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by creesch 3y ago
In general, it is always interesting and disheartening to see how many educators feel like they need to re-invent the wheel. There has indeed been a ton of research into educational methods, didactic approaches, etc. There is no shortage of
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by creesch 3y ago
> If you need to create a "just works without dependency b.s." experience in Java, you use the correct tooling for that, jlink. At which point you are including a similar footprint as Electron does by shipping chrome. I mean, y
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by creesch 3y ago
> What external dependencies does Java need that's not in the JDK itself? I mean that it doesn't come with Java itself, but you as a developer need to pick a UI framework and not all of them actually work all that well cross pl
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by creesch 3y ago
Java simply has a much higher barrier of entry. Not only in regards to figuring out the language and resources available but also the fact that creating a GUI still requires external dependencies. Electron isn't just cross platform, it
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by creesch 3y ago
To me, the points you personally care about are very much related to the issues discussed in the article. Geographic restrictions are very much driven by the same motivators that result in DRM and revokable content You seek to make a distin
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by creesch 3y ago
So you are saying that you have no issue with a framework where people have put money towards material (funded it) but can at any future time be denied access to that content? Furthermore I still believe you haven't actually read the a
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by creesch 3y ago
> act of consuming products outside of the framework that enabled the funding for creation of these products. Are you a corporate lawyer? Because this sentence really doesn't mean anything but can be made to mean a lot depending on
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by creesch 3y ago
Bit of a tone deaf response to be honest. Not to mention that you are only responding to a very specific bit of the feedback.
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by creesch 3y ago
Brave is an ad company with weird crypto stuff sprinkled in. Not to mention that their past actions have shown that privacy to them is a marketing thing, not something that is at the core of how they operate. There have been a few too many
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by creesch 3y ago
I mostly use bookmarks as "speeddials" for frequently visited websites in my browsers bookmark bar. Just the icons, no text so it is fairly clean as well. I then keep one directory for stuff that is on my short term future "t
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by creesch 3y ago
> where the people are in it for the coding first and not primarily Oh man, you are not wrong there. The amount of pull requests and contributions I have seen that basically amount to a bit of refactoring for the sake of refactoring in F
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by creesch 3y ago
Being able to run your pipelines locally is a pretty neat use case. That's something that often is difficult or basically impossible. Except for maybe GitHub actions through Act ( https://github.com/nektos/act ). I
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by creesch 3y ago
I guess I don't really get dagger... It reminds me of the early days gulp.js sort of? The article also confused me for a hot minute, it enthusiastically goes into a demonstration that really does make it seem like things are more compl
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by creesch 3y ago
Cool, if you read the linked article you will see that this is also being addressed :)
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by creesch 3y ago
> also involved machine learning algorithms I could be wrong, but afaik it involved "just" algorithms not machine learning. Which is a meaningful distinction, as traditional algorithms can actually be audited much easier in re
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by creesch 3y ago
> its becoming its own source, for better or worse OpenAPi is actively actively taking steps to minimize the changes of that happening as that would be rather bad given how LLMs work.
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by creesch 3y ago
> It knows more languages, more tricks, more libraries, more error codes, is faster, cheaper, etc. True up until the point that you want to do something that hasn't really be done before or is just not as findable on the internet. L
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by creesch 3y ago
These junior engineers still will need to validate that whatever the LLM implemented works and fits the requirements. If it doesn't work they need to figure out why it doesn't work. It might not be in the same way of current day d
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by creesch 3y ago
> Say goodbye to all the time spent mentoring junior engineers, soon you won't have any Yeah... no. Not with LLMs as they currently are. They are great as an assisted tool, but still need people to validate their output and then put
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by creesch 3y ago
I agree in the sense that, in its current state, will not replace devs entirely. But it can make the workflow much easier for many devs, to the point where you'd possibly need less of them or can get more done with the same amount. I c
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by creesch 3y ago
While I don't want to go as far as saying that it sucks, I do largely agree with the sentiment. Personally, I do like coding a little bit but mostly as a puzzle but for the most part it is a means to an end. Lately, I have been using C
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by creesch 3y ago
Interesting to see the original. To me, that one feels like a much clearer presentation of good typography. For example, in the "modern" version the first thing that crossed my mind is that ironically the quote at the start of the
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by creesch 3y ago
I am not really sure how your comment is a reaction to mine? Having said that, opinions are opinions. I much prefer KDEs UI/UX choices over those made by Gnome and have no problem with the general look and feel of the interface.
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by creesch 3y ago
For more background in general I recommend the blog of one of the main developers, for this wayland news specifically this article: https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/10/this-week-in-kde-wayla... This article
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by creesch 3y ago
This looks pretty neat! Reminds me of the early 2000s when everyone around me was messing around with rainmeter (Which I believe is still around) but this seems like it might be much more accessible.
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by creesch 3y ago
My first impression isn't all that good. - I see a lot of elements loading with no content for several seconds. - Posts open up in the same type of overlay new reddit also uses. not a fan of that. - Closing the overlay makes the page
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by creesch 3y ago
Upvoted based on the XKCD alone, I used the same argument a few years ago for this spaghetti mess: https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd How feature complete is this client? As in what IRC versions (and dialects) are
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by creesch 3y ago
I don't mind A paid model for interaction personally, but as others have pointed out it is difficult to make the call when you can't view the content. You already did open up your content, but personally I'd lead with that. M
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by creesch 4y ago
> All extensions are different. Absolutely, I didn't reply to say you are wrong or anything in that regard. I basically wanted to give some additional perspective. > I'm not saying it will be so for all extensions, but it wa
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by creesch 4y ago
> the only area where Firefox previously had a massive advantage over Chrome. It didn't though, because the API was different a lot of extensions that appeal to a broader user base were not made available on firefox (anymore). Yes,

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