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loktarogar
·mês passado·discuss
oh yeah - in this case the result is that the code was smaller and they were happy with that. correctness was not a criteria
loktarogar
·há 2 meses·discuss
If you replaced "AI" with "a developer" in this article, it might make more sense why it's being dunked on. It would be an article about someone telling someone to do something, and then when the work was done they were happy with the result. It's just a bit of a nothing all round
loktarogar
·há 2 meses·discuss
I mean. they're selling it to a competitor so it's not really an advantage
loktarogar
·há 2 meses·discuss
yes, but it's only advantage if one is compute-strained and the other isn't. if they both have lots then there's no advantage. if one doesn't fully utilise their compute then it's not an advantage either
loktarogar
·há 2 meses·discuss
Would you accuse someone of murder with 26% matching evidence?
loktarogar
·há 4 meses·discuss
The Director of Photography on the movie is also an Australian!
loktarogar
·há 4 meses·discuss
I'm building something that has to share a pool of phone numbers for SMS between many businesses with many clients and the architecture I had planned out looks a lot like this - client gets assigned a phone number from the pool for all its interactions with a certain business.

Good write up of a tricky problem, and glad to real-world validate the solution I was considering.
loktarogar
·há 4 meses·discuss
All the apps i've worked on lately in Rails use GoodJob, which is a Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN based queue system.
loktarogar
·há 4 meses·discuss
Their offering was paid-for bundles of components and templates using tailwind, which they primarily drove traffic to via their documentation, which wasn't getting visited as much anymore because people just used AI.
loktarogar
·há 4 meses·discuss
Startups generally _don't_ end up with better outcomes. Large companies stay stable, startups are volatile and often end in failure.

Stability means removal of volatility, which means to stay stable they end up becoming more generalised, rather than the laser focus a small team like a startup can have. That laser focus can work out when applied to the right problem at the right time, but is very much not a guarantee.
loktarogar
·há 4 meses·discuss
I'm an software engineer with 17 years experience and I can't even get an interview at most places I put my resume in to.
loktarogar
·há 6 meses·discuss
> Turso Database is a project to build the next evolution of SQLite in Rust, with a strong open contribution focus and features like native async support, vector search, and more
loktarogar
·há 6 meses·discuss
Some things you don't know people need until you're directly affected. For me, it was an injury related light sensitivity that made me realise dark mode isn't just a frivolous addition for looks
loktarogar
·há 6 meses·discuss
It shows the guy going to the restaurant, the same guy that eventually shows up at my door. It shows it on the way to a couple of deliveries and takes as long as extra deliveries should roughly take. It shows the immediate previous delivery when it's almost delivered, and the guy spends about as long as i'd expect at that place.

Not saying that it's not deceptive in some way, but it's more than just a surface-level difference.
loktarogar
·há 6 meses·discuss
When I choose priority delivery in Uber, I can see the driver go to the store, pick up my order and drive directly to my place. I also see the driver usually have 1-2 stops on the way if I don't select that. If there's enough gap between myself and the restaurant, priority is absolutely a time save.

If this is Uber then it's not legitimate.
loktarogar
·há 8 meses·discuss
I agree!

There's certainly a difference between making useful content for the love of it and making content because you think there's an opportunity to get something out of that (that could be money, but it could also just be appreciation or someone reading your work).

It's demoralising to not get any views on your hard work, and in this economic environment it sometimes feels more worth your time to do any other activity.

You may be the counter-proof to that and I enjoy your blog! But, also a lot of what makes your content useful is timing with depth and that's something that AI can't beat yet
loktarogar
·há 8 meses·discuss
AI scrapes niche blogs, Google deranks or spam drowns them out. It's really not a good time to be starting niche blogs.
loktarogar
·há 9 meses·discuss
> Rocky's first release happened in 2021. It's presently on its 10th.

I'm going by the text on the page and didn't dig any deeper. On that page it says it's unreleased. Looking at the other comments it's not even the main site. No idea what this site linked is at all - maybe an older version where it was previously hosted, or some sort of malicious attack.

> Any system that can respond to HTTP requests can be used as a web hosting system.

By this I mean its primary function is as a web host, or some kind of software that has a primary purpose of hosting websites. It's not Nginx, or Render or Vercel. An OS can host web software that can host websites, but not specialised for that purpose.

I would not be shocked that a website for general purpose software (like an OS) was hosted on a platform that removed the operations work from their plate, like Github pages or Vercel. They don't need it to be a demo of their work, and it's frankly not a good one if it were.
loktarogar
·há 9 meses·discuss
I'm not sure what the deal is here - from what i'm reading, it's an unreleased OS, not a web hosting system.
loktarogar
·há 10 meses·discuss
Again, not all replacements need to replace 100% or even 10% of plastic use to be able to have an a positive impact. There's space for a short-life plastic just like there's (currently) reasons for long-life plastics