AstroBen

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by AstroBen 1y ago
Easy to say when you're not yet the old sick person
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by AstroBen 1y ago
In terms of younger people, a really surprising thing I learnt the other day: "for Americans age 18-45, the leading cause of death is fentanyl overdose" Odd this article doesn't even mention it.. well actually apparently its
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by AstroBen 1y ago
My point was on the quality and reliability of the decisions An RNG can do what you're describing
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Are you buying stocks based on ChatGPT's advice?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
..except they can't It's blatantly obvious to see if you work with something you personally have a lot of expertise in. They're effectively advanced search engines. Useful sure.. but they're not anywhere close to "m
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Yeah I love it The new MacOS on the other hand is still a bit inconsistent but it's getting there. Feels like they could've polished it more before release
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by AstroBen 1y ago
If you're at the point of installing tiling window managers on MacOS.. Linux is what you want
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I might be the only one who actually really likes the Liquid Glass? Its made my 12 pro max noticeably laggier though, which I'm definitely not a fan of..
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Can you give an example? I mean: if you're learning a new language/library/framework it's really useful to have a broad idea of what the tooling for it looks like.. what features does it offer? You can look up the detail
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Reading and watching fills your brain with whats possible Doing and thinking solidifies it, teaches you to use the things you've read about You need both When I'm learning something new I like to skim a bunch of content upfront to
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by AstroBen 1y ago
They're for client-side only features. Think toggling CSS classes, updating the index on a slider- you ideally don't want to have to hit the server for that
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I've had a really good experience with vitest
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by AstroBen 1y ago
...no it isn't If you host your non-nextjs SPA on Cloudflare and they do something you hate.. you move Vercel has every incentive to lock everyone in as hard as possible and raise prices all they can. Not something I'd want to tie
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by AstroBen 1y ago
It's because JavaScript has no culture Everyone who works with the web is forced to use it, each coming in with their own opinions of how things should be done.. thus we have the fragmentation Ruby grew in a large part due to Rails, so
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by AstroBen 1y ago
It also doesn't need to be all or nothing. I've become a big fan of progressive enhancement or an islands approach. Default to SSR and scale it up as needed
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by AstroBen 1y ago
You're just choosing a random tech stack without even knowing the requirements... complex how? Go build a web analytics tool with that
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Well React doesn't come by itself. You need a router, probably some way of managing shared state, bundling, compiling your TypeScript, and 7 other libraries The more stuff you add on the harder everything is to understand, and the less
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by AstroBen 1y ago
This really is different. Hotwire is simple. You can read through the library's codebase and understand what it's doing fairly easily, and then when working with it the flow is straightforward. Good luck doing that with React
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by AstroBen 1y ago
"Islands" are really nice for this. The highly interactive pieces are usually only a small part of the app - just mount a component there if it's suitable. You don't need a full blown SPA
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> how do you catch errors? Oh you just let things crash in production? You write code differently, and you write tests. Rigorously testing business logic also has the nice side effect of catching type errors. "crash at runtime"
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by AstroBen 1y ago
It's also extensively studied at 5x the dose people are talking about here. Men are prescribed 5mg for prostate enlargement. It's 1mg to treat hair loss
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Does this research cover that? That was my first thought If anything finasteride has improved my mental health. I've taken it for ~7 years with no negative side effects, and I'm certain it's the only reason I still have hair
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by AstroBen 1y ago
A lot of these are implementation details and not necessary for the abstraction to work. Preact doesn't use a synthetic event system for example
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by AstroBen 1y ago
How would it be doable to make them open? I think this is a fundamentally different thing than LibreOffice vs Excel. These things are incredibly expensive to train and run, and doing it as a FOSS project for anyone to clone and run locally
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Well I don't agree with him saying these are a reasons not to use it
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by AstroBen 1y ago
His argument misses the point.. I don't particularly care if it's intelligent or understands anything. My question is does it help with what I'm trying to do As for it being closed source and kept at arms length? Sure.. and i
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Here's what I know: - Ed has no insider information on the accounting or strategy of these AI companies and primarily reacts to public rumors and/or public announcements. He has no education in the field or any special credentials
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> Much of the media influence game involves podcasts, events, interviews, and a host of other things that can’t be faked. Have you not been following how fast video gen is improving? We're not far off convincing fake video interview
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I agree.. but what's the solution there? Somehow enforce global regulation on it?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
The genie's out of the bottle. I think it's better that everyone have access to it, and are fully aware of its capabilities, rather than it being unknown to everyone and under the control of specific entities

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