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1. Don't forget that there are parallel efforts for static compilation in Julia - a static artifact should be able to get through the App Store.

Not to mention, the physical trades are not stopping taking on apprentices because... LLMs can't build a house? Not even the mundane bits. It will be interesting how to get the fin…

I was hoping from the tagline it would have sum types (rust-like payloads on enums, like Swift).

I believe I read a post by Andrew detailing how he intentionally did marketting in a way to attract users, the right contributers, and donations - he was quite intentional about ma…

Is it not a web view? With nodejs capabilities from the “backend” half of the app for normal desktop app filesystem access etc?

It always required a leap of faith - that’s the point of life, getting married and having kids. Not so many generations ago parents might not know if they’d survive to see their ch…

It benefits those that made the decision. That’s the thing to understand.

I think nerd -> believes in science. Science -> requires honesty, curiousity, humility, persistence (i.e. admit you are wrong, accept you losses). Generally I'm not sure you'd be c…

The brilliance of a mathematician like Terry is the the clarity they can bring. That’s my interpretation of your comment, anyway.

> a good UI absolutely cannot cater to both So make two UIs? Or an API and a novice user / mass market UI, and let the open source community serve fussy power users (and borrow som…

Can we summarize this as "people get horny sometimes" and "ovulating people get horny"? Or is that too reductive?

Modern off-road/off-grid inverter chargers make wiring to the network pretty easy. I'd still recommend an electrician, but most they'd likely need to do is wire the grid into the i…

The OP mentioned modern battery technologies - generally the shunt sits between an LFP battery negative and the main circuit negative/ground, and the solar panels connect to MPPTs.…

That’s incorrect. In most western nations, the “people who run the government” get paid a salary similar to a good software engineer (or maybe a doctor), and progressive taxation l…

That depends how they got wealthy. Did they steal everything outright? Someone is worse off in that transaction. (Or everyone a little bit worse off if it’s government grift). Did …

Oh wow! Team is still ok but Enterprise is excluded. That’s… quite harsh. I don’t normally want to speak up for BigCorp but it seems like they are getting gouged.

I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty…

One problem I see is even in representational democracy (I'll use the Westminster system for concreteness) we get a lot of indirection leading to policies people don't actually wan…

Low-level programming gets a bad name because C has many footguns and the spec leaves much behavior undefined - a fact that implementers use almost adversarially (which I'd support…

Yes. And ultimately the colour of swans in Western Australia impacts… almost nothing at all.

Just a funny observation, apologies in advance: I am rewatching Stargate SG-1 with my children right now and cannot read this comment except in the voice of Teal’c. In the previous…

Sure, the ISP _should_ deliver the packets. No worries. The user agent should... be an agent for the user, and be able to perform actions on their behalf. (The legality of those ac…

How many great inventions and discoveries were the product of yak shaving? I'd imagine quite a lot.

Interesting timing, with Australian budget night (removal of tax discounts for both capital and trusts, and for investment in existing housing stock).