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by mwcampbell 6mo ago
I hope we can still get to a point where wasm modules can directly access the web platform APIs and get JS out of the picture entirely. After all, those APIs themselves are implemented in C++ (and maybe some Rust now).
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by mwcampbell 7mo ago
> Boilerplate and scaffolding Have we really reached the limit of how much we can reliably automate these things via good old metaprogramming and/or generator scripts, without resorting to using unreliable and expensive statistica
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by mwcampbell 7mo ago
We had Joel Spolsky saying that users don't read back in 2000, around the same time that Steve Krug published _Don't Make Me Think_: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop... S
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by mwcampbell 7mo ago
Every little detail matters though. In SQL, do you want your database field to have limited length? If so, pay attention to validation, including cases where the field's content is built up in some other way than just entering text in
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by mwcampbell 7mo ago
I disagree on Kubernetes versus ECS. For me, the reasons to use ECS are not having to pay for a control plane, and not having to keep up with the Kubernetes upgrade treadmill.
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by mwcampbell 7mo ago
This idea is a major theme in this story by Robert Kingett: https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidenc...
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Selfish AI(garfieldtech.com)
20 points by mwcampbell 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
> the actual object-level question ("is this tool useful for this task") That's not the only question worth asking though. It could be that the tool is useful, but has high negative externalities. In that case, the questio
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
What's the name of this DLL? I assume it's separate from the monster chrome.dll, and that the model is proprietary.
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
Given that it's a 400B-parameter model, but it's a sparse MoE model with 13B active parameters per token, would it run well on an NVIDIA DGX Spark with 128 GB of unified RAM, or do you practically need to hold the full model in RA
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
Impressive work. I wonder if you've looked into what it would take to implement accessibility while maintaining your no-Rust-dependencies rule. On Windows and macOS, it's straightforward enough to implement UI Automation and the C
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
Yes, exactly.
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
I actually do believe that AI is dangerous, though for different reasons than the ones he focuses on. But I don't think he really believes it, since if he did, he wouldn't be spending billions to bring it into existence.
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
This is obviously bullshit. If he were really worried about the things he says he is, he'd put the brakes on his company, or would never have started it in the first place.
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by mwcampbell 8mo ago
I was gratified to learn that the project used my own AccessKit for accessibility (or at least attempted to; I haven't verified if it actually works at all; I doubt it)... then horrified to learn that it used a version that's over
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by mwcampbell 9mo ago
Glad to hear that the coming local version of Sprites will be open-source. I hope there will be some way to financially reward that work, aside from buying Fly services that I likely wouldn't use.
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by mwcampbell 9mo ago
I want something like this, but running on my own box. I now have a Linux box with plenty of RAM and storage under my desk. (It happens to be an NVIDIA DGX Spark, but I'm not really interested in passing the GPU through to these sandbo
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by mwcampbell 10mo ago
Simple language isn't just for children. It's also good for non-native speakers. Besides, even for those who can understand complex grammar and obscure words, parsing unnecessarily complex language takes extra effort. In this spec
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by mwcampbell 10mo ago
> Did Microsoft seriously deprecate BitBlt and 2D draw calls? Very unlikely. Far too many applications depend on those things. It's more likely that they accidentally changed something subtle that happened to break colorForth.
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by mwcampbell 10mo ago
If you're allowed to say, are you referring to the Windows 10 ports of the iOS apps that were done via Osmeta in 2016, or the earlier WinRT-native version? If the former, that was a non-starter for me and my blind friends due to deep a
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
> I still like it -- for systems programming, that is. Just curious, what language(s) do you prefer for things that you don't classify as "systems programming"?
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
> the distinction is whether or not something enables me to perform a task, or whether it's just doing the task for me. I think school has taught us to believe that if we're assigned a task, and we take a shortcut to avoid doin
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
> there is no capital or material cost to push back against complexity On a thread about software bloat and inefficiency, @josephg once speculated about an alternate universe where Moore's Law stopped decades ago. I've kept thi
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
Shouldn't that make us want to fight to simplify our software stacks to the point where we can do analysis by synthesis, building from simple, well-understood parts, again?
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
Are you saying that frameworks might become less important because LLMs can just generate boilerplate code instead? Or do I misunderstand? Personally, if the vibe-engineering future that some executives are trying to foist on us means that
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
This may not be what you're after, but note that egui and Slint have accessibility support (at differing levels of completeness), e.g. for blind people using screen readers, while Ribir and GPUI do not.
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
What is Sprite in this context?
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
The thing that always worries me about these clean-slate designs is the fear that they'll ignore accessibility for disabled people, e.g. blind people, and then either the system will remain inaccessible, or accessibility will have to b
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
In the spirit of "every non-trivial program will expand until ...", I think preemptively choosing async for anything much more complex than a throwaway script might be justified. In this case, the relevant thing isn't perform
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by mwcampbell 11mo ago
> They’re trained to be far too user led. They don’t challenge you enough. An anecdote here: I recently had a conversation with Claude that could be considered therapy or at least therapy-adjacent. To Anthropic's credit, Claude chal

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