The popular ones are boring and way over used
Most people are happy with a subscription service that doesn't really serve their tastes or compensate the sources effectively.
* I won't get really into it unless I have a solution using hardware I own.
* People that care about it are incredibly passionate about it. For the rest it is a boring subject in and of itself.
* "It can change the world"
Readit Newsflax commented on AI apps are like music aimode.substack.com/p/ai-... · Posted by u/warthog
flax commented on I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked overbring.com/blog/2025-0... · Posted by u/overbring_labs
"it mostly worked" is just a more nuanced way of saying "it didn't work".
Apparently the author did eventually get something working, but it is false to say that the LLMs produced a working project.
flax commented on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine gizmodo.com/chatgpt-is-st... · Posted by u/01-_-
I'd personally liken it to expecting planes to fly like birds do.
Perhaps this is a good analogy, in which case I'd prefer they stop advertising it as a better/faster/cheaper bird. Speaking as a metaphorical bird, it clearly cannot do well what I do. It does do it poorly at a remarkable speed though.
So what is the software development task that this plane excels at? Other than bullshitting one's manager.
flax commented on You are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand omeru.bearblog.dev/lifest... · Posted by u/freediver
Only an Apple user would write this article.
flax commented on XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement github.com/xtool-org/xtoo... · Posted by u/TheWiggles
Would this theoretically allow a Flutter app developer to build and deploy an ios app from Linux? God, I hope so.
flax commented on Dart added support for cross-compilation dart.dev/tools/dart-compi... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
I love Dart and Flutter, it's my go-to when starting a new app idea.
I want to learn Kotlin, but something about it just keeps me bouncing right off. It's ugly to me. It does not look like a serious language. I know that it IS, but I just hate reading/writing kotlin. Dart fits right into the well-worn grooves in my brain established from decades of Java, AS3, JavaScript and Typescript.
flax commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
Mazda has done a great job at this so far, very minimal screen which automatically just shows CarPlay, and buttons for all the normal car stuff, which also isn’t overdone. The only flaw is the scroll wheel to interact with the screen, which is just slightly too clunky in apps with too many options
My 2017 Mazda cx5 refuses to not play the radio. There is no "off" for the audio, you have to choose a source. I use my phone, via bluetooth. But sometimes, for unknown reasons, the car does not connect with the phone. It then falls back to the last source chosen before BT, which is radio.
Okay, so I created a flash drive with an mp3 of 30 seconds of silence, played that, then went back to bluetooth. This failback strategy worked one time, then it also failed to recognize the flash drive, and failed back to radio, again.
I will never want to listen to the radio. I would love to remove radio as an option. I would love to have no fallback as an option. But no, the car just f-n loves the radio and will not stop trying to force it on me.
Oh yeah, and the radio is buggy and could get stuck if I tune into the wrong station. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60333765.
This car definitely tries too hard to be smarter than it is. There's all sorts of exceptions that keep the doors from auto-locking when I walk away, and I would turn all of them off, but I can't. Walk away too fast? doesn't lock. Open the rear? won't auto lock. Car just doesn't feel like it? doesn't auto-lock.
And god forbid you hit the unlock button when the passenger has already unlocked it. Anxious beeps from the car for several solid seconds. That is not an error condition!
Performance and reliability have been great though. They just need to stop trying to be smart. They're not.
flax commented on Trump's NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts propublica.org/article/tr... · Posted by u/hn_acker
A more serious political observation is that this administration operates on the theory that possession is 9/10ths of the law. If they control a pot of funding that you need to maintain normal business operations, they’ll block its payment until you’re out of business. What are the courts going to do about it? The law is not something they respect.
The flip side is that in other areas their powers are much more limited. Revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status? That’ll filter through the courts and years from now Harvard might actually have to make a tax payment (I expect they won’t.)
From a societal perspective, however, we’re in deep shit. There’s an excellent chance that you or a loved one will die from a potentially curable disease (cancer, dementia) because the research and clinical trials that should be bringing us those drugs are all being murdered. We should be reacting to this the same way we respond when someone shoots up a school or hospital. A friend who is a breast cancer survivor just had her trial moved from NIH funding to industry funding, but she is one of the lucky ones.
>We should be reacting to this the same way we respond when someone shoots up a school or hospital.
We are: feeling horrible, knowing this is the only country where this happens, and also resigned to the fact that there's nothing we as individuals can do about it.
flax commented on It's the hottest car company. You can't buy one in America cnn.com/2025/03/26/cars/c... · Posted by u/rvnx
I'm all for having a cheap, high quality alternative to light a fire under the incumbents' asses, but I'm a little paranoid about the potential security aspect.
Are these cars network connected? Do they have cameras/microphones? Is the software auditable?
Imagine they become as popular as Teslas, and China decides it needs to cause some logistics chaos and flips the switch to turn each one into the equivalent of a large boulder blocking whatever lane it's currently in.
I'm not saying there _is_ such a switch, but we've already had a few scares about backdoored networking equipment.
What a horrible way of looking at the world. Not everything needs to be a competition.
Sure, do what you get paid for or care about intentionally, but framing it as being in the "top x%" is just so off-putting. I don't want to constantly compare myself to others. I'd rather compare myself today to myself yesterday. Or, you know, just do things I enjoy because I enjoy them.
As for wanting influence, I can't relate at all. I just want sovereignty over my own life.