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by tasuki 5mo ago
> especially with Casual all the way on Ah, thanks for that. I wasn't brave enough! I was using the Duotone version (normal version is Linear, while italics and bold are Casual). Indeed I'm happier with everything being Casual.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
Whoa, opulent!
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by tasuki 5mo ago
One of my favourite fonts is Recursive[0]. It has even more variable axes than Shantell Sans: apart from the usual weight and slant it also has a "Casual" axis as well as "Monospace" (which is continuous from fully propo
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> when your fortune and reputation is made and you're the leader of a niche Huh? "Fortune"? You mean the slog of maintaining a popular open source project half the world relies on without compensation?
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> Clearly anyone who can pay should be using paid models with privacy protections Clearly, anyone who needs privacy should be using models with privacy protections. Some people build open source and the models will get the code anyway.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> We built our logic in Rust, so that compiles cross platform. It's really just the UI layer that is per platform. Having never created a mobile app, how's that work exactly?
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> This happens to everything from which a profit is extracted. Yes, hence my affinity for small open source tools! > Perhaps there's a way to fund the training of "actually open source" models I meant Claude Code the ag
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by tasuki 5mo ago
Yes, of course not all personal preference is caused by marketing, but much of it is. Actual personal preference is whether you prefer running or cycling, the marketing part is which running shoes or which bike you buy. > or because th
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> Imagine you try two products you’ve never heard of. You prefer one over the other. Was it marketing? No, obviously not. > That’s what’s happening here. No, that's not what's happening here. > Marketing can get you to tr
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by tasuki 5mo ago
I understand that's your opinion, but don't feel any inclination to repeat that. Sure, the subjective joy is valid, and yet it was 100% induced by marketing. > They are not sheeple who fell for marketing. People generally fall
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by tasuki 5mo ago
Oh I've always thought people like SUVs just because they want a bigger and pricier toy than the other guy. Is it not so? > isn't just a marketing delusion, but subjective joy What is the difference? When a product is being mar
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by tasuki 5mo ago
I have a disaffinity for Claude Code because it's unnecessarily big, closed source (disregarding the leak), and I have a strong feeling it'll be shittified in the future because of all the investors waiting to cash out (and perhap
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by tasuki 5mo ago
I find Python extremely unergonomical. Sure, it's nice to read (pseudocode, yay!) and sure, its library ecosystem is beyond amazing. But... the LSPs I've tried (and I've tried a bunch!) are all atrocious: false positives and
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by tasuki 5mo ago
But now you have another process to babysit. How do you keep it healthy? And you have to ensure the client-server communication won't break. For me the main benefit of sqlite is that it's a library rather than an app.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> SQLite can work well for the parts of your system where there is naturally strong partitioning. Or the parts of your system that don't have big data and no need for massively concurrent writes. And that's the vast majority of
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> [...] nothing to do with a FIRE strategy. I just saved, lived humbly [...] Textbook FIRE strategy.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
I found the weird line breaks extremely jarring. But it was an interesting article nevertheless.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
Just make sure to run it in an isolated environment where it's ok to mess things up, and make sure it doesn't have access to any secrets.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> They didn’t have time for questions because they had to run and give it to the next big enterprise on their list… This is such bullshit. Surely they could have recorded the shared part of the presentation and then spend all their time
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> and it's not like we have alternatives where we get to do so either. You can and should choose your employers. Saying you have no alternatives is disingenious. It's possible (and often worth it) to trade a big salary for mean
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by tasuki 5mo ago
People sometimes mention this, but I have a hard time relating. The amount of code you produce in months of just typing must be enormous, no? To me it seems no matter the plan there's many unplanned things that I need to handle, and th
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by tasuki 5mo ago
I think you're missing the point. The person you replied to wrote: > a natural desire for people to want to make things ... and all you can think of is "gains"?
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by tasuki 5mo ago
Some things are just exciting, you know? Not everything is about maximizing one's employment opportunities...
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> it is possible, nowadays, to work 15h or less, without any wealth, and lead a good life. This is possible even without welfare. Some friends of mine choose to do this: live in a shared flat, no car, no kids, it's easily doable. Th
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> Those books are not free for us, aren't they? The library card is really cheap tho.
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by tasuki 5mo ago
- Yvon Chouinard said he "didn't drive Lexuses". Yes he was a billionnaire, but he lived a simple life, and his net worth was tied in the stock of the company. He has since given most of it away. - Mackenzie Bezos gave away $
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> there is no ethical way to get a billion dollars. I don't buy that at all. One ethical way is to marry someone random who later becomes a billionnaire. Another is to eg create Bitcoin. And I suspect there are ethical ways to creat
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by tasuki 5mo ago
The person you were replying to said: > There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying. You said: > I'd spend 95% of it making the lives of others better Again, well done you. And...
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by tasuki 5mo ago
What is the point of your comment? It is hard for me to read it in another way than "I am very virtuous", which might be true (well done you!) but usually isn't a thing people post about themselves in a discussion forum...
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by tasuki 5mo ago
> What about stealing 12 million books Who's missing the books? 12 million books is a rather large warehouse! I thought HN was in the "information wants to be free" camp...

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