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incorrecthorse commented on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole   bytemash.net/posts/i-went... · Posted by u/jcusch
incorrecthorse · 17 days ago
> For the uninitiated, Linear is a project management tool that feels impossibly fast. Click an issue, it opens instantly. Update a status and watch in a second browser, it updates almost as fast as the source. No loading states, no page refreshes - just instant, interactions.

How garbage the web has become for a low-latency click action being qualified as "impossibly fast". This is ridiculous.

incorrecthorse commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords   blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev
csnover · 18 days ago
No. This is why salts[0] are used.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

incorrecthorse · 18 days ago
And compute-intensive hash functions. Computers this day are powerful enough to hashcat each individual pwd+salt if a fast hashing function is used.
incorrecthorse commented on Log by time, not by count   johnscolaro.xyz/blog/log-... · Posted by u/JohnScolaro
_kb · a month ago
The breakdown used by OTel isn’t all that bad: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/

In essence:

Logs mark some event in the system.

Metrics model some measurable, quantifiable state.

In high volume systems both can then be observed through various sampling techniques. A key item is that sampling is good to handle separately to application logic creating those signals as it may change over time or be dynamic.

incorrecthorse · a month ago
I think the common confusion boils down to:

> The moment of capturing a measurement is known as a metric event

Which suspiciously reads like a log.

In practice, a metric is an aggregate of events (the "metric events") when you're not interested in the individual event but, but in the aggregate itself. For practical reasons this is not implemented with logs but with more primitive technical events emission.

This is not fundamentally incompatible notions. If you do an electrocardiogram, you might be interested in your BPM, but it is deduced by the full log of each beat. The segregation we do in computing is more practical than fundamental.

incorrecthorse commented on Locality of Behaviour (2020)   htmx.org/essays/locality-... · Posted by u/jstanley
incorrecthorse · 2 months ago
The bad ID naming `d1` is convenient for the argument...
incorrecthorse commented on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/swyx
incorrecthorse · 4 months ago
It blows my mind OpenAI wouldn't be able to build a Windsurf alternative for orders of magnitude less than $3B.
incorrecthorse commented on The case against conversational interfaces   julian.digital/2025/03/27... · Posted by u/nnx
incorrecthorse · 5 months ago
> we form thoughts at 1,000-3,000 words per minute

I would like to know what this measures exactly.

The reason I often prefer writing to talking is because writing lets me the time to pause and think. In those cases the bottleneck is very clearly my thought process (which, at least consciously, doesn't appear to me as "words").

incorrecthorse commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row   bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
wackget · 6 months ago
So instead of building a back door they're just completely removing the option to use E2E encryption altogether, thus making everything freely available to government by default?

How is that not worse or at least equivalent to a back door?

incorrecthorse · 6 months ago
It _is_ equivalent to a back door, that's the point. The UK demand can be accessed more rapidly and properly by disabling the feature than by implementing a backdoor, since it is the same thing.
incorrecthorse commented on The Generative AI Con   wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40
incorrecthorse · 6 months ago
> So, what exactly has generative AI actually done? Where are the products?

The product is ChatGPT, actually.

If LLMs are a bubble, then you should expect most of OpenAI's revenue to come from its API (which is used by startups which have raised money to do "magic AI stuff", and the bubble would pop when investors would stop giving the money). But according to https://futuresearch.ai/openai-revenue-report, revenue from the API accounts only for 15%, the other 85% being the different subscriptions offers, including 55% of ChatGTP Plus subscriptions -- that is, _direct consumers_.

This doesn't prove that it isn't a bubble (the consumers could realize it's useless and then leave some time later), but it makes it less likely IMO.

incorrecthorse commented on My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation   cosive.com/blog/my-washin... · Posted by u/tashicorp
b3lvedere · 6 months ago
Most of my (new) colleagues are always very amazed and baffled when i tell them that investigations, intakes and inventory before starting projects take me huge amounts of time.

Most of my colleagues finish their intakes very quickly, finish projects early and most (not all) have a huge amount of time of aftersales and aftercare. They usually call this aftercare 'out of scope'.

My finished projects usually do not have any aftercare. They work, because i invested a lot of time in the beginning. I call this 'the actual scope'.

I've been fixing some of my colleagues projects recently. Some of these projects should have ended 18 months ago... Most take be about two weeks to fix.

They eventually will learn :)

incorrecthorse · 6 months ago
Do they have an incentive to learn? If the reward process in the company also consider it "out of scope" (meaning the remaining work is scheduled as such), there is nothing to really learn.
incorrecthorse commented on We all took the DVD boom era for granted   filmstories.co.uk/feature... · Posted by u/thunderbong
incorrecthorse · 8 months ago
*Cinephiles took the DVD boom era for granted

The reason it ended is because the general public doesn't care.

u/incorrecthorse

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