carlosrg

Hi Gruber.

Gruber shows here that he really doesn’t understand the basics of how LLM text generation works. It’s weird he picked this battle about the quality of writing in LLMs. Was he planning to use LLMs to write his articles?

Well, not that weird actually. He just has a hard-on against anything that comes from the EU since Apple got in trouble. If the EU said tomorrow that they want peace in the world he’d be in Fox News the next day calling for an invasion. As a former reader of Daring Fireball, it’s just sad to see.

I don’t understand the obsession the Americans have with claiming that we hate AC. Europe is not a country. There are countries where AC is more used. Here in Spain it’s common. It’s probably less common in other, less hot countries. Besides heat, countries with a lower GDP probably have less ACs installed than richer countries. So probably France have more AC-per-capita than Moldova, my guess is that something similar happens if you compare California with Mississippi. It depends. We have nothing against AC as a technology.

Every programming language attempts to expand until it becomes C++. Those languages which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Valve can't step up because they would lose.

>In 2022 Nintendo starting taking down Youtube videos showing Steam Decks running Switch games: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-started-blocking-v...

What are they supposed to do? Leave videos about piracy of their own IP untouched?

It baffles me how people believe they have a fundamental right to pirate Nintendo software without consequences.

Didn't Apple made a comprehensive list of requirements for alternative web browsers and web browser engines so they are secure and don't compromise the user's security? (https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...)

I'm a little confused. So that long list of requirements is useless for PWAs?

Some people will actually believe this. I'm utterly disgusted by Apple and their arrogance regarding the DMA, and the way they've managed all of this. My perception of them has completely changed. However, they seem very obedient when China asks them to censor apps or, for example, limit AirDrop when there's a protest going on.

I see he's emulating Nintendo Switch games, which is a game console actually being sold, same as the games. I see no mention of him actually buying the games he's emulating, so this effectively is piracy.

> they provide little to prevent unknown bugs bing exploited

They provide plenty of mitigations (https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html). In fact OP's article is for preventing unknown bugs from being exploited.

Not my experience at all, it works very well with a new Acer laptop I own: the graphics work (Intel Xe - 12th gen processor), audio, touchpad, keyboard (and special keyboard keys like brightness), wifi... All I had to do is to download the firmware with fw_update, nothing more.

Also I was pleasantly surprised to hear they support Apple M1/M2 Macs. Asahi Linux gets a lot of press around here but I had no idea OpenBSD supported it.

GNOME applications look so... mobile. Large controls, large title bars that lack maximize/minimize, simplistic layouts. It might be good for this kind of frontend apps but I can't see software like Krita or KDEnlive being done for GTK4/GNOME as of today (for reference: https://kdenlive.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/271174170_10...)

> It's clearly a reaction to the civil war in the RedHat world.

The date of the announcement is January 2022 so it can't be that.

There’s an option in Accessibility to make the menu bar and other menus font larger.

AFAIK you don't need to install emacs on Windows, you just can unzip the binaries you can download on the official website on any folder, even your desktop, and run the EXE file on the \bin folder, without the need of admin privileges.

At this point it seems M1 Macs have better Linux/other unixes support than Intel Macs with a T2 chip. At least from my experience and what I’m seeing with Asahi Linux.

Apple’s developer documentation was much, much better and complete back then. There was several introduction documents, guides, etc. For example: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

Maybe he's upset because he hasn't eaten yet.

I don’t think GDK is a valid alternative to UWP for hobbyist development.

> Xbox console development requires the “Microsoft Game Development Kit with Xbox Extensions (GDKX)”. Games will need to retarget and rebuild for Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S with the GDKX installed.

> The GDKX is currently only available under confidential license within an NDA Xbox program (e.g. ID@Xbox).

Given that games are mostly DirectX with maybe 5% of UWP-dependent code I personally don’t mind if they deprecate it at some time in the future.

Does this applies to UWP games (the ones you can run on Xbox with the Creators Program)? I was considering learning and doing some hobbyist games with Unity and Xbox.

Right. Having the big three engines released as open source, where everyone can make a fork or use them like Microsoft is doing with Chromium, I don’t see the point.

You can still use jQuery or plain vanilla HTML+CSS+JavaScript, and you still have access to any web technology out there. Websites written in 1999 will continue to render perfectly. Nobody will deprecate WebGL for example. Nobody forces you to learn a new framework, although the documentation for most of those is actually good unlike Apple’s.

Meanwhile for example you can’t use the latest iOS 15 API (SharePlay) without using Swift, and you need to learn a new half-baked declarative UI API called SwiftUI to write your own widgets. And let’s not talk about trying to run a 1999 executable today.

They all arrange pixels on the screen but it’s a different framework each month.

> Meanwhile Google is moving the goalposts of "modern" web development so fast that it's nearly impossible for anyone to keep up.

For a second I thought you were talking about Apple’s UI frameworks and languages, with all the different Swift versions over the last couple of years and different UI frameworks like Cocoa, Catalyst, and SwiftUI, deprecation of OpenGL and introduction of their own graphics API, etc.

I’d love to know why people are downvoting you. You’re completely right - a minor update that would take 2 minutes on Windows or previous macOS versions now requires a 2 GB download and a 15-20 minutes install process.

Migrant workers used Bitcoin during the pandemic to transfer money to relatives in their origin countries without the need of a third party. I’d consider that beneficial to humanity, but your definition of beneficial might be different to mine.

https://restofworld.org/2021/crypto-remittances/

If Bitcoin did 50,000 transactions/second it would be impossible to keep it decentralized, since the size of the blockchain would be prohibitively large for most people to store/validate locally.

So being slow is actually a good thing to keep it away from centralization. Things like Lightning on top of Bitcoin can manage day-to-day micro transactions.

Because peer-to-peer money without intervention of third-party institutions is genuinely a good technology that would benefit from more people using it and developing for it.

Yes, and developers should be able to read the original white paper, where the double-spend problem is discussed. I don't think separate "blockchain for developers" articles are needed.

> If 51% agree on the legitimacy of the block, consensus is reached

I think this isn't entirely right, because he's talking about 51% of miners. The ones that actually incorporate the blocks to the blockchain and validate if the transactions are valid are the nodes (I might be wrong but that's my understanding). In fact this article fails to mention nodes at all, and nodes (for example people running the Bitcoin Core client at their computer) are what make the whole thing decentralized.