nicoburns

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by nicoburns 4mo ago
My main gripe with the Fastmail client is that it doesn't work offline. This is of course absolutely possible to do with a webapp, and IMO ought to be a priority for an email client.
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Rust PNG crate gets even faster, used by GNOME and Chromium(blog.image-rs.org)
4 points by nicoburns 4mo ago|0 comments
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
If something like this became commonplace (and accurate enough), then it could be fantastic for research: enabling us to map out what variations are common and which aren't in a way that hasn't previously been feasible.
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How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++(kobzol.github.io)
141 points by nicoburns 4mo ago|252 comments
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
Personally I think this is the wrong solution. I want crowd-sourced auditing for the existing ecosystem, not forked/vibecoded alternatives.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
Seems like he forked a bunch of already-existing crates and then added some vibecoding on top.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
> It's really about personal privacy. Your computer is likely to be stolen and sold. If you don't want others reading your email, viewing your pictures, seeing your tax returns, etc. then you should encrypt the drive. There is
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
Yes, Matrix. It all seems a bit overengineered, but it's open and has good clients, and all the modern features you'd expect.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
> in the winter you have cold evenings which requires base load or storage If the energy is for heating then there is always the option of storing the energy as heat. Which is much simpler than storing electricity.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
> There's some recent analysis that demonstrates how, despite a huge updraft in the quantity of apps released, the aggregate count of reviews and downloads remains static. Isn't the likely explanation for this that the updraft
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
There's nothing stopping you from defining those yourself for your own websites: grid { display: grid } will work in every modern browser.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
20 years ago everyone was also sold OOP on the premise that inheritance was the best thing to ever happen to programming. Turns out people are wrong sometimes. And especially when they're being idealistic about things.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
> CSS isn't powerful enough by itself to create any layout you want without modifying the HTML. This is true, but the better you are at CSS the fewer wrappers you'll likely have. It's also easier to manage styles with fewe
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
In my experience, actual producing impact/value and being able to demonstrate that you've produced impact/value are pretty loosely coupled to each, and it is often possible to do one without the other (in both directions). An
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
It seems to me like it's a fundamentally unsolvable architectural issue with LLMs. Ultimately the only protection is to limit the powers we grant to any given LLM to reduce the fallout when (not if) things go wrong (much like we do wit
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
The cost difference between client-side and server-side rendering is pretty non-existent these days.
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
It's definitely possible to make slow server-rendered website. Most of the slow client-side apps are slow because they're waiting on slow network requests. (I still very much support fast, simple HTML websites. The good ones are a
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
Android phones are also quite a bit more capable than iPhones in a number of ways due to being more open. Plenty of people just straight up prefer the experience (and plenty of others prefer the cheaper prices).
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by nicoburns 4mo ago
I used to work near a food market where there were dozens of independent good stalls that were setup to serve working people lunches. The food was still fast, but a lot healthier, and you could go to one place and have a wide choice of opti
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
Yep! We ultimately need better tooling for crowd-sourced manual auditing, not just a delay.
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
The MacBook Neo has modular ports. The rest of them don't. They may introduce them more widely in the next redesign but that remains to be seen.
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
In this case I think it's Docker that needs to be nerfed, not the models. The fact that there's a backdoor to getting root access on the machine would be a problem even if you weren't running LLMs on it.
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
That remains to be seen, but my guess would be that if you do it like Ladybird (with human-in-the-loop and a decent level of review) then probably yes, if you do it like Bun (1M LoC in a week) then probably no.
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
Yep. I've also seen systems that were slow with <10GB data of because of bad application of patterns that were supposedly "scalable" (pulling entire tables out of the database to implement joins in application code because
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
Most of the Rust GUI frameworks will run on something like a Kindle with 100's of MBs of RAM. Slint is the main one that will go smaller than that (it will run on actual MCU if you need it to).
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
Part of the problem is that Linux isn't really one platform, it's 10 different ones of varying popularity (e.g. supporting Gnome on Debian with Wayland doesn't mean that KDE on Nix with X will work). And it costs somewhere in
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
That's relevant if we're talking about the compiler automatically rewriting the code, but the chances are if you're writing this code yourself that the array will always have >= 32 elements.
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
> If prices keep going up, watch for companies to exit frontier models and go to local llama.cpp instances for 6-month-ago SOTA, with the flex of being housed within the office - no more privacy leakage, no more price gouging. That or ju
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
Isn't the issue that there are zoning laws preventing the conversion of the suburbs into more city?
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by nicoburns 5mo ago
> Did you generate your comment using LLM? (It was hand written. Typos and all.)

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