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by mwcampbell 1y ago
To anyone else who was going to protest that the name _is_ at the top, apparently it depends on one's browser window width and zoom level. I was a bit surprised to find that increasing the zoom level even affects the order when reading
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I think where tptacek is right, though, is that if we're going to hold this position without hypocrisy, then we need to respect copyright as long as it exists. He's right that many of us have not done that; it's been very com
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I don't deny that, under the right circumstances, these tools can produce results that feel indistinguishable from magic, or like science fiction as you put it. But I don't think it's worth the costs. To me, the two most conc
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
How did we end up here, just accepting that some coding tasks require repetitive work, and turning to a probabilistic text synthesizer that requires massive training data to automate that? We're having this discussion on a site whose f
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> Your boss, stakeholders, and especially non-technical people literally give 0 fucks about "quality code" as long as it does what they want it to do. We've all already heard this message a thousand times. There's no
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Do you have a citation on Turso moving away from Fly? I'd be particularly curious about anything Turso has written on _why_ they're moving away.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I wonder if you used GitHub Copilot or some other LLM-based code generation tool to write any of the code. If not, that's a lot of code to write from scratch while presumably under pressure to ship, and I'm impressed.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
As a contributor to the Rust GUI ecosystem [1], I've been affected (somewhat) by that churn and have also contributed to it. The best defense I can give for doing what might be considered refuckering is that when my library eventually
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
It's no wonder that newcomers to Win32 find it intimidating.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> We really need an alien invasion. Any Trisolarans listening? Except we shouldn't even hate _them_, because they're sentient beings too. I guess we should only hate the worst aspects of our own nature.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I think it's natural for programmers to hold LLMs to a higher standard, because we're used to software being deterministic, and we aim to make it reliable.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> The codebase is deliberately under-architected (a legacy of the scars of working on Gecko), so many things you'd expect to be well defined re-usable modules that could be worked on independently of Google are actually leaky hacks
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I'm not making an argument from grievance about my own code being plagiarized. I actually don't care if my own code is used without even the attribution required by the permissive licenses it's released under; I just want it
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> Why would I valorize discarding this kind of automation? Is this just a craft vs. production thing? The strongest reason I can think of to discard this kind of automation, and do so proudly, is that it's effectively plagiarizing f
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> These things are great lookup tools, much better than web search Here's an article that argues otherwise, convincingly IMO: https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-...
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
A lecturer who is fluently multilingual might indeed smoothly switch accents when pronouncing foreign words. But it's still the same voice, and (if they're well practiced at it) they don't have to pause in mid-sentence to swi
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
> (As an erstwhile pentester, btw, fuck the OS certificate store; makes testing sites a colossal pain) Can you please explain? I'm just curious, not arguing.
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
This is why I configured my company's AWS application load balancer to disable HTTP2 when I first saw the linked post, and haven't changed that configuration since then. Unless we have definitive confirmation that all major load b
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
I'm curious, how did you conclude that AccessKit is a huge dependency? The binary size does vary by platform, with the Linux backend being especially large due to its use of a pure-Rust implementation of D-Bus. But the Windows x64 DLL
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
Nice work. I noticed, though, that there's no accessibility for blind people or others who need assistive technology that uses the platform accessibility API. If you can accept a Rust dependency, here's my project for solving this
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
> Apple's chips are dramatically faster than any other kind. Any idea why? Is it because of some patent they hold?
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
> we'll open a ticket with Apple and block the ticket in our system. Wouldn't it be annoying to be blocked on Apple rather than shipping on your schedule?
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
Not to take anything away from this amazing achievement, but if you want a similar open-source laptop, also based on an RK3588, that will actually be manufactured and sold, check out the MNT Reform Next: https://www.crowdsupply.c
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
> This is good in rust Is it actually going to be feasible to use WasmGC in Rust? I haven't yet found anything on this.
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
> What gives Paul Graham away is what he doesn't mention and may be what bothers him more: the old heresies that the surprisingly innovative and even rebellious "conventional-minded" abolish. Can you give an example of wha
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
Steve Yegge wrote about this ~20 years ago, with a heaping helping of his usual snark directed at the OO fads of the time: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/age-racecar-driver
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
What are the simpler, more fire-and-forget, approaches that you have in mind as alternatives to Kubernetes?
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
Is there still slow video RAM on machines with unified memory, like Apple Silicon Macs?
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
I still think @mpweiher's original response to the release of GitHub Copilot is spot on: https://blog.metaobject.com/2021/06/don-generate-glueextermi... That is, rather than use an LLM to generate boilerplate
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by mwcampbell 2y ago
The best reason I can come up with to mimic Cocoa, rather than Win32, is that macOS users are the most... discerning about native versus non-native apps. So a Windows-first app on macOS will certainly be noticed, but that's not as true

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