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by willseth 1y ago
Why wouldn’t you just Google instead of repeatedly insisting on things that are wrong? https://www.npmjs.com/package/saxon-js https://github.com/Saxonica/Saxon-HE
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by willseth 1y ago
You keep making assertions and generalizations without backing them up with anything concrete while simultaneously moving goalposts. In the cases where you do, you’re just wrong: XSLT is not held back by licensing, it doesn’t “require one l
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by willseth 1y ago
You are misinformed about license cost, as I’ve already explained in multiple comments. Hard to integrate in what way? XSLT is a language focused on several things that it’s very good at but it’s not intended to replace Python or be a gener
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by willseth 1y ago
That’s simply not true. Certainly it can be hard to wrap your head around architecting complex logic in XSLT 1.0, but it's not unlike how you have to change your thinking for functional programming generally. More ergonomic imperative
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by willseth 1y ago
What specific licensing problems are your referring to that supposedly hold back XSLT? It’s an open spec, anyone can implement it, and there a free processors under MPL license. And what specifically do you mean when you say everything has
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by willseth 1y ago
Recreating whole documents is how XSLT has been commonly used, but that’s an implementation detail, and you can nearly as easily write XSLT to produce components. You can output XHTML components and update the vdom - kind of an abstraction
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by willseth 1y ago
Not sure what you mean by licensing failure or “one liner”. Browsers are natively limited to XSLT 1.0 not because of licensing, but because they simply didn’t want to implement the newer versions. However Saxon offers free XSLT 3.0 proces
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by willseth 1y ago
The Uber effect.
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by willseth 1y ago
Who is they? Even if Anthropic doesn’t have incentive to run their models on your phone (but really why wouldn’t they?), Apple, Google, and Samsung do. And DeepSeek was very much a something. It was a something that demonstrated the barrier
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by willseth 1y ago
Same experience here. I even built a Gem with am elaborate prompt instructing it how to be concise, but it still gives annoying long-winded responses and frequently expands the scope of its answer far beyond the prompt.
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by willseth 1y ago
If it's all done in post anyway, then it might be a lot simpler to skip building a whole camera app and just give people a way to apply more accurate bokeh to existing photos. I would pay for that.
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by willseth 1y ago
why_not_both.gif
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by willseth 1y ago
The main source of the cringe is that the writing is so in your face about how hard it’s trying while the author is clearly unaware.
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by willseth 1y ago
If he wants to found another company he will need to pitch to investors and will be thoroughly interrogated about his experience before they will consider giving him money, and it’s a lot harder to sell a backstory where you bailed on your
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by willseth 1y ago
If you don’t care about founding another startup then it doesn’t matter. If you do, than that handful of investors is how you land your next gig.
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by willseth 1y ago
VCs don’t care as much about failure as you might think. They make investments expecting 90% failure and understand that timing and luck are big factors in success, so they are simply looking for people who they believe can lead through roc
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by willseth 1y ago
100%. This is an opportunity to lead, not walk away. Maybe he still fails, but it's a valuable learning experience either way and a much better story to tell assuming he wants to found another company. Conversely, walking away in frust
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by willseth 2y ago
The real practical reason for that is that that even techies know the risks of being wholly responsible for your encryption keys and most are comfortable with the current tradeoff. I have a couple more security minded friends who simply dis
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by willseth 2y ago
How does Apple have any interest building encryption back doors?
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by willseth 2y ago
Like what? I use Backblaze B2 to backup all my non-Apple stuff and that's $6/TB/mo. iCloud's 2TB plan is $10/mo, so actually cheaper per TB, but with Backblaze you only pay for what you use so it may be cheaper. But
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by willseth 2y ago
Python decorators simply wrap the function with decorator defined logic, so while yes that is all evaluated when the Python program is first run, whether or not llvm etc are run then vs when the function is first called is completely up to
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by willseth 2y ago
Not on iPhone. Chrome has 30% market share.
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by willseth 2y ago
AWS already has platforms for running and fine tuning OSS models that can run privately inside a VPC. If Azure and GCP don’t have equivalent capabilities already, it is surely imminent. Seems pretty hard or impossible to beat cloud provider
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by willseth 2y ago
AirTags are generally loud enough to solve that problem. I wish they put the same speaker in the ATV remote.
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by willseth 2y ago
There’s nothing wrong with you if you’re not into dancing. It’s 100% okay to be introverted and happy. Many people are. The only thing I would say is it might be worth the effort to try to get out and find some of your people, whoever they
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by willseth 2y ago
The EA people started with similar ideas but eventually determined that minimizing current human suffering was not nearly optimal for minimizing total human suffering. Once they turned their focus to future human suffering, everything quick
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by willseth 2y ago
I just insist that style only changes go in a separate commit.
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by willseth 2y ago
Just joking about EA, who did exactly what you are suggesting, then it went promptly off the rails. But maybe they’ve regrouped since FTX, I don’t know.
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by willseth 2y ago
He wouldn’t have said “girlfriend” if they were married.
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by willseth 2y ago
Yeah altruism, but more...effective. Wonder if anyone has looked into that idea and if so how it worked out.

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