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It's hard to get past the beginning of this article and take it at all seriously. The quote someone who missed a sunset because they asked google and supposedly got the wrong time.…

I think this depends on perspective. Compared to an Electron app, it's significantly better. Compared to a hand-optimised app implemented in a low level language it's not great. I'…

Nice find and summary. Of I'm not surprised to see the ~75MB for the high graphical fidelity of the app. I am however surprised that 10MB is Swift language runtime - with ABI compa…

Apple weather is fully native from what I understand. I suspect the 250MB comes from the video backgrounds they play. Arguably that would be a reasonable thing to sacrifice on low …

So can a chiropractor!

Is it? Seems to work for me?

Exactly, this issue was really solved by the mid 2010s. Twitter had a much longer run (10+ years) of solid reliability than they did of spotty reliability (2-3 years?).

Setting aside any feelings about Musk, ad quality, or even product direction choices like locking down public access... I'm not sure I agree. My experience of Twitter was that the …

As someone who previously used GitHub a lot, and now works with stacked changelists (PRs) a lot, I'm not sure this really changes much. If there's an expectation that you might mer…

"We spent $447 to destroy our small business' reputation by not paying attention to anything" As they say, "Guns don't kill people, rappers do". LLMs don't ruin businesses, people …

There are like 4 companies doing this right now.

This is a totally fair opinion to have, but I think it's a niche one. Most people want a predictable flat rate. I've paid for cloud services at some non-trivial scale, and pricing …

This is why "unlimited" subscriptions are going to go away, because people can't just use what they paid for, they have to drain every bit of value out in every way they can. Thing…

I don't know why you think this matters, you're not blue either.

No it wouldn't, because each Mastodon server can choose who to federate with and many servers don't federate openly or don't federate with smaller hosts for technical, scaling, or …

Host your own PDS, use an alternative relay and App Server, like Blacksky.

No this is my point, Mastodon doesn't solve this problem in the general case. The shift to Mastodon did not solve the problem of social network admins with too much power, because …

I'm not coming at this cold, I've worked on the skill for PR (CL) creation in the Google monorepo. I'm not talking about raw LLM outputs here. It's a hard problem that is fairly fu…

I'm not going to do the protocol justice in an HN comment, but a core goal is to separate the entities that control the data, the entities that run the network, and the entities th…

The answer to big platforms enshittifying is not to move to smaller versions of the same thing. This didn't work for GitHub -> Codeberg/Sourcehut, it didn't work for Twitter -> Mas…

But this is my point, they're not really controllable in this way. There are no fixed rules (like tests or linters) for small PRs, it's not good enough to do it by line count. A go…

PR review sucks because engineers often don't optimise their code authoring for it. When they do it's a joy. PR review of agent generated code sucks because agents are, in my exper…

We've seen several new restaurants crop up on a busy restaurant street near us, and they all have AI generated logos and food images. All are bad, some are comically bad, some are …

It's the lack of attention to detail that bugs me. It's just bad policy making. Writing good policies that encourage the right behaviour and discourage the wrong behaviour, policie…

Why? Banning abuse is fine, and disliking Cryptocurrency projects at a moral level is fine, but running a coffee hosting service and putting your moral judgements on projects like …