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gedy
8mo ago
Really nice work! But +1 to at least font zoom on HN comments.
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gedy
8mo ago
I think they mean in the markup via <some-tag data={anObject}> ala React, svelte, etc.
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gedy
8mo ago
> For whatever reason, most webcomponent tutorials start with rendering things in their shadow DOM, not the main DOM Yeah this a thing that turns lots of people off from using and it's usually presented as "of course you want t
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gedy
8mo ago
I can see where productivity could be higher if all I did was type in programs to some spec, or bootstrapping new apps all day - but that's like not the reality of "programming", at least for me past 25 years. Sorting through
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gedy
8mo ago
Some folks definitely give off a "How do you do, fellow coders?" vibe
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gedy
8mo ago
When I was doing my graduate work about 20 years ago, I focused on algorithmic art and visualizations (from code perspective), and even then I was making stuff that was at par with the digital media artists in the program (meaning people co
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gedy
8mo ago
> big advances have come from humans having more "idle time" A few people
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gedy
8mo ago
More like house flippers drywalling over the bad wiring and weird framing. "Looks good!"
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gedy
8mo ago
They could stop at F and treat it as hexadecimal by adding digits: Series 4F, etc
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gedy
8mo ago
So that's what 10x means - 10 times the code because your app has no dependencies
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gedy
8mo ago
> Concerns that should have been handled in the initial call, somehow get pushed back till after I've wasted monumental amount of time. Honestly these "reasons" they give are usually BS excuses when it basically amounts to
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gedy
8mo ago
And let's get real: AI companies will not be satisfied with you paying $20 or even $200 month if you can actually develop your product in a few days with their agents. They are either going to charge a lot more or string you along c
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gedy
9mo ago
"code by hand" is frequently figuring out what the project is even supposed to do and not the slow part (at least for me).
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gedy
9mo ago
The silver lining is realizing that many of my mgmt never cared about good code or quality to begin with. So I was fooling myself. The AI/LLM excitement just makes it more obvious now.
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gedy
9mo ago
> I see people at work who are drooling about being able to have code made for them .. but I'm not in that group. In my circles see some overlap with the people who are like: "Done! Let's move on" and don't worr
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gedy
9mo ago
You make it sound so charming, but as an example there’s a rural-ish neighborhood nearby that has a commercial lot which they’re going to put a 24 hour convenience store in. And all the neighbors are freaking out about it because of the cli
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gedy
9mo ago
That's reasonable in many cases, but I've had situations like this for senior UI and frontend positions, and they: don't ask UI or frontend questions. And ask their pet low level questions. Some even snort that it's so
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gedy
9mo ago
We need a plugin to automatically detect AI posts as I'm basically skipping reading or clicking most links now due to a lot of it being generated word soup.
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gedy
9mo ago
Because they aren't writing, it's vibe blogging or whatever
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gedy
9mo ago
Related to the OP comment about LA, are you suggesting that moving manufacturing to China had little impact on manufacturing and pollution in the US?
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gedy
9mo ago
> Environmental regulations are a win. Unfortunately there is a large segment of the population that doesn't believe something ... You aren't wrong, but let's be honest that a lot of that is manufacturing just moved to Chi
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gedy
9mo ago
I think it's largely because they are "content creators" instead of trying to tell a story or share information.
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gedy
9mo ago
DankMaterialShell[0] with catpuccin theme is close to this and way much easier (for me at least) to set up. [0] https://danklinux.com/
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gedy
9mo ago
Sorry if this is an easy-answerable question - but by open we can download this and use totally offline if now or in the future if we have hardware capable? Seems like a great thing to archive if the world falls apart (said half-jokingly)
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9mo ago
It's some Loveable app thing. Fun idea though
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gedy
9mo ago
Yes I had recently tried to fake a scrolling tiling WM this way and surprised it's not available afaics on distros or MacOS? With that said, I love DankMaterialShell along with Niri, it's basically exactly what I had been wanting
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9mo ago
You are right, but I think at the moment, a lot of people are confusing "software engineering" with "set up my react boilerplate with tailwind and unit tests", and AI just is way better for that sort of rote thing. I
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gedy
9mo ago
I think you're assuming way too much about my point and jumping to conclusions, QED
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9mo ago
Team sports basically. And when you point out double standards, you got slammed as some "both sides" guy from the other team pretending to be a centrist.
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9mo ago
Yeah if deportation is now Nazism, then the Allies after WW2 were Nazis too for the millions of mass displaced persons to match new borders.
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