MrJohz

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by MrJohz 7mo ago
Oh, that's me! Feel free to ask me any questions. There's some great discussion over on lobste.rs ( https://lobste.rs/s/2zk3oe/pushing_pulling_three_reactivity ), but I particularly recommend this link th
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
> This way you never have content that is out of sync. They can definitely go out of sync, particularly if something that isn't the editor or the AI changes the code (e.g. running shell commands or opening the file in a different ed
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
Yeah, a few friends of mine have dogs, and they fall very much into the "nice to visit, wouldn't want to live there" category for me.
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
Firstly, if you're doing those steps, you're building your own tutorial, not just following the exact steps in a manual provided with the software. The sample config won't be exact or perfect for your setup, so you'll ne
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
But Anthropic can't be a winning bidder, can they? They're specifically saying they won't offer certain services that the US Gov wants. Therefore they de facto fail any bid that requires them to offer those services. (And fro
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
The first two things that spring to mind are pasties from the UK (which are not usually spherical but can get quite hemispherical), and the "UFO-Döner" from Germany (which are more oblate spheroids). Maybe by combining these ideas
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
I'm referencing the footnote where the author says that the discussion caused one team member to go and fix the issue. The warnings causing a production issue is, I think, a complete hypothetical. What this story is missing is an expla
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
Yeah, a lot of the examples made me think "wait, there's something else going on there, right?", which would make sense if the author has difficulty communicating or negotiating their proposals. In the first example, for exam
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
I think there's a lot more than just that, but I think part of the problem is that you just get an uncanny valley feeling. All of the phrases and rhetorical tricks that these tools use are perfectly valid, but together they feel someho
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
This happens with trams in the German city I live in. The other advantage is energy efficiency, apparently - if you can keep them traveling at a consistent speed, then they can maintain momentum, as opposed to if they're constantly sto
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, though. JavaScript isn't performant enough for its own tooling, but that's just one class of program that can be written. There are plenty of other classes of program where J
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
Patching the DOM existed long before React, that wasn't a new technique. IIRC, the idea was more that the VDOM helped by making batching easier and reducing layout thrashing, where you write to the DOM (scheduling an asynchronous layo
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
I think in that case, you're missing what the article is saying. It's not talking about building something new but not having people understand it. It's saying that anything new that you can build, someone else can build fast
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
Is TNotW really the same concept as Harry Potter? It has a university in it, which I guess is similar to a school, and after a while the main character ends up there, but it's a very different concept - it's classic high fantasy t
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
I don't use VSCode as my editor, but I found out recently you can open the AI agent sidebar as a separate window, and it's been fantastic - it's mostly replaced Claude Code and other similar TUI tools. It's not quite ful
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by MrJohz 8mo ago
I don't think having to practice at home and at weekends is necessarily a part of engineering though. Every place I've worked at, there have been ample opportunities to keep up-to-date on paid hours, be that in conferences, learni
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
I think the other aspect is that if the README feels autogenerated without proper review, then my assumption is that the code is autogenerated without proper review as well. And I think that's fine for some things, but if I'm loo
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
An HTML file is a set of instructions to execute. They're very high-level, declarative instructions for describing a UI, similar to how SQL is high-level declarative instructions for describing a set of data to be loaded, or how Prol
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
Of course HTML is a programming language. It's one of the languages I use every day to program with. I'm not sure what the definition of a programming language would be beyond that. Do you mean "Turing-complete" langua
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
If we're doing "features": password fields with no option to view the plaintext value? I use long passwords, and if I'm in a safe place, I would much rather see what I'm typing and correct any typos I make along the
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
I had a similar issue trying to create an Apple TV account. I already had an Apple account that I was using on my work laptop (first mistake - I should have created a work account there instead), and for 2FA, I needed to wait for a code to
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
Other people might point to more specific tells, but instead I'll reference https://zanlib.dev/blog/reliable-signals-of-honest-intent/ , which says that you can tell mainly because of the subconscious uncanny
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
It's less the sound, and more the buzz when it's on vibration. I've never found a way of changing that, unfortunately. It's probably true for other brands, but I've never really had a phone that other people have
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
I bought a second hand Fairphone, and I'm very happy with it, except that my wife, a colleague of mine, and some friends of ours now also gave Fairphones, so when one buzzes we all instinctively check our pockets because they all sound
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
I think this is connected to the overlap and offset that are used layer to account for complex or symmetrical letter shapes. If the author had just split the grid, those effects would have been harder to achieve.
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
The thing is that you can still have high-level abstractions without them needing to be as slow as React. React does a slow thing by default (rerendering every child component whenever state changes, so every component in the UI if top-leve
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
Note that it's not clear that any of the JustHTML ports were actually ports per se, as in the end they all ended up with very different implementations. Instead, it might just be that an LLM generated roughly the same library several d
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
I had a course on natural language processing with Prolog, and the first third of the exam was just evaluating Prolog expressions and figuring out what syntax errors had been made. This of course took so long that everyone spent at least tw
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
That's true, which is why I added the caveat that this is only true if parallelising reduces the overall runtime - if you can get in more requests per second through parallelisation. And the flip side of that is that if you're abl
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by MrJohz 9mo ago
According to [1], the most important factor for the power consumption of code is how long the code takes to run. Code that spreads over multiple cores is generally more power efficient than code that runs sequentially, because the power con

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