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tuyiown··on The people holding up the internet
> It's indeed ridiculous how the world's trillion dollar private companies run on essential software that idealistic open-source maintainers build basically for free while scrambling to even make basic income.

The most ridiculous thing is that idealistic open-source maintainers are still doing it, while this is being an established status quo for at least 30 years. Or maybe they have their incentive, and, while I don't find it palatable too, large corporations understands that. What's _your_ incentive in having such strong opinions about that ?

tuyiown··on AI usage patterns in software teams
> because great code requires intent

If can put properly engineered intent in the prompt that is verifiable, it works wonders. Anything that can defaults to the llm doing its way, you're right, it just can't converge to good, not with proper constraints.

tuyiown··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
I’d be rather interested in a recommandation that don’t comes with de usuals pits of others solutions and comes with a the actual css code that will apply to the element displayed in autocomplete while editing the html / jsx.
tuyiown··on RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
> coward

This can be a result of unexpected and costly if not worse, surprises.

tuyiown··on Steam Machine launches today
The hard truth is that as much as you think yourself as a "proper" gamer, this segment always has, always will, _not_ be the proper target segment. Don't forget that mobile gaming has more revenue than everything else… combined. They have a play on this, and as much expansive as it looks, it's mostly due to the hardware inflation, and compared to alternatives, it won't look bad at all. For the segments that matters.
tuyiown··on Steam Machine launches today
I like that we can write the story that Microsoft sold their software with the home computer on the idea of productivity at home while the actual incentive was entertainment, and valve ends up justifying buying gaming hardware with the incentive that it can do productivity.
tuyiown··on Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
we had "god particle" too …
tuyiown··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
> So I can find a bug, I can fix it, but I am not allowed to tell them how exactly I did it.

Pin pointing the issue is way more than valuable than code. If you wrote a fix, you have analyzed the bug. The value is there, not in the fix. Sharing your fine analysis is the maximized contribution. Code is an optional bonus at most.

tuyiown··on They’re made out of weights
> at requires explanation beyond the material, that is axiomatically assumed without evidence

Nobody talked about anything out of neurons. The question is still open.

tuyiown··on Local Git remotes

    git push . <branch1>:<branch2>
    git pull . <branch2>:<branch1>
tuyiown··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
You're right, there is plenty of space for features that require AI to work but that are undistinguishable from "classical" feature. Better autocompletion is a proven one for example.
tuyiown··on Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
Those people generally are not eager for feedback especially if it's even remotely perceived as negative or some kind of gatekeeping.

The only way to avoid getting furious about this is to deeply understand that you can't require people to be properly self-aware, especially because many many people that checks the expert boxes are very incompetent or inadequate, so they when the come up with their half bake ideas, they delegate the other to deliver contrarian proofs. It's exhausting.

tuyiown··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
It’s great but the animations when catching a new orbit (sparks and combo announcements) is making hard to follow the ball, I realized I missed many shots due to this after some games.
tuyiown··on Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
I wouldn't advise polyfills on this one, it entirely depends on the browser ability to evaluate cross scripting and cross origin rule on a arbitrary snippet. This is not a convenience API.
tuyiown··on Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
This is nice. The best part is that all aspects of network access are now properly controlled so that security transitioned from a chain of trusted code to a chain of trusted security setup on hosts, with existing workable safe defaults.
tuyiown··on MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
I've been using this format for almost 10 years, and I only see increasing adoption. Why would I be pessimistic?
tuyiown··on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
> That's a terribly nihilistic outlook on language.

I'm pretty sure any linguist will agree with this definition. All language normalisation is an afterthought.

tuyiown··on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
Looks to me that _you_ conclude it's related to LED, I couldn't find that stated in the abstract, it might just be related to a general increase of artificial lightening, regardless of the source.
tuyiown··on AI is a horse (2024)
I was expecting a spin about the faster horses
tuyiown··on Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
You're really reducing a whole economic situation to a currency issue ?
tuyiown··on Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
I not sure if I should be relieved or worried about my newfound non-existence.
tuyiown··on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
Because nothing can beat productivity of a motivated team building code that they are proud of. The mental energy spent becomes the highest reward. As for profit, it _compounds_ as for every other business.

The fact that this is lost as a common knowledge whereas shiny examples arises regularly is very telling.

But it is not liked in business because reproducing it requires competence in the industry, and finance deep pockets don’t believe in competence anymore.

tuyiown··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
> I may have developed some kind of paranoia reading HN recently

My comments being downvoted, pretty rare lately, were about never discussed but legitimate points about AI that I validated IRL. I have no resonance about the way AI is discussed on HN and IRL, to the point that I can't rule out more or less subtle manipulation on the discussions.

tuyiown··on The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets
> flows in one direction

_Everything_ flows in one direction, all particles goes in a straight line from their self reference, fields "modifying direction" is just an observer point of view. The separation of time and space is purely a perception matter.

A gross comparison would be to compare with objects perception, it only exists because our mind can leverage it for a strong evolutional advantage (I'm not only speaking of humans here).

tuyiown··on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
I've not seen Global Communication mentioned, 76:14 really is masterpiece. (Gamers will recognize a tune featured on GTA IV)
tuyiown··on Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
While it's very legitimate question, the answer is between the lines in the README, and it mostly means that there is a user space binary compatibility for everything that is implemented.

It might seem obscure, but syscalls to get access to kernel requires a tight integration on compilation and linking. So this is their approach and this is where the compatibility really means something : since you can cross compile on another machine, they don't need the full toolchain right away. Just compile your code on a linux machine, and run it there. You're at the mercy of all missing kernel API implementations, but it looks like a very good strategy if you aim is to code a kernel, as you only have to focus on actual syscalls implementation without getting distracted by toolchain.

tuyiown··on Measuring political bias in Claude
It might be technically correct, but such an easy take is unethical and depraved.
tuyiown··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
14 years as your main driver ? Because that what we’re talking about.
tuyiown··on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
Maxed out a mbp, I couldn’t get more than a bit than 8k. And comparable is probably generous.
tuyiown··on NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN
NaN comes from parsing results or Infinity occurring in operations. I personally ends up more to use Number.isFinite(), which will be false on both occurrences when I need a real (haha) numeric answer.
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