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New comment by leothecool in "Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents"

leothecool — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:00:09 +0000

What is the problem this solves? Why would I use this instead of telling claude to vomit out the underlying boilerplate.

New comment by leothecool in "Technical Excellence Is Not Enough"

leothecool — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:05:49 +0000

Leadership is not the same thing as management. Maybe some day the OP will get training data to add that concept to its latent vector space.

New comment by leothecool in "What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?"

leothecool — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:32:10 +0000

When they say users need to be protected they don't mean the people. They mean the database record.

New comment by leothecool in "'Pokémon Go' Maker Nears $3.5B Deal to Sell Games Unit"

leothecool — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:06:27 +0000

Their virtual pet game is creepily connected to their social media platform and has poor performance on low end phones, like the kind kids typically have. Their company has a huge problem at the leadership level if they are making those kinds of enormous mistakes. Maybe selling will fix it.

New comment by leothecool in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

leothecool — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:01:57 +0000

I was under the impression that this is the exact kind of thing that violates the GDPR. That is.. processing an identifier (IP address) to do something more (track user actions across multiple requests) than what is required (route traffic to the server).

New comment by leothecool in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

leothecool — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:10:15 +0000

My recent experience with wanting analytics for an enterprise application was that for my limited needs, it was easier to roll my own than to deal with evaluating all the options and integrating with another service. There are already a ton of privacy focused alternatives to google analytics. So many such that finding one that serves a niche is practically ungoogleable.

New comment by leothecool in "Many people don't pay full price, most don't want to pay at all for news"

leothecool — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:09:05 +0000

I'd go even further. Most people don't want to even be exposed to the news.

New comment by leothecool in "Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking"

leothecool — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:23:01 +0000

I train my LLM to barf up my domain specific boilerplate code. I don't ask it to solve business problems.

New comment by leothecool in "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth"

leothecool — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:30:36 +0000

We should make a wealth shot clock. Nobody is allowed to hold an asset for more than a few seconds.

New comment by leothecool in "Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM"

leothecool — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:54:48 +0000

Theft has a clearance rate of only 15%. Sounds like we already stopped trying to regulate most theft, in practice.

New comment by leothecool in "New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour"

leothecool — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:44:07 +0000

Its controversial because if the market could bear a price increase, it would already bear it. The left hand side of your inequality is already at a local maximum, and can not be raised to pass on costs to the consumer.

New comment by leothecool in "New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour"

leothecool — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:41:56 +0000

It would only mean that if wages were based on economic value. Which, I guess could be true if hourly wage and economic value mean the same thing.

New comment by leothecool in "Solar and batteries are going to win, and our thinking needs to adjust"

leothecool — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:51:20 +0000

Would you count a water battery? Or is it non-renewable because the pipes will rust.

New comment by leothecool in "Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans"

leothecool — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:17:26 +0000

A personal example for me is that on the iphone, the default view shows me 24 icons, which is way too many to be useful. Its so useless, in fact, that most tech savvy users simply swipe up and use the search feature. But there's no way to know that you can swipe up to get to the search feature, leaving most non-tech-savvy users to visually inspect pages of icons, one at a time, until they find the app they are looking for.

New comment by leothecool in "Pixar reportedly conducts rare layoffs"

leothecool — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:11:00 +0000

I think a society where people mean what they say and say what they do is preferable to a society with more implied expectations.

So go ahead and take care of me, but put it in writing. In my experience its pretty common for small businesses to have wishful thinking and have a desire to take care of the team, but for one reason or another, be unable or unwilling to actually follow through once they get into the details of it.

New comment by leothecool in "The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review"

leothecool — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:14:32 +0000

We're all out here chilling in the midwest working at lifestyle businesses.

New comment by leothecool in "Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts"

leothecool — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:39:32 +0000

> the US is prosecuting and incarcerating broad swathes of innocent people.

There's about half a million people in jail right now who haven't been convicted of a crime. Some of them are innocent, for sure.

New comment by leothecool in "Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI"

leothecool — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:33:06 +0000

Is it still trespassing if you ask to be let in, and the butler lets you in when he's not supposed to?

New comment by leothecool in "Richer UI install available for desktop"

leothecool — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:59:37 +0000

IMO a big reason why is that web apps don't have the idioms and affordances of desktop applications, so in the end, the ux feels wrong to users unless do you a boatload of extra work implementing and maintaining the multiple versions of the experiences your app provides. In many cases it was easier to just rewrite the whole thing in a desktop framework, where the desktop idioms and affordances are the default behavior, instead of trying to implement them in a cross platform framework. This problem only got worse when the OS updated its look and feel, your cross platform app wouldn't look new, like it would if you used the built in frameworks provided by the OS.

Then again, maybe I didn't read very closely at what this is announcing... This is just talking about a new better install experience, but I think what I said is still true. They are putting OS affordances in the installer, but when you get to the app, its different. Yuck.

Another thing that really sucked is when MSFT deprecated "click once" installers. Suddenly this "easy" way to make an installer became a huge headache. For some stable, legacy applications you can't even build them anymore without either installing an ancient IDE, or writing a new installer. When google deprecates these installers, these apps are going to be in a similar boat. Honestly I'd expect it to be even more painful, because the underlying web part of the web app is a moving target, too.

New comment by leothecool in "Richer UI install available for desktop"

leothecool — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:24:51 +0000

Silverlight had this. It was a bad idea, then. Its still a bad idea.