MisterKent

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by MisterKent 2y ago
I've been loving edgedb in my typescript side projects for a number of years now. I have always hated ORMs, mostly for performance and a little bit for elegance / ergonomics. Curious if you have thoughts on a solution like that?
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Malicious Compliance is not the right word. But, I thought about it and am slightly hopeful. Their goal could be obedience such that A) the Musk cronies don't come through and truly delete the data (vs, just taking it offline) B) they
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by MisterKent 2y ago
That's not pareto. That's just finding a niche of people who would prefer more focused products. Tax prep software for simple returns only is an entire product. Adding support for the other 20% would lose your initial base's
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Allowed or encouraged? This is the problem. We can't be certain that a foreign actor couldn't destabilize our faith in our government by pushing pro-palestinian content. A small push on a platform can snowball since creators take
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by MisterKent 2y ago
I don't agree with the how, but the conclusion is true. I'll elaborate a bit more though... In a capitalist world, it will always seek to maximize profits. Human suffering, animal suffering, morality, and so on are basically irrel
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by MisterKent 2y ago
This is a really odd way to test capabilities of an LLM. First, most photos of clocks are 10:10, since the training data for watches are usually set to 10:10 (in order to better sell watches etc). Second, I don't think the photo genera
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Remarkable seems to be a pretty hackable device? They give SSH ability and have stated they're not removing it. I think it's a very good balance of letting the community do weird things while they focus on their core product. I sa
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Jesus Christ, this blog is absolute trash, peddling a massive number of conspiracy theories, from vaccines causing autism to FDA doing massive coverups. Even going as far as to blame the Biden administration for things going on during the C
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Search tiananmen on any app and then on TikTok. Regardless of their testimony, it doesn't take much to show that it isn't 100% of the truth.
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Wow, that's gotta be the first release that I've ever said "nothing interesting here" to. I say this as a big typescript fan, who leverages tons of advanced features and typings. Although, I have felt for a while that ty
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Interesting, and agrees with the anecdotal trend I've seen playing out the last few years. Summarized as: you must appeal to a niche (cheapest, healthiest, best tasting). Brands matter less. I remember a few years ago reading that Tide
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Is it own feature good? Let's look at our data that we're releasing on our blog. Also: functionality is _not_ a good metric of higher quality code. Any interviewer can tell you that.
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by MisterKent 2y ago
We just use LaunchDarkly for config and S3 behind a CDN for assets. S3s Ux is serviceable. LD (and the other feature flag services), allow flighting, population management etc. as well. It's unclear to me, where the value is here as a
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Agree with the above, except: Sharing solutions in slack works until stuff becomes impossible to find. Using confluence or some type of team documentation feature can help with that stuff. Better yet, keep it very low effort to add docs the
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by MisterKent 2y ago
As an audiophile, I could see why some would see this as a horrible thing. But I'm not really worried. McIntosh has been a higher end Bose for a while now. They live on their brand name and their blue glow, but amplifiers and dacs, rea
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Afford doesn't mean the same thing as able to pay for in cash right now. Otherwise you'd say people can't afford houses, when you really mean people can't afford / are unable to get a mortgage that will cover their
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by MisterKent 2y ago
People in this thread seem to somehow think marketing is pushing people to want xyz. That _cannot_ be the singular or even primary driver of a movement. Car manufacturers don't just make a car in a vacuum. They make what the market is
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Personally, I don't see a huge upsell over JSON for interop. Typing is great, but largely mitigated by things like typescript, graphql generators etc etc. edit: and json schema The biggest issue I see with JSON today is the inability t
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Why even comment if you're not going to read TFA which actively disputes your "isn't it just" assertion in its title ?
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by MisterKent 2y ago
It's very simple: what sells on the showroom floor and what works at home aren't necessarily the same thing.
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by MisterKent 2y ago
There's another comment referring to Elon. I'll leave that aside, but I think the same analysis can be done for him. Clearly the population is split on wether or not intent matters when it comes to philanthropy. Some people say, i
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by MisterKent 2y ago
People here are incredibly hard to please. Very clearly a packaging issue that got blown out of proportion. They've done largely the right things for _years_ in terms of security. They've operated pretty transparently in terms of
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by MisterKent 2y ago
If you write a systems language as a primary part of your job, you might not be an engineer. In all seriousness though, I hate having to add a bunch of tooling to my dev process so that I get to write extra syntax to avoid warnings about va
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by MisterKent 2y ago
In the web framework world, libraries are moving from a react component style of authoring to an older knockout based model. This means, instead of rendering an entire block of HTMl on each render pass, just a minimal subset will be rerende
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Deep Rock Galactic is supposed to have one of the most wholesome and helpful communities out there.
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Which are CSS animations underneath
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by MisterKent 2y ago
JS animation libraries let you declaratively define and hook into CSS animations. "Arcane language" not only is CSS one of the core languages of the web, but also if you find this arcane I wonder what you think of the "native
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Did you not see the readme in that repo? It's no longer being maintained, with the last commit being years ago. I imagine it's lacking a lot of typescripts newer features etc. seems hard to justify using it
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by MisterKent 2y ago
So they just stopped sharing it publicly? That's kinda odd.
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by MisterKent 2y ago
Has anyone outside of Google had any luck using the closure compiler with a modern-ish stack with the advanced optimizations? Tsickle and the like seem to be archived as well, so it's unclear to me. Google must internally have some too

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