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by brabel 2mo ago
I’ve been watching this debate online and in my opinion both sides are guilty. Fil is intentionally trying to be funny or at least “interesting “ when he makes his points and I, for one, enjoy his humor, which includes having a go at Rust a
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by brabel 2mo ago
Funny how experience differs. I think almost all Java teams I know use Kotlin now in some capacity, mostly for new code but sometimes for all code. Not to mention Android is a very large share of applications and Kotlin is the default choic
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by brabel 2mo ago
I think it’s just that the bacteria in the hotter container woke up to a warmer, nicer environment. Warm temperatures are much better for bacterial growth. While it was too hot they didn’t seem to care at all since their spores protect them
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by brabel 2mo ago
Do you believe the UK has the right to rule over the Maldives? And the USA has the right to have a military presence in Guam (and nearly all of the Pacific Ocean for that matter)? The Chinese claims on the South Pacific Islands seem really
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by brabel 2mo ago
It doesn't do such thing at all, unless you think it's acceptable to load EVERYTHING in HTML, hide it, and do front-end search. Which would be completely nuts to do for things where infinite scroll is used.
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by brabel 2mo ago
> They're as "synonymous" as the words "cigarette" and "cancer". Now you get it.
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by brabel 2mo ago
So let’s just guess what China will do once it becomes dominant and act like it already did whatever we conjured up they will do. That’s how you get preventive wars that destroy civilizations without any actual basis on reality.
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by brabel 2mo ago
We don’t want anyone to colonize us just like you don’t want your country to be colonized. China offers business opportunities while the USA and Europe seem to always look down on everyone else and impose their own values on others. China d
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by brabel 2mo ago
> These political values are not examined neutrally by the media because the political powers have already termed one or other other as "corrupt". I don’t really recognize that when it comes to capitalism, plenty of criticism o
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by brabel 2mo ago
You are essentially saying there’s only bad data and efforts like those in this post are always bad. Ask yourself why you would hold this position regarding this topic but likely not for anything else. Hint: it has to do with that saying, i
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by brabel 2mo ago
An autopsy is an exam that is performed postmortem. And that’s really how people are using postmortem as a noun for the analysis that they perform after the “death” of a company, so it is a synonym at least approximately, if you don’t see t
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by brabel 2mo ago
It was a genuine question. I’ve implemented infinite scrolling in HTMX and it’s quite easy, another commenter posted an example from the HTMX docs and it’s a couple of lines of html.
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by brabel 2mo ago
But postmortem is literally “post death” in Latin. It’s synonymous with autopsy! I know people misuse borrowed words all the time, but come on?!
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by brabel 2mo ago
It’s funny how hilariously simple that is and the parent commenter making it sound like you need a full JS framework for that instead.
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by brabel 2mo ago
You swapped out HTMX because you couldn’t figure out how to load a list of items gradually instead of all at once??
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by brabel 2mo ago
50 years ago you could ask the same question about Europe, the USA and Japan: why are they so much more productive than everyone else? So others did spend energy on becoming better and now you see a different picture when you look at the wo
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by brabel 2mo ago
I think metrics can be used for good. For example we are constantly try to improve our dev experience, but how do you know if you are improving anything? Developers are notably inaccurate in reporting efficiency. Unfortunately flying blind
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by brabel 2mo ago
Everyone says "brevity makes things unreadable" but when given the choice to write a one liner bash script VS a 10 line Python/JS/Ruby script we all know which people always choose.
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by brabel 2mo ago
> I have interacted with multiple apps that clearly were written using AI by people who did not actually spend the time understanding what was made… That kind of proves the opposite point: you’re using those apps so they were good enoug
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by brabel 2mo ago
As far as I know, it’s in the mission of most of these to give an unbiased report on what is happening in the world and inside the country. In practice, there may be influence by powerful politicians, but for these news outlets to spread go
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by brabel 2mo ago
The advantage of using a drone is that it is cheap to produce, but it needs to be really simple to stay cheap. Arming it with a machine gun that can target an airplane trying to shoot it down would be very expensive.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Ok, I stand corrected: only the kernel userland was compiled with Fil-C. However, I don't see why the full Linux kernel could not be compiled with Fil-C. It would be nice if Fil himself could explain what limitations there are, but the
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by brabel 2mo ago
Bash scripts should only be used for quick and dirty tasks where brevity is a major benefit. Don’t pretend bash can be readable and maintainable. If you want that use another language that sacrifices brevity for clarity.
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by brabel 2mo ago
It’s very common that the most upvoted comment on a post is a mistaken correction. People seem to love comments seemingly proving that the post is wrong without actually checking anything. And once it has enough upvotes a big discussion may
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by brabel 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044561
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by brabel 3mo ago
This is a myth that seems to never die. OS kernels can and have been written in GC languages. Watch the video maybe? The whole presentation was running on a distro fully compiled with FillC.
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by brabel 3mo ago
It’s not so astonishing when you mention that incremental compilation has been only recently added to Zig and is still experimental. This astonishing change, if I understand it correctly, is achieved simply by migrating to the latest versio
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by brabel 3mo ago
> You sort of did this pre-AI No, I did the opposite. First refactor the code base to make a new feature fit naturally in it later on. Then hopefully the new feature is easy to implement cleanly and correctly first time. The only times I
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by brabel 3mo ago
I think I am missing the joke here. Who exactly is worse off than 11 years ago?
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by brabel 3mo ago
> especially in America. Slavery was common everywhere, it was more prevalent in many places than it ever was in America, and in some places it still is. So I’m sorry but I have to say that observation was just unnecessary and quite inac

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