flimsypremise

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by flimsypremise 3y ago
The real failure here was the failure to recognize the sunk cost fallacy. My team attempted the pursue the "supported" path with Concourse for a recent project, and I watched them bang their heads for a week, realized it wasn&#x27
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I would say that containers are the foundation of the practice of reproducible builds. They don't solve the problem on their own, but containerization is a core element of the best practice of reproducible builds, along with utilizatio
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
See now that right there is the issue. _IF_ your developer team and CI environment are all using a similar recent Go. Maybe you can keep this going with a single application and a small team that is actively maintaining that application, bu
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I'll be honest, I just don't think this is a great way to do development in any language: `ko builds images by executing go build on your local machine` If you've done any sort of work with service or application development
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I mean, you could do that, but as someone who has been doing this for a very long time, I would not recommend it. If your application is very simple and has very few dependencies it might work, though I think you'll have a lot of troub
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Man if you think 2MB is big, you should check out the size of the build product from a compiled language. And if you have an issue with nested dependencies, you've should check out the build a Python or C application which similarly re
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I mean, JS is a language, so this would not really qualify. I have to wonder how you expose the state of your C# app to the JS when that needs to happen. Perhaps... with JSON? In which case you are just doing JSON API + distributed state, e
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Not sure what you're really saying here. Teams often use languages because their existing codebases and the proficiencies of their existing members, but "we use that language for backend so we should use it for frontend" is t
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
If you're using JS modules and ESLint, you are using a frontend build. You can certainly go back to the days of jquery and vanilla CSS with none of the advantages of modern dependency management, transpilation and module loading, but i
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
You render server-side in JS/TS. You can use the same components, same tests, same code running on the server and client. That's the whole advantage.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
This article misses the single most important reason to use SSR: single language applications are single build applications. Frontend builds are basically a requirement for any application with a UI. You're always going to have CSS, an
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
They've done it so many times at this point that they don't actually have to bother sending in the CIA, they just make their preference clear and let the "or else" remain unspoken.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Putin didn't have that kind of power nationally during the Yeltsin years. He was powerful in St. Petersburg, but he would never have risen to national prominence had Yeltsin not hand-picked him as his successor. Yeltsin, in turn, was p
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
So many Americans naively believe this fairy story about their country, when the reality is a lot darker and more brutal. The intervention in Iran was neither an isolated event, nor was even close to the first coup that the US perpetrated a
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
So.. what's your argument here? That the coup didn't happen? That it wasn't backed by the US and Britain? That is was good actually? this is the general strategy of people who don't want to face up to factual terrible th
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
As someone who has been doing frontend, backend, systems administration and general black magic since before the jquery days, I can tell you that managing frontend requirements was absolute hell back then. You literally had to put the scrip
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Using facing meaning they have a UI. Even the simplest of which has some degree of CSS and generally a bit of JS. Unless you want to go back to the jquery and vanilla CSS days, which I can promise you none of the your developers will thank
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
You could, but I doubt anyone with budget responsibilities is going to appreciate you making hiring more difficult and expensive.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
15 years ago a frontend build was not a thing. You managed what few javascript and CSS dependencies you had via the order of the script and style tags in the header. Now a frontend build is a baked in requirement of any user-facing applicat
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Making a self taught transition to any field is possible. You just have to be interested enough and motivated/disciplined enough to plow through the tough parts of the learning curve.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Hah, came here to post basically this. One of the clearest illustrations of what I call Silicon Valley Brain.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Whenever I read something like this I roll my eyes and assume the person writing it is either pretty junior or the specific founder type who has weirdly dysfunctional expectations about why their employees work for them. I think a lot of th
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Did you attempt the exact same prompts, or do what the paper suggests you do and randomize the inputs slightly so that there's absolutely no way it can rely on training data? If I were running OpenAI and I saw this paper on Hacker News
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Zero loss of energy to heat in any of the conductors. You're not making the battery more efficient, you're making everything else more efficient.
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
What exactly in that reply makes you think that GTP-4 has an internal representation of "what is a giraffe"? You basically fed it the context in which to answer the question in your prompt, by asking it to consider a world were gi
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I've tried it with both, and it makes the same error. Copilot doesn't even get close. This is just one example of many. Beyond a certain degree of complexity, for problems that aren't documented in some tutorial or answer som
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Yes, the language model is certainly capable of assembling text from different sources and getting an answer that tends to be mostly coherent, but that is exactly what LLMs are designed to do. To the LLM is doesn't actually matter that
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I'm not surprised it can write that regex and explain it, because that's a pretty simple regex and regexes generally are very well documented. Here's something it can't do: I was writing a python script that took a list
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I'm going to bet that if you do some searching, you can turn up some text on the internet where someone was asking "how many of x animal would it take to y human task", and answered the question using a neuron comparison. It&
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
What's funny is that ChatGPT is quite literally a Chinese room.

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