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by acdha 1y ago
I’ve used it to have the server generate fragments not processed in the normal page load which are then used as templates by JavaScript which populates them. That supported fast initial page loads compared to an SPA while being just as dyna
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by acdha 1y ago
How do you define “missed”? I ask because AI is a bit different than those earlier trends: yes, investors wasted money during the dotcom bubble but there were thousands and thousands of places which spent a modest amount of money and saw al
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by acdha 1y ago
> Off the top of my head I can't think of any "hard" software created by Apple, it's all about the UX and the integrations. This sounds like you’re either unfamiliar with what software they make or underestimate the c
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by acdha 1y ago
Indeed. async is one of those things which makes a big difference in a handful of scenarios but which got promoted as a best-practice for everything. Python developers have simply joined Node and Go developers in learning that it’s not magi
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by acdha 1y ago
> we've had decades of compiler development since itanium "proved" this. I think an equally large change is the enormous rise of open source and supply chain focus. When Itanium came out, there was tons of code businesses
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s not, but you’re off by 3+ orders of magnitude on the traffic volume and ignoring the cost of serving non-trivial responses.
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by acdha 1y ago
Sure, I’ve been doing that since the 90s. I still pay for hardware and egress, and it turns out that everything has limits for the amount of traffic it can handle which bots can easily saturate. I’ve had sites which were mostly Varnish serv
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by acdha 1y ago
> What would Elon even be in court for? Being a politically incorrect dumbass on ex-twitter is not punishable by law. Look at the things he’s already been in court for: labor and environmental violations, safety problems. A really big on
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by acdha 1y ago
This sounds pretty unrealistic: the web is not better off if the only people who can host content are locking it behind authentication and/or have significant infrastructure budgets and the ability to create heavily tuned static stacks
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by acdha 1y ago
Why do you think Musk put so much money into helping Trump win? Tesla was under multiple investigations for safety and unkept promises, and he knew that he would not have leverage to halt those under a Harris administration.
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by acdha 1y ago
> Apparently, GNOME bureaucracy is holding up the processing the application of a new maintainer for over a month now. This wording seems unjustly negative. You’re talking about software which is shipped in every browser, all Linux distr
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by acdha 1y ago
As others have pointed out there are multiple implementations of XSLT, but I’d also argue that this situation seems like a decent argument in favor of that policy. If everyone is using a single implementation then in practice that implement
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by acdha 1y ago
> Donating money, enabling more free speech on X, DOGE (an efficiency exercise at least in its goals), etc all seem like a part of democracy to me. Now think about the goals: is this strengthening democracy or trying to avoid it? All of
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by acdha 1y ago
They’re not part of democracy, they’re using the tools democracy to tear it down by concentrating so much power in one person to push deeply unpopular policies. Even in the deepest red districts, Republican officials are avoiding their cons
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by acdha 1y ago
> You not understanding those reasons is not an excuse for allowing a giant tech company to step in and be the gatekeeper for a huge portion of the internet. Are you somehow under the impression that Cloudflare is forcing their service o
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by acdha 1y ago
I miss the 90s, too, but these days anyone who wants to deal with current levels of bot traffic is probably going to look at a service like Cloudflare as much cheaper than the amount of ops time they’d otherwise spend keeping things up and
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by acdha 1y ago
Elon Musk personally plowed enormous amounts of money and energy into harming American democracy: not just getting Trump elected, not just DOGE, but also things like heavily threatening Republican lawmakers not to serve their constituents a
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by acdha 1y ago
Fair, I guess my point was not to underestimate your opponents: assume that they’re just as smart and motivated but are using their talents based on the Fox News cinematic universe / Christian nationalism. I live in DC so right now a l
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s a big mistake to thing of people as stupid: they’d be far less dangerous if they actually were. The problem isn’t lack of intelligence but the information space they inhabit and the feeling that they have somehow been mistreated. There
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by acdha 1y ago
> That's because most keyboards don't have an emdash key, and few people even know how to produce an actual emdash. There’s a subculture effect: this has been trivial on Apple devices for a long time—I’m pretty sure I learned t
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by acdha 1y ago
They gave him what he most desires: respect. Every news watcher saw one of the most powerful CEOs, a genuinely accomplished person, treating him as the more powerful party. His whole career was spent playing at being a successful business m
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by acdha 1y ago
If people didn’t want them, Kennedy wouldn’t have had to prevent people from getting them. All of the attacks on scientists, experts being fired so they can be replaced with cranks, etc. happened because the preponderance of evidence shows
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by acdha 1y ago
This is relevant how? You can be the most dyed-in-the-wool old school businessman who only reads physical newspapers and the first thing you’d think of is the way all of your suppliers are reporting unpredictability and your buyers are talk
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by acdha 1y ago
> Why did developers spread the idea of AI consciousness for LLMs in the first place? The usefulness and capability of an LLM is orthogonal to its capacity to develop consciousness. One thing I’d note is that it’s not just developers, an
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by acdha 1y ago
That’s why I reject the diffusion of responsibility called for in that post. “We” didn’t do this, a few executives at certain big companies did, and the way to fix it is by removing their ability to do so unilaterally without consequences.
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by acdha 1y ago
This is a good example of why you want to interrogate the urge to be contrarian and ask whether it’s leading you into a cognitive pitfall. While it’s true that there is an element of consumer choose, that has to be seen in the light of the
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by acdha 1y ago
> If you only give the AI the ability to do what the end user can already do, the risk is extremely low. Just because I can send my money to Belize doesn’t mean it’s safe to give an LLM the ability to do the same. Until there’s a huge br
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by acdha 1y ago
LLMs aren’t aware of anything - that’s pareidolia of intelligence – but they hopefully have been trained on code which has more secure than insecure code. That’ll help with some classes of problem like using string operations to make databa
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by acdha 1y ago
> I recently had a colleague send me a link to a ChatGPT conversation instead of responding to me. I find this kind of thing interesting anywhere someone is being paid more than minimum wage: a really good way to make your boss think tha
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by acdha 1y ago
You appear to be acknowledging that voting does matter, contrary to the previous sweeping claim. Second, while some states may be unlikely to change their choice of president or senator, the local level matters quite a lot AND that’s where

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