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by jonahx 3y ago
I didn't believe the conceit -- that the narrator is your wise uncle. It sounded like advice written by a much younger person pretending to be the wise uncle.
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by jonahx 3y ago
It is astonishing, even more so that some in this camp are smart people. I chalk it up to "hype aversion" -- an internal heuristic that anything with so much hype around it must be bullshit. For some, there might also be good old
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by jonahx 3y ago
Obviously, you're not a golfer... This topic is complex. For a more thoughtful take, start with: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
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by jonahx 3y ago
> by a single server maintaining all the states HTTP is stateless. This is the whole point of the hypermedia paradigm. If you have a page with many partial UI page changes over htmx, then yes, this paradigm puts increased load on the se
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by jonahx 3y ago
> This is about client side apps fetching arbitrary JSON payloads, but your htmx backend needs to do the same work, right? You have to work with the raw data you get from your DB (or another service) and then render based on that data. I
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by jonahx 3y ago
Out of curiosity, have you used hyperview? Do you consider it production ready?
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by jonahx 3y ago
> But that isn't because of the technology, it's because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again. Nothing about this technology will stop
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by jonahx 3y ago
This is a useful framing, and personally I learn hard toward the "speaker is responsible" strategy. With that said, I think a continuum is an even more accurate framing. If you are confusing your audience, it is probably your fau
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by jonahx 3y ago
It's unfortunate that this is the top comment, because the "after" samples are clear improvements. This is good old-fashioned writing advice, no different from Strunk and White's "Omit needless words" -- just t
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by jonahx 4y ago
I've had math instruction at the undergraduate and graduate level at top universities, with good instructors that I liked, and I can say without question YouTube is superior. There are many channels with outstanding content. This v
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by jonahx 4y ago
Your argument is "Why care about a selfish species that kills other species indiscriminately while pursuing its own ends?" But that is every species. So why care about any of them? Why even care that we are killing off the goril
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by jonahx 4y ago
> It's a species that mostly doesn't care about other species survival. As opposed to which species that do?
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by jonahx 4y ago
There is a deeper problem. Yes, we can find creative in-class test methods immune to cheaters and GPTs. But if the skill you are testing has been commodified, the deeper problem is to justify learning it at all. Once you have the calculat
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by jonahx 4y ago
It's a surprise even if you restrict your point of view to the narrow economic interests of his employer, UCLA, who benefits from Tao's discoveries. Shelling out another 50k or so for an assistant, even if it boosts his productiv
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by jonahx 4y ago
That is what I was referring to. I wasn’t accusing the teenagers of anything.
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by jonahx 4y ago
I address this in my OP. If you watch the video of the proof, you will see that the "law of sines" is 1 step away from the ratio definition of sin. You just drop one altitude, apply the definition again to the similar triangles,
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by jonahx 4y ago
> What am I missing? Nearly all the nontrivial results of trigonometry do in fact rest on the pythagorean theorem. The trig identities you learned in high school, as well as more advanced results like power series, etc. These results w
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by jonahx 4y ago
It’s the infinite geometric series idea which makes it potentially novel.
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by jonahx 4y ago
It's a very clever proof. Agreed "using trigonometry" is potentially misleading. After reading the proof, the only 2 senses in which "trignometry" is being used are: 1. The term "sin a" is used to denote
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by jonahx 4y ago
I meant golfed vs golfed. Eg, this is a pretty typical result (14 vs 38): https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/258335/shortest... EDIT: Actually, my memory failed me. I just took a quick survey of some m
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by jonahx 4y ago
Also, the original waves are much higher in the middle third and almost flat on the outer thirds: https://i.imgur.com/nlxdkGb.jpg
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by jonahx 4y ago
for reference, golfed k code is typically 1/2 to 1/3 the size of golfed python code, which would be somewhat hard to read for a python programmer unfamiliar with golfing tricks. probably around 1/4 or 1/5 the size of
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by jonahx 4y ago
const crypto = require('crypto') const Block = (index, data, prevHash) => ({ index, data, prevHash, hash: crypto.createHash('sha256').update(index + data + prevHash).digest('he
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by jonahx 4y ago
It's funny to watch the dynamic described in the article play out exactly in this thread by posters who have not read the article.
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by jonahx 4y ago
"All the downstream services are mocked, you don’t need to set up a test environment." Could you elaborate on how this is achieved? Eg, say I have a lambda endpoint and the code in it is querying one or more databases. Are you s
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by jonahx 4y ago
Everything in the post can by explained by "People think the familiar is easy, and the novel is hard." Judged by the standards of a programmer, yes, the suggested solutions are simpler. Judged by the non-technical coworker's
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by jonahx 4y ago
Fantastic. It seems actually securing the model is either computationally infeasible, or outright impossible, and that attempts to do so amount to security theater for the sake of PR: As long as it's reasonably hard to construct the
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by jonahx 4y ago
This is nothing more than the kind of writing that people have complained about since Orwell and Hemingway, and probably long before. HN and SV are not special offenders here. It's just good old-fashioned over-writing. You see it eve
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Uncle Bob and Casey Muratori Discuss Clean Code(github.com)
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by jonahx 4y ago
> I live in a very red and rural area so that probably has something to do with it. They love to have new things to complain about that have no effect on any of us at all. That seems an ungenerous interpretation. I don't doubt that

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