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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
React is fine. It's main problem is a lack of guardrails to stop bad engineering cultures from doing stupid things.
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
Looking at the 849 Testarossa again, that car is stunningly beautiful. Any Ferrari will forever remain out of my reach but that car is one child me would dream about. That is the criteria by which I judge these things and Ive's blue so
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
How very unexciting. Works for laptops, Ive should stick to that. Compare that to the next car on the list, now that's thrilling. https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/849-testarossa
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
What is it with company blogs that outright refuse to link to their product pages?
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
LLMs as a technology are neutral and largely act as amplifiers. Now, there is not an ounce of decency between our SV overlords and I have zero trust they will choose to amplify the right things. On the contrary, their apparent ideal state i
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
Drill baby drill. And to lighten the mood, the US has more yoga teachers than coal miners: https://www.sfgate.com/columnists/article/Yoga-teachers-vs-c...
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
Much came after Deno added them. I don't know what will happen to Deno, but I am glad they showed the Node world than life can be a little more pleasant
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
Wikipedia on Situs Inversus (visceral organs are mirrored, heart on the right, liver on left) [0], mentions mixed results regarding handedness. There would be a load of other confounding factors here and I know nothing about medicine. 0 -
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
> In regards to the whole ecosystem: TC39 should take a look into adding a better standard library to JS itself, which would reduce the amount of one-liner packages. I concur, the best part of working with Deno way back was its standard
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
The effort required to set this up far outweighs the price to pay someone to do it for me. I pay a cleaner, I have a dishwasher, I pay someone to do my taxes, I pay for companies to host software. Then again, I never order food and almost n
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
The carousel also had a political component: you can have every exec's pet project above the fold on the start page. Users develop banner blindness and scroll past without noticing. In an odd way everybody wins. > The real irony is
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
Band and severely punish systematic violations of privacy. Regulate the poison first, not the access to it. All this age verification nonsense is an admission that some platforms knowingly harm their users. And instead of fixing the issue b
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
> Eventually, [Zuckerberg] manages to sit next to Xi at a dinner where he begs Xi to name his next child. Xi turns him down. That Mark never fails to deliver.
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
To answer your question: talking to a human. Medicine is so much more than "knowledge, experience, and pattern matching", as any patient ever can attest to. Why is it so hard for some people to understand that humans need other hu
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
I never looked in to the details of these benchmarks, I live with the assumptions that most benchmarks of any kind are gamed and useless. What I do see in my own work and that of others around me, is that Claude consistently outperforms Gem
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
> The surface area for these kinds of attacks is so large it isn't even funny. The surface area is as large as natural language permits, so basically infinite. To this day I haven't heard of a convincing means of dealing with i
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
Remind me, was there a major event 5-6 years ago?
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
I regularly prompt and re-prompt the clanker with esoteric terms like "subtractive changes", "create by removing" and more common phrases like "make the change easy, then make the easy change", "yagni&quot
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
I hate every bit about this madness.
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
I've used Zed since the very beginning and I remain a fan. Its LLM integration so far has been a lot more pleasant than what I see in others and the editor is perfectly usable without using LLMs. Its multi buffer and speed sound trivia
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
Can't argue with that. The context of that quote was Europe defending itself and the reality that most European states are simply not ready for such a high level of attrition.
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
The US' immediate material losses are peanuts, of course. And Iran's are massive. Weeks after declaring victory, it remains a strategic blunder with no obvious way out. The Hormuz quagmire was expected and the vile Iranian regime
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
I have come to believe, based on little other than my limited experience, that the targeting does not matter. Facebook provides users with virtual crack. User pays for the high with attention. This attention is sold off to the highest bidde
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
The ideas that I as a civilian was sold over the past decades don't appear to hold up any longer. As someone a while back put it, Russia lost several Bundeswehrs worth of equipment and keeps on grinding. Neither side is able to mass la
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
Gaining (more) strategic independence, costly as it may be, is cheaper than the potential price a deranged US government can inflict. We have >3 more years of Trump, that is plenty of time to get a ball rolling. I hope Europe finally doe
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
> We believe the attacking group to be highly sophisticated and, I strongly suspect, significantly accelerated by AI. Reads like the script of a hacker scene in CSI. "Quick, their mainframe is adapting faster than I can hack it. The
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
Last year Vercel bungled the security response to a vulnerability in Next's middleware. This is nothing new. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448723 https://xcancel.com/javasquip/status/
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
I haven't used Cloudflare and am the first to shit on Vercel. But I have to say, some aspects of their hosting are nice. In many ways it really is just a terminal command and up it goes with good tooling around it. For example, the PR
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
So the olympic games do pit near-identical competitors against each other. > The Olympics is just watching the people who won genetic lotteries. So? The olympic games should be the pinnacle of human performance (fed by their nation'
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by gherkinnn 6mo ago
A doc holding your balls and asking you to cough checks for an inguinal hernia, where your intestine pushes through the inguinal canal. This canal is much wider in men, hence it being much more common in men. I am in no position to judge th

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