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by wavemode 1y ago
Laurent Gomila - creator of SFML Jean-Baptiste Kempf - creator of VLC
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by wavemode 1y ago
Yes, I know the particular tool linked in OP does not pass the prerequisites.
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by wavemode 1y ago
I could certainly see the appeal of this sort of idea. Once your engineering org gets to a certain size, you can end up spending an eye-watering amount of money on CI compute - spinning up runners and executing thousands of tests for every
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by wavemode 2y ago
But Earthly is still in business, which sort of proves my point. Something which would never make money on its own (Earthly) can make money with just some cloud-hosted value add. They've certainly pivoted their product in various ways,
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by wavemode 2y ago
If you want your dev tool to sell, just sell a cloud service along with it. What I've found motivates this phenomenon is the fact that many companies have a strong aversion to adding any technology of any kind to their tech stack, rega
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by wavemode 2y ago
AWS most certainly is not just dev tools. AWS is a physical product (servers, drives, cables, networks, switches, cooling, monitoring, redundancy, security...) that you merely interact with remotely. You can't recreate AWS just by writ
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by wavemode 2y ago
See also: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
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by wavemode 2y ago
This is a Wirth's Law solution - the reasoning goes: "computers are fast enough to deal with it, so why not?"
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by wavemode 2y ago
This post seems to suggest that no-code tools like Webflow and Retool are dead or dying. Nothing could be further from the truth - no-code is a booming business, moreso than many developers (who, by their nature, do not like or need such pl
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by wavemode 2y ago
But this isn't Meta operating in China. This is Chinese companies operating in the US. It's not clear to me why it matters that Chinese companies advertise on Facebook, nor in what way this would give them leverage to force Facebo
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by wavemode 2y ago
> The calls are not yet made—we’re only building a blueprint of those calls: <alert> <concat> Hello, <prompt>Who are you?</prompt> </concat> </alert&gt
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by wavemode 2y ago
Yes, I have. If I want something to read the page for me, then that's where LLMs come in. But what I'm talking about is when I want to read the page for myself. Waste of time to have to wait for an LLM to chew on it.
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by wavemode 2y ago
And streaming services. People really thought streaming would be the end of TV commercials. Ha!
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by wavemode 2y ago
Search is primarily a portal - you know a particular resource exists, you just don't know its exact URL. You hear about this new programming language called "Frob", and you assume it must have a website. So you google "F
855.
by wavemode 2y ago
Who says these people are even looking for work?
856.
by wavemode 2y ago
Companies like Studio Ghibli are not being harmed by AI, small freelance artists are.
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by wavemode 2y ago
Is manually comping actually going to be easier (let alone, give better results) than inpainting? I can imagine it working in simple cases, but for anything involving 3D geometry you'll likely run into issues of things not quite lining
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by wavemode 2y ago
> in practice they tend to hire people who are like themselves. So then by your own admission, the best way to come dressed is the same way your interviewer tends to dress. Which is essentially what most people in this thread are arguing
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by wavemode 2y ago
It's a bit of ambiguity of grammar. "X don't Y" generally means "X never Y" (ex: "Grapes Don't Grow On Trees"). However, adding Why to the front of X Don't Y ("Why X Don't Y"
860.
by wavemode 2y ago
In the US, getting a lawyer just to incorporate is flushing money down the drain. At best you can do it yourself (and in most states it's not particularly complex), at worst there are cheap online services to help you.
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by wavemode 2y ago
I didn't parse the title as "Why (Companies Don't Fix Bugs)", rather I parsed it more like "Why Companies (Don't Fix Bugs)" The article isn't arguing that "companies don't fix bugs" uni
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by wavemode 2y ago
Sorry - what is a Diplomacy Society, and why is it notable that its president attends church?
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by wavemode 2y ago
In middle school my parents got me a graphing calculator for Algebra. Couldn't figure out a damn thing about how to write programs on it, and I didn't really have much computer or internet access at home, but I was curious. In the
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by wavemode 2y ago
If you can afford to sacrifice that much performance just to run some potentially unsafe code, then you can probably afford to not be writing Rust in the first place and instead use a garbage-collected language.
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by wavemode 2y ago
What is at all strange about wanting to work near other people so you keep each other motivated to remain focused? It's not magic, and it's not a treatment for ADHD (nor a replacement for such). It's just a common sense respo
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by wavemode 2y ago
No, I don't think there is any exception. If you intend to maintain a piece of software for any length of time (i.e. it's not just a throwaway demo), you should write tests for it. Over time you realize that testing truly does not
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by wavemode 2y ago
Even "taking their part of the money out" is not guaranteed. Again, it's a privately traded company, so there's no open market. You have to find someone willing to buy your shares from you and make a deal with them.
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by wavemode 2y ago
Parent commenter was making a joke.
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by wavemode 2y ago
Zuck is founder and owner. So is Huang (Nvidia CEO). They call all the shots. Whereas AMD's CEO was appointed, and can be fired. Huge difference in their risk appetite. I'm reminded of pg's article "founder mode":
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by wavemode 2y ago
The worst is college science classes where sometimes the provided equipment and/or procedures aren't even correct, and the professor isn't around and you're dealing with a TA who is just as confused as you are. So you de

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