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by blowski 2y ago
My experience is that the problem is avoided in theory, but not in practice. Making a good API on a large system with many clients is always difficult. GraphQL makes it easier in theory, but if you have average level devs working on it, the
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by blowski 2y ago
I’ve heard this called the “backend-for-frontend” pattern.
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by blowski 2y ago
I imagine it would be a different flavour to what we have today, but the same intensity. Anything that so deeply penetrates daily life across the globe is going to bring enormous problems with it.
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by blowski 2y ago
Indeed. It’s probably why so many APIs accept the api key in the URL.
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by blowski 2y ago
I have said and read “Plan B” many times in my life, almost never in connection with an abortion drug. Searching on Google, “Plan B” is more connected with the musician and politicans’ speeches.
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by blowski 2y ago
Have they officially said they want to get rid of VBScript?
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by blowski 2y ago
What if humans are “playing” because they’re bored?
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by blowski 2y ago
Traditionally, one of Microsoft's weaknesses was how crappy it looked against Apple. Maybe they are trying to say "we care a lot about making this look good".
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by blowski 2y ago
It's not a national holiday in the UK.
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by blowski 2y ago
The existing Conservative government are a shambles at the moment, with a whole series of defections and by-elections. The longer the stay in power, the more it damages their brand. They're expecting to lose this election, and bounce b
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by blowski 2y ago
It makes a fascinating conspiracy theory to pretend he's right about all the "bad actors" tampering with his files. All nonsense of course, but makes a good yarn.
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by blowski 2y ago
A few personal anecdotes aren't very convincing arguments about the future direction of the world economy.
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by blowski 2y ago
I'm in a similar position to you, but from singler friends, I've heard two reasons. Firstly, all the other single people are on the apps. Secondly, some are concerned about being seen as a creep when flirting or approaching the &q
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by blowski 2y ago
I suppose it depends on your own perspective. For my part, a world in which people "date" algorithms instead of other human beings certainly seems pretty dystopian.
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by blowski 2y ago
Also, there are fuzzy lines between opinions, consensus, and facts. What may be considered a fact amongst one group will be described as a wrong opinion by another. Chances are, the LLMs will try to work out what group you are in, and prese
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by blowski 2y ago
“Lives rent-free in my head” is a horrible cliche. By now, it has the same effect as saying “it’s nice” but uses lots more letters.
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by blowski 2y ago
I wonder what their GCP spend was.
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by blowski 2y ago
As always, there’s a trade off. By using native backups, it’s typically cheaper and easier, with external backups having their own risks. The risk of the cloud provider making a stupid mistake is so small that there are usually many other r
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by blowski 2y ago
I’d love this for crochet.
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by blowski 2y ago
> OpenAI have several times being argue that they are the only ones to be responsible enough to develop powerful AI, and that others should not be allowed to play Can you give examples of where they’ve said that?
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by blowski 2y ago
Seems to me you're making sure you don't forget them by outsourcing the "remembering" to a more reliable system.
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by blowski 2y ago
I had an eccentric Maths teacher at school who used to stare out of the window and make odd claims. One was that he was running a roadworks business using telekinetic powers, and all the people in hi-vis jackets were merely scarecrows.
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by blowski 2y ago
The backend has definitely suffered from "crazy hype-driven development" for the last 30 years. Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, Scala, Clojure, Go, Rust have all had their brief moment as the silver bullet. Not to mention ops tooli
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It’s a common style guide in newspapers.
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I had never heard of Zachtronics, and I've been on Hacker News since 2012.
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by blowski 2y ago
Oh we’re at that point of the hype cycle are we?
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by blowski 2y ago
I've just turned it off, and I still can't spread Safari over two displays. I'm on Sonoma, on an M3 Max, albeit using a third-party monitor.
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by blowski 2y ago
This reminds me of the Kubernetes API.
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Perhaps it would be silly for you to adopt it because you have a skillset that doesn't need it, but it can still be a sensible solution for others.
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by blowski 2y ago
I've been building websites for 25 years, but I'm not very good at building maintainable CSS. From memory, I've used Bootstrap, Zurb, SMACSS, YUI CSS, YAML (the CSS framwework), OOCSS, plus various ThemeForest templates. Perh

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