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by bccdee 10mo ago
That's one thing I'll say for in-house "mini-frameworks": Real frameworks often try to present a smooth façade of abstraction which is hard to punch holes through. An in-house "mini-framework," though, is often
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Okay? The framework being proposed here is designed to enable universal communications surveillance. No combination of "details" would make that acceptable.
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Why? "This was written badly" is a perfectly normal thing to say; "this was written badly because you didn't put in the effort of writing it yourself" doubly so.
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by bccdee 10mo ago
> Nope. More apartments mean more _expensive_ rent. This is an ironclad law of real real estate. I don't know how to explain to you that an increase in supply results in the price of a good decreasing. > Yup. And the rent is high
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by bccdee 10mo ago
> The TRUE cost of one month's pass is about $3000 (with capital cost). Lol as if you can't just look up the transit commission's budget. (Annual budget) ÷ (average daily ridership × 12 months per year) = $180 per month pe
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Oh wait, oh my god > Three levels down and people have entirely forgotten what my post was. I missed this reply entirely. Whoops. That said, I do feel like you can do HTML templates on a tiny chip with 64 megs of memory. I've seen N
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by bccdee 10mo ago
1. No, templating strings is actually quite cheap. I'm doubtful that you could benchmark any substantial difference between templating html and serializing json. 2. Who has a server with a weak, limited processor? HTML templates power
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by bccdee 10mo ago
> It has to load HTML templates into memory and insert strings into them. In practice, I doubt this is much slower than serializing JSON. Keeping a couple kilobytes of HTML templates in memory is nothing. Conversely, running a whole vdom
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Well yeah, HTMX wouldn't be a good fit for micro-frontends, but I didn't think many people were actually using those. You have to write all your html in accordance with a single stylesheet, but that strikes me as the least of HTMX
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by bccdee 10mo ago
"What happened to Rust" is that it got a lot of coverage for being good, then a few people were annoying about how good it is, and now a large number of other people have become annoying in their complaints about how annoying the
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by bccdee 10mo ago
> None. You're losing money by not living in a cheaper place and overpaying for transit. Oo, totally wrong! Fun guess though. The average monthly cost of car ownership is $1,300. The cost of a one-month transit pass is $150. I'
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by bccdee 10mo ago
I live in a big city with decent transit. I'm in my late 20s. Neither I nor any of my (white-collar professional) peers own cars. Do you have any idea how much money we save? And yeah, bike lanes are part of it too. They make it easy t
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by bccdee 10mo ago
The market for labour is a monopsony (the limited number of buyers relative to sellers make it a buyer's market). Just as suppressing price in a monopolistic market is unlikely to drive down supply and can actually increase overall sal
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by bccdee 10mo ago
I think that leans toward a mistaken veneration of productivity. You don't have to make something to enrich your life. It's also valuable to connect with the things other people make, or with the world around you.
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by bccdee 10mo ago
True to an extent. But why would you want to create (e.g.) a movie if you don't think watching movies is worthwhile in and of itself? You're putting effort into creating something that you don't think is truly valuable. To a
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Oh I really worry about that. AI code at least needs to pass unit tests, but there's no way to prove that the ideas in an AI document make sense until you try them and run into issues. Writing is thinking. If you let a robot do it, you
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by bccdee 10mo ago
If you're making a proposal, I feel like an RFC carries a lot more weight than a slideshow or an email. If you really don't need feedback or approval from anyone, sure, go it alone. But if you do need or want to run it past someon
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by bccdee 10mo ago
> This leads to authors having to re-explain their thinking in detail What I like about RFCs (or similar documents) is the ways they work to prevent this. Recently I was involved in planning an initiative without a document like this, an
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Yeah but there are zero barriers to market. France can't sell its nuclear energy to Australia, but anyone anywhere can release software. If anyone is exploiting this, it should be visible to everyone. Companies can release games with c
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Ideas were never worth much. Implementing a quick prototype was always pretty simple. How easy is it, with modern tooling, to build a collaborative web editor? Just slap together prosemirror and automerge and you're already there. Stil
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by bccdee 10mo ago
The value proposition of SaaS is ultimately just that it's not a hack. Most SaaS products could be replaced by a form + spreadsheet + email workflow, and the reason they aren't is that people don't want to be dealing with a h
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by bccdee 10mo ago
> Why didn't they? Hint: it's not because it would have taken them longer without AI. Yes it is. "How much will this cost us to build" is a key component of the build-vs-buy decision. If you build it yourself, you get
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Sure, but I think the argument they're making is, if AI can produce good, non-slop applications at high speed, why isn't there a glut of new, high-quality software? Slop kinda proves their point.
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by bccdee 10mo ago
The article provides a few good signals: (1) an increase in the rate at which apps are added to the app store, and (2) reports of companies forgoing large SaaS dependencies and just building them themselves. If software is truly a commodity
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by bccdee 10mo ago
uv does that these days: # /// script # dependencies = [ # "requests<3", # "rich", # ] # /// import requests
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Because the system package repository doesn't package everything & isn't always up to date. And if you introduce other repos to fix this, then you have an ecosystem with multiple instances of the same package distributed at di
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Also `asyncio.subprocess`, which lets you manage multiple concurrently running commands. Very handy if you need to orchestrate several commands together.
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by bccdee 10mo ago
Ok tbh bash uses the system package manager to install command-line utilities, and using the system package manager for python packages HAS been tried, and the parallel use of system packaging and independent package managers is part of why
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by bccdee 10mo ago
What other discussion boards? They've all been subsumed by Reddit. I was on Reddit a lot as a teenager. I was the kind of argumentative kid who likes to iron out the wrinkles in their beliefs by defending them, and the internet offers
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by bccdee 10mo ago
I think you could argue teenagers have a right to discuss political issues in the public forum. That's basically the definition of good citizenship, and (for better or worse) social media is the public forum of the day. Kids don't

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