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by code_biologist 1y ago
Beyond Rails and 37signals, I'm most familiar with him as a car racer, photography enthusiast, and his recent "buy once"/post-subscription software advocacy. This is an interview with him last year on "one person&qu
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by code_biologist 1y ago
I understand the sentiment, but disregarding the nuance does the situation a disservice. HTML/CSS serves two separate but related use cases: a document layout and display language, and as a display layer for applications. I remember Pe
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Seriously, I thought of those the moment I read the title of this post.
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by code_biologist 1y ago
I agree with your point, but it is funny to think about true consumer workloads: I... mostly JIT and run Javascript, layout algorithms, and whatever compositing cannot be offloaded to the GPU.
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Event sourcing is an expensive solution and I don't mean from a storage perspective — it burns engineering cognitive horsepower quickly on things that don't matter. Do it if you're in finance or whatever. Having been burned b
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by code_biologist 1y ago
The Backblaze Drive Stats are always a good place to start: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-202... There might be SMR drives in there, but I suspect not.
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by code_biologist 1y ago
it's not clear that there is anything better to do than buy and hold low-cost index funds. Sure, 100%. The growth of this strategy has limitations though. Check out Mike Green's interviews on Youtube about the growth of passive
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Many types... I've seen the Technology Connections video and use whatever, mostly liquid detergent. After running a few experiments and coming away unimpressed, I've kept on pre-rinsing.
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Claude can't beat Pokemon Red. Not even close yet: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why-anthropics-claude-sti...
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Whether it's actually correct, whether it works, I don't think that's even a concept in these systems. I'm not an expert, but it is a concept in these systems. Check out some videos on Deepseek's R1 paper. In part
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by code_biologist 1y ago
I think this is a fun thing for TigerBeetle to do, but I'm pretty skeptical that this was a good engineering decision. Ha, yeah, as an 8 year software engineering manager I'll agree that "fun" is not a good initial loo
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Not trying to persuade you to try again, but if you ever desire to, electrolyte deficiency (particularly potassium) is a common reason that people experience headaches or cramps when fasting or starting ketogenic diets. Watch out for sugar
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by code_biologist 1y ago
Agreed! The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen[1] is one of my favorite product management books because it's very conceptual, but man the concepts hit home fast. This summary has a lot of great details [2]
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by code_biologist 1y ago
At risk of being annoying, answers that feel like high quality human decision making are extremely pleasing and desirable. In the same way, image generators aren't generating six fingered hands because they think it's more pleasin
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by code_biologist 1y ago
The moment you let the low contrast gremlins out of the cage they start their mischief! Flat design is the more sucky partner to neutral palettes in current design trends, IMO. I want color too but it's not a clear step towards usabili
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by code_biologist 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember when this simplified model was why people thought React was better than alternatives.
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by code_biologist 2y ago
We tried to fit dagger where we had jenkins "Tried", implying it didn't go well and isn't a fit for replacing Jenkins?
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Indeed, don't ignore obvious issues like team morale, career paths for ICs, but there's a certain zen to the balance between proactive and reactive. Don't do too much proactive work if there isn't incremental return on i
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by code_biologist 2y ago
I'm a data engineer so DAG/node systems in content creation software delights me (Blender, Resolve, Houdini). Terrible it's hidden behind the name "GEGL Operations". I'm exactly the person who will get it and l
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Do OpenAPI Swagger docs count? That seems to be the route a ton of the ecosystem takes. trpc, ts-rest, and express-zod-api all explicitly build on zod and can do validation + Swagger UI generation. hono looks like it doesn't do that by
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by code_biologist 2y ago
I've seen speculation that rare earth mining is environmentally destructive enough that it faces massive (expensive) regulatory hurdles in the US. Much easier to pay politicians in less developed countries to do it there. https:/
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Alex Krainer has speculated that Zelenskyy literally can't sign a mineral deal because those rights were a secret part of the UK/Ukraine 100 Year Partnership deal, making this all a bunch of theater.
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Alex Krainer, a tinfoil hat geopolitical analyst, has speculated that the pre-election meetings between Zelensky and Trump included talks of a mineral rights deal, but that the recent UK/Ukraine "100 Year Partnership" deal si
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by code_biologist 2y ago
First party runtime types would be nice, but zod has become pretty much the standard answer for projects that need it. Not complicated.
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Light user of uv here. `prune` just saved me 1.1GiB. Thanks!
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Path Finder went to a subscription-only model, no way to outright purchase a license sadly.
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Where would binary search come into it? In the example, the version solver just sees the world as though no versions released after `2023-10-16T00:00:00Z` existed.
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by code_biologist 2y ago
I've honestly never heard of any dependency resolver that allows you to dynamically inject an override of a package's built in specification for an indirect dependency. npm and yarn both let you do it. PDM and uv think about it
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Did they run into a hard blocker, or was it just that using version overrides was possible but painful? I started looking seriously at uv/pdm once poetry made it entirely clear they didn't intend to support version overrides [1].
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by code_biologist 2y ago
Soo... browsers will likely support it until the end of the internet?

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