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willdr··on Dots: Always-on agents
It’s a very billionaire mentality to think the thing the average person wants more than anything is a personal assistant. - @garretkidney

(https://x.com/garrettkidney/status/2104584656574431562)

willdr··on Everything I own, owned
The end user disables pixel cleaning because the pop-up annoys them. They then start bitching about burn-in within 6 months, RMA the monitor even though it was their choice to do so, and spread negative sentiment about your brand going forward for being "prone to burn in".
willdr··on Manus will return to operating as an independent company
What does this product do? There's absolutely nothing on the main screen of the app except a chat box.
willdr··on Superlogical
And yet, that is in the conclusion, the section with the lowest chance of being read in any article. Much higher appears,

> I rewrote Bun in Rust using about 50 dynamic workflows in Claude Code run continuously over the course of 11 days.

Is this Schrodinger's rewrite?

willdr··on Superlogical
The eleven day figure features in multiple animated infographics in Jarred's blog post; https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust, including a calendar that shows commits over 11 days.

> I rewrote Bun in Rust using about 50 dynamic workflows in Claude Code run continuously over the course of 11 days.

willdr··on Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
You should try it again. I had a similar experience to you about 5 years ago and completely gave up on game streaming.

However, I had a cold a month or so ago and wanted to play Oxygen Not Included from the couch from my old-ass Linux laptop which couldn't run it. I set up Sunshine and Moonlight in about... 5 minutes? And it "just worked". And worked well. I was able to play perfectly, and that is including my host machine being on WiFi even though all the documentation says use Ethernet if at all possible (which ofc would be better).

It was honestly the most magical thing I've done with technology in the past few years.

Disclaimer: this was only for local/wifi streaming.

willdr··on Road to Elm 1.0
Did they walk back that thing where certain language features could only be used by the Elm team? That seemed like a language-killer to me.
willdr··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Unfortunately the AI bubble means we are witnessing the death of PC gaming. Watch the GamersNexus video, The Collapse of Personal Computing: https://youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8

Costs are driving manufacturers out of business. Essential components for PCs are becoming out of reach for the average consumer.

You will own nothing and be happy.

willdr··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Yes, I tried saying this to both GingerBill and Casey on Twitter but they were unreceptive. I understand their frustrations and I think Wikipedia does have sourcing gaps for projects like Odin. But you can't really understand the spam problem until you've seen it firsthand, and general case notability requirements are one of the first lines of defence against bad actors.
willdr··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Encyclopedias are not designed to report on pop culture. The entire nature of an encyclopedia is to be downstream of good secondary sources, ideally academic, and summarise what those good secondary sources have said about specific topics.

Side note, it is very funny that the same people lamenting the state of Wikipedia seem to be desperate to have their topic included on it. If the site sucks, why care about it so much?

willdr··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Interesting article (I tend to agree with you re SNG in the programming field). But unfortunately I couldn't easily absorb the substance as your site needs some work on mobile:

- text completely overflowing the background

- body text is arguably too small

- the masonry grid layout of posts does not work visually

- footnotes appearing out of order

willdr··on I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID
The content is rendered unreadable by the LLMs sentence construction. Secondly, it's insulting. If you didn't care enough to write it, why should I care enough to read it?
willdr··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
You don't see how adding functionality that requires writing to the database rather than just reading from a cache could "drastically increase database load"?
willdr··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Edit: I was incorrect / non-American, I was thinking of your FAA.
willdr··on Vercel’s pricing page
If you couldn't be bothered to write it yourself, why should I read it? The same goes for the overly-complex components that express the same idea over and over again, but somehow without adding any clarity.
willdr··on Stop Flock
I think we can agree that when they're executing innocent citizens in the street, the agency is no longer effective.
willdr··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Nobody cares about the DMCA guardrails and they are never meaningfully enforced. Case in point, Anthropic DMCAing thousands of repositories that simply mentioned the word "claude".
willdr··on How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
Orbital data centres are a stupid concept.
willdr··on EFF is leaving X
What are you talking about? X is exclusively the domain of terminally-online people.
willdr··on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
How is that worse? Leaving it open signals to anyone searching about it that's it's still an issue of concern. It will show up in filters for active bugs, etc. Closing it without fixing it just obfuscates the situation. It costs nothing (except pride?) to leave "Issues (1)" if there is indeed an Issue.
willdr··on What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
Not every topic will be covered yet. While *The deadline is now* is an essay, *WP:NOTNEWS* is policy — and inherent in an encyclopedia.
willdr··on What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
Recent Wikipedia articles are kind of an oxymoron; Wikipedia by design is meant to be a tertiary source, downstream of both news media but also mainstream scholarship. The problem is that it's "an encyclopaedia anyone can edit" — and that inherently means a rush to create or update articles when news outlets publish something novel.

While news media is an acceptable source, proper peer-reviewed journals and other scientific publications are preferred. People would do well to remember Wikipedia is NOTNEWS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...).

willdr··on Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
Unfortunately to survive the next few hundred years, we may need another dictator of human behaviour than what the market wants.
willdr··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Rewritten *into* Flutter? People should be rewriting away from Flutter.
willdr··on What's Happening to Students?
That's a useful strawman for this issue, but you know as well as I do that none of those bogeymans were anywhere near as transformative as the smartphone. They were not networked, they were static, and they had limits (eg. TVs limited programming). They are incomparable to a never-ending firehose of stimulus, algorithmically engineered to be appealing to your personality and optimised for "engagement" (read: more screen time).
willdr··on Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)
Does this argument then reinforce the value of government news orgs like we see in Australia (ABC) & England (BBC) - if England's was to exist without the draconian tv licence? Edited: I didnt mean impartial but rather non-commercial, updated.
willdr··on Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
can you elaborate?
willdr··on The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
Wow. This sort of obstructionism is what convinces people Open Source is not worth the time and effort. Really disappointing. As someone else said in that issue, "perfect is the enemy of good". Thousands of KMs of road are currently not VISIBLE on the map due to stonewalling.
willdr··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
As someone who has been in a fair few discord chats with soldiers, I'd beg to differ...
willdr··on Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
For $150 I want a native app
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