rudedogg (u/rudedogg)

rudedogg commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis

zdragnar · a day ago

Copyright has nothing to do with banning technology. It is a set of rules around a particular kind of property rights.

There are things you can do with technology that are banned as a result of copyright protections, but the underlying technologies are not banned, only the particular use of them is.

rudedogg · a day ago

I’m saying if the law was respected at all this technology would be banned. I don’t know that I prefer that outcome, but it is the truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

rudedogg commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis

oceanplexian · 2 days ago

> This does nothing to protect working US citizens from AI alien (agents) coming to take their jobs and displace their incomes.

Where did you get the idea that banning new technology that could eliminate jobs is even remotely an American value?

Going back to the Industrial Revolution the United States has been 100% gas pedal all the time on innovation and disruption, which has in turn created millions of jobs that didn't exist before and led to the US running the world's largest economy.

rudedogg · a day ago

> Where did you get the idea that banning new technology that could eliminate jobs is even remotely an American value?

Copyright law is another counter-example to your argument. But somehow? that’s no longer a concern if you have enough money. I guess the trick is to steal from literally everyone so that no one entity can claim any measurable portion of the output as damages.

I’ve always thought Copyright should be way shorter than it is, but it’s suspect that we’re having a coming to Jesus moment about IP with all the AI grifting going on.

rudedogg commented on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt

AceJohnny2 · 6 days ago

Somewhat tangential:

> What I find really interesting about this change on Apple’s part is how it seemingly goes against their own previous human interface guidelines (as pointed out to me by Peter Gassner).

> They have an entire section in their 2005 guidelines titled “Using Symbols in Menus”

2005?? Guidelines evolve.

rudedogg · 5 days ago

Here's from 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027235952/https://developer...

> Use text, not icons, for menu titles. Only menu bar extras use icons to represent menus. See Menu Bar Extras. It’s also not acceptable to use a mixture of text and icons in menu titles.

> Avoid using custom symbols in menus. People are familiar with the standard symbols. Using nonstandard symbols introduces visual clutter and could confuse the user.

The notable thing here is how recent of a shift this is, and how longstanding the prior rule was. Navigating internet archive is slow/tedious, but I think the rule/guideline was explicitly called out in the guidelines up until a year or two ago. So it was probably the guideline for ~20 years on macOS and has just now been changed.

rudedogg commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

rudedogg · 6 days ago

The author teaches AI workshops. Nothing wrong with that, but I think it should be disclosed here. A lot of money is riding on LLMs being financially successful which explains a lot of the hype.

rudedogg commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian

websiteapi · 9 days ago

zed is a great example. most people use vscode, that is javascript. which ai code editors are built from scratch that aren't forked vscode?

rudedogg · 9 days ago

Just Zed (if AI features are a requirement) as far as I know.

But to elaborate, they’ve found a niche simply by using Rust and rendering the GUI in a performant way on the GPU. I’m not saying performance is the only thing, but for a chunk of people it is something they care about.

rudedogg commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian

websiteapi · 9 days ago

has there ever been a project that became popular and/or successful because of its programming language? does it really matter to the end user what language it's in if it works well?

rudedogg · 9 days ago

The language tends to affect everything, but to give a quick Developer example there’s Zed. Developers use it because it’s fast. Same with Sublime Text.

Your criticism makes more sense with products targeting non-technical users though. But IMO tech choices have cascading effects. I won’t buy a vehicle if the infotainment software sucks, and that’s the 2nd largest purchase I’ll ever make.

rudedogg commented on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com/5-dec... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

rudedogg · 9 days ago

I’m really sick of constantly seeing cloudflare, and their bullshit captchas. Please, look at how much grief they’re causing trying to be the gateway to the internet. Don’t give them this power

rudedogg commented on Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford cs193p.stanford.edu/... · Posted by u/yehiaabdelm

rudedogg · 14 days ago

I'm thankful these are given away for free, but a little sad all the videos are only in 720p

rudedogg commented on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file pocketbase.io/... · Posted by u/modinfo

trailbase · 16 days ago

You won't get any argument here. PocketBase's is very polished and friendly. I fell back onto a popular pre-existing UI component system called shadcn (which does look a bit like bootstrap), not only because you gotta start somewhere but also because I'm not the caliber of UX designer Gani is :bow:. If you have the time, I would appreciate any feedback on how to improve.

I'm a bit surprised on the mobile comment, since last I checked PB's UI wasn't responsive, i.e. you had to scroll a lot horizontally on mobile. Despite it's missing polish, I tried to make TB's at least work well on mobile. Could you elaborate? - thanks

rudedogg · 16 days ago

> Could you elaborate? - thanks

The part that prompted my comment was clicking to edit a row on mobile in vertical orientation. Rather than fill the screen the edit shows up in a modal which doesn't really make sense, since you have so little horizontal space to work with. And the inputs are cut off slightly due to no padding.

And the whole admin UI overfills my (pro max) iPhone when held vertically, I think due to the navbar icons? Anyway, it'd be nice to not have to horizontally scroll to see those 40px or w/e everywhere. It makes it so you have to horizontally scroll to see or evaluate every page

One other little nice thing you could do if you wanted is prefill the username/password with the demo user.

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Very cool project, and it's cool to see how Rust benefits the performance.