sampullman

There's a difference between using Claude and sharing its unfiltered output.

Well I can only remember back to 2008 or so, but since then the term has always been somewhat overloaded. Did I sound confused in my comment?

I wouldn't say it's just a step above electron, I think the term "native" has always been a little overloaded in this way. For example, a game that uses egui for the HuD/menus could be rightly called native compared to a web game.

You're talking about "native controls", which is more specific. That said, I don't see any reason why egui would be used over native controls for this type of app. They probably just didn't think to ask their AI.

I imagine with AI, something like libui-ng would be pretty easy to improve and maintain. Looks like development has stalled though.

China has total control over their governments and is slowly forcing Hong Kong toward closer integration. It will take a while but HK is already littered with Chinese influence, for example around Victoria harbor or the "reunification monument" near the convention center.

Macau hasn't caused as much of a ruckus, so they aren't being pushed as hard towards total integration.

Yes, of course! I may have misunderstand the thread, I just meant to address the smalltalk vs functional comparison.

Although I guess smalltalk has had a (JIT) compiler for a long time, so it's more about runtime/bytecode efficiency (with dynamic types) vs native compilation.

A compiled functional language doesn't (have to) have much overhead compared to a dynamic language with a fancy runtime.

The one China policy, which is the US stance and distinct from China's "one China principle", is accepted by the US with a wink fingers crossed behind their back.

De facto vs. de jure is what you're trying to describe, and I'm sticking with the practical one.

And Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia was well justified, as far as these things go. Pol Pot's cross border raids and ongoing genocide of Vietnamese (and other) civilians required a response (see the Ba Chúc massacre).

When you visit Taiwan, do you see any Chinese officials at the border control? Do you have apply for a Chinese visa, or follow Chinese laws in the country?

It is de facto a country, not de jure, for obvious reasons. You can pretend otherwise, but what's the point in engaging in a discussion where you get to invent your own reality?

Well, lucky for them. For me they take 2-4 business days and cost $30 - $40 USD, not including forex fees.

China attempted to invade Taiwan several times last century, they just didn't have the naval capability to take even Kinmen.

They are two separate countries now, unless you think North/South Korea are the same, Russia/Ukraine, etc.

Off peak USDC/T transfer fees are very low, which I referred to in my post. Your comment directly implied that the exchanges take a cut on deposit.

Binance, and most other exchanges, don't charge platform deposit fees. USDC/T is not expensive to transfer.

"It's the screens" feels too broad, it's not obvious that loving screen time is inherently bad. I do buy that the way news is now presented,and the insidiousness of social media algorithms is worth tackling.

But there are plenty of places in the world that don't seem quite as negatively affected to me, and even where screens are not the main culprit behind government/corporate manipulation and control.

You're never going to get people to stop using social media, but maybe it ought to be possible to regulate better.

It does, measurably. A massively popular site is going to get hammered with more advanced types of scraping, but they're going to have a team that can more easily mitigate it.

A site that doesn't care about corporate users basically loses nothing.

Even in 2010 at Berkeley I was doing a fair amount of paper coding. Some of the professors gave paper-only tests, and we'd practice a bit since you didn't want a midterm to be the first time you had to do it.

Though I also remember sketching programs on paper as a teenager for my TI-83, since it was annoying to type everything out and then have to make a bunch of edits.

Yes, I think they're pretty much saying they don't want to contribute to projects they don't own.

It's hostile to you personally, but I wouldn't call it "user hostile".

Blocking "scrapping [sic]" is also not security theater, you misunderstand the intent of GP.

They're using "industry" in a very loose sense, they mean certain subsets of software development and B2B software tools.

Every open source release is visible to me, too. Is your point that the government could stop it if they wanted? That's true of every government, but it's not a problem until it actually happens.

Presumably less likely to get destroyed than a suicide drone, or one sent further into enemy controlled areas.

There probably aren't a lot of scenarios where it makes sense sense to pick an injured guy up with a drone, but it seems like a plausible last resort option.

You cannot. See the sibling commenter's link to "Reflections on Trusting Trust".

Know what to ask is about as important as the answer. You can't do that very well without domain knowledge.

I'm not sure how it plays out in 5 or 10 years, but that's how it is now.

You could use one of those browser add-ons to replace "steelman" with "supports" everywhere.

I think you are overestimating how decentralized the web is. Tailscale (could) collect a different kind of data than e.g. Google, and I believe it's far less harmful for the average user. If you are a journalist or persecuted by a government then sure, Tailscale is bad news.

But if you think Tailscale is bad for mobile devices because they might be able to tell that you're near another Tailscale user, that is absurd. If you have a need to be physically untrackable, the only solution is to leave your tracking device at home.

It's not so true anymore, but when they were cheaper they probably attracted a ton of bad actors (spammers, phishing sites, etc). I assume the KYC requirements were a response to that.

I ran Headscale for a while, and now wireguard directly, but never really considered it to be more private.

What is Tailscale getting that my ISP and google/Facebook via their pixels and tracking scripts aren't?

You can build lots of interesting things now without understanding the code, but the maximum complexity of what you build will always be defined by what the latest model and harnesses are capable of without architectural guidance.

On design tasks too, for me.

Do you mean Fable 5.1? Or Opus 5.5? I'm not sure what you're working on but for me DS 4.1 flash isn't nearly at their level. For the price it's obvious very impressive, though Luna 6.0 is excellent too.