That might be true for general consumers, yes. Not so true for software developers though. For developers, the tooling is definitely not a moat, and that means the models are what must differentiate. Claude code is very…
LLM-driven programming doesn't necessarily imply slop. I know some very good developers that use LLMs carefully. As a research tool, code reviewer, Q&A about a large codebase, error message decoder, bug-hunter, and for…
Another option is that it's affected by the order of consumption. I know somebody who got really into blood glucose monitoring, and she tells me that the order in which she eats a meal affects how much it spikes her…
As currently practiced, yes. Non-dividend non-voting shares might as well be pokemon cards. Their only real value lies in getting somebody else to buy them, and new money has to flow in from the outside. The question…
I think the GKI initiative is great, personally. I've worked with chip companies that are super-resistant to upstreaming their code, and just give me a fork-of-a-fork of the kernel and kind of say "welp, good luck…
How open will the boot stack be for this chip? Qualcomm has historically been pretty bad about this: mandatory closed-source bootloaders, mandatory closed-source hypervisors, mandatory closed-source TEEs, forked UEFI,…
Yes, that's normal for an Android build. Maybe even on the lightweight side as far as build requirements. I agree that it's an absurd about of space.
Same for me.
oh, no that wasn't a correction - it was a pun because "cooked" in American slang means "broken / destroyed / over". In parent's context, "boiling" is correct. "Boiling" does have a few meanings in English. As a verb,…
Cooked.
That's around 100k/year if used at the same rate for every workday. So the question becomes: does it make your engineer X% more productive, where X is some multiplier based on their salary? There are some software…
I don't see this happening any time in the near future. The extra hardware cost is nontrivial, and there's a software support burden. Cellular bandwidth also isn't free, and probably wouldn't be covered by the value of…
OK, but SpaceX is not printing money out of thin air. And neither does the stock market. Somebody will be left holding the bag eventually.
> Children are expensive, but highly subsidized, and just not expensive enough to explain the whole picture. Highly subsidized? I have to assume you're not talking about America. I pay $3200/mo to send my kids to a very…
PEGs are a great replacement for a complicated regex, and can express a lot of things that are hard to do with a regex. But they're also more verbose, and fewer developers are familiar with their usage. PCRE regex is…
Something I'd observe here: without expressing an opinion about PEGs vs regexes, I'd note that regexes are much more widely used. They're also completely sufficient for an awful lot of text processing tasks. PCRE…
Tcl is pretty good at functional-programming type stuff, and it can absolutely do anything that you could do with a macro. It isn't Algol-like at all imo, maybe beyond some superficial syntax. It feels a lot more like…
Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.
We use a Docker Compose setup for our team's devcontainer. It's defined right in the repo alongside the Dockerfile used to build our image. Our build scripts are all set up to start/stop/use the container automatically.…
Tar doesn't need to imply gzip (or bzip2, or zstd, etc). Tar's default operation produces uncompressed archives.
out of curiosity - any reason not to use it?
You only have to decompress it first if it's compressed (commonly using gzip, which is shown with the .gz suffix). Otherwise, you can randomly access any file in a .tar as long as: - the file is…
This isn't very surprising. Typical US economic policy aims for 2-3% annual inflation. That counter shows an average 2.6% inflation across 26 years, which is kind of right in the range we'd expect. It's debatable…
If Windows wants to commit to quality and user experience, they can do it by moving closer to the experience that made a generation fall in love with it. - Turn Notepad back into a text editor. - Remove ads from your…
Not the grandparent, but I've used most of the OpenAI models that have been released in the last year. Out of all of them, o3 was the best at the programming tasks I do. I liked it a lot more than I like GPT 5.2…
That might be true for general consumers, yes. Not so true for software developers though. For developers, the tooling is definitely not a moat, and that means the models are what must differentiate. Claude code is very…
LLM-driven programming doesn't necessarily imply slop. I know some very good developers that use LLMs carefully. As a research tool, code reviewer, Q&A about a large codebase, error message decoder, bug-hunter, and for…
Another option is that it's affected by the order of consumption. I know somebody who got really into blood glucose monitoring, and she tells me that the order in which she eats a meal affects how much it spikes her…
As currently practiced, yes. Non-dividend non-voting shares might as well be pokemon cards. Their only real value lies in getting somebody else to buy them, and new money has to flow in from the outside. The question…
I think the GKI initiative is great, personally. I've worked with chip companies that are super-resistant to upstreaming their code, and just give me a fork-of-a-fork of the kernel and kind of say "welp, good luck…
How open will the boot stack be for this chip? Qualcomm has historically been pretty bad about this: mandatory closed-source bootloaders, mandatory closed-source hypervisors, mandatory closed-source TEEs, forked UEFI,…
Yes, that's normal for an Android build. Maybe even on the lightweight side as far as build requirements. I agree that it's an absurd about of space.
Same for me.
oh, no that wasn't a correction - it was a pun because "cooked" in American slang means "broken / destroyed / over". In parent's context, "boiling" is correct. "Boiling" does have a few meanings in English. As a verb,…
Cooked.
That's around 100k/year if used at the same rate for every workday. So the question becomes: does it make your engineer X% more productive, where X is some multiplier based on their salary? There are some software…
I don't see this happening any time in the near future. The extra hardware cost is nontrivial, and there's a software support burden. Cellular bandwidth also isn't free, and probably wouldn't be covered by the value of…
OK, but SpaceX is not printing money out of thin air. And neither does the stock market. Somebody will be left holding the bag eventually.
> Children are expensive, but highly subsidized, and just not expensive enough to explain the whole picture. Highly subsidized? I have to assume you're not talking about America. I pay $3200/mo to send my kids to a very…
PEGs are a great replacement for a complicated regex, and can express a lot of things that are hard to do with a regex. But they're also more verbose, and fewer developers are familiar with their usage. PCRE regex is…
Something I'd observe here: without expressing an opinion about PEGs vs regexes, I'd note that regexes are much more widely used. They're also completely sufficient for an awful lot of text processing tasks. PCRE…
Tcl is pretty good at functional-programming type stuff, and it can absolutely do anything that you could do with a macro. It isn't Algol-like at all imo, maybe beyond some superficial syntax. It feels a lot more like…
Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.
We use a Docker Compose setup for our team's devcontainer. It's defined right in the repo alongside the Dockerfile used to build our image. Our build scripts are all set up to start/stop/use the container automatically.…
Tar doesn't need to imply gzip (or bzip2, or zstd, etc). Tar's default operation produces uncompressed archives.
out of curiosity - any reason not to use it?
You only have to decompress it first if it's compressed (commonly using gzip, which is shown with the .gz suffix). Otherwise, you can randomly access any file in a .tar as long as: - the file is…
This isn't very surprising. Typical US economic policy aims for 2-3% annual inflation. That counter shows an average 2.6% inflation across 26 years, which is kind of right in the range we'd expect. It's debatable…
If Windows wants to commit to quality and user experience, they can do it by moving closer to the experience that made a generation fall in love with it. - Turn Notepad back into a text editor. - Remove ads from your…
Not the grandparent, but I've used most of the OpenAI models that have been released in the last year. Out of all of them, o3 was the best at the programming tasks I do. I liked it a lot more than I like GPT 5.2…