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Comment · 19 days ago
But then how do you even make the driver install on the ipad ? Aren't drivers supposed to run under system-level privileges (which iPadOS will never let you run under)
Comment · 19 days ago
can someone explains this project ? i understand nothing about what it's doing... Do iPads have amd gpus ??
Comment · 1 month ago
no idea you were working on fly !

As someone who's building its news project on it, it's both reassuring, but also not since you're leaving..

Comment · 1 month ago
Totally disagree on the reevaluation of architecture best practices.

Agents are as prone as forgetting to update duplicated code as we are ( or almost ), because they work at the same level : text files spread everywhere that you have to open and read to know what's inside.

The fundamental reasons for those architecture best practices are still there, and it's actually quite convenient and also a good reason to remain optimistic in our ability to find a job as a professional software developer.

Comment · 1 month ago
That's indeed a weird feeling when going back to another language after having coded in rust. First you're happy not having to write any "unsafe" keyword. Then you're horrified for the very same reason.
Comment · 1 month ago
i'm surprised modular's doesn't get much traction. The promise seems super interesting, and chris latner has the record to back up his claims. If someone has an explanation..
Comment · 1 month ago
That looks absolutely horrifying. What are the alternatives ??
Comment · 1 month ago
is there still no way to compile / execute ios apps on a linux machine ?
Comment · 2 months ago
it's also my opinion. Which makes me wonder : isn't there an opportunity to create a variant of rust that would make absolutely zero compromise on UB and safety at the detriment of user experience ( which we don't care about now, with AI generating the code) ?

Like programming in a kind of super strict IL. Or the opposite : super poweful, super abstract language, yet extremely strict.

Comment · 2 months ago
« Even America's closest postwar allies like the UK, Sweden and Japan did not get that type of diplomatic cover, it was exclusive to Israel.«

wasn’t echelon a joint collaboration between the US and the UK ?

Comment · 2 months ago
That's actually a really good point... There's currently zero incentive to buying more hardware, and that's one very good reason do have a new one.
Comment · 2 months ago
something i've just realized : today long-standing maths problems are falling. It's great intellectually but won't probably have an immediate impact on our lives.

Now, what will happen once long-standing physics ( and chemistry and biology) problems will start to fall and at the same rate ?

Then we're going to enter a totally different world.

Comment · 3 months ago
"was considering a mass sell off to raise cash to defend the Yen."

How would that have worked ? Selling US bonds in exchange for yens, to diminish the amount of yen in the economy, and pump up its price ?

Comment · 3 months ago
Never developped a driver, but doesn't that require running the OS in some special mode, or in a VM, requiring a ton of time waiting for the thing to reboot over and over again ?

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