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by titzer 4mo ago
It's mostly that I want my own list management, key combinations, navigation, etc. Once the entire UI is my oyster, I realized I don't have to settle for how someone else decided to lay out the menus, etc. 25 years ago I would jus
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by titzer 4mo ago
I still can't believe they killed iTunes. I used to have my entire digital music library in iTunes. Most of that was music I had ripped myself from CD, but I had a handful of albums I bought of iTunes and even some TV shows. When they
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by titzer 4mo ago
> This is a hysterical era perpetuated by liars, cowards, imbeciles, craven boosters and the easily-fooled. Those excited about generative AI are either the victim or the perpetrator of a con centered around a technology to ingratiate at
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by titzer 4mo ago
> OP: The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome.
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by titzer 4mo ago
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around and don't let anybody tell you any different." — Kurt Vonnegut
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by titzer 4mo ago
You don't see pictures and videos directly on the site. It's text links and text comments and discussions. In the minimal sense of the word, even printed text is media, so it's technically true that HN is social media, but I
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by titzer 4mo ago
Ads became the default business model of the web. When people started to get sick of blaring in-your-face blinking banners, it mutated into search ads and placement. The same thing happened to mobile apps and games, YouTube, Facebook, insta
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by titzer 4mo ago
"Run to the hills" is a heckuva a way to deal with the breakdown of the rule of law.
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by titzer 5mo ago
Why not all of them?
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by titzer 5mo ago
It feels like you have not been paying attention at all. There isn't accountability when government stormtroopers shoot law-abiding citizens in the streets. (There hasn't even been an investigation). That's not me "dis
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by titzer 5mo ago
The article was about Seattle and the surrounding discussion has been US-centric. I recognize it's a global problem but I don't think it's the same everywhere. We shouldn't just throw up our hands like "oh well.&quo
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by titzer 5mo ago
I guffawed at "proper checks/balances". Since ICE brownshirts have been roaming around with masks and automatic weapons, abducting random people and even shooting some, you're at "checks/balances". What?
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by titzer 5mo ago
America needs to realize that this is absolutely not the land of the free anymore. The government and big business are in cahoots to screw you out of every cent they can and to make sure you're not about to commit some unspeakable act
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by titzer 5mo ago
Ever served on an NSF panel?
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by titzer 5mo ago
People were fed up at "Occupy Wallstreet", but the media and craven political situation absorbed those movements back into the fold. Forget "fed up". When do we start seeing actions that don't feed directly back int
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by titzer 5mo ago
It's easier to construct NFAs directly from regular expression definitions (rather than DFAs) because implementing the choice operator is easier. We can convert from NFA to DFA with worst-case exponential blowup.
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by titzer 5mo ago
Google thinks everything should be replaced with automation. Remember knowledge cards? Prior to the LLM AI revolution, they had an extraordinarily crappy AI system digest the entire internet to figure out the wrong facts about stuff and the
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by titzer 5mo ago
Wasm evolution happens in fits and starts. There's a lot of nested chicken-and-egg problems. We first started on Wasm GC less than two years after MVP, and then we didn't have any language targeting it, so we had to bootstrap it
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by titzer 5mo ago
C isn't a programming language. It's not even portable assembly. It's a vague suggestion of a program that might or might not be feasible to run on a target computer and the compiler and other diagnostic tools are under no ob
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by titzer 5mo ago
It'd be interesting to compare it to a SHA-256 algorithm that uses Wasm simd: https://github.com/ChrisWhealy/wasm_sha256
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by titzer 5mo ago
It will still work. asm.js is just regular JavaScript code, after all. It just won't parse/run as fast as custom pipeline for asm.js. My guess is that you will not notice much difference unless you have a really huge application.
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by titzer 5mo ago
I just installed this and already despise its pricing model. I trust this product approximately zero.
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by titzer 5mo ago
Apple dictation on MacOS is actually pretty dang good. I've got it bound to a double-tap on fn and I use it pretty regularly.
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by titzer 5mo ago
> Browser rendering engines are pretty mature at this point, with significant GPU acceleration, and over a decade stress-testing by bloated web apps. They suck on older hardware. Old Chromebooks are a dime a dozen and are decently spec&#
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by titzer 5mo ago
Electron runs like crap on older hardware. It's sad that native UI frameworks never got their shit together, but I think if you want performant text rendering you just gotta reduce your expectations. If you're fine with less fancy
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by titzer 5mo ago
...printing the most money into it. The circular IOUs amongst the AI and hyperscalars are a form of debt, i.e. money creation. Don't get me wrong, a whole lot of other dollars are going in too, but investing money that doesn't exi
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by titzer 5mo ago
Touchscreen UIs definitely could be made a lot better. For example, long-press has always annoyed me. Why isn't there a modifier button that allows selecting the interaction mode before touching (e.g. a mode button separate from the th
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by titzer 5mo ago
The UI wouldn't be cluttered if the keys on the...keyboard...did stuff. Now that vibe-coding has broken me out of my decades-long irrational fear of GUI programming, I've recently been circling back on all the UI patterns I have j
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by titzer 5mo ago
> based on UX research to help people use the unfamiliar operating system. It's worthwhile to note that this was not just research in a vacuum, but a lot of user studies where they literally watched and studied people using the so
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by titzer 5mo ago
But we didn't take our foot off the gas pedal.

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