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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I was talking to my wife about this a little bit, that the promise of computers has never really been realized in the sense that we don't put power in the hands of the end user. Like one of the most obvious things that a computer can d
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Related: You can perfectly well upload WebXDC's to your "Saved Messages" channel (the channel where you DM yourself) to have a single user app running on the platform. It already has close to 200 apps of various sorts you ca
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Yeah, it's a pretty fascinating architecture. I already have a side project called AppDeck where I've been buliding out a WebDAV server and a suite of HTML apps that know how to save modified copies of themselves back to the serve
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
It's notable that this appears to be used to generate frontends that look more authentic than the typical AI generated site, not as a test for what's acceptable from a human contributor.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I ran across WebXDC this past weekend, and I'm intrigued. I've built a few apps on it already, and I'm very pleasantly surprised by how cleverly inverted the whole model is (in combination with ChatMail). Delta Chat is availa
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
> Mozilla Firefox merged Servo's Stylo CSS engine into Firefox 57 in 2017 and their WebRender renderer into Firefox 67 in 2019. Well sure, but Firefox is still primarily powered by Gecko and SpiderMonkey. And they laid off the enti
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Not really. There's a parallel thread on the front page where everybody's talking about writing a browser engine in anything other than Rust is irresponsible, and ridiculous. And yet, no one's rushing to pick up Servo. There
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Wow. Setting up a forum for discussion where people could potentially be punished for what they say is not going to encourage discussion.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Sure it is. It's just like the .com bust: people didn't know what the internet was good for, so they did a lot of stupid stuff with it before settling on the most interesting uses.
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Makes sense, but strangely, no one has responded to my question about why Servo hasn't been picked up, if Rust is such an important factor in browser engine implementation. People are calling using C and C++ "ridiculous" and
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
It's weird to assume that this is all smoke and mirrors where AI is fixing AI's bugs. When we dove into the rsync issue, what was happening is that AI was revealing bugs that had been previously unknown, resulting in the need to f
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
This is kind of a weird take. If you were the CEO of Amazon, would you be setting up channels for people to talk about their AI failures? The general way technology is deployed is that we try to find ways to make it work, because those are
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
The entire compute world was built on top of C and C++. Saying they're not fit for purpose doesn't seem correct. I think what you're really saying is they're not an optimal choice from a safety perspective. > All of t
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I use on-the-go packets of energy drink powder that I drop into a small plastic bag when I travel. This allows me to have access to tasty caffeine anywhere I have water because I bring a bottle. Coffee does not offer the convenience or port
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Yep, I'm pretty much a lifetime member of Costco if this sort of prioritization doesn't change. A recent article put it well "Costco is the anti-Amazon". I say this as a happy customer of both, though. I don't seem
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
It's an interesting choice as an artist to produce work for mass consumption that 99% of the population will never be able to experience as intended.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Knowing nothing about this, it's a little bit wild to see two comments on the same page making diametrically opposed claims. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122568 Does anybody have the technical knowledge to co
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
LLMs are non-deterministic, and compilers are (mostly) deterministic. A good PR with AI is a like a series of dice rolls that you need to get right to get high-quality output. Folks asking for prompts are basically saying "hand me the
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
This doesn't match my experience with prompting AI at all. In every professional application of AI I've seen, there are a huge number of variables and inputs, over many turns, that produce the output. We see radically different re
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
No, that's not true at all. Thought-terminating cliches cause you to stop thinking; they give a quick shortcut that let's you be dismissive. That's what "AI slop" is, when someone bestows the moniker on a piece of
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
90% of what I read on the internet is trash. I've long ago optimized for critical thinking. AI doesn't change that calculus at all.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
This is exactly the model that DeepSeek V4 Flash followed, and it's been insanely successful as a result, even though it's not frontier.
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This attitude will just cause people to write the same thing with AI and then ask it to strip out all the tells. I found it works just fine, but then you push usage underground, making it harder to detect, which isn't in your best inte
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
The term "AI slop" is thought-terminating. A more nuanced approach: read it and decide for yourself on merits, rather than vibes.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I deployed my own RSS reader to handle sites that update infrequently. That's still ultimately a pull, I just have an agent doing the pulling, and then I visit the site for my reader.
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The criticism is not that it's moralizing, but that it's boring.
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Yes, I have found out the hard way that an entire generation or two of internet users has lost the ability to visit a website to see what's there. They rely on having notifications or emails come in so that they can react to things rat
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
Yeah, wasn't the meme he generated him holding UNO cards? "Holding all the cards" in UNO means something different...
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
> I personally believe laws should always be enforced and followed. I read an article some years back that really changed my mind about this. It made the point that society evolves through the imperfect enforcement of laws (those some ki
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by rpdillon 3mo ago
I think there is a distinction between whether or not they require skill and whether or not they are a net benefit.

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