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You forgot to mention the part where, to use any of the PWA features, you now have to get the user to close safari, and re-open the page via the icon now on the homescreen. Not exa…

No, the fundamental problem is ios. There are a bunch of features that ios locks down so that you are essentially forced to use apps. Want to send push notifications? You need an a…

If that's a concern, an easy alternative is using companies like novita or fireworks.ai to run open source chinese models. They are incredibly price competitive, have strict data r…

I mean, that works for you since you're retiring. But for people still working in the industry, you adapt or die. As it's always been. The fact of the matter is, a person working w…

I use these a lot. My favorite use case is templates, especially ones that were not initially planned in the architecture. Let's say i have some entity like an "organization" that …

While not on the same level as these guys, I've done some similar stuff using Claude. This is a classic synergy example, where the output of human + LLM is far greater than just th…

There are two big advantages to using a 3rd party system. 1) There are a lot of cases where aggregated user data, even if anonymized, allows for insights that you can't get using j…

So nobody will ever start another successful software project? People will, what, just stop creating software? I understand people's apprehension because of the pace of change, but…

Blockchain only has 2 legitimate uses (from an economic standpoint) as far as I can tell. 1) Bitcoin figured out how to create artificial scarcity, and got enough buy-in that the s…

I don't know if a bunch of sloppy jQuery modules were ever really a viable option for an SPA. People tried to do it, sure, but I'd say the SPA era really started with backbone.js

It's still the best RDB schema creation/migration tool I know of. It has a crazy number of plugins to handle all sorts of unusual field types and indexing. I usually add django to …

I kinda consider it a P!=nP type thing. If I need to write a simple function, it will almost always take me more time to implement it than it will to verify if an implementation of…

Yeah i was wondering about that too. Even small cap PoW chains have dedicated mining hardware that is orders of magnitude faster than a GPU. I guess in theory it could work if you …

Yeah, the brain is a sparse MoE. There is a lot of overlap in the hardware of the "language brain" and the "math brain". That being said, I can discuss software concepts in a forei…

I think the fundamental problem is that next.js is trying to do two things at once. It wants to a) Be fast to load for content that is sensitive to load speeds (SEO content, landin…

When I was first getting into Deep Learning, learning the proof of the universal approximation theorem helped a lot. Once you understand why neural networks are able to approximate…

I've used NEAT a few for a few different things. The main upside of it is that it requires a lot less hyper-parameter tuning than modern reinforcement learning options. But that's …

This criticism is all the more poignant given that it comes from Nabokov. He is one of the few authors for whose works the Russian and English versions are almost equivalent; he wa…

I guess that's objectively worse since it results in false negatives as opposed to false positives. But personally I think it stings a bit more to get tricked into procedures you d…

This has been going on for a while: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-9

Yeah, there is that. I guess this comes with the caveat that you have to have enough say in the project that you can mandate a rewrite.

I think one of the most valuable lessons I have learned in software engineering is that you can write entire projects with the express plan of rewriting them if they actually gain …

Sure. I agree Many of those things would be a net benefit. So why don't we have them? It seems to me, the main reason is that representatives won't vote for them. Why not? Mainly b…

I agree that such mockery isn't very charitable, but there is an underlying line logic to their thinking. We know that a system like North Korea's is possible. We know a system lik…

This appears to be the logical build up to his critique of the Cartesian Theater . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater