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ricw
·há 29 dias·discuss
It works great for a number of reasons

- it’s functional making it much easier to reason about for LLMs (eg no side effects)

- it’s compiled (including the html template), so the LLM get instant feedback if something is off and can fix it quicker

- it’s more concise than other frameworks (language, framework, no front/backend split) and consequently you hit the max token limit much less frequently

- it has excellent tailwind support

I told a business partner to just use claude for certain tasks a year ago, and it failed miserably in python where it succeeded in elixir/phoenix liveview. This was a regular occurrence. LLMs have obviously progressed since, but the principle still stands that they work much better in elixir than python.

So in short: it’s great and arguably better than most other languages and frameworks
ricw
·há 2 meses·discuss
I disagree with that conclusion. I see tailwind as a cleaner more succinct version of css that is much easier to manage and add features too.

Sure it’s not as dry, but I’ve been bitten in this regard because css framework and templates are so intransparent, preventing me from simply changing padding or margin.

CSS is too detailed and too verbose. Frameworks like bootstrap are too high level and don’t give enough control. Tailwind hits the sweet spot whilst allowing me to be detailed if I want to. It allows me to just get it done.
ricw
·há 2 meses·discuss
Unsure how true that is. Google cloud is tiny compared to aws for a reason.

It matters. People will switch if you piss them off.
ricw
·há 3 meses·discuss
But how? In the states you can’t even take legal action but are forced into arbitration?
ricw
·há 3 meses·discuss
Munich is a bad example - they were effectively „bought out“ by Microsoft by investing hugely into the local economy in the form of offices and employees. It was also two parties that kept flip flopping with different priorities. Linux itself had some hiccups but was fine from what I recall.
ricw
·há 4 meses·discuss
Had similar thoughts until googling what the cheapest Chromebook on Amazon costs: $139.

I’d still get a Neo and for students it’s probably the right choice - chromebooks are just a browsers after all.

But pricing wise this laptop is a decade too late. The netbook of the day (chromebooks?) are just unbelievably cheap. Apple will still sell millions of these and keep on eating up market share.
ricw
·há 6 meses·discuss
Tidewave.ai does exactly that. It’s made Claude code so much more functional. It provides mcp servers to

- search all your code efficiently - search all documentation for libraries - access your database and get real data samples (not just abstract data types) - allows you to select design components from your figma project and implements them for you - allows Claude to see what is rendered in the browser

It’s basically the ide for your LLM client. It really closes the loop and has made Claude and myself so much more productive. Highly recommended and cheap at $10/month

Ps: my personal opinion. I have Zero affiliation with them
ricw
·há 6 meses·discuss
They do bin their chips. Across the range (A- and M-series) they have the same chip with fewer / disabled cpu and gpu cores. You pray a premium for ones with more cores. Unsure about the chip frequencies - Apple doesn’t disclose those openly from what I know.
ricw
·há 6 meses·discuss
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ricw
·há 6 meses·discuss
All in one of course. That’s the biggest advantage. And why postgres is great - it covers virtually all standard use cases.
ricw
·há 6 meses·discuss
Depends on the query and I don’t have exact numbers of the top of my head, but we’re talking low 100ms range for something pgvector itself wasn’t able to handle in a reasonable amount of time.
ricw
·há 6 meses·discuss
I’ve been using this since early this year and it’s been great. It was what convinced me to just stick to Postgres rather than using a dedicated vector db.

Only working with 100m or so vectors, but for that it does the job.
ricw
·há 8 meses·discuss
Apple probably wouldn’t have changed to usbc for their phones. Lightning was a mobile phone / other development, whilst usbc and its contributions came from their Mac department.

They did not like each others standards. I know Apple engineers working on the phone who dislike the change even up to this day…
ricw
·há 8 meses·discuss
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ricw
·há 9 meses·discuss
The beta has been accessible to the public including the electron devs for 2+ months.
ricw
·há 9 meses·discuss
Curious what the better frameworks are these days? Are they tied to specific hardware like arduino was? And what language do they use?
ricw
·há 9 meses·discuss
Instagram is the same. Had to install it for a dev project and it was disgusting. Social media just can’t be trusted.