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by com2kid 2y ago
> But the bigger lesson is bitterer. Frontend tooling isnt worth that much. This is a modern oddity, as historically front end tooling was worth a lot . During the 80s and 90s, multiple companies made a lot of money off of front end too
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by com2kid 2y ago
Ugh. This rant against SaaS completely forgets what things were like before SaaS and where upgrades were only done every few years. The idea behind SaaS is to align the buyers and the sellers on long term support for the software. Prior to
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by com2kid 2y ago
You can shove @ts-check on the top of js files and get some decent checks going on. It isn't 100% but it'll be pretty darn good.
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by com2kid 2y ago
If they had actually built an Ai model that could interact with the UI of any application by looking at the underlying UI components, the product might have been super cool. That they didn't do this is rather unfortunate, because it sh
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by com2kid 2y ago
Every page off of my (static HTML file!) home page[1] is actually a distinct microservice sitting behind a reverse proxy. I can throw some new experiment together, built it with whatever tooling I want, give it a port number, and let nginx
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by com2kid 2y ago
ah I didn't understand that your "syntax (faster)" referred to the compiler speed, I thought you were referring to the speed of development/engineering!
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by com2kid 2y ago
Compare that to todays model where I get to spend hours scrolling through Amazon listings of mostly the same product sold by different vendors, except occasionally there are small (but significant) differences. I don't get to see or to
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I don't think a lot of theory went into most of C's syntax. History is important but it doesn't make designs good. Agreed. C is just what sort of worked at the time. 50 years on, we can do better. Theory is what lets us
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'm presuming the poster either never took a compilers course, never had to write a parser, slept through their entire CS curriculum, or doesn't have a background in CS. (Which to be clear, doesn't have to involve a degree! T
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Yes, the programming language defined in the 70s isn't perfect and has a couple of kinks that could be improved. As does every single programming language. Back in the 70s, they didn't know as much about writing parsers as we
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by com2kid 2y ago
> is like asking which syntax (letters) is faster - syntax of Rust, Java or C++? This is actually a bad example because C style decls are provably, objectively, bad. They make parsing harder and once the types are non-trivial, they are a
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by com2kid 2y ago
Heat doesn't radiate like that in space. This topic comes up on HN often enough. There isn't anything to carry the heat away because space is, by definition, empty. The energy has to be carried away by something. Cooling space sta
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by com2kid 2y ago
There are competitors out there as well if substack doesn't work for some reason! I understand the desire to own one's own data and all that, but the most popular solutions are often popular for at least one or two good reasons!
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by com2kid 2y ago
Really fancy restaurants update the menu frequently as well, at least seasonally if not more often. Sometimes they leave a version number or revision date at the bottom!
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by com2kid 2y ago
I minored in math and damned if I can be bothered to convert 12/13 to decimal in my head. That said if it was 1/2 lb and they were having issues... Yeah not good!
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by com2kid 2y ago
Bamboo straws are awesome. Most places around me just stopped using straws. Only kids drinks and boba get straws now days.
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by com2kid 2y ago
I now have a giant bin full of thick plastic bags that I feel bad about throwing away. The half ban WA state did has only increased my plastic bag consumption. IMHO the law should mandate compostable bags be used.
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by com2kid 2y ago
I've been to restaurants with home printed laminated menus. It cheapens the entire experience, to an incredible degree. The inks fade very quickly, the lamination job feels like, well, a elementary school art project, and there is no w
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by com2kid 2y ago
My go to criteria for picking a restaurant is "do I not recognize the dishes they are serving?" As in, I prefer to go to places where I don't recognize anything on the menu. I'll rotate through eating at a handful of res
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by com2kid 2y ago
I've been to restaurants that have pictures of every dish on the menu. Those menus end up being the size of large books, and in one case the menu was delivered in the form of a three ring binder with laminated pages to flip through. Go
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by com2kid 2y ago
Many people like being able to see what they are ordering. I've seen people order by pointing to pictures on Yelp instead of using the paper menu. Online menus with pictures of every dish are desired by plenty of customers.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Seattle as a city is designed with all of those in mind except the livestock part. Plenty of wild nature preserves, coyotes running around, rabbits playing along the side walks, and parks all over the place. It is possible for cities to be
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by com2kid 2y ago
For many years entire sections across multiple pages of firebase's documentation were missing after the site contents had been migrated from one system to another. Multiple years of sample code and examples just cut out from the middle
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by com2kid 2y ago
Saying Google provides examples of being rather nice about it. Firebase ACLs are a constant source of vulnerabilities largely because they are confusing and don't have enough documentation around them.
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by com2kid 2y ago
The thing that gets me about how Indian food uses spices is that the flavors change so much during cooking. If I use cumin in a Mexican or even Chinese dish, cumin will likely be a dominant flavor, it will be obvious that cumin is in the di
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by com2kid 2y ago
Acid is important for meat marinades because w/o acid, penetration is just a few mm deep. The real magic, IMHO, comes from how Indian food is spiced. Lots of contradictory flavors that are used in ways very different than western cooki
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Windows ARM -- still borked in SOOO many ways -- and its 10+ years old now. Internally, nearly 20 years. It was kept alive for a long time by a single individual as a side project. When I first got out of college I actually helped upda
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by com2kid 2y ago
> The terse ones are for people who already know what they're doing and just need a sketch to jog their memory. The day I reached that level was a wonderful feeling. Some of my favorite cookbooks just outright skip steps or don&#x2
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I will personally never use Copilot, or any other AI code generation tool, for the simple reason that I enjoy writing code. I had an XML file format, I needed it converted to JSON. I haven't parsed XML in over a decade, and I didn
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by com2kid 2y ago
Backspace goes back a page on Windows in Chrome, so it barely works there either. I also wasn't sure if return was supposed to do anything. Also no idea why the X is there, since the bubble follows my mouse and I can never click it. Co

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