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by piker 6mo ago
Yeah but 98% of Word features were buried in like 2004. They were added when it was a selling point to use unicorn and gnome icons as your table border in under 100mb of RAM. So we’re talking about 20% of the limited set of features that re
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by piker 6mo ago
> It was a cliche for many years that Microsoft Word had "too many features." So people would start companies to sell "lightweight word processors" that only implemented "the most used 20% of features." And
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by piker 6mo ago
Tritium, the legal IDE: https://tritium.legal This month we're focused on: - first-party, native DMS integration; - provider-agnostic agentic workflows; and - enterprise-grade redlining But of more interest to this group is
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by piker 7mo ago
Also offers an explanation for their recent move down the stack including silliness like writing Word add-ins.
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by piker 7mo ago
Not sure that’s always right either though. For example Mapbox used to use an SQLite database as the disk cache for map tile info. You cannot possibly store that amount of data in memory, so it’s a great use case.
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by piker 7mo ago
I love them both too but that might not be the best metric unless you’re planning to run lots of little read queries. If you’re doing CRUD, simulating that workflow may favor Postgres given the transactional read/write work that needs
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by piker 7mo ago
lol! yes, typo. I don't blame her, but man Freud might disagree. Reading that comment again (which I can't edit now), I would like to make it clear I was just responding to the OP's note that the bad was super tight in that s
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by piker 7mo ago
Before then heroine and fame took over Kurt
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by piker 7mo ago
> 24/7 running coding agents are pretty clearly the direction the industry is going now. This assertion needs some support for those of us that don't have a macro insight into the industry. Are you seeing this from within FAANG
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by piker 7mo ago
Yeah, sorry that wasn't intended as a slight to Texas. Texas just does have a lot of barren landscape where datacenters wouldn't offend as much. I modified it to make that clear. Also, energy is playing a role here.
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by piker 7mo ago
Such a law illustrates the beauty of federalism. Texas and other states can have them if they want them! Maine has not nearly as much space and much more natural beauty to protect [per square mile], so it can and maybe should have a diffe
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by piker 7mo ago
I'm not defending Musk, but "problematic" used in this type of context is one of those words that says more about the speaker than it does the subject.
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by piker 7mo ago
> The success of Claude Code and Cursor at the higher end of the market shows that even the people pickiest about their software (developers) will use your software regardless of how good the code is. Seems wrong. Devs will whine, moan a
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by piker 7mo ago
WOW. That does really drive home the perspective. I was an adolescent during those years and it did seem quick then, but that's an insane pace in retrospect. Amazon is perhaps a counter-example to your point, though, to be fair. It see
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by piker 7mo ago
People are much more willing to give the benefit of the doubt on things like that when the flagbearers of your industry aren't running around sucking all of the oxygen out of the system and telling people things are "solved":
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by piker 7mo ago
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by piker 7mo ago
No, it wouldn't.
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by piker 7mo ago
It’s this everywhere: the constant fear of not raising children perfectly in every aspect puts downward pressure on a family’s desire (and perceived ability) to have more children.
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by piker 7mo ago
> More usage compounds the problem only if inference is unprofitable. No... only if you're charging full boat for that inference. As I said above, loss-leading caps are a in play here. Obviously encouraging people to use more of bas
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by piker 7mo ago
> Even professional authors go to an editor who identifies things that need to be fixed. Yes, and these people are good at it. What’s your point? If you need grammar checking, there are thousands of apps including word processors, web br
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by piker 7mo ago
Well, for one example, it inhibits your desire to improve against those very blind spots. In exchange for that your audience gets 3-4x length normalized bullshit to read instead.
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by piker 7mo ago
AI for editing is garbage. Chat to it to get ideas maybe, but in its current incarnation it’s just going to degrade anything you filter through it.
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by piker 7mo ago
Yes, but in this case the aircraft carriers represent the entire civilization and there is no repeat player such as nations in times of peace. So if you spot an alien civilization with even a 1% probability of trying to kill you, you don&#x
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by piker 7mo ago
Yes. That 80% you find useful is served fine by Google Docs, but there’s a good reason the enterprise overwhelmingly goes for Word, and it lives deep in that 20% and a lot of the time has zero overlap with others.
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by piker 7mo ago
Sure, and the less you understand about the tool’s fundamental capabilities, the less useful your opinion is. The best reviewers have deep knowledge.
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by piker 7mo ago
There are some frustrating parts, but subpar is an odd way to describe GitHub to me. I’m pretty happy with what they’re doing, and find the UX super helpful. I do agree Actions needs a debug mode but otherwise I get a ton of value out of th
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by piker 7mo ago
> They lose a big customer for their cloud services. Even worse considering that now, using the AI they helped fund, everyone can compete with their sub-par products. GitHub is a good candidate for disruption, and that’d be just the star
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by piker 7mo ago
> LLMs are the new reality, they are not going to go away That's the conventional wisdom, but it isn't a given. A lot of financial wizardry is taking place to prop up the best of these things, and even their most ardent propone
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Captain Midnight satellite broadcast intrusion(en.wikipedia.org)
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by piker 7mo ago
Makes some sense to me, as the prisoner's dilemma dictates at least some fraction will try to kill you. So you've got to go first. Reminds me of the Dan Carlin take on aircraft carriers in World War II: if you in a carrier spotted

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