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by fergie 2y ago
Very well explained (although not sure if the TypeScript is necessary) I wonder though- isn't classic TF-IDF scoring also a type of basic vector comparison? What is the actual difference between "vector database" and somethin
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by fergie 2y ago
I suspect, that just like real developers, that Claude is best at "greenfield" projects, but not so good at making changes to existing code generated by other developers or AIs.
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by fergie 2y ago
"Not talking about politics" is one of the most profoundly political things you can do.
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by fergie 2y ago
How can a crypto coin even be "VC-backed"? What is the point of crypto coins if they are controlled by nation states? Genuine questions- I don't really understand
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by fergie 2y ago
You are kind of answering your own question here...
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by fergie 2y ago
Did Skype ever, like, actually work? I gave it a few chances over the years, but personally, despite living in an area with very fast broadband, it was always had quality issues. For me, Ichat and Hangouts always worked better.
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by fergie 2y ago
To be fair, they did somehow manage to take over javascript while nobody was looking.
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by fergie 2y ago
Despite the hype, DOGE is about replacing government employees with private contractors rather that actually saving money. Therefore it will almost certainly end up costing more in the long run. At a high level, the current administration i
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by fergie 2y ago
> You have the option of writing your worker in JavaScript/TypeScript, or compiled WASM. Is there any compelling reason not to just compile TypeScript to WASM? Why should it have JavaScript as its compile target?
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by fergie 2y ago
It already is in practice. You can't legally use cloud services for "red" (personal information) or "black" (national security) data in most jurisdictions. Some organizations that are deeply invested in a given tech
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by fergie 2y ago
> Typed languages are essential on teams with mixed experience levels I'm 30 years in now, and on balance, whilst they have clear advantages, I'm still not convinced that typed languages are essential, particularly for low leve
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by fergie 2y ago
The military industrial complex making overtures the incoming administration.
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by fergie 2y ago
In my experience the real objective of the take home exercise is to gauge how compliant the candidate is, and how many obligations they have outside of work. Otherwise it always makes more sense to conduct simple, in-person assessments.
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by fergie 2y ago
Surely both of the examples in the article are using global variables? Nobody ever said global variables are ok if they are an object? (Or did they?)
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by fergie 2y ago
They are "boarding school poor" (ie not poor). The dad is high up in a ministry, where they have all gone to school with each other. The brother is on a tenure track at a major university. They are very well connected. They live i
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by fergie 2y ago
When I was at school in Scotland in the 80s it was a recognised problem that too much of the available childrens literature centred on wealthy kids who went to boarding school. Its ironic therefore that when an impoverished Scottish single
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by fergie 2y ago
See parent comment
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by fergie 2y ago
You have to test that your bundle _actually works_, especially if you are using non-standard compression. But yes- you could bundle less, but that would be a disadvantage, particularly if a bundle suddenly fails and you don’t know which cha
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by fergie 2y ago
Module authors generally have fairly large test suites which are run often- sometimes on each file save. If you have a 1 or 2 second build script its not a huge deal. If that script starts taking 30-60 seconds- you have just hosed productiv
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by fergie 2y ago
I'm curious though- as somebody who is reasonably technical I get why you would prefer Sublime to something like VSCode, but why not Emacs?
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by fergie 2y ago
If you are locked in to TypeScript, you are basically locked in to VSCode (albeit a "soft" lock-in).
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by fergie 2y ago
Props to anyone who tries to make the world a better place. Its not always obvious who has the most important use cases. In the case of NPM they are prioritizing the user experience of module authors. I totally see how this change would be
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by fergie 2y ago
There was a massive disruption to banking in 2008. Governments bailed them out.
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by fergie 2y ago
Interesting- how to you handle templating?
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by fergie 2y ago
> a marketplace for buying opinion Never thought of it like that before
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by fergie 2y ago
You don't seem to have properly read the previous comment or the article. The question (not addressed in the article) is: is there in fact a gigantic, widespread problem of using cache-sniffing to fingerprint users? We have always know
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by fergie 2y ago
This seems to be quite a drastic change that could only have been warranted by a bigger problem than the one outlined in the article. Also strange the way than Osmani preemptively shuts down criticism of the change. What is the actual probl
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by fergie 2y ago
So Tiktok becomes a webapp right?
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by fergie 2y ago
I don't understand (but am open to be persuaded), isn't iteration in js now trivially easy and actually quite powerful? Especially since we can now put 'await' everywhere? What are the killer use cases for this lib?
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by fergie 2y ago
Strange that they are getting humans to do the talking yet robots to do the driving. The former seems a much more likely case for AI than the latter.

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