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by evantbyrne 1y ago
As someone who grew up homesteading and seeing the benefits of it, I find it wild that people want to not only send their kids away to school full-time but also institutionalize them afterwards just so they can spend seemingly excessive amo
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
The email was sent from the 'npmjs dot help' domain. I'm not saying you're wrong, but also basic due diligence would have prevented this. If not by email, the maintainer may have been able to be compromised over text or
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
You've touched on some interesting points here. I have also felt the entitlement, but while contemplating why it exists I came to the conclusion that it is due to a misplaced belief that open-source primarily benefits the individual an
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
It's not possible to rug pull an open-source project by just switching new work to a different license. The real issue with open-source is that we don't live in a utopia where you can publish all of your work for free and still li
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
I understand that is the Go philosophy. I care more about what is practical than dogmatic. It seems clear to me as a complex library author that the type system leads to way too much glue code, which is expensive to write and maintain.
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Is it possible that some of the mismatch in how people view Go's type system is due to experiences differing from writing applications vs writing libraries? I personally find some of the repetition in Go code to be tolerable when writi
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
That's a complimentary point, not a counterpoint. I'm talking about Go's type system being restrictive. PHP and many other languages avoided that particular trap by allowing variables to be reassigned to any type. Java and ma
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
The reason Go does not have a grand framework is that the language has a severely underdeveloped type system, which makes building complex libraries that meaningfully complement each other overly difficult. I waited nine years before starti
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Holy moly, Elon does read HN!
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Where do you live? I don't think I've ever lost water without a power outage.
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
It's not clear from the article, but is this for local development or production deployments? Because it's worth noting that Swarm solves a lot of the limitations that Compose and Podman have for running containers in a production
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Where did you see that white collar jobs are in a free fall? The employment rate is still tightly correlated with level of education as it always has been.
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Hey, first of all sorry to post this so many days late, I just got here looking to see if this article had been posted already. I think the piece you are missing is that guilds exist to protect workers, not consumers. US software engineers
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
The problem with these discussions is that almost nobody outside of the agency/contracting world seems to track their time. Self-reported data is already sketchy enough without layering on the issue of relying on distant memory of fine
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Results like these are only possible when engineering leads have completely lost the plot. The checkout taking many minutes longer, if true, is bad enough that I doubt the problem is purely UI bloat. Either that or the benchmark itself is c
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
People love to make these weirdly diminutive comments about programmers, precisely because programmers are crushing it. Meanwhile most of the economy has been diverted to attempting to replicate the abilities of even just an entry-level dro
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
It will be interesting to see if humans can manage to bioengineer human-level general intelligence into another species before computers.
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
10x has always been an exaggeration, but I know from repeated experience it is possible to complete projects far quicker than 2x the speed of the typical team on a modern web stack. The way you do it is by writing less code. Typically this
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
In this industry they do. You know that companies using these tools are exercising minimal effort and due diligence, and that should be taken into consideration before participating. It only makes sense to play the high-volume application g
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
I think it is right to call out HTMX as being a wrong approach for custom form elements. Try a progressive enhancement approach with something like Turbo, where you can still write JS as needed. This wizard could have been more elegantly im
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Finding good (and available) primary care providers has always felt like going to the casino in my experience. Currently seeing an older NP who has been great. I could see a future with many more NPs. Obviously, if you know a guy or need a
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
> but if I was choosing between two jobs where one was utterly boring but paid 3 times more than a fascinating job, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat. I chose my current job against competing offers because it was a good thing for
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Standards vary wildly on what constitutes a fingerprint match. There can be well over 100 ridge characteristics in a fingerprint, but some US jurisdictions only require as few as 12 of them to match, and it all comes down to an investigator
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Signatures are the tip of the iceberg. Plenty of other forms of bs forensics live on in the legal system in some shape or form. e.g., fingerprint analysis, polygraphs, field sobriety tests, devices that literally do nothing, trainings on re
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
The police committing accidental/negligent discharges of their service weapons has been a nearly constant source of social unrest in the US... Great example of how people carrying loaded firearms is a public safety hazard.
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Can't pull when someone randomly has the drop on you chambered or not. Have to retreat/conceal first anyways. Far more likely to have a tragic accident than ever saving someone. Not long ago someone accidentally shot the neighbor&
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Gun crimes tend to be ambushes rather than something that even remotely resembles a duel.
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Developers can only be as good at their jobs as their environment allows them to be. Based on the commit log for all authors, my takeaway here is that this is a legacy software project that needs better test coverage and to establish standa
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
So-called "companion" AIs are usually overlooked because they are clearly predatory. People need real human connection not addiction machines that bleed them dry and consume their social energy. Making a buck on someone else'
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
There's also LocalSend, which I've found works the best for me personally and is a bit more polished than browser clients

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