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cmgriffing··on The current balance of power in open models
This all depends on the SLA that gets signed.

If a frontier lab is willing to draft an SLA that assumes liability, corporate will pay for it as long as the cost/benefit is in favor of it over insourcing.

Right?

cmgriffing··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
If a human should read it, a human should write it.
cmgriffing··on NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them
I can't be the only person who saw "NUMA" and then read the word "memory" in the title as "Memora-hee, Memora-haa".
cmgriffing··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
We should thank companies for warning us during the interview process that they are so separated from reality (especially in the AI era)

If AI can’t make them recognize a work life balance has value then it’s easy to see they don’t believe the “force multiplier” BS they are peddling

cmgriffing··on The three lines of CSS that saved me 40kb and might do the same for you
I remember having to do this with icomoon back in the day when icon fonts were all the rage because svg support in ie11 was lacking and downloading the entirety of font awesome was a huge payload hit.
cmgriffing··on Notes on DeepSeek
Ollama cloud is also a fantastic deal. They also don’t have a monthly limit, just session and weekly.
cmgriffing··on Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
Only slightly related, but I have been using Oban as a Postgres native message queue in the elixir ecosystem and loving it. For my use case, it’s so much simpler than spinning up another piece of infrastructure like Kafka or rabbitmq
cmgriffing··on Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX
I shudder to think how small the macOS ui text will be on this but I’m willing to find out.
cmgriffing··on Side projects I've built since 2009
This might sound crazy but I started live streaming partially because I wanted to work on side projects.

You will be less productive than getting into a focus state off line. But 0.5x is still infinitely higher than zero.

On stream, you don’t get to randomly hop into a game or doom scroll social media or hackernews.

cmgriffing··on Material 3 Expressive
I was digging into the cursor effect just to see why it's so laggy for some people and noticed that this is actually a Next.js site.

That is news to me that Google is using Nextjs for anything.

cmgriffing··on Getting forked by Microsoft
I think this is a good case for applying Hanlon's Razor. The person that did the forking and removal of copyright text may simply not know that it needed to stay there.

I would love to know what processes MS is considering to prevent this in the future as well as what kind of auditing might be done to look at other projects that started as forks.

cmgriffing··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
I would love to know of some of the companies you know of that have gone this route. Maybe nothing we've heard of, but still sounds interesting.
cmgriffing··on Overengineered Anchor Links
I recently discovered the way Tanstack does this. Basically, if the heading of the section is in the viewport, then the list item is highlighted.

So you could have multiple items highlighted, but it still "works" somewhat intuitively for the end user.

The drawback is that it requires JS via intersection observer. But maybe the CSS standards committee could see value in this kind of thing eventually.

cmgriffing··on The Frontend Treadmill
Not weird to do all that. Just weird to not disclose it.
cmgriffing··on The Frontend Treadmill
Promoting it? No problem. But promoting something you profited from without disclosing it violates FCC rules for broadcasting. I would say influencers aren't technically broadcasting but they are in principle.
cmgriffing··on The Frontend Treadmill
While his formal affiliation may have been short-lived, do you think he got a cut of the sale to Shopify?

If so, not disclosing that when he promotes Remix is a bit shady.

Nice dude and all, but that is one thing I take issue with still.

cmgriffing··on Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
> Use AI to spot blind spots

> Tools like ChatGPT can highlight UX issues you might miss. It’s a quick sanity check—not perfect, but better than guessing.

> Tools like ChatGPT can highlight UX issues you might miss. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than guessing. Some prompts to try:

Was this an intentional joke?

cmgriffing··on Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
Their first key insight is interesting. It says that coding ability predicts model performance in the game. I wonder if it also predicts performance of human players in some way?
cmgriffing··on Show HN: Seen – Virtual list rendering with 1M+ notes
FNV-1a might be worth looking into. It's pretty fast
cmgriffing··on We are destroying software
We are destroying software by directly contradicting ourselves when we describe how we are destroying software.
cmgriffing··on Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots
LOL, you and I posted very similar replies at the same time.
cmgriffing··on Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots
Quick note: when trying to do full page screenshots, Chrome does a screenshot of the current view, then scrolls and does another screenshot. This can cause some interesting artifacts when rendering pages with scroll behaviors.

Firefox does a proper full page screenshot and even allows you to set a higher DPS value. I use this a lot when making video content.

Check out some of the args in FF using: `:screenshot --help`

cmgriffing··on S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
This brings up an interesting thought too. A photo is just a lossy representation of the real world.

So it's lossy all the way down with LLMs, too.

Reality > Data created by a human > LLM > Distilled LLM

cmgriffing··on Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
If these tools had a runtime check, then the cache key creation would have failed out.

72 is the max length of id, username, and password combined. If that combination is over 72, then failure and the cache key would not have been created. So, no, the attacker would not need to guess only one character of a password.

cmgriffing··on "A computer can never be held accountable"
Oh interesting. I hadn't heard much about it recently. Thanks.
cmgriffing··on "A computer can never be held accountable"
Consider the Volkswagen scandal where code was written that fudged the results when in an emissions testing environment.

The only person to see major punishment for that was the software dev that wrote the code, but that decision to write that code involved far more people up the chain. THEY should be held accountable in some way or else nothing prevents them from using some other poor dev as a scapegoat.

cmgriffing··on Find the oldest line in your repo
Take my upvote :)
cmgriffing··on A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements
In the case of Restream (or cases like their "stage"), thats not always doable. What about superfluous hero animations that marketing sites love to do these days? Pausing some generic canvas rendering logic is usually more annoying than you would want.
cmgriffing··on A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements
Be careful using:

    dialog::backdrop {
        backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
    }
If there is frequently updating content on the page like a video, it can kill CPU performance. Restream does this and it punishes my M3 macbook air.

It seems you can use the transform3d trick to kick it to the GPU to help fix it.

cmgriffing··on Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
I feel like the value of changing from `git checkout -b` to `git switch -c` is not worth the cognitive overhead of making the change.
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