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When they can all share the same Electron implementation instead of individual copies it reduces memory quite a bit. I'm not trying to defend Electron way of development but I can see why they pushed WebView2.

AI winter is coming.

We are in still in the the good ol' days of AI. Like the internet, there was usenet, irc, blogs, slashdot, slackware, archie, gopher, ncsa mosaic. Now we have reddit, discord, facebook, tiktok, chrome. The early adopters build a community, then everybody else shows up and turns it to shit.

It will happen with AI and it won't be pretty. It will stop being useful and start being annoying and turn to outright danger. Fridges spoiling food is only the beginning.

Quality software is out there, but you have to pay for it.

All the "Hackernews but for X" posts want me to make one for games.

Except it would just be as link to Factorio

The next wave after AI hype will be all of the security issues and real world fall out. Refrigerators spoiling food is only the beginning.

You forgot cost. Performant software is out there, but you have to pay for it.

With most software being free, cost is optimized for the developers not users and we end up with Electron apps

Too late, already got promoted for being a 10x er

Aluminum used to be more expensive than platinum. Now we crumple it up and throw it in the bin. AI has done the same thing to the cost of a line of code.

They are pretty hard to beat. I just bought some RP2040 for a project but am replacing them with ESP32-C3 for bluetooth support. 5 pack was like $20-30

The engineers are fine. The system is a mess. It reminds me of the recent post about "SimCity - but with permits."

Even basic things like fixing the pothole doesn't get done because, well, permits.

Mel the real programmer would disagree.

[1] - https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

I like this analogy a lot.

It reminds me that coin-op SF2 champion edition was like $6000 new, and you rented time with tokens. Eventually you could play a very good but more limited SNES version of SF2 at home for no tokens. And then PC hardware matured to the point where you can play the exact bits via emulator at better than original fidelity.

It will be very nice when AI gets to the emulator stage.

If you got into software because there was something you wanted to make with it, now is the best time to be doing it. I can't stop building and might need the max plans.

I am working on a new project and looked at both TrenchBroom and NetRadiant. Neither of them were very usable for me. I am familiar with old and new UnrealEd so I ended up using that since it is a free download now with the OldUnreal release.

swamps everything except for the health benefits

It's nice being able to rent 300k of hardware for $20/mo coding subscription. I look at these little strix halo things and think nope I'm good.

A friend asked if this was fair use. I lol'd.

> If your primary purpose was rent-seeking so you could play with puzzles

Yes, this is overly harsh. Some of us are interested in the craft, not the solution. Is that not the "right" reason?

Yes this is why I don't invest in hardware. TPU is better than GPU when you have a good model already. The models are already good enough to sell as an accelerator card made as a TPU. I would buy an Opus 5.5 card.

probably ai related

This reminds me of LINQ raytracer https://github.com/lukehoban/LINQ-raytracer

It even uses a ycombinator :D

I was in the Costco this weekend waiting in line to get a vaccine and decided to look up. I was amazed at the warehouse sized ceiling fans they have. They are huge.

Dots, durable, digital worker, it seems the whole agent space is converging on always-on packaged agents.

It is different. The scale makes it different. It's different when it is all copyrighted works and IP. It's different when you solve Navier-Stokes by taking "inspiration" from a researcher's private work.

Cybertrucks, solar roofs and SolarCity failed just the same.

Oh I see this was answered, 4ms total, very nice.

How is the latency?

I still have in my possession somewhere printouts in 3 ring binders of the red, blue, and yellow books.

I am very glad that stuff all died.

Yes but also picking up different skills and thinking ability. I've accepted the old way is obsolete.

Yeah, my hot water heater has an app. I'm not happy about this.