Kinrany's comments

On: The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

[Kinrany]

Taxi became more accessible and reliable, didn't it

[oblio → Kinrany]

For a second, while the hook was sinking in the fish's lip. Now Uber is being "democratized" to billions in profits.

[cratermoon → Kinrany]

have you priced an Uber lately?

On: The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

[Kinrany]

No, they can make their own tools. They rent someone else's tools in the process of making their own tools.

[tkiolp4 → Kinrany]

Not entirely true. For instance if I use LLMs to build an ios app I still need to pay apple $100 to use my own app for an undetermined amount of time.

If I build a web app i still need to pay for a domain, for a server for egress.

We are just renting. Wouldn’t be surprised if in the future this gets even more depressing

[ares623 → Kinrany]

They can continue renting to maintain the tools they make.

[matheusmoreira → Kinrany]

One day people will not even be able to own computers anymore. They will be owned, controlled and rented out by corporate elites for limited purposes only. The personal computer will probably either cease to exist due to economic factors. It will probably be made illegal for citizens to own free computers. We'll probably need licenses to operate one.

The mere concept of people "making their own tools" is just comical in this bleak timeline.

On: Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust

[Kinrany]

It's not an alternative.

Start with a more dynamic type, do stuff that doesn't care about the shape, parse into a more precise type, do stuff that relies on the additional invariants, drop back into the more dynamic type again.

On: Farewell, Rust for web

[Kinrany]

You must have meant something else because it's also great at business logic.

On: Farewell, Rust for web

[Kinrany]

What's a better alternative for shared types? OpenAPI is really outdated and the tooling is always a mess.

There is ts-rs [1], but it's only for TS.

[1]: https://docs.rs/ts-rs/latest/ts_rs/

[riku_iki → Kinrany]

protobufs?

[Kinrany → riku_iki]

When serialized as JSON perhaps. Being able to inspect payloads in the browser is too convenient.

On: Show HN: I Built Zero-Knowledge .env Sharing

[Kinrany]

Where are you going to share the password?

If you're going to send the link and the password over Slack together, how would that be better than sending directly?

[AleksDoesCode → Kinrany]

Excellent question!

You are right, if you share the link and the password via the same (possibly compromised) channel, you are still at risk.

It is still mostly fine if you set the self-destruct to 1 successful download and your coworker acts within minutes.

It would be better if you verbally communicate the password in a e.g. a stand up call ("Guys, password is <InsertProjectName>+<CoworkerName>").

Second best would be 2 different channels Link per Slack Password per SMS

Best option: Just tell your coworker to setup an account himself and send him a direct transfer. End2End encrypted, asymmetricaly using his public key.

On: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)

[Kinrany]

The guy he kissed was gay, and immediately after Joe used it to sabotage the deal.

On: Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce

[Kinrany]

> The reason the company rents us rooms is because we're not paid enough to afford normal rent.

So they're paying you in the form of subsidized housing that is tied to work, instead of paying more. Yeah this should be illegal.

On: UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

[Kinrany]

This is like saying that selling enough volume might make up for losing money on every unit. It's only complex until you do the math

On: Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit

[Kinrany]

Why?

[ls612 → Kinrany]

Because there is no reason to believe that any artificial system has the sorts of human frailties that people are implicitly afraid of it having like greed or wrath. ChatGPT has no more ability to covet our resources than Windows does, it's a non sequitur.