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by ubertaco 3y ago
Documentation, like a car's turn signals, is about conveying intent. Just because many people don't use their turn signals (or use them poorly — like the interstate driver who's still had their turn signal on for the last 10
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by ubertaco 3y ago
That remains a purely-hypothetical future though. Not something that you sacrifice any shred of present-day market share for, in the hopes that someday all past trends of "smaller-form-factor devices are more limited than larger-form-f
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Mobile gaming and desktop gaming are roughly as similar as Java and JavaScript, or to use another comparison, as similar as spray bottle and a fire engine.
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by ubertaco 3y ago
DirectX was also crappy vendor lock-in, but let's not pretend that the similarities go beyond that. DirectX was vendor lock-in _from the vendor that owned 80-to-90-percent of the market_. Yeah, it sucked to be tied to their platform, b
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by ubertaco 3y ago
I mean, nobody else uses Apple's _custom_ ARM-_ish_ processor, no.
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by ubertaco 3y ago
"It is my opinion that Wired is not a good source of news" — opinion, expression of subjective epreference "It is my opinion that Wired is intentionally concealing a conspiracy behind closed doors for their own gain and the h
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Oh, they went ahead and made that mandatory? I heard all sorts of rumors about that for a while before I left. When I was there, you just had mandatory security trainings (fine) and the Orwellian "Corporate Message Certification",
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by ubertaco 3y ago
It helps to think of older terms and how they relate to more-common modern terms. "Benediction" is a synonym for one sense of "blessing" — the sense that means "to speak good upon" (bene- and -dict). Conversely
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by ubertaco 3y ago
The question is not "do we _suppose_ that it's _likely_ that they _would_ do something similar?", but rather "is it _possible_ that they _can_ do something similar?" If you're using a proprietary engine made by
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by ubertaco 3y ago
>That said, I think this grace should be given to the lunatic fringe: they instinctually feel something’s “not right” and the rest is all rationalization and theorycrafting divorced from reality. Speaking as a formerly-"Moral-Majori
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by ubertaco 3y ago
I love Gemini, and I'm bummed a bit that the maintainer of my favorite CLI gemini client (amfora) doesn't have interest in it anymore. For me, Gemini's a sweet spot. Yes, Gemini is slow. I like that. I don't need dopamin
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Hey, I saw Khoj hit HN a few weeks ago and get slaughtered because the messaging didn't match the product. You've come a good way in both directions: the messaging is clearer about current state vs aspirations, and you've mad
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Meh, I don't really see it as an "either-or", but as a "neither". Do you trust: - Google, who's trying to DRM the web by building a majority-market-share browser engine and jamming their DRM into it, or - Brave
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by ubertaco 3y ago
In case anyone was wondering what news story Musk was trying to bury with his latest stupid PR stunt: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/07/tesla-misses-deadline-t...
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by ubertaco 3y ago
I've seen MySQL clients/docs also use "schema" to refer to "this collection of tables", basically what SQLite would call "a database". The words get really fuzzy here when you try to get a concrete an
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Man, Hak5 is such a solid throwback. One of the last good things on what ZDTV got morphed into.
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Ah, this comment puts a lot into context for me. Y'all didn't _intend_ this to be your big PR push here yet, and now you're caught "mid-flight" explaining why your marketing is still aspirational instead of true-to-
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by ubertaco 3y ago
The problem is not that there is "glue" to closed-source apps. It's that the essential core of your product, without which your product has no content or meaningful use — is _someone else's closed-source model._ If I mar
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by ubertaco 3y ago
No, because the common usage of "database connector" has consistently taught me enough context to expect "a connector to a database," much like the common usage of "AI assistant" has consistently taught me enou
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by ubertaco 3y ago
I'd call it "an OpenAI client that also has something like grep built in."
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Assistant _to the_ Regional Manager! Seriously, this is such a misleading redefinition of a common phrase that it makes me suspicious of the whole project's trustworthiness. If they're playing shell games with "well, technica
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Thanks for the candid answers -- sounds like this hit HN a bit earlier than you would've planned, which I realize can create a weird awkward tension between planned goals and current state and HNers' expectations. I think it'
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by ubertaco 3y ago
So, you've built a CLI client and an HTTP API server that wraps around SQLite. How does this actually work in the real world, though? Like, if I run an ayb node somewhere, do I then share out individual tables (or slices of tables, or
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by ubertaco 3y ago
>then fix a minor bug by sshing in, viming a file, and hacking it a few times. Yeah, screw version control! Who needs any record of the change you made? If you have to move the code or redeploy it somewhere because that server goes down
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by ubertaco 3y ago
>Think of it less as censorship and more as community self-segregation. I wouldn't go to a Nazi bar or Sunday school in real life, why would I want to be in the online equivalent? A closer analogy here is that your city councilman d
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by ubertaco 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand whether this is criticism or praise; isn't it a good thing for a company that has announced an upcoming product line to communicate transparently and frequently about progress and timelines for things lik
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by ubertaco 3y ago
Seems like it doesn't support records: https://javafiddle.leaningtech.com/#E4Uwxg9sAmAEAKECWA7ALgCl...
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by ubertaco 3y ago
In the same way that a car and a boat are the same, but with small cosmetic differences.
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I love Crystal, and have loved it for several years. It was my go-to for Advent of Code or small fun projects for a while. Eventually, I got so tired of constantly jumping between browser docs and my editor because of the lack of a working
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by ubertaco 3y ago
I fed it some OCaml and it worked, though the example was trivial: type point = { x: int; y : int } let manhattan_distance (a: point) (b: point) : int = which it completed to type point = { x: int; y : int } let manha

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