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by dlisboa 1y ago
You don't need to make an entire movie out of this. One or two scenes that are difficult or impossible to film on a certain budget is enough to lift the production value of a movie. One can use this as CGI replacement, for example to p
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by dlisboa 1y ago
> India and Thailand and most of Latin America have great privately operated local transport, from city busses to pickup trucks to regular route taxis, all self-organizing without needing a centralized database to manage them. Great? I&#
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by dlisboa 1y ago
It's a really shallow analysis to claim nothing has changed in China since Mao, specially politically.
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> Fundamentally this is a game of chicken, and China will definitely blink first. China thinks in terms of decades and their population is very culturally disciplined. They will endure years of economic downturns if necessary. Historical
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by dlisboa 1y ago
That's a bad comparison. A toaster off of the 1958 Sears catalog cost US$12.50 which amounts to ~US$ 160 today. We can make a $160 toaster today that'll survive nuclear war but no one will buy it. Some things do get better with ti
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by dlisboa 1y ago
> Remember the land of the individual, of personal freedom, of opportunity, that by its culture generated invention and innovation that other places, without that culture, couldn't match. What China, which is limited by central cont
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by dlisboa 1y ago
> There is a good chance that there will be a generational skill atrophy in the future We already see this today: a lot of young people do not know how to type in keyboards, how to write in word processors, how to save files, etc. A sign
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by dlisboa 2y ago
> most react people now use TypeScript because first class types in your view layer are super useful Most people use TypeScript because React apps have grown to 200k lines of mostly entangled code with business logic and are unmanageable
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by dlisboa 2y ago
> The one thing that I found missing was the lack of static typing in the code It has type hints, such as here: https://www.cosmicpython.com/book/chapter_08_events_and_mess... Do you mean it's not strict enough
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by dlisboa 2y ago
For a significant part of the world China has not tried to conquer their country or done them any harm. Their only experience with toppling governments comes from the US doing it to them. History will catch up with the US one day.
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by dlisboa 2y ago
I've seen the term "hagiography" 8 times in the past three days in articles of different topics, having never heard the word before. Being that English is my second language, but the one I consume the most content in (more th
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by dlisboa 2y ago
I'm doing something similar -- taking a sabbatical to focus on learning and doing projects I didn't have time to do while working -- but I treat it like a job: I read/write/code roughly 8h a day, 5 days a week. Just like
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by dlisboa 2y ago
Which GC is that you’re using in these examples?
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by dlisboa 2y ago
They list a few products on their home page: https://posthog.com/products I've used PostHog and it's pretty good. I don't know if I'd classify all of those as different products, you rarely want one of t
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by dlisboa 2y ago
I’ve read the term “type-safe HTML” somewhere, still have no idea what that means.
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by dlisboa 2y ago
> For anyone scared of Rust or the borrow checker: due to the nature of HTTP services and request flow logic, you almost never bump into it when writing backend Rust. I’d say for anyone worrying about it just use ‘clone()’ everywhere you
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by dlisboa 2y ago
There’s https://loco.rs/ if you like that sort of Rails experience. Personally I’ve grown more fond of having little cruft in my apps, being “lazy” about what goes into the code isn’t right to me and many of these framework
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by dlisboa 2y ago
Did you do them by hand or use some algorithmic way to construct them?
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by dlisboa 2y ago
`asdf` has now been rewritten in Go for anyone interested, so choosing mise over it due to performance is less of a concern now.
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by dlisboa 2y ago
There's also much more technical pressure on a greenfield project mainly because if it turns bad it's "your fault". There's no legacy to blame, no excusing bad choices (you made them!). It is part of the responsabil
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by dlisboa 2y ago
> Unless your definition of 'general purpose' specifically excludes anything UI-related, like on desktop, web or mobile, or AI-related. By that definition no language is general purpose. There is no language today that excels i
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by dlisboa 2y ago
> When using a language none of us speaks we can truly be equals. It's the opposite: having a preferred "high language" for science means it's gatekept by people who have the means to learn it. Those people will have
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by dlisboa 2y ago
2 days is fast. OP left out that most companies nowadays run a separate front end team, so now you need your backend team and front end team to have a meeting about what proper JSON should be returned, then the front end mocks that response
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by dlisboa 2y ago
Coming from a Latin American the idea of re-starting your life across the country for college and then again for work (multiple times sometimes) while away from family and friends is very foreign. A lot of the conversation around modern Ame
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by dlisboa 2y ago
Many editors pop up with zero ecosystem and become successful anyway. All you need to do is provide a better editor experience in some fashion for there to be a value proposition. Atom, VS Code, helix, zed, etc. none of these had mountains
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by dlisboa 2y ago
It's about the last thing I'd expect to see in Venice so I think it's a pretty good idea. Venice seemed to me a place that looks more like a massive historical theme park, while still authentic and very much in the right plac
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by dlisboa 2y ago
I honestly don’t understand what it gets companies. It amounts to eliminating surgical candidates with 30 years experience because they can’t do organic chemistry on the spot. Who came up with this scam? From all I hear the quality of engin
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by dlisboa 2y ago
From my experience this seems to be an American thing. I have US-printed books that I bought brand new about 15 years ago that look 100 years old today. On the other hand the Brazil- or France-printed books are still good as new. The paper
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by dlisboa 2y ago
The Starship Earth-to-Earth idea is a complete non-starter. Landing what amounts to an ICBM anywhere near a populated area is not something that’ll be allowed for multiple lifetimes, if ever. Maybe in the US because Musk is the government n
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by dlisboa 2y ago
There's definitely a lack of authenticity these days. I was on the park the other day and there were these two dudes and one was filming the other walking and talking to the camera. They'd look at the shot and then he'd walk

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