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by piker 9mo ago
Rust GUI is in a tough spot right now with critical dependencies under-staffed and lots of projects half implemented. I think the advent of LLMs has been timed perfectly to set the ecosystem back for a few more years. I wrote about it, and
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by piker 9mo ago
AGPL is dead as a copy-left measure. LLMs do not understand, and would not care anyway, about regurgitating code that you have published to the internet.
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Thanks for All the Frames: Rust GUI Observations(tritium.legal)
9 points by piker 9mo ago|1 comments
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by piker 9mo ago
Guess we know where those 15KLOCs/day went.
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by piker 9mo ago
Tritum, the cross-platform IDE for legal work: https://tritium.legal `brew install tritium` (macOS) `winget install tritium` (Windows) `curl -f https://tritium.legal/get | sh` (linux) Check it for free out and l
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by piker 9mo ago
yes, and VS code as mentioned above. That's kind of the joke.
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by piker 9mo ago
+1. I see all these posts about tokens, and I'm like "who's paying by the token?"
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by piker 9mo ago
It goes further than this first order, though. If you're trying to build a business that attracts the types of talent who wants to know the stack up and down, starting with an AWS instance might give you a better shot at funding (and t
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by piker 9mo ago
Don't think he is, but it does seem like he inspired a hacker mentality in the shop during his tenure.
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by piker 9mo ago
There is a historical tide rolling in and out of presidential power. We’re currently in a high-power executive moment that began with the AUMF for Bush 2. The courts and Congress can act to curtail that authority somewhat and hopefully will
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by piker 9mo ago
Presumably "hard to come by" would be somewhat irrelevant in any jurisdiction other than the US?
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by piker 9mo ago
Running makes you look older, unfortunately.
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by piker 9mo ago
Yes, in the worst case they will be super fast to churn. That's unless they just forget to unsubscribe and you end up with a charge back because the principal has no idea he ever even signed up for your product.
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by piker 9mo ago
> “Their (ie the document’s) value stems from the discipline and the thinking the writer is forced to impose upon himself as [she] identifies and deals with trouble spots”. Real quote > "Hence their value stems from the disciplin
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by piker 9mo ago
Hah you had me until “best practices in the industry like context management through subagents, etc.”
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by piker 9mo ago
> The only people who still read books for entertainment are women who prefer their porn to have DIY visuals. The stats back me up on this. If you’re tempted to disagree, go walk the aisles of Barnes & Noble. I found this interesting
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by piker 9mo ago
This would make some sense if VS Code didn't have a terminal built into it. The LLMs have the same bash capabilities in either form.
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by piker 9mo ago
> If you read Steve's writeup Personally I got about 3 paragraphs into what seemed like a twelve-page fevered dream and filed it under "not for me yet".
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by piker 9mo ago
June 2024
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by piker 9mo ago
> Mike asks: "If an idiot like me can clone a [Bloomberg terminal] that costs $30k per month in two hours, what even is software development?" So that’s the baseline intellectual rigor we’re dealing with here.
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by piker 10mo ago
> You can make a vast majority of the population "pending charge" at some point if you take into consideration they were - at one point - marked "pending bench warrant" during the time between getting a traffic ticket
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by piker 10mo ago
No this isn’t correct. A bench warrant is not a charge. Neither is an arrest warrant, but in any event most traffic violations will be civil and not criminal matters.
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by piker 10mo ago
A lot of the design changes over the last decade seem largely Jobs-ian marketing driven. The round corners and friendly surfaces were useful in bringing the mass market into computing. Now that computer use is ubiquitous, it will be interes
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by piker 10mo ago
What you’re saying makes no sense. Unless I'm misunderstanding it (and I am in fact a lawyer), the data indicates that 53% of the people have either been convicted of or charged with a crime. Yes, people who are charged are innocent un
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by piker 10mo ago
> No conviction or charge 29,075 47% I mean, I'm not exactly pro-ICE here, but if 53% of them have a conviction or charge, that does tell a different story. That's surprisingly high.
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by piker 10mo ago
I'm not sure deliberate manipulation per se, but the market would be warped by a single participant that owned 4% of the aggregate market. This is especially true if that participant didn't adhere to the normal holding periods and
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by piker 10mo ago
This assumes that the entire market is for sale at a given time, which is not true. If you have 3 kids and two parents who need to drive to work, there may be only a single digit number of viable houses for sale at a given time in your scho
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by piker 10mo ago
My friends and I all cut our teeth on https://last-outpost.com 30 years ago now. It’s crazy how reliable such an old game is. I was an absolute slacker in school, but had an inexplicably high reading level which I attribute to “
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by piker 10mo ago
Houses are unique and have irreducible transaction costs which makes the market for them very inefficient and slow relative to a commodity. For one example, if you are in the market for a 3-bedroom house with a garage, the market is already
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by piker 10mo ago
Yes if the market is for rice, but illiquid assets are an entirely different market which can be crazy warped by a few important participants.

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