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A Real World React -> htmx Port https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
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3y ago
You can always incrementally add dynamic features using web components when HTMX and similar things aren't a good fit. It doesn't have to be either HTMX or JS-first frameworks. Our industry's fixed mindset of JS/React vs
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3y ago
Byzantine history is interesting and vastly underappreciated (IMO). If you'd like to learn a bit more, the "12 Byzantine Rulers" podcast is a good place to start. It starts off a touch stiff, but loosens up and is great overa
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4y ago
> Why without VC? Outside capital injection is important for most businesses, and it doesn't make sense to avoid it on principle A tiny fraction of businesses that are started are suitable for VCs. Most businesses aren't unicor
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4y ago
Either way, it means more levers of control by the CCP, which is not positive if you're trying to run a business. It introduces more uncertainty if nothing else, which is a negative.
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4y ago
> I think it was that an American company took it over, not that a company took it over. A small clarification, Gitea Ltd. which owns the trademark and domain is (apparently) based in China. https://forum.forgefriends.org/
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4y ago
>>> - Opening Google Calendar on my personal phone with my personal calendar took about 6s to interactivity - Opening Google Calendar on my MacBook (2017, dual core) took about 5s - Opening Google Calendar on my MacBook with an &qu
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4y ago
> Opening Google Calendar on my personal phone with my personal calendar took about 6s to interactivity Are you using the personal version of Workspaces, or just the free version? I use the enterprise version of Google Workspaces, which
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4y ago
First, I commend you for writing efficient and snappy apps. People who care about quality and user experience are rare in any field! However, Google Calendar (which I use a lot) takes 20-25 seconds to load on my relatively recent i7 laptop
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4y ago
> You know what I love as a user? When I have to wait for a network trip before the Button I clicked on does anything. There is always so much cognitive dissonance for me when I read performance complaints like this from React/JS fo
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4y ago
Note: If you're using SQLite as your production database, N+1 queries are generally not a problem [1]. This is because queries are just a function call and don't involve any messaging round trip to a server (i.e., they're ver
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4y ago
> There’s alway a “React-y” way to do something. There are ways to most anything. The question is whether it is a good or not. The best/worst thing React did to web development is taking a cleaver and splitting the front end and the
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4y ago
It is very true that the types of situations you mentioned are very painful with just HTML/CSS/Vanilla JS. However, React is no longer the only game in town for the things you mentioned. LowJS frameworks like Unpoly with a good se
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4y ago
> RU, going through an active war is actually/literally has relevant industrial base to rearm Russia doesn't have any money to rearm. Their economy is smaller than Canada, is about the same size as Italy, and ~9X smaller than t
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4y ago
> By comparison, solar and wind seem like classic "worse is better." > I know the HN crowd loves big engineering, and that in theory all these problems could be solved with enough investment and practice building plants etc.
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> Uncles modified RO/RO is literally just a military amphib ship with defenses stripped out, i.e it does 90% of the job. Uncle has converted his private ferry [0] and other vessels to act as amphibious assault and support vessels. C
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> NATO recognized the independence of the separatist regions and then had them invite NATO to assist them militarily. This is precisely what Russia did. NATO literally established the precedent here. How is that remotely comparable when
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> Why should China side with US over Ukraine's territorial integrity as US violates Chinese territorial integrity? I'm asking you and the CCP to stand for Ukraine's territorial integrity and to rebuke Russia. If territoria
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The Chinese would have to pull off the most difficult military operation in the books (i.e., a contested amphibious landing into heavily defended shores), with a force that has never conducted a major operation of any kind, while using uncl
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None of that excuses the CCP's hypocrisy ignoring Ukraine's territorial integrity, simply because they want to support Russia. I'm willing to say that the US was dead wrong in some (not all) of those situations. Are you willi
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You should not believe the CCP's self serving, feigned morality. If the UN and international norms were so important to the Chinese Communist Party, they would condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which they steadfastly refuse to
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4y ago
Avtually, he is correct and you are badly misunderstanding the U.S. position of strategic ambiguity [0]. The PRC and the ROC believed for decades and each one claimed that they are both the one true China and the other is an imposter. The U
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China simply does not have the amphibious capabilities for an invasion let alone sustainment of an invading force. All the estimates I've looked at says they won't have that capability for around another ten years or so. A blockad
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4y ago
This is amazing! Thank you for this wonderful project. It looks like you've taken care many issues I've experienced with asdf (startup performance, shims, bad/confusing commands, etc.). It looks like I might not need to add a
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That doesn't make any sense., and there was something else going on. Eich's position was exactly the same as the platform that Obama when he initially ran for president. Somehow that supposedly makes Eich unfit to run a company, b
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I'll bite, here are a few reasons: - No N+1 query problems - Far lower latency - Easier to install, configure (you can issue a couple of special SQL statements, that's it), and maintain (no db service to monitor!) - Better securit
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> If you think about it from an attack surface perspective, there are numerous advantages to isolating the database. The attack surface on PG or MySQL is a lot larger and there are a lot more moving parts than SQLite (which is just a fil
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4y ago
Assuming management who actually care about their people (a tiny minority), I've seen companies allow employees to vote whether the company should have layoffs or temporarily reduce everyone's salaries by various means (e.g. furlo
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Just because something bad happens frequently, it doesn't somehow less bad. If anything, the frequency makes it worse. Also, the Big Tech companies have to hire non-coding positions that will have a lot harder time finding a job than t
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4y ago
The higher up the food chain you go, the more arbitrary and random it becomes. The strategy around these layoffs are typically very poorly conceived and mostly involve cutting to a number across the board, which is random and pants on head
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