower priority than "The pla
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by mixologic 4mo ago
Heh, you mean the railway that was part of the whole "my production db got deleted in 9 seconds" story? That company sounds a lot like one that doesn't focus on the right things.
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by mixologic 4mo ago
For me the big question with something like Zed is how/when does it get monetized? How does Root/Ventures, V1.VC, Matchstick, Redpoint, and Sequoia get paid and what does that eventually look like for the people who have adopted
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by mixologic 4mo ago
yet . The hallmarks of enshittification are there. We've all been through the cycle of "this product is too good to be true, and provides considerably more value than it costs" "Customer Acquisition/Market Capture&
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by mixologic 5mo ago
This makes me wonder when we'll start trading memory on the commodities markets.
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by mixologic 5mo ago
https://signpath.org/ is about as close as you can get.
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by mixologic 5mo ago
Theres two different steps, there is signing and there is notarization . You sign with the developer certificate using productsign/codesign, and then there is notarization, which you use notarytool to submit your signed binaray to a
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by mixologic 5mo ago
The meme investors can stay irrational long before gamestop gets a growth story. If they haven't given up on their get rich quick scheme that's lasted over five years now, I really don't think they're going to jump ship
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by mixologic 5mo ago
Yeah, thats FUD. Cloudflare hasnt called anybody demanding huge sums of cash and holding your domains hostage. As a registrar they're fine, dont play scammy scum upsell games (because they have a real business model that isnt just regi
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by mixologic 5mo ago
DMARC isn't really that big of an issue to wrestle with, and I don't see how it gives anybody influence or power.
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by mixologic 6mo ago
Worth noting that mcollina is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee
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by mixologic 7mo ago
This is already true if you want to run a piece of software on an iPhone, on MacOS, on Windows, on any video game console.
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by mixologic 7mo ago
I find it amazing that skills are essentially excellent tools for humans to understand too.
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by mixologic 7mo ago
pretty sure I've had slack show me whole web pages without kicking me out to the mobile browser.
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by mixologic 7mo ago
A friend of mine has also been working on a Ghidra MCP: looks like theres a few of them: https://github.com/themixednuts/GhidraMCP
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by mixologic 8mo ago
Yes, Linus Torvalds is famously agreeable.
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by mixologic 8mo ago
Doesnt the tooling already exist? i.e. you could use `git notes` to attach agent state as checkpoints to Trees, Commits, Tags etc.
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by mixologic 8mo ago
what about using git notes to stash the summaries? ( https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes )
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by mixologic 8mo ago
*I'm so excited about landscape design. Can't wait to do more. Employing a gardener to do the gardening for me is really making me enjoy landscape design again!
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by mixologic 8mo ago
This seems like a pretty easy thing to fix for the future. Make the standard in all suits such that all genitalia would fit without a problem. Just give everybody that advantage of a mini sail and let the records all come with an asterisk.

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