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smlavine··on Why China got rich and India didn't
It would indicate that the parties are actually independent and not just controlled opposition.
smlavine··on Why China got rich and India didn't
And how often do they vote against each other?
smlavine··on .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
An enterprise shop I co-op'd at was porting one of their apps from Xamarin to MAUI when I worked there, but certainly it doesn't have much mindshare (if any) amongst SE undergrads at my university.
smlavine··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
All dependency management is speculative. You've got to hedge your bets that the dependency is reliable and fit for purpose. It is reasonable to view Bun's recent choices as increasing the risk associated with depending on it.
smlavine··on My graduation cap runs Rust
I just graduated this weekend and my school gave us our cap and gown for free. Seems fair with how much we're paying...
smlavine··on Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game
Finally won a game against the Easy bot on the 9x9 board after around 10 tries.

Seems like if you want to force a win, you have to think about how to put your opponent in "Zugzwang" (to borrow a Chess term).

smlavine··on Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game
Very fun game! Has this been released before? This is the only place I can find that mentions it.
smlavine··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
I like mine. the moto g line of phones are like $200, unlocked. They're fast enough for anything I do with a phone. It runs android. It's fine. I've thought about GrapheneOS before but I a) don't want to give Google money to rely less on Google and b) Pixels are expensive. If Motorola can change those points then I'd definitely be interested.
smlavine··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Ever heard of the Constitution?
smlavine··on The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]
Or, larger districts of ~5 or so representatives. In the US, Representatives are already barely "local" -- 700k+ people to a single district.
smlavine··on Gentoo on Codeberg
> LibreOffice is eating Microsoft 365 lunch

This one misses the point entirely, I'm sorry to say. Microsoft 365's "lunch" is that a majority of US businesses, schools, and governments are reliant on 365 for anything in their organization to function.

smlavine··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
It's a Half-Life 2 reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJshjMyg6no
smlavine··on Error payloads in Zig
I thought so too at first, coming from a language (Hare) where they are very easy and common, but the Diagnostics pattern isn't that bad once you expect it. Various examples: https://ziggit.dev/search?q=Diagnostics
smlavine··on Why is the sky blue?
"tell"?
smlavine··on Bun v1.3.9
When talking in terms of software parallelism, "parallel" and "sequential" are more common to describe, for example, multi-threaded vs. single-threaded implementations.
smlavine··on Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
No, it is a protocol that allows a user to create their own social network within their Messaging app.
smlavine··on Confidence Required
(2009)
smlavine··on I canceled my book deal
It says the first half of the advance would be paid on approval of the first third of the book. It also says that the first third of the book was never submitted. So I don't think the advance was ever paid out.
smlavine··on Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
QDirStat is a Linux equivalent: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
smlavine··on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
The Pentagram at the top of the page does not load without JS enabled.
smlavine··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
I use Firefox on Android perhaps entirely because it supports uBlock Origin and my other extensions.

I would guess that of people that would ever go out of their way to use a non-Chrome browser on Android, the fraction who care about extensions is pretty significant.

smlavine··on GPT Image 1.5
This is terrifying. Truth is dead.
smlavine··on United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]
Related: a cool blog from a year or two ago from a participant in this program: https://brr.fyi
smlavine··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
> They're all using it.

Not really. Go talk to anyone who uses the internet for Facebook, Whatsapp, and not much else. Lots of people have typed in chatgpt.com or had Google's AI shoved in their face, but the vast majority of "laypeople" I've talked to about AI (actually, they've talked to me about AI after learning I'm a tech guy -- "so what do you think about AI?") seem to be resigned to the fact that after the personal computer and the internet, whatever the rich guys in SF do is what is going to happen anyway. But I sense a feeling of powerlessness and a fear of being left behind, not anything approaching genuine interest in or excitement by the technology.

smlavine··on WriterdeckOS
Because then you'd have to do that.
smlavine··on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
It means that every now and then, the Glance weather widget will pop up. I'll click on it, then it will bring up the full UI and ask me if I actually want to use it. I click "Disable Smart Lock Screen" instead, then it goes away from my lock screen. For a while.
smlavine··on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
On my Moto G, Glance keeps getting re-enabled every month or so even after I disable it every time. Annoying.
smlavine··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
Says God, would say the framers.
smlavine··on Getting syntax highlighting wrong
I think it's fine. Better than purple on dark-grey that I've seen posted here.
smlavine··on Microsoft clamping down on Windows 11 local account setup
The setup UI has no option for you to proceed beyond this point without internet access.
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