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And this has been shown time and again to be quite detrimental. Yes, you have to disconnect. No, disconnecting for a few hours is not a problem just because "these are messaging ap…

> The problem is, what if one of these apps is being used as a messaging app? How is this a problem? We've had messaging apps 24/7 for 15 years. For many millenia we didn't have th…

Question: Any benchmarks showing if this actually improves problem solving? Or reduces errors? "Answer": a word soup that in no way, shape, or form addresses the question, but does…

Depends on how the harness injects those files. All harnesses these days auto-discover "skills" and read them anyway, and inject their descriptions, at the very least. Which leads …

Search itself pollutes the context. With the need to maintain the tools, the search, the search results etc. in context. And wasting tokens while interpreting results.

And all those "names and one-line descriptions" live in an .md file and of course pollute your context. And then the model will randomly decide to load the .md file that is the "sk…

> Skills don’t pollute the context window Of course they do. Do you really think that there's a magical bag of holding for the potentially infinite amount of skills?

Illusion of choice forced onto you by the tracking industry. Again, if consumers didn't care, the tracking industry wouldn't need to present users with this "choice".

Onve again it's been shown that consumers do care when they are properly shown the extent of data collection and/or are allowed to opt out. E.g. when iOS introduced "ask apps to no…

> Discussion about nuclear reactors aside, energy in germany became expensive when they cut off russian gas and they had no good alternative. Why aside? Germany had to burn gas and…

> I strongly disagree. You strongly disagree with what? That new tools shouldn't just make simple things simpler? > Make me write less code, make me spend less time fixing it. But …

Where "bespoke" is anything beyond master/detail and endless lists upon lists apparently.

> But 1/ it’s much simpler for doing simple things and 2/ we can drop down to AppKit when needed. New things (especially 12 years on) shouldn't be "do simple things simpler, and dr…

> Unless your app is a trivial master/detail data-viewing app (as pretty much every SwiftUI example is), And it's pretty much incapable of making anything that is not a master/deta…

I'd kill for tight UIs now. Everything insists on having 15000-mile wide margins, and at most two items visible on an 8K screen. We are at a point when TUIs from 1990s running in 1…

And there's nothing wrong with that. Many languages attempt to do the same thing. Why bother with 15 different languages if you can leverage one? See also LiveView and Hologram for…

> also my favorite SVG was def the google/gemini-3.6-flash That looks like something from Machinarium or Robots :)

Mine is any variations on mammoths in various situations, or anthropomorphic. Since mammoths are invariably majestically going from one place to another in any of the books, models…

And those sites often had personality and whimsy. Now we got our wish to lay out stuff however we want, and it turns out our imagination is indistinguishable for the average LLM ou…

Except cache is not infinite, it is routinely expunged and re-fetched. The "nothing burger" is so significant that even projects whose stance is "web components are the end all be …

So we're back to my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131513 Yes you can invent all kinds of workarounds for their core design . Re-implementing imports like…

> I have a wrapper around fetch for static requests imports are not fetched by JS fetch. They are fetched by the browser. It happens before any JS in the component is even run. Tha…

> The target audience of that API seems to be library developers. And then most library developers find them severely lacking, riddled with unsolved and unsolvable issues, filled t…

Or you do a single request with a sane framework, and it gets cached. It's a menu, not a nuclear plant dashboard.

There's also the issue that web components are eager. Once it's in the DOM, and upgraded, it will cause an endless cascade of requests for every import inside. I don't know if they…