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by anonyfox 4y ago
I am still kinda bitter about mac os replacing the default bash with zsh. I gained nothing from that unwanted update, but got compatibility pains suddenly. Is something is more complicated than a one-liner, use a real programming language i
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I really love Elixir (and somewhat Erlang) and all the mental models and how developing in the ecosystem feels like, especially with phoenix/liveview. Having said that, nowadays anything that can't really run on AWS Lambda is a no
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Yep, 30€/mo for phone/SMS flatrate + unlimited LTE here. Germany.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
They will go the wrong directions, too, but in 2 seconds instead of 2 week sprints. And the feedback loop to keep them on track can be automated, too … making current devs the next generation of PMs (prompt managers)
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by anonyfox 4y ago
> it’s setup to favour an older age bracket at their expense and failing to address the most pressing issues like climate change nailed it. born '88, this summarizes my current world view so much, it's almost scary. I turned t
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by anonyfox 4y ago
seems like 2023 is finally the year to pick up PHP and get that limbo. just kidding, I am getting paid multiple times the salary of PHP devs by shipping JS blobs to Lambda functions that render HTML and have DB calls in between them. Totall
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I noticed a stronger urge to not waste my time by reading bullshit. It got much worse now that I am closer to 40. For pure coding, I am writing simple functions and precise data types only, and actively avoid all the clever abstractions I u
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by anonyfox 4y ago
What is „progressive“ about firing someone over potential feelings of people believing in some medieval fairytales?
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Abolish copyrights. At all. Unrestricted exchange boosts learning curves of societies and benefits everyone in the long run, except a few won't become too rich in the process. There are several downsides attached to that, but I am will
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I upvote submissions I'd like to see more discussion about on HN - the comments are why I am here instead of just using my feedreader.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
You're really optimistic. I do see a low but non-zero chance that some tensions between china/india/russia/middleeast with each other or someone else escalate into a wiping out of lots of factories, one way or the other.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
somewhat I lost this belief during brexit/trump/pandemic/... . Maybe ChatGPT also implements a "saving face" behavior, it's not like this isn't unusual in the world.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
> You'll notice that it's often wrong, but the bigger problem is that it's always confidently wrong. thats... exactly like most humans behave.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
From a european perspective, GPT is right at the center of the political spectrum. It might only appear leftist if you're from the US, where you vote either for the extreme rightwing or slightly rightwing party.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I recently tried to deploy a next JS app to aws lambda and gave up after a few days. JS Framework that doesn’t support serverless (aside from the sponsoring company‘s walled garden) - won’t fly with me in charge for infra.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I would do this right now if there was an option to donate to _firefox_ development and not to sponser exec bonus or whatever side project they toy around with.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Aside from the raw size, there are more optimizations that can be done while still having a modern-ish visual result (Shameless self plug: https://anonyfox.com/blog/need-for-speed/ )
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by anonyfox 4y ago
_some people do._ but in exchange for that, we now have disinformation campaigns, alternative facts, ... . We need a spam filter for social/traditional media, maybe as a brain implant, cyberpunk style.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
If we could *force* all the walled gardens to have an open API again, like some of them had back in the day, that would solve soooo many issues. Make all the data free to use for everyone, while ML techniques get even more accessible, and l
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I can foresee all the hipsters literally dying in the streets.
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by anonyfox 4y ago
After having learned & used all the major frontend frameworks (starting from jquery, backbone, ... react, svelte) I am now firmly in the camp of LiveView. No more "REST APIs"/fetch calls, SSR by default, no javascript all
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Well it’s a completely different technology compared to JS‘ spa/ssr approach, but in most cases (latency is not too bad) vastly superior: perceived and real performance is „instant“, the code amount is smaller, less and more robust lib
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by anonyfox 4y ago
As someone quite fluent in Rust (and several other languages) I love it in general… but I think it’s not a good option for average teams, especially if you don’t need the last bit of performance. You could get most benefits of it by using G
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by anonyfox 4y ago
Also remember we’re talking Autobahn here! Gmaps assumes upto 130kp/h… depending on your car and driving style you could drive 200kp/h++ (at least partially when there’s no speed limit) -> I’d challenge the 3:20h driving time,
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by anonyfox 4y ago
I second this
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by anonyfox 5y ago
It is exceptionally great if you don't need parallel writes or have many terabytes of data - ie: for most services out there. When embedding natively, like in a Rust app, the performance is better than any other RDBMs because no networ
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by anonyfox 5y ago
In my experience, the first step is to get the physical basics right (sleep, exercise, nutrition/hydration). This is already hard for most people, but can bring you to 100% of your theoretical mental performance as the baseline. To go
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by anonyfox 5y ago
And austria too… somewhat shocking- I took this for granted for some reason
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by anonyfox 5y ago
As a German I was today years old when I learned that sweden isnt part of the nato already … like the current secretary even sounds swedish by name … whelp Edit: really don’t want to sound ignorant here, just that while growing up and trave
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by anonyfox 5y ago
There is an iPad version of HoMM3 in the App Store that works wonderfully - until it crashes midgame every single time… don‘t know if this is a memory leak or something like that :-(

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