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To steelman the haters, I think their view is that the industry is so uniquely shitty that it's unconscionable to help the industry at all by using the tech, which is a product of …

I wonder how you arrived at that number. Is it perhaps a number that we should aspire to, if we want to write high-quality, maintainable code by hand?

> once the RAM bottleneck passes Do we have evidence that this will actually happen? Maybe the belief that it won't pass is what requires evidence, but I think there's a widespread…

Compiler developers didn't hoover up as much human creative work as they could, legally or not, to evolve a giant inscrutable thing that does what it does probabilistically, with t…

Well, the frontier models aren't freely available in the same way that the training data (the public web) is; they're only available as a limited no-cost tier of a paid service. Th…

Rust with wxWidgets via wxDragon has recently become a viable option for some kinds of apps. It even has dark mode now. wxWidgets comes with a disappointing amount of bloat though.…

I invested about $4,000 in an NVIDIA DGX Spark several months ago. 128 GB of unified RAM, and the NVIDIA GB10 chip. With the RAM, the several CPU cores, and the 4 TB NVMe SSD, it's…

Have you found evidence that the code is actually low-quality, or is that just an assumption based on the fact that it's evidently largely LLM-generated?

IMO the word "compute" is too generic here. To me, the most valuable thing that personal computers have brought us so far is the ability to communicate smoothly across (dis)abiliti…

Are there any models that are specifically trained to produce diagrams as SVG? I'd much prefer that to diffusion-based raster image generation models for a few reasons: - The usual…

> “A healthy man has many dreams. A sick man has only one.” I'm partially blind, and I know many fully blind people. None of us have being sighted as our one dream.

That's fine, if we only care about ourselves. I guess the harder part is convincing everyone else to unplug from mass media and not raise their kids on it.

Then maybe we need to kill mass media once and for all. Keep the global communication network, but let it be all small-scale communities.

Your argument presupposes that we should accept escalating baseline hardware requirements as good or even necessary, for a desktop computing world that was, from the user's perspec…

Yes, text shaping and layout are complex. My point is that the program wasn't doing anything that should have required a GPU, particularly for the resolutions that were common back…

> WPF was good As someone who saw what impact WPF had on average users running average hardware in the late 2000s to early 2010s, I disagree. In 2011, my brother was in seminary, u…

Yeah, I see what you mean now. Sorry.

DTrace was absolutely a product of pre-Oracle Sun, not Oracle.

I hope we can still get to a point where wasm modules can directly access the web platform APIs and get JS out of the picture entirely. After all, those APIs themselves are impleme…

> Boilerplate and scaffolding Have we really reached the limit of how much we can reliably automate these things via good old metaprogramming and/or generator scripts, without reso…

We had Joel Spolsky saying that users don't read back in 2000, around the same time that Steve Krug published _Don't Make Me Think_: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/desig…

Every little detail matters though. In SQL, do you want your database field to have limited length? If so, pay attention to validation, including cases where the field's content is…

I disagree on Kubernetes versus ECS. For me, the reasons to use ECS are not having to pay for a control plane, and not having to keep up with the Kubernetes upgrade treadmill.

This idea is a major theme in this story by Robert Kingett: https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidenc...