SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
Oh, right. I agree as well. Git is not their kind of tool.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Thanks for indulging me. I know I am yelling at the clouds. I also know people usually misunderstand me because I am a “programmer” and all I see is “code”. I guess that’s fair enough, but I fully understand legal being of a completely diff
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Wow, sickening. I guess something like certified engineering may alleviate some of these issues. If we build bridges like this.. oh.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
My point is not that. Sure, you can go from Word to OpenOffice. Great, now you manually highlight your code in that.. It’s a deeper thing. You can hack Word and related tools for coding and eventually it is acceptable I guess, but it’s star
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by SanderNL 3y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that software for a dialysis machine requires a different approach from some overly generic CRUD app exposing how many mansions you have or something. There is a lot of asinine software in the world and that’s f
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Style and substance separation is easy and should be a requirement. Legal is pure text "programming" and what I mean is that the style of the text has zero bearing on the judicial process. The benefits of working at the proper lev
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Obligatory GPT4 summary of the article. "LLMs: The Summarization Superheroes of the Modern Era LLMs, like the one you're reading from, shine brightest when tasked with summarization. They may not craft unique insights, but they ex
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by SanderNL 3y ago
There is a good chance it sucks and is wonky as hell, making the value proposition of proprietary solutions even more attractive.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
As professional developers we are usually in a business context and our purpose is not to be artists, to create , we are there to provide the reliable building blocks out of which actual creation can arise. The focus here is “reliable”. Le
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Ah! That’s interesting. I have to do some more reading instead of yelling at the clouds. Thanks for that.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Although HN is a very bad example of an “average” anything, it’s still a good catch. Thanks for reminding me. SPAs can definitely be leaner than regular websites. Never disagreed on that one to be honest. SPA or not is just a delivery metho
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The problem is ditching it for .. what? Bloated messes. Be careful throwing babies out with bath waters.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That has absolutely no bearing on TCP. A bunch of images could load on a single TCP connection just fine. Don’t confuse browsers and HTTP with the underlying protocol. TCP has its flaws, but I don’t see how HTTP and its request/respons
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Just the TCP handshake packets themselves (3 * 1460) can hold almost as much data as it takes to get a standard SPA. I have no idea in what reality you live where you encounter SPAs of a few Kbs. Don’t even know what to say if that’s y
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by SanderNL 3y ago
“Efficiency” for whom and for what? Think deep before you all bow down before our overlords and ditch clear and simple protocols for “efficiency”. I know what QUIC is for and I know it’s strengths. I just want the web to be simple and acces
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Welcome to the desert of the real. That's some real diversity for you. Not everything that shines is gold my friend. But I concede my comments are really ranty. Sorry about that. It's frustration.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Imagine you are holding a 200 requests/page bag of excrement and it’s generating too much load on all systems involved. What do we do? Empty the bag? No, we do not. That doesn’t scale. We create the most elaborate, over the top efficie
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I have learned this from experience. If you think this is bad, real people in real situations are actually worse. If you can get them to speak quasi-coherent sentences that’s a major win in itself. Sounds sad, but the reality these gadgets
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by SanderNL 3y ago
"Oh.. but skip cell A.. 6? or whatever, the one with the .. uhh... " 'Error processing your request. I emailed your supervisor with my error condition.' "No, no! Stop. Just do whatever you did first, but now you do
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It is too much work. It’s way too complex.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
No, that’s hallucinating. Mind’s eye is like what you see when you remember a visual scene.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
To be clear, the word "ridiculous" is targeted at the signal-to-noise ratio, which is indeed in the ear of the beholder, not the article or the experience(s) of the author herself. Also, the "hard" part is not because it
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by SanderNL 3y ago
How is this different from “drawing is better than writing a book”? Some people write, others draw. Each method has its own strength and problem spaces. Encoding a complex issue sometimes is just shitty with a visual metaphor. Other times w
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I'm sorry, I really tried to read this, but it's.. hard. The author seems to live in a very different reality from mine and I'm having a hard time understanding her (?). I do not think the author is wrong or anything, but the
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by SanderNL 3y ago
“Stop eating salt. Take a piece of chocolate. Eat it.” You can use language to guide and point. Talking about chocolate is difficult. Pointing to chocolate is not. Ceasing the consumption of “salt” may be difficult and the “chocolate” in qu
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Why don't you try it out for yourself and let us know. You seem to worry about other people's interests more than usual. I get the pragmatism coming from a Buddhist, but not everything can or indeed needs to be brought down into a
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You don’t support changing an URL? Why..?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Why does AWS even enter the conversation?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Newton was wrong if his project was about uncovering the deep workings of nature. His assumptions were wrong and don’t work. They will never work. They are not “incomplete”. They are practical though. In that sense astrology can be said t
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I believe it’s actually over 9000.

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