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The element of a good language is that it doesn’t have the foot guns. If I shit on your birthday cake, you don’t eat it because a reknowned baker wrote that, “underneath the feces, it had all the elements of a good cake”.
Because the TV is recording your voice, what you watch and possibly taking pictures, depending on the brand, and it needs a connection to send that information to whoever will pay for it.
Other big thing for me is being able to see the thinking.
I think it was car and driver reviewing the new corvette that said the vette was so stable and poised that to have any fun it it you’d be breaking any speed limits on backroads so if you lost control you’d probably die, and maybe you should just by a Miata instead!
Yeah I don’t know where I got that from. They are actually tied for VIR hot lap. So yay! Ah the 2022 RS3 came with sticky tires and got a better time. The main thing tho is that the RS3 can do it again and again. If it’s even a two lap race, the EVs die (to thermals).
Garbage you say? The Tesla garbage suspension that gets 0.96g vs the EV6 GTs 0.92g? Or were you comparing the $60k top of the line Kia against the $40k base model 3 instead of the performance model (still cheaper at $55k)?
On the track: The Tesla finishes a massive 6.5 seconds faster than the Kia. Despite the EV6 GT's horsepower advantage on straightaways, the Model 3 Performance utilizes its lighter weight (~4,035 lbs vs. the Kia's ~4,800 lbs) and lower center of gravity to carry vastly superior speed through VIR’s demanding technical sections, such as the famous Climbing Esses.
And they had to remove features found on lower trims like electric seats from the GT6 model because weight I guess?
I rented both for a day before buying one. The M3P is more comfortable on the street and more predictable in anger.
But if we can put aside our team spirit, yes, I agree, EVs are the performance car of choice. EVs are the fastest car under 100mph and $100k. An RS3 will beat us over 100mph and a $140k Z06 will beat us all the time. For ~60k, performance EVs can’t be beat.
There are so many harnesses, open source, teams of developers. The space is moving so fast. Why would I want to use something written by one person, in C++? How will it keep up? How do I extend it? etc.
Couple of notes. If a system is outputting text for humans to read, it’s not “serious data”. It’s megabytes. You can go out today and buy an off-the-shelf Apple desktop with half a terabyte of ram. My five year old laptop has 64Gb. Secondly, the sweet spot is Rust backend with typescript front end. The serious part isn’t the size of the data, it’s juggling the processes on one end, and pretty presentation to the human on the other. I’m using Tauri. As we get crates to do markdown with automatic language formatting, tables, etc I’d expect the whole thing to be written Rust
You are an outlier? I too take pride (and interest and joy) in my software. We are a tiny minority.
Laptop 5090 (24gb) is 800gb/s.
M5 Max (128gb) is 600gb/s
Rtx spark laptop (128gb) is 200gb/s.
Desktop 5090 (32gb) is 1700gb/s.
Desktop 6000 (96gb) is 1700gb/s and 600W.
So, yes?
Is your 5090 in a laptop? o_0
Been running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 for weeks now. What's new about this?
Looked at authors other project,
https://github.com/heyputer/puter, and I am perhaps missing their motivation, but I stand by the result.
This is the kind of thing I might have written in my youth: "Hey, all these disparate computers and systems, and my generation has this amazing new platform: javascript web views. Maybe I can solve this problem by making a new platform, that runs everywhere!"
Doing this for its own sake is Hacking. It's a fun project and would require a lot of learning through experience.
However, it suffers from the xkxd://Standards problem in the first case, and in the second misses the fact that I prefer macOS while some of my colleagues prefer windows. It is also fundamentally naive. Perhaps arrogance was too strong a word. It might be a lack of experience or might be dunning-kruger, but these tools are far more complex than it appears the author grasps. One comment from HN on the puter project was that it doesn't have any kind of security - it seemed to be as trusting as a 1998 Windows computer.
My main complaint still stands: this was written by someone with little thought about what the user wants. It is clear what the author wants, given previous projects: One giant system that Does Everything. Only the author wants this. Users want specific tools that have been refined and improved by an invested development team with expert domain knowledge.
Opportunistic vultures who vibe code products with no mental investment in what customers want, no testing, no thought. This is the antithesis of Hacking; the antithesis of building a product for customers.
The arrogance required to think you can vibe code everything. I am all for LLM generated replacements for the rent-seeking garbage that permeates software, but this is not the answer. Tools developed by people who use them are the future. Instead, I guarantee this person has the same mindset as the Adobe management he’s trying to displace: create what looks like a useful tool with minimal effort and rely on scale to beat everyone else.
I’ve shipped products I wrote entirely in assembly back in the 90s. I don’t mind that I don’t remember most of it. I am very aware that expertise is a muscle that requires constant training.
I think the benefit is that now I get to choose what I want to focus my limited attention on; from a much broader range of subjects; with expert knowledge on tap. For sure, some of it was just scratching an itch. I didn’t waste much time getting to that point before I could go down another interesting rabbit hole. It’s just much more fun!
For me it's because I've seen what others do with Claude vs how I iterate with Claude. There's an enormous range in the bound "one human steering". Oh, is that a zen koan? What is the sound of one human steering?
> and if you're not careful you will only learn how to prompt, not how the stuff works.
I’ve been coding over four decades and it is clear to me that most programmers don’t know how the stuff works, and not just script kiddies but some PhDs I worked with.
For those who want to know how it works, LLMs are massive enablers. I’ve written so many debugging and inspection tools with an LLM; had a model explain the assembly language produced; had rubber duck conversations with it. I’m having such fun tbh.
Jokes on them. You don’t need MBAs any more. You just need the cash or a credit line.
Sure. If you get pleasure in fixing really badly broken shite, there’s tons of opportunity for that, but no money in it. Only money in new features, which is why the codebase is what it is. I have, on rare occasion, been the fixit guy called in temporarily to fix another teams work or get it out the door: that was fun. Short lived , but fun.
I assume you’ve never done technical support. The customers who think they know what they’re doing fuck things up so much worse than those that don’t. They don’t listen and they do so much more damage. They know they’re right and they are so entitled to what they think should work. They’ll tell you what they did and the logs or outcome or reproduction will prove otherwise. The loudest ones are always the ones who fucked it up the most - it’s just defensiveness.
> I know what each one does, and how it affects my system.
That is a bold claim for someone complaining that their system doesn’t work. Look, I’m not apologizing for macOS but it does seem that they test the happy path these days and you either use it as they give it to you or it runs like ass. Like if you want a computer without Siri and without iCloud etc then get a Linux box.
There are people who are qualified to fuck about with their computer and there are people who aren’t and how you tell the difference is after they fucked about with it they don’t fucking complain about it not working. (Because either it’s working or they understand that they fucked it up and they are choosing the particular form of the fucked-upness because they got some benefit).
Have you tried not fucking about with all the processes? All my Mac’s run fine and I haven’t fucked with their settings. You’ve fucked with your settings and they all run fucked. “it’s a fresh install”. No you just acknowledged it’s a fresh install that you have immediately put in a very non default state.
It only has to do it once. Ie it only needs 0.8 seconds of battery. If you think you are looking at a real production car I’ve got a 2017 Tesla roadster to sell you.
I just don’t understand why companies think anyone would pay for that when there are alternatives. Or indeed even when there aren’t alternatives. $8/mo to save me typing in a number into apple health? In fact who even gives a shit about Apple health.
Oh. Wait. Apple does. Seems like a clever move Withings!
You're saying that normal people, when they open an application to perform a task, should reasonably expect to be hit with an upsell and enter into an upsell conversation, rather than focusing on the task they want to achieve?
Do you not see that the problem is not a pedantic distinction between "is informing someone of a purchase opportunity actually advertising" - the problem is I wanted to do some work and Apple wants me to use my limited attention to think about whether or not i want to give them more fucking money?
Yeah, I'm in opposite situation. Mine is in a regular living room. Certainly can't afford a house with a dedicated theater. I've got some unobtrusive panels but the worst reflection point is against a giant glass window. So instead of +$500k for a bigger house, it's $12k for a trinnov. Don't even need a professional. The trinnov has a 4-mic array that you plug in to the back and place it where your head is going to be. It plays sounds from all the speakers; measures frequency response of every speaker; measures all reflection paths; absorption. The four mics form a tetrahedron, so it also measures speaker position in 3D. Then when you're listing to anything it just adjusts for all that. It's just physics at this point. I have 30 year old Meridian speakers: each speaker has a DSP, 2 DACs and three 75-watt amps; one amp per driver. Can't afford new ones: the modern equivalent are $12k per pair. The trinnov is the cheapest solution that allows HDCP content in and plain (unencrypted) SPDIF out. So my path is digital right up to the 2 DACs in each speaker, and everything analog was designed as a unit. The $12k trinnov is the one that ditches the analog stage entirely - so you don't have to pay for the gold-plated XLR sockets =) Instead, it's 2x AES/EBU DB25. You get SFP cages for network! Ok, maybe the SFP cages are snake oil =)
What! Do not teach them the old ways! Thousands of years of dark magic cursing our ancestors as we wallowed in pestilence!