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y’all seem to be missing the fact that Java is a mature product. it has left the “move fast and break things” era of it’s development. code is a liability, and they likely have mor…

“no open source project will succeed with this level of unprofessionalism” y’all clearly are not acquainted with some of the things Linus has said on the LKML

Haven't done any research into this, but I wonder how tough it would be to build a decent 3D printer. Maybe there are open-source designs out there.

there’s another thing that started to get quite popular in the late 2000s… smartphones

Chrome, Android, and Gmail are optional to use.

They might be buying time to sell the relevant stock

I’m working on a combination of a semantic embedder and vector database with a focus on Apple devices https://github.com/emmettmcdow/dve It should be drop in semantic search for an…

I’m looking forward to using a RISC-V computer in 20 years

dve handles embedding, vector storage, and search all in one library with a simple interface. This last year I was working on an app for Macs which required doing vector search. Th…

It's the phones dude. It's literally just the phones. Get rid of the phones and you fix it.

https://emmettmcdow.com

This is awesome! I’ve been looking for a way to batch export my notes out of Apple notes, will this work for that purpose? I totally agree with you that most notes apps miss the ma…

Is any company actually doing this? I haven’t heard of anyone that has this setup. Maybe contract work, but never a full time employee working 4 days.

This is tangential but the whole Tiananmen Square thing is kind of odd. When I visited China many people were more willing to discuss it than I had imagined. Some spoke about it un…

From the comments here it sounds like most people think the amount Anthropic paid for the company was probably not much more than the VC funding which Bun raised. How would the pay…

In my experience even the best software projects have a few skeletons in their closet, blemishes on an otherwise well-built project. At the end of the day, we all have to build thi…

Super cool!

Why does Steam/Valve care so much about Linux? I know as devs we all would prefer to use Linux/Unix. But developer experience isn’t a good business justification.

This is true but there is another cost. If you carelessly write you can end up with a system which is a mountain of bandaid fixes; an incoherent and unmaintainable mess.

I’ve used both approaches and I can’t disagree more. Writing code first might feel faster but it isn’t. It’s great for surface level issues but just muddies the waters for any cons…

Oh ok. Is it still worth learning without LiveView? E.g. in my case I’m much more proficient in Python. Is it worth the jump, over something like Django?

I really want to choose Phoenix, but I can't get over the fact that LiveView is front-and-center. The whole web-socket model just seems so brittle to me.

This is the primary reason Lua is interesting to me. As high level as JS/Python but embeddable. Only problem is I have language ADHD. I use way too many to pick up another like Lua…