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paulddraper

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Father of three.

CTO at Redo.

Co-founder of Rivet Health.

Formerly Lucid Software

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-draper/

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paulddraper··on The browser's main thread is expensive
Bad take.

HTML is abysmally lacking for any interactive (which is what this article is about).

Decades later, even something as common as a combobox is unsupported.

EDIT: Downvotes but no argument.

paulddraper··on Americans Hate Data Centers. Why?
Yeah, I’m pro-compete but this stance is not hard to understand.
paulddraper··on Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Spoiler: developers also prefer their own code over others’.
paulddraper··on Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters
Between 10% and 100% ? Am I understanding that right?
paulddraper··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Sure.

Your point was studios recycle IP a lot.

My point is without copyright studios would recycle it even more.

And your point now is that it would be higher quality.

paulddraper··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Getting rid of copyright is going to make that problem worse not better...

I'm wondering if you are reasoning correctly about this.

paulddraper··on OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2
That’s probably the worst example you could have chosen.

You shouldn’t assume anything about relative date of 2.7 and 3.1.

paulddraper··on Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat
Sort of.

The article just references Thread.interrupt

paulddraper··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
It’s NIMBY in another form
paulddraper··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
The goal posts always move
paulddraper··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
But it will definitely improve, either speed or volume.
paulddraper··on I'm becoming AI-blind
> is that it is still fundamentally a statistical model — an algorithmic construct — and does not possess any real intelligence or critical thought whatsoever

What makes you so convinced that a algorithmic construct of neural nets cannot be "real intelligence or critical thought"?

paulddraper··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Cheaper than the next closest competitor
paulddraper··on How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
Unfortunately, accidents are quasi commonplace among my commute.
paulddraper··on The Benchmarkpocalypse
That’s a bit of a garbage in, garbage out moment.
paulddraper··on We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng
Direnv's first stable release was in 2013, .env was 2012 (adopted by Heroku).

So no, if anything direnv makes you hip and edgy.

paulddraper··on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
> they just want 1 of every book.

That's the point I come to.

Books are not original manuscripts. Even in low volume cases, they are usually printed hundreds of times. (And usually low volume works aren't all that great...hence the low demand.)

That is a fraction of a percent for books that at some level weren't all that wanted.

paulddraper··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Well, yes. There is always some form of it on TCP.

But your HTTP/2 reverse proxy won't block fast responses on slow responses.

As long as your WebSocket reverse proxy does the same, you're fine.

(And same stipulation for your client.)

paulddraper··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
WebSockets have head-of-line blocking.

HTTP/2 does not.

paulddraper··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
I assume you got the email about them increasing prices "significantly" soon (but no hint on what significantly means).
paulddraper··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
Wait until you have to exit the video call because you haven't yet granted screenshare permissions to the current app, and it needs a restart.
paulddraper··on Waymo in Dallas
> ... in the US

Dallas in the United States.

paulddraper··on Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
Genealogy apps, e.g. Ancestry.com
paulddraper··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
But you understand that if it were required, everyplace that doesn’t specify today, would slap allergens on the whole menu.
paulddraper··on Don't be a meat proxy
> “I asked Claude what happened, and it spit out this 300 line response. Can you read it for me and see if it’s right?”

It’s the equivalent of choosing words from a conversation and sending you the dictionary entries.

I could do that myself. I really didn’t lack the ability to click a button.

paulddraper··on Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
While it’s true Unicode pushes the boundaries of “plain text” having a consistent font face, font size, font weight, letter spacing, font color, text wrapping, etc is good.

I don’t want one title 16pt and another 28pt.

Or one Helvetica and the other Arial.

paulddraper··on Karpathy’s Pelican
Pelicans don't ride bicycles.

It's physically impossible.

The problem is to draw it in the least disturbing way possible.

paulddraper··on Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Because the title appears next to a bunch of other titles.

It should be consistent, or else compromise browsing.

The content has no such situation.

paulddraper··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
Yeah, I was reading along but the date 2010 surprised me.

In reality, you could probably put any date in there and it would work.

paulddraper··on Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
This had nothing to do with Collatz and everything to do with a Lean bug.

The proof was not actually a proof at all, because it was unsound (despite Lean admitting the proof).

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