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by porcoda 2y ago
Exactly. All of these things that ship data off to cloud services are basically data breaches waiting to happen. The fact that devices like this not only put the owner at risk, but others who didn’t consent to having their conversations r
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by porcoda 2y ago
> all of those small composable units, that were once developed by random people, were turned into a meta-package at some point No they weren’t. Every UNIX I used in the 80s and 90s shipped with those little composable building blocks a
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by porcoda 2y ago
The UNIX philosophy is being a bit abused for this argument. Most systems that fall under the UNIX category are more or less like a large batteries-included standard library: lots of little composable units that ship together . UNIX in p
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by porcoda 2y ago
I’ve worked on multiple compilers in industry that are written in Ocaml. A number of industrial static analyzers are written in Ocaml too (eg, Infer from Facebook/Meta). Yes, LLVM and GCC are the big ones written in the C/C++ fa
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by porcoda 2y ago
I think we sort of knew this was the goal for some of these RTO orders: making the workplace unpleasant is a way to do a reduction in workforce without having a scary layoff. Management just shifts the decision to employees. Scummy, but no
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by porcoda 2y ago
I understand why advertising and marketing exists. What I wish for were people in that world who took an approach that was more respectful of users: both their privacy and experience as a user. I expect that most people (“regular” users, n
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by porcoda 2y ago
> I know that I could beg our @dang to act as intermediary and contact the user in question on my behalf, but he's too busy and valuable to turn into a glorified phone operator :-) Oh my god no. I intentionally am uncontactable on
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by porcoda 2y ago
This surprises me. On most platforms it’s just a package download and install. On Mac, it’s macTeX. On Linux, it’s whatever your distro calls texlive via the package manager. On windows it’s mikTeX. That’s not exactly complex or requir
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by porcoda 2y ago
Typo in title: should be LBL (Lawrence Berkeley) not LLNL (Lawrence Livermore). Similar names and nearby each other but different labs.
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by porcoda 2y ago
I’m not sure Microsoft will ever achieve the level of trust they’d need to make things like this feature ever be acceptable. I’m sure in parts of the company they care about user trust quite a bit, but those people will never be able to co
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by porcoda 2y ago
Uhm… The boom in AI with LLMs wouldn’t have happened without about a decade of major focus on images (both generative models and DNN models that blew traditional image processing out of the water), and planning/optimization type proble
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by porcoda 2y ago
I always assume the stack people choose is based on what they know. Given that we’ve seen a huge number of people learn web tech over that last decade or so, it’s sort of unsurprising to see so many people go that direction. I’d assume a
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by porcoda 2y ago
Wow - this is very cool and gives me strong nostalgia for Commodore-64/128 demos and old-school BBS's. I remember spending hours on my Commodore 64 doing this sort of thing by hand for the little BBS that I ran out of my bedroom.
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by porcoda 2y ago
Basing something around a Google OS isn’t really an alternative to big tech. Given the reaction I’d expect if a Microsoft Open Source project was the basis of an “alternative to big tech”, I don’t see why something with a Google pedigree sh
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by porcoda 2y ago
“musicat is moving away from WebAudio towards native playback in Rust” According to the linked document, this is based on Symphonia + cpal. Why not just say that - stating what programming language it’s in is pointless, but the backing sof
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by porcoda 2y ago
Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% of
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by porcoda 2y ago
Yes. People usually are surprised that NVIDIA is using it : https://www.adacore.com/nvidia Ada is assumed to be dead by most US-centric programmers, but is alive and used outside the US. Seems most of the action these days
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by porcoda 2y ago
+1. My team still favors batteries-included style systems, even if it means missing out on the latest thing all the cool kids on the internet are talking about. For languages, this usually means sticking with the standard library that shi
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by porcoda 2y ago
> I always thought part of the point of open source is that the code is auditable Yes, it's theoretically true but doesn't actually occur in practice - largely because open source rarely sits still long enough for people to act
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by porcoda 2y ago
I’d guess it’s because the size of the community that gets angry is trivially small relative to the overall customer base of Nintendo. I’d also guess that the average person whose gaming doesn’t stray much further than casually playing Anim
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by porcoda 3y ago
JS is both the best and worst thing to have happened to computing in the last decades. Great creations based on it, but I constantly feel that dev community comes from a completely different planet than me when it comes to thinking about qu
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by porcoda 3y ago
I’m eager to see these. I bought a regular windows machine for the first time in decades to see how WSL works for my development work and have been pleased. My only gripe is the power efficiency compared to my Apple Silicon machine. If t
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by porcoda 3y ago
This would explain why a couple perfectly stable applications that I’ve run for years have suddenly decided to randomly crash repeatedly since updating. It’s been a while since Apple has released a version that has this many easily trigger
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by porcoda 3y ago
I like how most people blame bosses or scary big companies. No developers appear willing to admit that there is a large cohort of not that great web programmers who don’t know much (and appear to not WANT to know much) about efficiency. T
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by porcoda 3y ago
Having been on the hiring end over the last few years, it’s not surprising. Other than there being a glut of applicants, there is also a HUGE variation in what people consider to be “experienced”. The signal to noise ratio is pretty bad wh
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by porcoda 3y ago
I was a big fan of my RM2, but found the move to the subscription service a couple years ago to be off putting. Sure, I can turn off WiFi, or just use the network to ssh into it, but it felt less than great. I recently got a Supernote to
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by porcoda 3y ago
I just explain it as something that captures the idea of things being related to each other somehow. The things are the dots, and whatever relation you care about (“friends with”, “next to”, “has flight between”, “pairs well with for dinne
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by porcoda 3y ago
I think Bandcamp does a great job bringing artists closer to the audience without any of those things like interviews, curation, IRL presence. Honestly, those things always rubbed me the wrong way since they felt like the kind of marketing
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by porcoda 3y ago
Glad I’m not alone. I’m a relatively senior developer who’s worked 30+ years on a ton of different systems, and every time I wade into the Apple ecosystem in the last 10 years or so to build a native application for macOS I feel like an id
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by porcoda 3y ago
This kind of case is why I hate patents. As many other commenters pointed out, the fact that light through the skin can be used to measure biometrics is arguably "obvious" given that many people noticed it around the same time.

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