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by skydhash 5mo ago
it would be way easier if dependencies were a flat list and not a graph, aka peer in npm parlance. I believe that’s what go does. A library only need to say that it depends 1.x.x or 1.2.x and it’s up to the application to provide it. Confli
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by skydhash 5mo ago
No deep dependency graph, so easy to audit and inspect. Stable development process, so easier to manage the flow of updates. And I believe a more cautious ecosystem. Not everyone is rushing to create or adopt new libraries, especially for w
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by skydhash 5mo ago
That’s pretty much it. I have ai in my tracker, ai in my search engine, ai in my team chat, ai in the os (work computer),… I’ve never asked for it, but I bet I’m being counted as one of those users.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
I don’t remember which books exactly, but it was about legacy code. The author was talking about seams. If you’re trying to complete a refactor in one go, it will usually be arduous and maybe fail. What you want is to find seams in the code
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Can you tell us what exactly is missing? A network api? Process execution? IO? Math?
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by skydhash 5mo ago
The web api is actually extensive. I can understand complaints about it being not exactly approachable, and some wanting a cleaner abstraction, but there’s no way that it is small. Most issues is about people wanting to download a small lib
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Those big refactoring should be discussed with the whole teams so everyone understands how they’re going to be affected. And rework like this should probably be hidden behind an abstraction (to do it gradually).
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by skydhash 5mo ago
I think it’s just a bundle of issues. Deep graph of dependencies, distribution of minimized code (java has jars, but I don’t remember scripts), and nearly impossible to audit. With most projects in other ecosytems, you only have to interact
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> There's no way to warn them, so all you can do is... watch …and then wake up from the nightmare wishing the stress from the job is lower. I can only laugh that some people truly believe that developers, one of the most ardent grou
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by skydhash 5mo ago
I'll only trust that if you're the one being oncall for that product. Or at least is directly responsible if it ever fails.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
That reminds me of a "We get Letters" by Michael W. Lucas[0](FreeBSD Journal) The most important point was: It’s uncomfortable. The discomfort is the point. Pain is the greatest teacher, but nobody willingly attends her
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> Go off and run a comparison of Qwen 3.6 27B and GLM 5.1 GGUF You may as well ask to run a comparison between gnu libc 2.42 and musl 1.2.5. > Hermes vs OpenClaw for long-horizon personal agentic tasks. Which one performs better in o
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by skydhash 5mo ago
What's the reliability of compilers this day? How likely for a bug to be in your code and not in the compiler? I think it's close to 99.99... So when you have a bug and a core dump, you can quickly load it in debugger, see the sta
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by skydhash 5mo ago
That would be more convincing if you put up two or more examples of what is there to learn.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Where do you think those bugs reports for gcc and others come from? Some people do look at the assembly coming out of the compilers. Currently the openbsd mailing list for port is currently going through a clang update and one of the main p
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by skydhash 5mo ago
May work for simple cases, but how would you come up with something like typst, or thunderbird?
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Spreadsheet is a DSL for finance and a lot of other sectors. But the lack of formal logic capabilities shows when you seen the spreadsheet organization. Most only stand with ducktape all over the place.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
The programmer skill is how to abstract the specs from all the examples. And then to formalize it. Actual coding is merely translation. And only beginners tend to focus on that.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> This weekend I'm playing with a SwiftUI MusicKit player[…]"Keep a continuous queue of music playing while I'm working in the wood shop" > I have a real problem, one that's been annoying me since ~2000, which
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Unless that is done, it’s merely fiction. While the negative impact of LLM is already here. Slop, aggressive scraping, workflow disruption at scale,…
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Not really. The primary stopper was never time or effort. It was need (and wisdom). If a project was important enough, you’d do it. If it’s not, it falls on the wayside. Now with LLM tools, what you got is a slew of projects their creators
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by skydhash 5mo ago
People do want bespoke style (think booklets) and there’s a load of templates (and frameworks) on the internet if you want a standard set of components. The web as a platform was built for documents, and when we try to twist it to do applic
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Easy. What a cron script (that runs as root) that populate a maildir that the agent (restricted user) has access to. The. you restrict network access to the internet, and have it send you its findings by mail (local mail server).
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by skydhash 5mo ago
It is. The issue is all the weird constraints that usually come up with it. Like I want to use my favorite code editor, I want easy copy and paste, or I can’t bother setting up a separate user account on my computer. On unix, you can easily
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by skydhash 5mo ago
VR and virtual worlds have been explored for decades, both in fiction and in the real world. The issue has always been that the target market is small. I don't know how Meta does market study, but the conclusion was already foreseen. B
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by skydhash 5mo ago
CSS is for styling documents, not for creating applications interface (which has a whole sets of constraints). It's like trying to use typographic design rules to create a car dashboard. CSS is great, just not fit for that particular j
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Not really. The issue is that inexperienced people, while trying to solve the essential complexity, are creating so much accidental complexity that soon the project either collapses or oscillates between bugs. LLM is just the highway to rea
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by skydhash 5mo ago
I run openbsd on an old latitude and that tracks. I mostly have only application active at a time. The others are idling. I believe on Linux, especially with DE, there’s always some polling or scanning going on.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> Which is why, I usually assert I cannot understand the nostalgia of CLI and TUI, being there at the time, and not being able to use some of these systems, due to the amount of money they required. I was not there at the time, but one a
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by skydhash 5mo ago
RAD tools like Delphi, qt creator, glade, Android Studio, Xcode’s Interface builder,… have always make it trivial to generate UI code. And there’s libraries for other concerns. The majority of a project code are written at the beginning or

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