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by dkarl 1y ago
We keep saying "scripting language," but given that it's statically typed and JIT compiled, we could also call it an "application language." Relative to Rust, most backend applications can afford to trade off a litt
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> Deno set out to change that and be something new, but they squandered that chance because it was too risky for their investors Maybe it was too risky for users? The people with the most appetite for a new start and a new way of doing t
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The author seems obsessed with what their code says about them personally, and only mentions other people to discuss other points of view on this question. At no point do they say anything about how working with other people influenced thei
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> it turns out its not really a silver bullet One thing that bothers me about SRS is that it doesn't get enough attention from people who understand the difference between memorization and language acquisition. It gets a ton of atte
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I think both have a place. When someone is starting for the first time, they're enthusiastic, but they haven't built faith in the process yet. It's easy for them to lose confidence if they're putting in work but the resu
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by dkarl 1y ago
> What changes for you? Nothing unless you start using threads Coming from the Java world, you don't know what you're missing. Looking inside an application and seeing a bunch of threadpools managed by competing frameworks, deb
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I've always seen it as a tool for validating a design rather than an implementation.
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My current take on microservices is that people pay serious attention to modularity and API design in the context of microservices. They work hard to break down the problem properly and design good interfaces between parts of the system. In
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> Stating this implies that minimizing risks and maximizing benefit is not a need of most customers? Honestly, I'd rather them explicitly commit to minimizing risks than say, "We're going to address the needs of our custom
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At every age, there's a high attrition of students participating in competitive sports, until only a tiny elite remains. Is that what we want for reading and math?
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It's funny that you can't get HN commenters to unanimously agree on much of anything concrete, but we are all united in our belief that we know better.
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I switched out of resentment towards Google and have been pleasantly surprised to discover that I actually prefer Kagi. I still use Google Maps heavily and prefer Google Search for one particular task (finding soccer news) but I am much hap
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by dkarl 1y ago
I mostly use tab groups to keep and hide the context for a task I'm going to return to later. For a given task I might have design docs, Jira tickets, meeting notes, technical documentation, and a dashboard open. I can group all of tho
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by dkarl 1y ago
The article is about what LLMs can do, and I read it as what they can do in theory, as they're developed further. It's an argument based on principle, not on their current limitations. You can read it as a claim about what LLMs
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by dkarl 1y ago
> I do think its interesting how much more pacifist older scifi seems to be then modern scifi Optimism is powerful, but it usually comes with impatience. We've shown an ability to decrease the prevalence of war globally, but the fac
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by dkarl 1y ago
> But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether Chesterton is just giving clever voice to the eternal prediction that the decline of traditional morals will produce a fundamental de
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> It is what people wanted though, from Facebook Facebook used to provide a good experience of staying in loose touch with people I didn't know well enough to have ongoing conversations with. It was nice to know roughly what was goi
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There are a variety of public lands with a variety of management methods. It's important for some to be more restrictive and others less restrictive.
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> while never quite explicitly straying outside the bounds of faith and morals defined by the Magisterium, often seemed to strongly imply the opposite. This was especially true for audiences that did not already know the Catechism throug
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He felt like a throwback to me, in a good way. He reminded me of a time when Christians weren't so afraid of being subsumed by the secular progressive mainstream, when they could still see love and forgiveness as the core of their fai
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by dkarl 1y ago
Policy is decided by people. "Car-centric culture" is just a description of the material status quo, much of which was built by people who are dead, who have changed their minds about cars, or who see different conditions in their
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by dkarl 1y ago
The purpose of the validation step is to get someone out of a reactive, unreasonable frame of mind into a frame of mind where you can start problem-solving together. It can feel condescending if they're already in a problem-solving fra
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by dkarl 1y ago
The "validate and problem-solve together" approach doesn't work reliably with adults. For people who are single-mindedly out to get what they want, it's not the first time someone has tried this on them, and they've
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> Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts) I think people are unfair to bureaucrats. Bureaucrats have a job to do: they carry out policy deter
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Even worse, it's a toy that people build elaborate things out of and then use them for business-critical functions. It's incredibly irritating to work with a Notion power user. It must be great if you're a control freak, thou
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It's true everywhere. If you're a cyclist you would have to engage in creatively suicidal behavior to elevate any of the other risks of cycling to the same magnitude as getting randomly taken out by a driver.
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> given AI seems like a winner takes all type market Does it, though? LLMs seemed magic when they arrived, and they continue to get better, but it seems like it takes a ton of hand-holding and experimentation to get useful work out of th
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He also had experience backpacking, so he had experience managing water and preparing for weather, so I would say it was optimistic, but not dangerous (except for the danger of getting killed by a driver.)
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> if Google treats their most hardworking engineers like this they are creating a culture of minimal effort This is bizarre to me because my impression from three years ago was that they were trying to correct from that, and it sounds li
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Speaking of "crummy," R. Crumb talked about an afternoon he spent driving around the suburbs in the 1980s taking pictures of houses, streets, and strip malls so he could draw realistic backgrounds for his comics. > “People don’

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