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by brap 4y ago
IMO, TSX really is beautiful, I can’t see how it can be beat. I’m not a big fan of how React handles state and effects, but TSX itself is joy to work with.
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by brap 4y ago
Wouldn't better classifiers (discriminators) necessarily lead to better generators that can trick them?
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by brap 4y ago
What’s stopping you from using this token with a bot?
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by brap 4y ago
I don’t see the point in making this open source to begin with, it’s not like their target audience even cares. When you’re selling to developers etc it could make sense. But when you’re selling to doctors, HR, teachers? Eh. I guess maybe t
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by brap 4y ago
It’s mostly just those 2 things. SSR, routing, and having them work together nicely. You also get easy to use build/start/dev scripts which takes the hassle out of setting up your project, which is pretty nice. That’s really all t
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by brap 4y ago
I really liked the length of this “essay”.
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by brap 4y ago
And while I’m at it let me add another unpopular opinion: I don’t think anyone should be mad at said investor, Christopher Hohn. It’s very easy to hate billionaires. But he invested a lot of money in Google (which allowed it to pay its empl
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by brap 4y ago
On one hand, and I know that this is an unpopular opinion here: Google is a for-profit company. Its goal is to maximize profit. Not to maximize employment. Or employee happiness. Google is not daycare for adults. It’s not about “making the
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by brap 4y ago
Random question from someone who's never touched ML professionally: Can we optimize hyper-params the same way we optimize weights and biases (e.g gradient descent)? Or would that be too expensive (since you have to optimize weights and
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by brap 4y ago
I wonder if these little things have any form of what we consider “thought”.
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by brap 4y ago
I like languages with strong static typeung too, but aren’t Python’s type hints enough for this purpose? Or are these libraries just untyped?
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by brap 4y ago
This seems kinda weird. Random UI components, ORM, and string formatting utilities(???) all part of the same “thing”? I don’t get what this is, seems like a mishmash.
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by brap 4y ago
I think what he meant was that the style of JSX does lend itself well to parallelism (e.g different subtrees can execute in parallel), though to the best of my knowledge no such implementation exists (maybe something can be done with WASM o
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by brap 4y ago
Which rules/exceptions are there that are an inherent part of JSX (and not React)? The only ones I can think of are className instead of class (unfortunately a reserved word in JS), and the addition of convenient event handler attribut
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by brap 4y ago
I honestly can't see how anyone can get anything done without static typing, for anything other than small scripts. My only issue with TS is that there are no runtime type guarantees. That, and a few odd syntax choices that I mostl
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by brap 4y ago
This is pretty neat. I think being lightweight, and having a very small API is important. But honestly, at this point function-style JSX/TSX is hard to beat in terms of API. There's basically no DSL to learn (`x-for`, `x-if` and s
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by brap 4y ago
I also vaguely recall something from The Simpsons… Edit: ha, found it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94
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by brap 4y ago
Since everyone is mentioning their favorite whacky theories, mine is the one that says within every particle is a whole universe, made up of particles with their own universes and so on, and what we call our universe is really just a partic
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by brap 4y ago
So often I see SaaS companies write things like “built with Rust”. Yeah, nobody cares!
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by brap 4y ago
You could remove the financial incentive, but then you’re really limiting the pool of resources (you have to rely on people’s kindness, which only works, partially, in noble cases like finding a cure for cancer or searching for extraterrest
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by brap 4y ago
In addition to privacy, performance, and portability, also: * Servers in a datacenter are much more reliable than a network of PCs (power goes off, someone decides to play Crysis, etc) * People will find ways to scam you (pretend like they’
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by brap 4y ago
Sometimes verifying a result is correct is easier than coming up with the result yourself.
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by brap 4y ago
I love the import/export model, it feels like one big living codebase everyone can contribute too.
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by brap 4y ago
I can’t believe I just spent 2 and a half hours glued to my phone in bed watching this, for absolutely no reason other than it was such an interesting intro (to a subject I’m already familiar with). Thanks for the recommendation, and thanks
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by brap 4y ago
Am I wrong to guess that this domain is worth more than a million dollars? Rejecting that kind of money for making a point is… I don’t know, but it’s definitely something. Edit: not just rejecting money, but defending it in court!
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by brap 4y ago
>It is transport agnostic in that the concepts can be used within the same process, over sockets, over http, websockets, or in many various message passing environments. I think tRPC sort of implements a transport layer for (a superset o
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by brap 4y ago
I mean, if you already have the medical knowledge and you want to automate things, wouldn’t codifying it into an expert system (fancy words for a bunch of if-else’s) make more sense than feeding examples to an ML classifier? Obviously easie
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by brap 4y ago
Wouldn't classical AI ("expert systems") be a better candidate for this than ML based models?
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by brap 4y ago
I feel like, in the last few years, we're making huge progress towards being able to easily build performant, cross-platform UIs with great dev ergonomics and minimal code, yet we're not quite there yet, despite web development ex
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by brap 4y ago
Neat, but why make a new language when you could build something with better ergonomics using client libraries (essentially a newish form of ORM)? It all transpiles to SQL anyway.

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