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by hinkley 9mo ago
As a Saas or tool company, you’re a manufacturer or maybe a wholesaler. Your customers are paying you $1000 a month to handle a process that is worth $10k to them and might be worth $50k to their customers. If you lose that data you haven’t
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Scholomance but it’s highschool!
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by hinkley 9mo ago
RXJS is also 18 MB which is irritating in a backend but completely bonkers in a frontend.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
> ease of debugging I had thought to start trying to contribute to the Grafana project and it turns out the whole frontend is React and some completely impenetrable flavor of it to boot. How do people work like this? It’s insane.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I think shopping gets this in spades too because not all shopping sites are meant to be particularly sticky. It's one thing to browse the catalog at my leisure on gigabit networking, a 5k display and 16 CPU cores. It's another thi
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by hinkley 9mo ago
> Anything not related to rendering should be made async, The thing with DOM interaction is that if you try to make it synchronous then it gets really fucking slow (reflow and friends). So you want it linearized for sanity reasons, but p
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The irony is that CSS works fairly okay for the small number of UI elements and web games that are decidedly not documents. Or perhaps that's not so much irony as filling in the gaps.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The reason I'm a backend dev at the moment is that I looked at the React model and decided I didn't want anything to do with this insanity. I've been appalled by how long and how broadly the mass hysteria lasted.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Now that you mention it, whatever I was watching that talked about this, also addressed the negative impact on the local textile industry. So do you expect this law will increase the amount of dumping? Sounds like it might.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’ve heard there’s a practice of selling bundles of clothes to Africa and then the purchases pick through the bundle for what’s good and what’s useless. The impression I was left with is that this used to be more lucrative but now you’re al
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I wonder if QA was given the job of vetting the seeds.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I hear this one. I tend to catch patterns in tempo as much or more so as timbre and this is awfully close on both accounts. I don’t hear the Chris Fisher comparison that was also posted. So I would say that where there is smoke there is som
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I don’t agree with this one, which puts me at one yes and one no. But it is always possible that this is what Chris sounds like in his own head. Nobody listening to audio will hear it the way he does.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Well remember that how your voice sounds to you isn’t what other people hear. But I’m the guy who blurts out how the voice actor for the gate guard played the brother in that movie with that guy. And I can hear what he’s complaining about.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
The rate of the mistakes versus the rate of consumers and testers finding them was a ratio we could deal with and we don’t have the facilities to deal with the new ratio. It is likely over time that AI code will necessitate the use of more
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Humans who fail to do so find the list of tasks they’re allowed to do suddenly curtailed. I’m sure there is a degree of this with LLMs but the fanboys haven’t started admitting it yet.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Seems like it should be possible to compress the hell out of any column with an index. Problem is you can always drop an index on a running system.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Ruh roh.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I believe this is only the second game I ever finished. But also the first I used the internet to finish.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
They bragged about it being procedural in interviews. What I was never clear on was the degree of cherry picking they did. There were 800 worlds on something like nine disks, each unique and peppered with minerals and artifacts.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Starflight is the great grandfather of No Man’s Sky, and the first game I availed myself of using Internet databases to find obscure facts about the game. There was no website. It was some group of people curating a text document that was r
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by hinkley 9mo ago
That data structure isn’t an array of numbers, it’s an array of pointers to objects.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Hmm. That’s fair, though I’d probably use set operations instead. What you find though is that for most other problems besides diffing, ID order is not chronological order, so you need to sort by a date stamp instead. But I’m typically lett
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by hinkley 9mo ago
That’s great for mean, but you don’t need to sort for mean.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Approximations are often good enough, and even annealing tended to give you a better answer if you were willing to wait. Exhaustive search is NP. But part of TSP is that once you have a good answer, you can backtrack on a larger number of b
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Fruit farmers are furious.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Well you’ve got less of a capitalist filter on that than I feared but I think you’ve got the cart before the horse. The parts that relate to open source are this: when you have riches, you share them. People making a genuine effort to recip
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by hinkley 9mo ago
You can do a lot of pointer tagging in 64 bit pointers. Do we have CPUs with true 64 bit pointers yet? Looks like the Zen 4 is up to 57 bits. IIRC the original x86_64 CPUs were 48 bit addressing and the first Intel CPUs to dabble with large
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’ve already been in a few ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ rounds. What’s a few more.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
What are their losses like?

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