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ericls··on Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love
But when it's tangled with emotional/personal stuff such as love. It gets really messy.
ericls··on Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love
Success is not a defined term.
ericls··on DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
lol, why not just createa law and state that "people must be happy, environment must be good, everyone must get along with everyone, also no wars".

Law doesn't work like this.

This is not law, this is impersonating God, or a bad prompt to LLM I guess.

ericls··on The valve at the end of the world
Okay, go tell {your wife, your children, your parents, etc}, and say: “I love you, but there’s a part of of you that I just can’t accept and want to change.” Will they think you still love them? Do you think you can love them that way?

Your love to them should be a source of power to accept all of them. Your love to life should empower you to embrace death.

ericls··on The valve at the end of the world
Okay, go tell {your wife, your children, your parents, etc}, and say: “I love you, but there’s a part of of you that I just can’t accept and want to change.” Will they think you still love them? Do you think you can love them that way?

Your love to them should be a source of power to accept all of them. Your love to life should empower you to embrace death.

ericls··on The valve at the end of the world
I think the idea of “death is part of life” is more than just “it is what it is”. It means when you say you love life, you want to live, it’s is implied that you also love death, and want to die. Otherwise you don’t really love life and you don’t really want to live.
ericls··on Ask HN: Are job referrals worthless now?
If people just go for the best people in the world then one man will marry all the women in the world
ericls··on Dockerize a React app
Might be easier to just run nginx container and mount the frontend app as a volume.
ericls··on Flappy Bird implemented in TypeScript types
what's a rundown
ericls··on Stark-DB: SQLite-backed, change-tracking database available over HTTP
I'd only fallback to "changes" when I don't know the "intentions".
ericls··on Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC
GraphQL is RESTful. Just treat GraphQL Result as the resource..
ericls··on Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner
I'm not against them punishing people who violated the policies, but this doesn't look like a good solution to that problem.
ericls··on On writing (or not)
Writing is memory dump for me. I do it to free memory
ericls··on Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
At least I got guido right…
ericls··on A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
I think KPI on itself is fine, it's basically the goal of the game you are playing, defining it clearly should help. However, it never make sense to to have multiple KPIs, everything should be derived from a single KPI.

This actually give KPI some weight, because it literally defines what you do. Whenever you define you KPI, you'd think, "okay, is this all that I'm doing now?". And whenever you change your KPI, you'd be thinking, "okay, should I abandon the last game I played and play a new one?".

ericls··on Ask vs. Guess Culture
Trust sounds good but is based not knowing.
ericls··on The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression
The smaple page preloads all the files before playing... Which wastes lots of bandwidth.
ericls··on Histoire: A new way to write stories, powered by Vite
Why do I need to care about what tool it is powered by?
ericls··on A world where people pay for software
By "people" are you excluding organizations such as governments, corporations etc?
ericls··on Plane – Open-source Jira alternative
One piece of feedback: The screenshot on the landing page is sooooo slow to load.
ericls··on The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
A website is static when I control where write happens. A website is dynamic when other people can control where write happens.
ericls··on Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway
Don’t sell to China and maybe not any other county
ericls··on Inferno-OS: distributed operating system where everything is a file
I was curious to see what the language used in this project, Limbo, looks like. And here it is: https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html

It's interesting to me how channels in Limbo look and work very similar to Go's channels.

ericls··on Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers
Hope they'll roll out the dedicated-cores plans for these.
ericls··on Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
Gotta wait for 6 month for China to catch up
ericls··on Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS
No privacy policy?
ericls··on Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
No Privacy policy on sign up...
ericls··on Cheating is All You Need
if the machine can already understand natural languages as shown by gpt, why can't it just let you code and debug in natural languages. Just curious?

Like why can't it just throw compiler errors on your English code?

ericls··on Cheating is All You Need
I agree with a lot of things in this article.

My question is:

If LLM can understand natural languages and convert them to a programming language, why not skip the high level languages and go strait to machine code?

ericls··on Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
hm.. making it only do web seems like a missed opportunity. How hard would it be to make it run on native or other platforms?
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