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by xpl 2y ago
> negative numbers. Those don't exist either. 1. Do numbers exist? Have you seen a number in your life? 2. What does exist, can you name one thing? Because everything isn't what it seems.
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by xpl 2y ago
I am pretty sure in the end accessibility will more likely be solved by some smart LLMs (with vision) interpreting arbitrary web pages on the user side, rather than by web developers coding it by hand. Because the latter obviously doesn&#x2
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by xpl 3y ago
I'd like to have my laptop lightweight, cool and silent. To me it is the definition of "better".
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by xpl 3y ago
So now monolith is the new microservices. Makes sense! Wake me up when the next big thing arrives.
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by xpl 3y ago
I think there is sort of a Pareto distribution, like 20% of apps generate 80% of the money or something like that. Quick googling confirmed it: "Spending on iPhone users accounted for 68.13% of all consumer spending on mobile apps, wh
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by xpl 3y ago
> Is VSCode involved in provisioning these dev servers, or do you just point it to an SSH endpoint? In our setup there is a web version of VSCode which you can run from a browser (that implies provisioning, yes), but I don't like
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by xpl 3y ago
Web development doesn't bind you to a specific platform. And modern desktop apps are overwhelmingly Electron (i.e. based on a web stack). It is just simpler to develop than native, and gives you portability out of the box. And if you&#
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by xpl 3y ago
There are LSPs that can be slower than the network, so having an extra hop doesn't impact the UX too much (in that case). I don't usually even notice. Networks can vary also, depending on your/DC location, routes, VPNs, provi
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by xpl 3y ago
Probably those are students + hobbyists + maybe Windows game developers? Or my anecdata is just not representative. Maybe Zed considered it is worth targeting only Mac audience, as it gives much higher rate of people who would actually buy
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by xpl 3y ago
The biggest shortcoming of Zed is the lack of "remote development". We almost exclusively write code in Codespaces-like setup, where you spin dev containers in the cloud, attaching to it from VSCode, so you don't have to run
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by xpl 3y ago
> it's only supported on a niche platform Lold hard on that. Just every developer friend I know, uses Mac for coding. It is ubiquitous. In a BigTech company I once worked, there were virtually no guys having Win or Linux on thei
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by xpl 3y ago
Otherwise it wouldn't be labeled a "disorder"?
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by xpl 3y ago
Worth to mention that there is a condition called HPPD (hallucinogen-induced perception disorder), causing people to see CEVs/OEVs while not on drugs. The condition persists for a while (for some people, months or even years) after a d
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by xpl 3y ago
It is an interesting test (I tried it once I read your sentence). Turns out I can imagine a ball rolling off a table without detailing the imaginary scene to have a specific material, texture or sound (and if I wasn't specifically aske
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by xpl 3y ago
There is a sort of confusion when people read about aphantasia, they tend to imagine (pun intended) that most people have vivid pictures when they close their eyes, coming to conclusion that they must have aphantasia, because it isn't
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by xpl 3y ago
> Let's think step-by-step _like LLMs_ Made my day
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by xpl 3y ago
In an episode of "The Good Place" I just watched today, there was a joke about Florida: "possession of a non-fried vegetable is a felony in Jacksonville" . Now I feel like it's me who's living in a crazy TV sh
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by xpl 3y ago
I would pay extra for a robot that runs on a local hardware — there would be a market for that, for sure. People need privacy. An expensive/bulky GPU doesn't have to be built in the robot body itself — it could be a box mounted so
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by xpl 3y ago
> They will always be expensive, bulky, and creepy. People said similar things about those early NNs generating images, code, music. Surely we will solve the fine motor skills soon. It just takes one incremental step at a time, there a
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by xpl 3y ago
Why just "software development"? People should really think of the endgame. Everything will change. I mean, what business, science, [popular] art, and even politics are all essentially? Just a clever optimization process against
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by xpl 3y ago
I've been playing with it (their V3 model) and its super cool. The best of what I've seen so far. How to get fun: 1. Use "custom mode" (to feed your own lyrics). Auto-generated lyrics is lame. 2. Create wild "remixe
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by xpl 3y ago
Part of the fun. Sorry if that was disturbing!
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by xpl 3y ago
I'm not here to convince, I'm just having fun. Personally I'm betting on a climate-change apocalypse, as it seems that we're stupid enough to sleepwalk towards it until its too late. The least probable option is that we
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by xpl 3y ago
> Not going to happen unless some psycho billionaire manages to build a robot army. It isn't about a robot revolt. It is about slowly pushing humans out of economy, until we're not economic actors anymore, because we're
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by xpl 3y ago
But how? They're more interested in how to survive in a housing crisis on a low wage, with their employment/career prospects fading away due to the rise of AI. And the modern attention-sucking entertainment doesn't help.
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by xpl 3y ago
> Why does it have to always be the apocalypse? It is just a likely thing to happen IMO. WW3 or extreme climate change... or a depopulation so severe that the infrastructure will slowly collapse, and nobody could ever fix it, because a
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by xpl 3y ago
So as far as the progress goes, people are less and less interested in reproducing. With fertility rates rapidly falling towards 0 all over the world, I see only three viable long-term options, if we want to self-preserve (and not just fade
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by xpl 3y ago
OK so what happens if every next year will be like this? How much time have we left?
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by xpl 3y ago
I guess those homes are actually peanuts compared to the price of the land + infrastructure costs.
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by xpl 3y ago
Non-paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20240312195134/https://www.wired...

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