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by sealeck 8mo ago
Even when you build cool things it's respectful not to plant them in HN comments :) I think the usual solution to this is to talk about cool stuff you've done that is only incidentally relevant to the product you're selling.
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by sealeck 8mo ago
Converge towards what though... I think the level of testing/verification you need to have an LLM output a non-trivial feature (e.g. Paxos/anything with concurrency, business logic that isn't just "fetch value from sprea
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by sealeck 8mo ago
Go is an implementation detail for Kubernetes and Docker...
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by sealeck 8mo ago
Are you an NVIDIA fanboy? This is a _remarkably_ aggressive comment!
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by sealeck 8mo ago
Apple is selling Swift as a product - it is their preferred interface for constructing iOS applications!
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by sealeck 8mo ago
Go has a critical mass that Swift clearly doesn't (i.e. there are many, many companies who have net profits of >$1bn and write most of their server software in Go). Additionally Google isn't selling Go as a product in the same
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by sealeck 8mo ago
> Rust wasn’t designed for any specific platform I suspect that Mozilla being the primary developer and sponsor for many years actually meant that compatibility with all major platforms was prioritised; Mozilla obviously care about stuff
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by sealeck 9mo ago
If the median UK salary is >£35,000 I really wonder how arrive at the conclusion that missing a flight will set you back "years or decades"...
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by sealeck 9mo ago
Clever
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by sealeck 9mo ago
I actually don't think this is true, and certainly of people who cover LLMs Simon Willison is one of the more critical and measured people.
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber: Banning under-16s won't fix social media(ft.com)
6 points by sealeck 9mo ago|11 comments
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by sealeck 9mo ago
It's not just about performance: having an in-process MVCC engine would simplify the implementation of many single-machine concurrent applications. Currently you usually have to combine SQLite with some kind of concurrency primitives;
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by sealeck 9mo ago
I'd love to see what happens if you hook this renderer up to AFL++...
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by sealeck 9mo ago
I thought the point of Turso was to offer better concurrency than SQLite currently does. A la https://turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-... and https://penberg.org/papers/penberg-
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by sealeck 9mo ago
Why is writing code to execute a program using the fewest instructions possible on a virtual machine a waste of time?
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by sealeck 9mo ago
The assumption that treasuries is safe depends upon the guarantor (the US government) being reliable. Currently this is ahistorically far from being the case and therefore people are investigating other places to park capital.
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by sealeck 9mo ago
I think the other question is how far away this is from a "working" browser. It isn't impossible to render a meaningful subset of HTML (especially when you use external libraries to handle a lot of this). The real difficulty
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by sealeck 10mo ago
This is a bit like saying everyone would be a bit less jaded if the plane staying in the air wasn't hung over the Boeing 737 MAX 8 designer's heads by certain communities and used as an existential threat to the company.
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by sealeck 10mo ago
I don't think many (if any) programmers would imagine 100M lines of code to mean 100,000 lines of code and not 1,000,000...
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by sealeck 11mo ago
What was your dissertation, and how would Nano-Banana-pro with Veo 3.1 have helped it?
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by sealeck 11mo ago
> because a "bazooka" is easy defeated by the same ratchet mechanism That's an argument for capitulation in general: it's not an argument specifically against extending the field of scope to include services.
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by sealeck 11mo ago
Why isn't AI just another application that can be run on the device? Surely we expose the necessary interfaces through the OS and the application goes from there?
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by sealeck 1y ago
As is "Donald Trump ordered the demolition of the existing east wing of the White House, in order to construct a new ballroom on that site. Microsoft has funded this construction work."
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by sealeck 1y ago
> Startups belong to the latter. Except that Apple, Intel, Tesla, etc have all received US government investment [1]. TSMC is a product of the Taiwanese state! Government investment can be done well, and seeds excellent companies. [1]:
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by sealeck 1y ago
This sounds like a terrible approach to accounting. Surely large public companies should account for their expenditure at greater fidelity than billions.
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by sealeck 1y ago
Glad that every statement of personal opinion is now "propaganda"...
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by sealeck 1y ago
You do know you can have high availability without using cloud providers? E.g. you run a second server in a different database as a standby that can take over, etc.
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by sealeck 1y ago
In the previous post on the Fly.io blog ( https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/ ), a really cool thing was mentioned! > In Litestream, we’re solving the problem a different way. Modern object stores like S3 an
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by sealeck 1y ago
> I think OpenAI is actually doing a great job at easing people into these new technologies. It's not such a huge leap in capabilities that it's shocking, and it helps people acclimate for what's coming. This version is st
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Computers Don't Want(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
6 points by sealeck 1y ago|1 comments

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