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Awesome, thanks for taking the time to put this together, that really is impressive pre-LLM. We wont be at this level for a while but its great to have resources to look at for exa…

Im thinking through this for my team, any previous writeups on it? Or do you mind brain dumping the high level of how you had it setup from a design perspective : D

The whole point is to force the cloud providers to go through a contract negotiation for licensing rather than keep the door open for them. Nothing prevents the parent project from…

You can easily spin up a linux builder vm or I just have a dedicated remote builder on my network which I offload to

Intel is very very close to dead now as apple has officially EOLed them and software communities are following suit (eg homebrew and nix). I just picked up an apple silicon because…

Most generics code is for library authors. Having generics allows you to write ergonomic algorithms for eg channels instead of forcing every single app developer to reinvent the wh…

The true power of LLM powered interfaces is the malleability of the whole thing. Sure you can write traditional software to handle “more like this”, but how hard would it be to han…

Im wrapping a lot of that up into "intent". If they intended it to rhyme, then you will necessarily "lose something" in translation. The same with elegant word choice to fit within…

This also doesnt touch on translation also having an element of the audience in it as well. You see this in debates on what the best translation of the Odyssey is, with some prefer…

Translation = words + intent. Literal translation frequently loses the intent encoded into the chosen language, especially for creative writing. If I translate "youre a real piece …

Its an easy value add for a pressure-wash / soft-wash business

We should be clear about software vs hardware transcoding being different things. Hardware transcoding is "free" for even commodity hardware. Yes, lower end systems might have trou…

Yep, total agreement here. But they really nail the "it just works" of playback, so all things considered I stick with it.

The way they do their list rendering is infuriating for large collections. Instead of showing titles + shimmer, its just big blobs of loading placeholders. So to find where you are…

I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its b…

The server is simple, theres plenty of docker examples online. Cross play between bedrock and java edition, and connecting to custom servers on eg switch is the harder part. And us…

I agree. The issues arent super nuanced (and are pretty "blatant") But I do think the nuance of "who/what should we point our finger at" is important. Because like we see in this t…

Well, I didnt bring it up but the other element of qualified immunity is that its purely for civil suits. So it would only show up if an officer was basically sued personally. It d…

Qualified immunity is more nuanced. It allows the first offense to be absolved but it works like legal precedent where future offenses by _any law enforcement officer_ is not cover…

This got me thinking… why does AI use em-dashes nearly exclusively? I think “in the wild” examples overwhelmingly weight toward en-dashes instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx7Vv5pqpHg

Self-directed memories have been awful. That said, I have had decent success in self-feedback-loop skills. I encapsulate a long process into a skill and the last step is to make ch…

Sure you can avoid it. Require unprintable tokens on messages, strip non-ascii from input. Structure your AI systems to clearly indicate what is user-generated content.

No, AI dials up the OPs axiom to 11. Heavily leveraging AI for dev is going to accelerate you as a solo dev but you will hit serious friction trying to scale to more than the indiv…

Thats quantized