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grahar64··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
In my area there are lots of wine growers who are adding bubbles and canning their wine. It is way better, sweeter, still tastes like wine.
grahar64··on Goodbye Google
It is the art the stories and the videos that we have made forever that is being replaced as well. Why? Because the people in charge can save money, not for some altruistic idea f making humans more productive
grahar64··on Goodbye Google
Very little "AI discovered cure for cancer" articles these days, more "10,000 workers let go, to be replaced with chat bots"
grahar64··on Goodbye Google
If you think humans are a net positive to be around, you wouldn't be spending trillions trying to build a machine to replace them; not just their work, but all aspects of their lives.
grahar64··on BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]
In NZ there are BYDs everywhere. Why are they not in US yet?
grahar64··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
The problem is the H1B visa is a lottery not a points based system. As someone who applied for an H1B 5 times and never got it, despite being highly skilled and having a PhD and a well paying job. The only way in was on an intern visa or an Einstein visa. Insane system
grahar64··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Looked after my son who has T1D for now 5 years, checked keytones maybe 20 times. Compared to blood glucose which we check look at every 5 minutes.

Maybe this is more for Type 2 or other diabetes, or for people prone to DKA. Or it is for people with a working pancreas who think looking at their blood sugars (and now keytones) tells them something like soothsayers reading tea leaves

grahar64··on Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
So you won't support the creator, but support a person who summarizes the creator. You could have just pasted the link into Claude and asked for a summary of the blog post.
grahar64··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
In New Zealand we have private insurance and universal health care. Insurance kind of fills the gaps and usually has faster turn around time, like 1-day vs 1-month for an MRI. But like insulin is free for everyone, so nobody is going broke while dying here rationing it.
grahar64··on Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
At least this is a direct link to the video and not blog spam
grahar64··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
Of course it does, but only one country has to keep commissioning and ignoring studies to work out a group of 300million people can get better prices for everything if the incentive for the government is to decrease the price rather than increase it for their buddies
grahar64··on We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Awesome write up. Finding these bugs in such a well used piece of software is like donating to humanity
grahar64··on NPM's release cooldown is security theater
I'm pretty sure it isn't.

I actually proposed a cooldown for apt-get in my PhD thesis in 2013 and calculated its impact. Because the meta-data for the Ubuntu apt repository can be completely downloaded you can simulate the impact of a cooldown on how many less packages would be installed and it isn't zero.

There are always people in a community running beta version, or up to date versions. There will be less with a cool down, but then depending on how critical your system is you could adjust cooldown length

grahar64··on If You Build It, They Will Come
I volunteer at a weekly event where we consistently have over 400 people show up, and every week it is a struggle to get 20 necessary volunteers to run it.

When you ask, you do get volunteers, but there are a few awesome people who volunteer every week and love it. The event would absolutely be impossible without them.

Thank you to every person who volunteers, especially if you do it without asking.

grahar64··on How I use HTMX with Go
I have seen this as the GoTH stack, Go Templ Htmx. Add sqlc to that gor GoTHs or GHosT stack. Love this combo, once you buy into "go generate ./..." as a build step you get so much.

I also add goverter for converting between sqlc models and template objects and return values. Like 50% of the boilerplate is generated and it makes type safety so nice

grahar64··on Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
I thought this would be a flutter post. Love flutter, ... , well I like flutter compared to Kotlin and Swift
grahar64··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
I think people have read so much corporate PR posts they think that is a rule of how to post online.

This post is his personal blog, he is a human writing what he thinks.

If this was a tweet people would be fine with it, but it is a blog so he should make it corporate-y

grahar64··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
Like Linus?
grahar64··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
I don't think you are using that right. Saying someone is bringing a bad vibe to your project, as the point he has a bad vibe is just stating the conclusion.

Like if someone calls you a bad programmer and doesn't hire you as a programmer, isn't ad hominem

grahar64··on Steam Machine launches today
"This item is not available in your region" :(
grahar64··on Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy
"The question was never whether this would involve costs"

Brexit was sold as being positive for the economy. The proponents drove a bus around saying they would get 350 million back. It was largely advertised as a net positive for the economy

grahar64··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Would it be fair to say that because the US Navy is not running it as a for-profit power generation that would help. Like every accident seems to be a list of cost saving shortcuts being responsible
grahar64··on Humpback whales are forming super-groups
There must have been so much unseen behavior when there were millions more whales in the ocean. Here's hoping that we can see more
grahar64··on Laws of Software Engineering
Some of these laws are like Gravity, inevitable things you can fight but will always exist e.g. increasing complexity. Some of them are laws that if you break people will yell at you or at least respect you less, e.g. leave it cleaner than when you found it.
grahar64··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
HOMM3 on an iPad mini was peak iPad
grahar64··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
If AI could reliably write good code then you shouldn't need to even commit the code as the general rule is you shouldn't commit generated code. Commit the session when you don't need to commit the code
grahar64··on 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
I had an old MacMini I hadn't plugged in since 2014-ish and I tried to boot it this year and it refused to boot, and refused to update.

It now runs Ubuntu. Good little machine

grahar64··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
Autocorrect is balls. I have a friend in my contacts, and when I type her name it sometimes autocorrects to "leaving".
grahar64··on We mourn our craft
"Wait 6 months" has been the call for 3-4 years now. You can't eulogize a profession that hasn't been killed, that's just mean.
grahar64··on AI will make formal verification go mainstream
Won't people just use AI to define specification? Like if they are getting most of it done with AI, won't they won't read/test the code to verify won't they also not read the spec
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