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by piker 4mo ago
It's so interesting to read comments like this and contrast them with the "don't read the code" type of vibes out right now. It feels like half of the developer world is optimizing low-level struct packing and the other
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by piker 4mo ago
I tend to agree with the title but the content seems both AI generated and somewhat dated. The feels 20% faster but actually 19% slower I believe is a few years old at this point. I'm a skeptical as the next but I think it would hard t
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by piker 4mo ago
Yes, that's right. The folks in this thread just got really worked up thinking that I disagreed with that point, which distracted from my message which was about the A pillar.
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by piker 4mo ago
Yes, obviously this is what is required. > and there’s a pedestrian crossing in front of me This is wrong. You have to do it every time because the pedestrian is in your blind spot.
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by piker 4mo ago
My experiences have been at around 5mph. Again, it's not speed. If you watch the video in the post you will understand. The person is just invisible to the driver and they're travelling around the same very low speed.
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by piker 4mo ago
It's not a speed issue. They're in a blind spot. Your brain tells you that you can see everything, but it's incorrect. My experiences have been under slow circumstances only. And that makes sense because the individual "
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by piker 4mo ago
Yes, I agree with both of those statements. If you read the original statement before the "tut tut" response, you will note that I was only suggesting the A pillars introduce dangerous blind spots. I understand how that could be c
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by piker 4mo ago
I think I've just lost 10 IQ points in this thread. YES! OF COURSE. I SAID IT'S A LIABILITY. I AM SHARING INFORMATION, PERHAPS TO AFFECT FUTURE CONSUMER CHOICE.
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by piker 4mo ago
Of course it would! That's the whole point. People shouldn't enter the road until it's clear they've been seen. I'm not sure what you're missing here guy. I've said the A bar is a liability because of the
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by piker 4mo ago
This is such a British response. Obviously that's what the law says, yes. But if they hop into someone's blind spot, it won't matter to their family much that they were in the right.
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by piker 4mo ago
Those A pillars are MASSIVE liabilities in the UK where people just hop right out onto "zebra crossings" expecting the right-of-way to be yielded to them. On a number of occasions I have nearly hit people who I simply could not se
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by piker 4mo ago
I.e., the demand for programming tokens turns out to be quite elastic.
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by piker 4mo ago
We used a “loop” before it was called that to drive MS-DOC support into Tritium. Based on that experience, I take issue with this: “There are already impressive examples of large automatic porting efforts, including the reported work arou
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by piker 4mo ago
Average? Well, male for one. It's not my point, but I don't think you're giving a strong rebuttal either.
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by piker 4mo ago
We bumped into this at one point looking to switch our Rust GUI framework and found the best alternatives also suffered a core issue because they both (and almost all Rust GUI frameworks) depended on the same `winit` crate. The `winit` main
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by piker 4mo ago
Honest question. Do people read these massive vibe-coded README.md files, or are they just artifacts? The minute I see them, I tune out and move on. These types of docs come across to me as so over-specified and memorialized that I just fin
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by piker 4mo ago
Hard to blame (new) Outlook issues on backward compatibility... seems like it's a ground-up electron app that supports basically nothing from the classic version.
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by piker 4mo ago
It seems to me the role of venture capital has changed and is somewhat responsible for this. The obsession with MVPs followed by hyper-growth and then moat-building has warped our relationship with technology. It's driven by a desire f
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by piker 4mo ago
I'm not sure that will bring a lot of relief to the concerned side as it implies you are being fingerprinted by all the websites that are subject to this verification rule.
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by piker 4mo ago
Yes, no doubt there is an obvious first-order reason for this. It's the second order effects that I think folks are rightly worried about, but it's easy to steel man.
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by piker 4mo ago
The product was born of and shaped entirely by capitalism? I say this as very much a capitalist.
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by piker 4mo ago
It’s a failure of capitalism that one of the greatest educational resources in four generations (YouTube) gets walled off to those who need it most. I’d say shame on Google for letting shorts ruin this for the kids, or shame on the UK gover
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by piker 4mo ago
Tritium, the legal IDE. This week we're working on a modular WASM build to allow others to embed Tritium directly into their own platforms. AI native startup law firms love it. https://tritium.legal
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by piker 4mo ago
Sorry that wasn't a criticism of you! I completely see how it was misread that way. I would edit it now if I could. I was using you more as an example of a hypothetical programmer using it in this way. If the goal is to create a mainta
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by piker 4mo ago
This is exactly right. By offloading this trivial task to the LLM, Simon has abandoned the opportunity to evaluate the abstraction with additional information and improve it. Instead, we let the agent spend $12 and make the fix while learni
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by piker 4mo ago
No, I just mean there is a rate at which people wouldn't have been able to do them economically.
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by piker 4mo ago
> alternative was a human building those ... or them not existing at all?
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by piker 4mo ago
This kills the legal use-case. Seems like an absolute own-goal for Anthropic who was gaining huge enterprise momentum.
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by piker 4mo ago
Seems to a layperson like myself that in Math they're using Lean and in programming contexts they're using compilers, such that the models themselves tend towards embedding that determinism "intuitively".
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by piker 4mo ago
Really glad you liked it! Yes, I suspect it was just for show since a plain document popping onto the screen would just be jarring. Edit: looks like you’re in London, too. Hit me up and let’s connect. My details are in the bio!

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