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by fergie 1y ago
> a decent case can be made to slim down the "web platform" a bit. If you want XSLT you can still "bring it yourself" Completely agree, but there remains the massive unsolved issue of templating in HTML (at the moment
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by fergie 1y ago
Right, but AKAIK its _still_ being maintained on a voluntary basis. Thats nuts, and its not clear why, say, Chrome or Firefox wouldn't want to take over XSLT/libsml2 development, particularly if they won market share from stuff li
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by fergie 1y ago
Its a shame that xslt seems to be struggling so much at the moment. If xslt 3 support was fully implemented in libxml2 (and therefore xsltproc and browsers) then it would be by far the most sensible option for designing anything to do with
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Google DeepMind claims 'historic' AI breakthrough in problem solving(theguardian.com)
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by fergie 1y ago
> a lot of this is left up to developers, without security experts - this is dangerous Although I see where you are coming from, dismissing unaudited libs as dangerous is slightly missing the point. In fact, the world is a safer place fo
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by fergie 1y ago
I had one. Loved it. So did many tech people who I know and respect. I believe that this is firmly within the design ethos of Jobs/Ive-era apple, and so it surprises me that they don't continue to offer this in order to keep their
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by fergie 1y ago
> the dimensions of the iPhone 5/5S/SE make this iPhone more ‘Air’ than the iPhone Air. If you want a slightly more recent example, the iPhone 12 mini and 13 mini have the real lightness that could make sense in a phone. I stro
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by fergie 1y ago
I'm confused about why this is on the front page of HN?
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by fergie 1y ago
> I’d actually love to see something that goes in the opposite direction, highly optimized and compiled, where the result is as small, fast, and efficient as possible Right, but that is what basically every JS framework is going for thes
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by fergie 1y ago
I cant believe that they are also going to apply this to software engineers.
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by fergie 1y ago
> They make $30-50 million per day with just 200 employees Right, but isn't this... bad? Like so bad that it could bring down the entire capitalist system if it is allowed to grow unchecked?
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by fergie 1y ago
AWS is a fantastic metaphor for selling shovels during a goldrush. I can see how Amazon would not be motivated to go out and "look for gold" itself.
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by fergie 1y ago
> test fixtures I'm curious- how does the AI know what you want?
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by fergie 1y ago
...and use Emacs. Very important.
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by fergie 1y ago
I hesitate to dump on Deepwiki, because what it does is to some degree impressive and timesaving (especially the system diagrams). But for my libs (that aren't super popular, but OTOH have a few million downloads per year) it generates
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by fergie 1y ago
I'm curious: does Typescript make sense as a language for machines?
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by fergie 1y ago
I don't understand- why is this on the front page?
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by fergie 1y ago
Independant economist: one tenured by an independent university as opposed to being employed by a lobby group or think tank to promote a specific agenda. When even Adam Smith supports the regulation of capital, this can be considered a fair
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by fergie 1y ago
Every independent economist has been saying this for the last 10 years- see for example "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", a book written by French economist Thomas Piketty.
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by fergie 1y ago
This article was worth it purely for "Schrödinger's urgency"
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by fergie 1y ago
> these platforms too often create filter bubbles or echo chambers. I thought the latest research had debunked this and showed that the _real_ source of conflict with social media is that people are forced out of their natural echo-chamb
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by fergie 1y ago
Anecdote: It can now speak in various Scots dialects- for example, it can convincingly create a passage in the style of Irvine Welsh. It can also speak Doric (Aberdonian). Before it came nowhere close.
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by fergie 1y ago
> Typescript If Typescript is a big part of what you need to deal with on a daily basis, then at some point it makes sense just to use VSCode. And BTW, thats totally by design and a part of Microsoft's developer aquisition strategy.
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by fergie 1y ago
I feel like people are slowly coming round to web components though...
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by fergie 1y ago
Good- the [real world examples of pipes in js]( https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator?tab=readm... ) are deeply underwhelming IMO.
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by fergie 1y ago
> why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf? It is illegal to copy stuff from the internet and then make it available from your own
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by fergie 1y ago
Many users here don’t seem to understand that they are reading content marketing.
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by fergie 1y ago
How deep was your file tree? Be honest! ;)
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by fergie 1y ago
I was _really_ deep into XSLT- I even wrote the XSLT 2 parser for Wikipedia in like 2009, so I'm not sure why I haven't been aware of browser native support for transformations until now. Or maybe I was and I just forgot.
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by fergie 1y ago
What is this "XSLT works natively in the browser" sourcery? The last time I used XSLT was like 20 years ago- but I used it A LOT, FOR YEARS. In those days you needed a massive wobbly tower of enterprise Java to make it work which

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