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by zarzavat 8mo ago
China shows why this is impossible. When people propose switching to UTC what they are actually proposing is that everyone nominally switches to UTC but still uses local time informally in everyday life, which is a worse system than time
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
> In contrast, you can’t really parse a file in Rust. Rust macros generate new source code, so parsing can’t be finished until all the macros are expanded. Rust needs macros because the language is extremely strict and verbose. Macros
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Full Disk Access just gives an application the same filesystem powers that your user account has. For most users that means it has administrator level access, which is the 3rd highest tier. There are two levels above an administrator-level
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
It's not a waste of time though. Those warnings and clippy lints are there to improve the quality of the code and to find bugs. As a human I can just decide to write quality code (or not!), but LLMs don't understand when they&#x27
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Smalltalk is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
The trick is to reboot into recovery partition, disable SIP, then run OmniDiskSweeper as root (as in `sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper`). Then you can find all kinds of caches
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Boycott OpenAI. Let's kill their business before it kills us.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Okay but they were paying customers paying $$$ for the service. Banning your customers without prior warning is not right, however sketchy their behaviour might appear. Even if it's obvious to Google that there's a difference betw
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
They are probably counting dependencies. Also, it's vibe coded, what do you expect! I used to think that LLMs would replace humans but now I'm confident that I'll have a job in the future cleaning up slop. Lucky us.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
The same could be said of mass producing chemical and biological weapons.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
IMO it's more likely to lead to a renaissance in FOSS OS use. Not requiring a legal entity and being geographically diffuse makes them immune to this kind of pressure in a way that Apple and Microsoft are not.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
It's news to me that anyone actually uses the web streams in node. I thought they were just for interoperability, for code that needs to run on both client and server.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
LLM are actually really bad at writing CSS. CSS is 20% logic and 80% art. The machines just don't understand what is attractive and what is ugly. I hand write all of my CSS and I don't see that changing any time soon.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
RAM didn't get more expensive to produce. It just got more desirable. The prices will come down again when supply responds. It may take some time, but it will happen eventually.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
I assume you're using Opus. I'm on the Pro plan. If I run out of tokens, which has only happened 2 or 3 times in months of use, I just work on something else that Claude can't do, or ...write the code myself. You do have to k
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
You're right, all Android users who are upset about this change are free to switch to iOS.
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Honestly I find writing Rust more fun than writing Python. Python just doesn't scale, any non-trivial quantity of it has a habit of turning into spaghetti however hard I try to be disciplined. Rust, although annoying at a micro scale,
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
I specifically said that they don't have to fulfil the requests, just that they should be able to accept the requests. Throttling and rate limiting are valid ways to respond to having too many requests. Banning your paying customers&
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
> How does a gas station keep a 21-year-old from buying beer for a bunch of high school students? They don't? Teenagers can easily get their hands on alcohol... you just need to know the right person at school who has a cool older b
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
https://xkcd.com/538/ Your crypto nerd dream is vulnerable to the fact that someone under 18 can just ask someone over 18 to make an account for them. All age verification is broken in this way. There is a similar prob
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Yeah this is a massive fuckup on Google's part and they are taking it out on their customers as per usual. It's not hard to define a quota system and enforce it. If the quota is too high then reduce the quota. If people are abusin
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
It's more that definitions are made with an assumption of normal market conditions but what's happened in the DRAM market is extreme. Production of conventional DRAM package types has evaporated, while the demand is unchanged or i
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
The normal price is not the same as the market price. The normal price is what we had last year. The market price is higher than normal, due to a sudden demand spike and production shifting to HBM. More manufacturing capacity coming online
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
I agree, but you don't have to outsource your thinking to AI in order to benefit from AI. Use AI as a sanity check on your thinking. Use it to search for bugs. Use it to fill in the holes in your knowledge. Use it to automate grunt wor
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
> The real flex would be for AI.com to have nothing to do with AI whatsoever Apple Intelligence?
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
Seems like an odd thing to be concerned about. Most of the apps on my Mac are closed source, that little Tailscale menu bar item is really insignificant. You can always control it through the command line if you're really bothered by i
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
There are no universals. You have to try it on your particular codebase and see what works for you. For me, OpenAI is ahead in intelligence, and Anthropic is ahead in alignment. I use both but for different tasks. Given the pace of change,
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
If a human learns to code by reading other people's code, and then writes their own new code, should they have to attribute all the code they ever read? Plagiarism is a concept from academia because in academia you rise through the ran
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
They believe that they exist to control us. And let's been honest, British people are a meek bunch who have done little to disillusion them of that notion, at times positively encouraging our own subjugation. In other countries, interf
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by zarzavat 8mo ago
I don't use Tailwind, it's a solution to a problem I don't have. I can understand how it might be useful for certain types of web development, e.g. landing pages where the content and styles are tightly coupled. So as a techn

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