mkozlows

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by mkozlows 9mo ago
And as for JAXB, it was released in 2003, well into XML's decadent period. The original Java APIs for XML parsing were SAX and DOM, both of which are tag and document oriented.
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
No. That use case was grafted onto it later. You can look at the original 1998 XML 1.0 spec first edition to see what people were saying at the time: https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-origin-goals He
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
I mean, welcome to literally every tech startup valuation 2021 vs now. 2021 was so amazing for stock valuations.
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
The part where it favorably mentioned namespaces also blew my mind. Namespaces were a constant pain point!
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
XML was designed as a document format, not a data structure serialization format. You're supposed to parse it into a DOM or similar format, not a bunch of strongly-typed objects. You definitely need some extra tooling if you're tr
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
This is performance art, right? The very first bullet point it starts with is extolling the merits of XSD. Even back in the day when XML was huge, XSD was widely recognized as a monstrosity and a boondoggle -- the real XMLheads were trying
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
For not using the default Samsung launcher, which sucks.
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
Github Copilot was available in 2021, believe it or not. It was just auto-complete plus a chat window, but it seemed like a big deal at the time.
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
Keep in mind that the US auto industry is also very much a Canadian one. A lot of Big Three stuff happens across the border in Ontario. But all the policy support that would have let North American automakers build up a competitive position
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
It's also still not true. My son has a Windows machine that he's responsible for, after a long time running ChromeOS. He's reported all kinds of weird driver things, and having had to watch YouTube tutorials to figure out how
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
It gave me pause in the sense that it doesn't feel true. I mean, yes, I've had to look things up to see how to do things in Linux. I've also had to do that on MacOS. (Just the other day, I couldn't remember what the Task
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Bottom-up programming as the root of LLM dev skepticism(klio.org)
15 points by mkozlows 9mo ago|8 comments
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
What's funny is, the author is only having these questions because they chose a wacky Arch-based ultra-techie distro that I'd never even heard of. If they'd just installed normal Ubuntu or Fedora, they wouldn't even know
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by mkozlows 9mo ago
I suspect they sincerely picked CachyOS because they read people advocating for it, and were convinced by the advocacy. People advocate all kinds of distros, and all of them except the one I advocate are bad choices.
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
If you want a bit more automation on your spreadsheet, check out Tiller. They provide the integrations with your banks to automatically download your transactions into a spreadsheet (support Sheets or Excel), as well as some handy templates
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
Yeah, fair! Same sentiment about Microsoft now as then, but fewer real blockers on the Linux side.
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
I'm sorry, but no. I ran Slackware 96, Red Hat 4.2, Mandrake 5.0, a bunch of Ubuntus from 12.04 onward, and Fedora now. It is absolutely, qualitatively different now than it was at the turn of the century. In the Red Hat 4.2 days, it w
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
I mean, yes. That's how people work: They don't care about the OS for itself, the OS is a means to run the software they want to run, and it'll be ready when it runs that software. (I'm typing this on my Linux desktop ri
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
I haven't, because I buy hardware that's designed to work with Linux. But if you buy hardware that doesn't have Linux drivers, it just won't work. That might mean Wifi not working, it might mean a fingerprint reader not
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
Works well if the laptop has hardware designed to support Linux. Framework stuff is great, for instance.
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
Windows 8 era had the same vibe.
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
I was going back and looking at timelines, and was shocked to realize that Claude Code and Cursor's default-to-agentic-mode changes both came out in late February. Essentially the entire history of "mainstream" agentic coding
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
I don't think they generally one-shot the tasks; but they do them well enough that you can review the diff and make requests for changes and have it succeed in a good outcome more quickly than if you were spoon-feeding it little tasks
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
Your monitor is probably set to the wrong settings for film content. Almost all monitors are set to a cool white point out of the box. If you're not producing film or color calibrated photography on your monitor, there is no standard w
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
If your secrets are in your repo, you've probably already leaked them.
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
I'm not remotely cutting edge (just switched from Cursor to Codex CLI, have no fancy tooling infrastructure, am not even vaguely considering git worktrees as a means of working), but Opus 4.5 and 5.2 Codex are both so clearly more comp
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
... and people kept using Uber.
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
There is! That is precisely how TVs work! Specs like BT.2020 and BT.2100 define the color primaries, white point, and how colors and brightness levels should be represented. Other specs define other elements of the signal. SMPTE ST 2080 def
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
"Warm" or "Warm 2" or "Warm 50" is the correct white point on most TVs. Yes, it would make sense if some "Neutral" setting was where they put the standards-compliant setting, but in practice nobody ev
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by mkozlows 10mo ago
The whites in Filmmaker Mode are not off. They'll look warm to you if you're used to the too-blue settings, but they're completely and measurably correct. I'd suggest living with it for a while; if you do, you'll qu

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