arvinsim (u/arvinsim)

arvinsim commented on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December open-web-advocacy.org/blo... · Posted by u/mtomweb

ocdtrekkie · 22 days ago

Chrome is the IE of today: It's the single platform developers are developing for instead of web standards. The fact developers have to support Safari, a least common denominator, is the only thing protecting the web.

arvinsim · 22 days ago

Safari being the least common denominator is promoting the monoculture of Chrome.

If Safari were more competitive, more people would use it.

arvinsim commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

forty · a month ago

It makes me sad that devs start relying on proprietary online services to be able to work. We have been lucky enough to have FOSS tools to do everything and not to have to rely on any specific service or company to work and some of us are deciding to become like Monsanto-addicted farmers who forgot how to do their jobs without something they have to pay every month.

arvinsim · a month ago

I think it's less about reliance and more about competition.

Sure, devs can still work without AI.

But if the developer who uses AI has more output than the one that doesn't, it naturally incentives everyone to leverage AI more and more.

arvinsim commented on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack techcrunch.com/2025/07/26... · Posted by u/thm

pojzon · a month ago

Did you see Google or facebook or Miceosoft customer databases breached ?

The issue is there is too little repercusions for companies making software in shitty ways.

Each data breach should hurt the company approximately to the size of it.

Equifax breach should have collapsed the company. Fines should be in tens of billions of dollars.

Then under such banhammer software would be built correctly, security would becared about, internal audits would be made (real ones) and people would care.

Currently as things stand. There is ZERO reason to care about security.

arvinsim · a month ago

I agree. When it becames penalized by law, project owners/managers won't be tempted to take shorcuts and will have the incentive to give developers more time to focus on security.

arvinsim commented on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com/news/154... · Posted by u/antirez

Abishek_Muthian · a month ago

What type of code you write for which the opensource models aren't good enough?

I use Qwen2.5 coder for auto complete and occasional chat. I don't want AI to edit my code and so this works well for me.

I agree that the hardware investment for local AI is steep but IMO the local models are good enough for most experienced coders who just want a better autocomplete than the one provided by the IDE by default.

arvinsim · a month ago

The people who are subscribing to private LLM models are not doing it for better autocomplete. These are the people who want more features like agents.

arvinsim commented on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/bdev12345

bluefirebrand · a month ago

> College is not "learning to program". College is learning how to adapt to an ever changing world, that will require your adapting many times over your career.

You're gonna have to do a lot of work to convince me that people who only know how to drive an LLM are learning how to adapt to sweet fuck all

At least with a calculator, people still had to know the difference between addition and multiplication, in order to use the calculator correctly

arvinsim · a month ago

> You're gonna have to do a lot of work to convince me that people who only know how to drive an LLM are learning how to adapt to sweet fuck all

Driving an LLM properly requires knowing to evaluate if the results are correct. People can certainly try to pass generated code over for PR. But even just one code feedback or debugging should uncover if the person understood what they were doing.

arvinsim commented on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? derekthompson.org/p/what-... · Posted by u/mmcclure

ceejayoz · a month ago

> There is no form of civilization that works with an imploding population and inverted demographic pyramid.

No form of civilization has ever had the access to automation we have today.

And in another 20 years, I suspect that'll be even more clear.

arvinsim · a month ago

I also suspect that the value of automation will be captured by the top, leaving the majority with the same need to work.

arvinsim commented on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? derekthompson.org/p/what-... · Posted by u/mmcclure

toomuchtodo · a month ago

You’re answering the wrong question. That’s the answer to “how do we maintain the status quo?” We can absolutely exist in a world where growth does not exist from ever increasing population, but profits will evaporate as inflation increases and labor supply contracts. As a sibling comment mentions, automation will be a component.

Those in power should be building for a changing world where labor has more power, the cost of labor goes up, and it becomes increasingly scarce. They’re not ready to make peace with this though (or unwilling to between now and death). One of the few things we do well as a species is kick the can into the future, or steal from it, depending on perspective.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

arvinsim · a month ago

> Those in power should be building for a changing world where labor has more power, the cost of labor goes up, and it becomes increasingly scarce.

I am increasingly tired of arguments for the elites to do something for the betterment of society. They have repeatedly shown that they don't care.

arvinsim commented on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? derekthompson.org/p/what-... · Posted by u/mmcclure

dividefuel · a month ago

If you read forums of new parents (e.g. parenting subreddits), the common consensus is that being a stay at home parent is far harder than a job.

arvinsim · a month ago

As a daily Reddit user, I can definitely say to take anything from subreddits with a grain of salt.

arvinsim commented on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? derekthompson.org/p/what-... · Posted by u/mmcclure

KaoruAoiShiho · a month ago

Not convinced that this is down to women. In my personal experience women want to have kids wayyyy more than men it is the men who are refusing them or want to delay. In fact I would say this is basically everyone I know, the men are the ones being anti-natal while women want kids way earlier.

arvinsim · a month ago

Even if that is true, I still observe that gender norms are strongly adhered to.

Anecdotally, I see many women who want to settle down but never take the initiative to ask a guy out.

arvinsim commented on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/_JamesA_

lenerdenator · 2 months ago

When SteamOS and Ganoo/L00nockz become first-class gaming citizens, that's when I'm building a gaming PC for the first time since 2012.

I'm a Mac guy now mainly because of my job and I like UNIX-y stuff now, but of course, gaming is even more lacking than Linux.

We're so close. Once AAA releases and GPU drivers get there, it's over the cliff, and I could see that being in the next five years.

arvinsim · 2 months ago

I have always wanted Windows to move to Unix so that I can have the best of both worlds(software development and video games). Glad that we are close to that reality.