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by arkh 2y ago
> fuzzy search > I do NOT want search to become any fuzzier than it already is. For a specialized shop site you may want it. Search term: "something 150", the client is looking for a 1.5m something, if you're doing an e
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by arkh 2y ago
As a not an American, I can't fathom the love for coupon you all have. Shit system, shit value for the client, and still it looks like some people would kill for a 5% one-time discount on anything.
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by arkh 2y ago
> running the products that they produce Awesome, products who live what? 1 year tops. One of last month fun bugs I got from a 10 year old ecosystem was due to some backend calling an API which (aside from fetching info from an API provi
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by arkh 2y ago
Because the AI term makes people anthropomorphize those tools. They "hallucinate", they "know", they "think". They're just the result of matrix calculus on which your own pattern recognition capacities foo
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by arkh 2y ago
> Whenever people see old systems still in production (say things that are over 30 years old) the assumption is that management refused to fund the replacement. The problem is not refusing to fund replacements. The problem is refusing to
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by arkh 2y ago
I remember doing some radiation absorption experiment with some radioactive material in chemistry class in high school. I would be surprised to get to jail for ordering some milligram of plutonium.
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by arkh 2y ago
> I see a lot of new devs not want to have to think about deployment and management of systems so that is one aspect. Maybe people should rediscover the joys of just FTPing files on a cheap host. It's not like most project will have
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by arkh 2y ago
Because most products are in their own ecosystem with no overarching standard way to share information. You have some standards but usually for specific niches, no product FHIR. Just making sure every product has a unique ID would be a revo
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by arkh 2y ago
Also you don't have to eat the big fish: a better, smaller network aimed at a specific niche adding functionalities needed for said niche should be able to generate some profit. You may not get your 3 commas exit but setting up a busin
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by arkh 2y ago
My guess would be performance.
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by arkh 2y ago
Also the music. First time you play the 3rd mission was impactful. And when you get to the last one. All served by a really easy to learn and use UI for giving 3d orders to units.
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by arkh 2y ago
The future of webapps: wasm in the browser, direct SQL for the API. Main problem? No result caching but that's "just" a middleware to implement.
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by arkh 2y ago
I think the solution to this problem is the same as with scammers and is an analog one. Bust the kneecaps of all the people responsible for those crawlers. Publicly. And all of them: from the person entering the command to the CEO of the co
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by arkh 2y ago
> It take maybe 1-2 more clicks 1-2 clicks here, a couple there, and a click heavy UI. Welcome to the clickodrome, where your patience is tested to its limits. Why do people click on everything without reading? Because you trained them t
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by arkh 2y ago
> Just because you have no use for it, doesn't mean nobody has. Lot of websites you'll visit once per decade (maybe) still ask for account. Or things like the software you get to manage your gaming peripherals which nowadays al
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by arkh 2y ago
I'm gonna doubt you when on they own website navigating is really bad. Only tab and shift-tab. Arrow keys are a bust. And the only visible shortcut is ctrl-K for the search input and I think it's because it comes as an algolia def
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by arkh 2y ago
Because LLM are Markov Chains on steroids. They're useful for sure. But they won't suddenly start to create a better (for whatever better is) version of themselves or start pushing the boundaries of the machines they're runni
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by arkh 2y ago
> Do VCs really have no standard for due diligence The Theranos saga should give you the answer you're looking for.
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by arkh 2y ago
> If AI succeeds in automating away software development, that actually seems pretty bad for Nvidia the company. You have a hidden assumption there: LLM being the way to real AI. IMO it is not the case. And I'd go farther in thinki
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by arkh 2y ago
> If you're just cloning to build ... the last commit. If you have to rollback a deployment, you'll want to add some depth to your clone.
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by arkh 2y ago
> accessibility I'd like to see those accessible frontends. The majority is not usable keyboard-only.
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by arkh 2y ago
> you can vertically scale a server so much now And you often don't really need to. Just last week for some small application and checking the performance of some queries I add to get random data on a dev setup. Which is a dockerize
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by arkh 2y ago
> What's your ideal scenario? On premise k8s cloud where you can deploy many instances of the exact same services you have in prod. Let's say a E2E test takes 5s to run, your deployment takes 2mn and you want to stay under the
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by arkh 2y ago
> How is the US protecting its market against other smartphone manufacturers? Huawei embargo?
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by arkh 2y ago
You also have force multipliers. Which can be some managers: people whose presence on a project will make decent software engineers produce like a 2x one.
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by arkh 2y ago
> End-to-end (e2e) tests are slow and flaky. If they are slow, it means your application is slow. Good thing your tests make you realize it so you can work on it. If they are flaky either your application is flaky or your UI is hard to u
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by arkh 2y ago
I'm disappointed it does not run in excel but uses a google spreadsheet.
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by arkh 2y ago
The problem is not in starting a company. It's in the 20 to 100 million investment if needed: those do not exist here. You'll get up to 10 million investment from whatever bank + state arrangement no problem. But when you want to
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by arkh 2y ago
You forgot one awesome feature of those SPA: once your user finally manage to get some muscle memory in, you can push a new UI redesign so get them back to square one. Because you have to give work to do to your frontend people.
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by arkh 2y ago
> Both you could navigate by typing a chain of commands that would register even if you typed faster than the screens would render in the terminal. Nowadays even the login screen in Windows can not manage it anymore. Gotta wait for some

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