dlisboa

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by dlisboa 2mo ago
These labs are still (for the time being) made of people, who reflect their lives onto the work. The US population is much more pessimistic and doomsday driven these days, whereas the Chinese are more optimistic and future driven.
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
The optimistic outlook: Just like this has made Web devs into Mobile devs, so could Mobile devs leverage AI to work in Web shops. I'm not an optimist but there could be an increase of available apps being created which would still keep
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
Astro is still fundamentally different, it's not server-side rendered in the sense of dynamic pages. I can't, in a language agnostic way, use Astro to receive a request, get data from the database and render an HTML representation
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
Components as in React, Vue, etc requires a complete overhaul in frontend rendering, many dependencies, changes in deployment and even have an impact in organizational structure. If one wants to do server side rendering with HTML templates
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
That only matters in context: if this repetition allows you to forego React and a zillion JS libraries you’re better off in the end performance wise. I have never seen a single website where performance downgrade was caused by HTML. However
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
> The only problem is not every car on the road has it yet. Yep. ADAS should be mandatory like seat belts and airbags. A regulatory body should be able to come up with a minimum standard for it.
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
ADAS + human driver seems enough to solve most of the shortcomings of both human and robot drivers. Full self-driving doesn't strike me as necessary to prevent deaths.
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
> Do people do that on a regular basis? They can now. https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/agentic-rewrite-nodejs-to-go/
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
They achieved $2 million revenue in the first 5 months of the first Tailwind UI release.[1] They had a very good run for such a project. [1] - https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
It definitely changes some aspects of good engineering. I'm not a huge AI person but it's obvious a host of great tools we've built to deal with our challenges would not have been significant if we had LLMs. A very crude exam
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
This is a good discussion: do LLMs change the calculus for DRY? A major point of components is having a single place where you can change design and behavior across your entire codebase. With LLMs you can with very good accuracy tell them t
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
I made this point at the time but Tailwind Labs' business model shouldn't exist. It irks people because they wanna blame AI for it but they were coasting and should be happy it lasted this long. Tailwind's business model exis
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
I’m equally surprised how many people read extremely low quality pop fiction nowadays. Especially those romantic/erotic books. Those were the kind of book you’d be laughed at for reading back in the day. Reading non-fiction about some
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by dlisboa 2mo ago
I think you’re underselling it. You’ve listed several projects with many thousand man hours in development. It’s telling that in Python there have been multiple package managers over the years to fix the broken status quo. Typescript/J
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by dlisboa 3mo ago
Indirectly, maybe 8 years after Electron was first started, and not for the company that first invested in Electron. My point yet again: only companies with money to burn can take that gamble.
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by dlisboa 3mo ago
> But both of those lead to Electron, and Atom, and ultimately VSCode You just gave an example of 3 unprofitable projects. That's pretty much my point: great that we got all of this stuff out of it but in any company not propped up
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by dlisboa 3mo ago
There should be a concept called "engineering privilege". I see some companies do things that are widely out of their core product and engineers there just having fun with a bunch of different stuff with seemingly no commitment to
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by dlisboa 4mo ago
> C is great when you need to do manual memory management. Is it still, today? There are other manual memory languages today with better safety records and ergonomics. Plus a host of new and better features. I think C is really great if
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by dlisboa 5mo ago
It's not "prohibitively" expensive if they managed to pay for flights to the US, hotels and then buy several pieces of hardware. They definitely had more than enough money to buy whatever they wanted in Brazil. It is, however
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by dlisboa 6mo ago
> Bought something online and didn't receive your product? With PIX you're SOL, with Visa/Mastercard you get a chargeback. Visa/Mastercard aren't handling chargebacks, the banks are. With PIX the way to get a cha
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by dlisboa 6mo ago
A "Pay with PIX" button is just a QR code. You reach the payment page, the merchant website generates a QR code, you open up your bank app, scan the QR code, confirm the merchant and the purchase, the merchant website runs a spinn
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by dlisboa 6mo ago
External battery banks are a better reducer of e-waste as they'll work for all devices and not just the one cell phone.
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
That's not cynical. Trump has done the world a great benefit by transparently saying out loud what was hidden US policy for decades.
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
In the matter of drone production, which was my point, it doesn’t change the calculus. It is evident that short of regime change or popular upheaval Iran can produce or import drones indefinitely and the only thing that can stop it is a gro
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
Some of them. These were the stated objectives as per general Tommy Franks: * Depose's Saddam government Accomplished. * Identify, isolate, and eliminate Iraqi WMDs Failed. They were never there. * Find, capture, and drive out terroris
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
That'll never happen.
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
> A US CSG could simply sit in the Hormuz strait shoot down any incoming missiles and keep it open. They can't even do that in their own bases. Most of US defenses have been severely overestimated due to propaganda. They hadn't
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by dlisboa 7mo ago
> A blanket comparison of Russia's attempts to eliminate Ukraine's industry with US Navy's ability to eliminate Iran's is ... questionable. We've flown 1000s of uncontested sorties over Ukraine, and Russia has be
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
Production is not a hard problem. Iran, a heavily sanctioned country, already has drone production in other countries. That's assuming no other country would want to sell them their own drones to boost their domestic industry, like Tur
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by dlisboa 8mo ago
You're making the same argument I am. If Iran had a small increase in accuracy they could hit targets that'd disable a lot of Israel military and civilian infrastructure. A lot of stuff is getting through. To counter that Israel h

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