Shish2k

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by Shish2k 2y ago
If everybody used a sufficiently smart editor, and used sufficiently smart codegen, and we removed all the existing breakage from our tools and infrastructure, yes. I wish I lived in that world. TBH my money is on that never happening, but
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by Shish2k 2y ago
They thought that Windows 11 coming with a built-in keyboard shortcut to open LinkedIn was such a great idea, they had to have the same thing in their keyboards? -_-;;
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by Shish2k 2y ago
I think I grok bzip2 fairly well, but I can’t figure out what your descriptive commands would actually do :S
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by Shish2k 2y ago
> It has strong typing, not just hints in comments Even for arrays?
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by Shish2k 3y ago
In my personal experience of being around back then, postgres and python were still considered "technically better", but such a massive pain in the ass to install (especially on cheap shared hosting where it was often actually imp
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> I want to write a sql query I can deploy against test and prod, so I need to be able to parameterize table names … are your “test" and “prod" different tables in the same database? :S
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by Shish2k 3y ago
The zero-cost abstractions is a bit of a tangent, but connected: Using Electron, running an extremely-optimised search algorithm and displaying results takes 200ms Using Rust, running a hopelessly naieve algorithm takes 1s; but a slightly-o
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> react doing this very thing and calling it JSX In PHP, “HTML" is string concatenation; in React, “HTML" is an HTML-flavoured bit of syntax sugar over HTML-generating functions (and you are still welcome to call the functions
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by Shish2k 3y ago
As a vaguely-related anecdote, I wrote a super-hacky PHP script in highschool 20 years ago, it gained some popularity based on being open-source and easy-to-install (PHP’s #1 strength for sure) - and to this day I am still spending a signif
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> it's hard to understand why anyone outside of the respective orgs would adopt Personally I don’t care about the backend at all - I’m loving sapling just as an alternative git frontend with considerably better UX :)
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Any git host, though the integrations for eg “show pull-request code-review status” are configured for github by default
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> I think the world has moved on from facebook The HN bubble has moved on for sure, but going by DAU/MAU (which isn’t perfect but is better than “I think”), facebook is still the biggest and is still growing
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> In my opinion your life is very empty, full of materialism and selfishness That’s a heck of a baseless assumption IMO. I’m not the OP, but I am in a similar position to them - in my case I have a sufficient amount of material stuff to
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by Shish2k 3y ago
“Please don’t do it like a 4x4 truck, do it proper, like a bicycle” — there is some overlap between those things, but for people who are actually making full use of the former, the latter is not a useful suggestion
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by Shish2k 3y ago
I did this for a few months, but I only did it because I was suffering from Burnout (officially diagnosed) - now that I’ve had a chance to reset, I’m back to actively seeking productive things to do with my time and will accept any work tha
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Yes this - I’ve been using python for decades, and been mostly fine (dropping down to ~zero packaging & deployment issues since I started putting all my services into docker images). But AI stuff? Somehow that manages to be a massive pa
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by Shish2k 3y ago
“write code clear enough that an LLM can look at it and create an accurate summary of the high-level goals” gives me similar vibes to “explain like I’m 5”, which seems like it could be an interesting metric (and my gut tells me that things
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by Shish2k 3y ago
A lawyer commenting on the game industry (which is largely copying the Silicon Valley business model) has an excellent explanation of these cycles, and why it is that the industry is simultaneously reporting record profits and mass layoffs:
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by Shish2k 3y ago
I've sworn in front of a FAANG CTO who was I think 5 or 6 levels above me in the management chain at the time. Nobody batted an eyelid.
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by Shish2k 3y ago
http://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/ allows you to display arbitrary URLs on your device. From my experience doing so is built on a pile of hacks (it’s not actually casting an arbitrary URL, it’s casting the registere
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Back when they were in the “acquire users” phase (when all of this innovation was happening) the UX was much better. Now they have acquired users and are in the “exctract value” stage it’s all going to hell ;(
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> still alive and well Last time I checked user numbers were both steadily in decline, and small in absolute terms (top 10 IRC networks combined have ~500k users - compare to eg discord with 150 million users. There are individual discor
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> if we had interoperability we would have had competition and after 30 years we’d see 30 years of progress Counterpoint: IRC
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by Shish2k 3y ago
I’ve been using it for a while, primarily to get all the benefits of the mercurial UX while still using github as a backend, but yes it also makes the stacked-diff workflow[0] really nice thanks to features like “absorb” which will smartly
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by Shish2k 3y ago
That’s one of the things Matter is supposed to help with - part of the spec is that all devices need to have a local-only / no-cloud / no proprietary app option
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> That seems all wrong, but maybe it makes sense <spoilers>It is wrong by the original story, but Remake doesn’t follow the original story - it is more along the lines of “what if sepiroth projected himself back in time to mess wit
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by Shish2k 3y ago
Around 2008 I was indeed running my own XMPP server for a while. I didn’t give up on it because Google was temporarily-xmpp-compatible-and-then-not though - I gave up on it because all of the apps were terrible :P
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by Shish2k 3y ago
If you’re only thinking about it for long enough to come up with a single hypothesis, and then confidently declaring that you have the correct answer, I’d suggest maybe thinking about it for longer than a moment :)
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by Shish2k 3y ago
If I change a function signature, then my code is fine - but all the other files which import and use my function will break
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by Shish2k 3y ago
> That $0.10 you paid for the paper only really covered the cost of printing and distribution, if that. AFAIK for most newspapers and magazines, the cost on the label was mostly there so that readers would feel like the publication was s

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