DanielHB

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by DanielHB 1y ago
One of my main pet peeves of working with other developers is people breaking from conventions because "it is not good". Yes even if a convention is bad you should still follow it, unstandardized codebase is the main root of all e
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The React Foundation(engineering.fb.com)
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by DanielHB 1y ago
People are too obsessed with being "the best" at something, like most things in life skill is a bell-curve. And sure some genetic and environmental factors can be required to reach the very tail-end of that curve, but you don&#x27
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by DanielHB 1y ago
It would probably cost more to landfill it
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by DanielHB 1y ago
> 1. In places with high-albedo snowy winters, this arrangement can boost winter production, which if you have snow, tends to be the energy-heavy time of year. I guess you also don't need to remove the snow from the panels?
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> Not quite right. This is defense in depth. The judicial system is supposed to prevent abuses like this, but just in case, you also limit the ability of the government to track you. My point was the government can still totally track yo
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I had who spent 1500 USD in one year on ultimate team. In Brazil, around 2015. That was _quite a lot_ of money in Brazil at the time.
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by DanielHB 1y ago
Thinking about EA (or any big publisher) as a monolith is quite counterproductive to generate a mental model. In practice it is several studios with an overlord. Some studios might still be independent enough that the overlord just stays ou
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by DanielHB 1y ago
This kind of security benefits the general population against mass-scale crackdowns (like dodging conscription in Russia) of course, but it can still be weaponized against individuals (like journalists, dissidents, political opposition). Wh
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by DanielHB 1y ago
It is hardly worth bothering how readable is "local code". Following the same patterns across large parts of the codebase is what makes the codebase as a whole readable. Those patterns may even be complex, as long as they are used
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by DanielHB 1y ago
The judicial system is the one who is supposed to prevent abuses of power like this. What you are proposing is essentially security through obscurity, if the data is fragmented all over the place on different institutions it is really hard
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I have found out that the limit of LLMs good use of coding abilities is basically what can be reasonably done as a single copy-paste. Usually only individual functions. I basically use it for google on steroids for obscure topics, for simpl
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I always thought the main goal of sanctions was to deprive the sanctioned governments of income which in turns makes it harder for them to cause problems externally and hold power internally. And by "hold power internally" I don&#
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by DanielHB 1y ago
Oh boy, I remember the days you had to be a proper engineer to understand and set up VPNs. Like adblocking making this stuff popular just makes it less effective for people in-the-know.
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I recommend people to try out the Youtube Enhancer browser extension. I always get baffled when I used youtube on mobile, search is near useless now because of all the crap they throw in the middle of the search results. But beyond that the
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I was actually thinking that when my child finishes college the best thing I could do is to co-found a startup with them so they can get some proper work experience. As a generalist IT and knowledgeable business person I can probably help t
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by DanielHB 1y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I guess Intel is stuck with making x86 CPUs for datacenters even on their old-node factories so they need to retool them for newer nodes more often/earlier because they don't have a foundry business.
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by DanielHB 1y ago
It is unfortunate JS doesn't have better capabilities for dealing with immutable data. This is the one major flaw in the React ecosystem. It is quite easy to make this mistake (even with lint rules) and to avoid it in a statically-enfo
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by DanielHB 1y ago
Not an expert in the area, but I think the highest of the high-end chips is a big market, but not the biggest market as revenue for fabs. It is just the most profitable part of the market. Maybe this changed with the AI race but there are p
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I don't think WASM by itself will finally kill Javascript, other languages and their tooling are not well equipped to create DOM-based applications with the constraints expected for the web (fast loading times, lazy-loading, asset bund
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by DanielHB 1y ago
When Alibaba first became big I remember ordering stuff from there and it taking about one month and a half to arrive in Brazil. Turns out they packaged a lot of shipments together into a single cargo container and then distributed them int
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by DanielHB 1y ago
You are attributing to greed what can easily be explained by just not giving an f. They don't care that much about small customers.
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by DanielHB 1y ago
Self checkout in supermarkets apparently is quite a rocky thing, some chains see profits go down after implementing them. The potential for catastrophic mistakes in LLMs is very high, like ordering 3000 big macs. Sure in the case of 3000 bi
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by DanielHB 1y ago
Luckily they didn't buy Linear, if anything they removed an early-competitor for them.
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by DanielHB 1y ago
They bought Trello as well, I haven't used Atlassian stuff in like 3 years but as far as I remember it didn't really work out well inside Jira.
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This is neat, but don't service-workers persist for like 5s (non-deterministic) before being unloaded?
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by DanielHB 1y ago
I do not understand what you mean, parallelism is running multiple concurrent execution blocks running in multiple physical CPUs at the same time. My understanding is that JS can't do that (besides service workers which are non-shared
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by DanielHB 1y ago
It is even funnier because JS only got proper async after, what? 25 years or so of existence. The main reason JS went all in with async is because it only ever had a single event loop and that naturally fits with the async model. I still re
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It is not nearly as much of a problem in JS because JS only has an event loop, there is no way to mix in threads with async code because there are no threads. Makes everything a lot simpler and a lot of the data structures a lot faster (bec
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by DanielHB 1y ago
It is because C# uses nominal types (C-like) and typescript uses structural types (ocalm-like). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_type_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_syste

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