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by jongjong 1y ago
The Turkish nut dealers will cave in first once their pantry at home runs out of Nutella.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Good to know that the brain finds a way to flush itself while awake. I think I've become pretty good at putting unused parts of my brain to sleep while awake. My brain is like that of a dolphin now. But on rare occasions (like a couple
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by jongjong 1y ago
In my 15 year software engineering career, the most money I could have cashed out was around $110k in crypto space; that was the value my crypto peaked at but it would have required unlocking my tokens which would have lost me my forging po
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by jongjong 1y ago
I disagree with this as well to some extent. I see how much big corporations spend on "maintenance" and all the bureaucracy involved. It's easy money for them and their employees. Too easy. The problem with Europe is that the
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by jongjong 1y ago
No government should be using big tech products. It's essentially corruption IMO. There are so many smaller, cheaper, better alternatives. And these days, building software is not that difficult. There are a lot of open source stacks t
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by jongjong 1y ago
But the infrastructure is highly centralized and only certain chosen entities can operate gTLDs and certificate authorities. It's extremely misleading to call it 'free software'. Why can't there be multiple competing sys
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by jongjong 1y ago
We need to replace the DNS system with a blockchain-based alternative where people can own domains on-chain without renewal fees. The public key used to encrypt data would be shown alongside the IP addresses registered for that domain name
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by jongjong 1y ago
I love tinkering but I'm very minimalist as far as tooling is concerned. I don't like to use too many tools. I only use tools to automate activities that I do frequently. I don't try to micromanage and automate every aspect o
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by jongjong 1y ago
I have a computer science degree and quite experienced. In the last 10 years, I've created a few side projects and also worked as a senior engineer professionally. I was engineer #3 at what later became the #1 biggest Maths e-learning
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by jongjong 1y ago
2 months ago, after I started using Claude Code on my side project, within the space of days, I went from not allowing a single line of AI code into my codebase to almost 100% AI-written code. It basically codes in my exact style and I know
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by jongjong 1y ago
Software development is one of these things which often seems really easy from the outside but can be insanely complicated. I had this experience with my co-founder where I was shipping features quickly and he got used to a certain pace of
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by jongjong 1y ago
If I had the mental capacity and time to write it in assembly, then that would be better. But then probably still not worth it due to added maintenance challenges. I guess it's really about mental capacity and time. The difference in t
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by jongjong 1y ago
>> hey, I have this vibe-coded app, would you like to make it production-ready This makes me cringe because it's a lot harder to get LLMs to generate good code when you start with a crappy codebase. If you start with a good codeb
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by jongjong 1y ago
I still can't believe my own eyes that when I show an LLM my codebase and I tell it what functionality I want to add in reasonable detail, it can produce perfect looking code that I could have written myself. I would say that AI is bet
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by jongjong 1y ago
Though at least with CORS, once you actually get the damn thing working, it keeps working.
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by jongjong 1y ago
IMO, the idea of trying to blur the line between client and server is a big mistake. I worked on WebSocket frameworks in the Node.js space so I was also tempted but I completely abandoned this approach years ago. Though with Node.js, I do o
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by jongjong 1y ago
For CRUD applications with real-time updates, I find that updating individual fields as opposed to overwriting the entire record works sufficiently well. It can be dome relatively cheaply using WebSockets. Would be overkill to use HTTP to u
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by jongjong 1y ago
I think the analogy between JavaScript and TypeScript is not 100% because although JavaScript has some quirks in its design, it is fully consistent. My biggest issue with math is symbols that are reused to mean different things in different
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes, it's impossible for a distributed system to figure out the collaborative intent when it sees conflicting changes... Even the people who made the changes may not 'know' what is the correct way to resolve the conflict... F
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by jongjong 1y ago
If we want to maximize justice instead of corporate performance then we have to abolish the system, confiscate corporate wealth and redistribute it equally. That would probably be more just than what we have today... But the corporations w
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by jongjong 1y ago
Makes sense. It's easier to be right by saying no, but this mindset costs great opportunities. People who are interested in their own career management can't innovate. You can't innovate without taking career-ending risks. Yo
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by jongjong 1y ago
I get it though. Big tech's HR sucks big time. You need super intelligent people for this kind of work. You can't have incompetent people with PhDs holding back the real brains. I don't know how it's possible that compan
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by jongjong 1y ago
Interesting, I remember a few years back when I bought my car in Australia, there was a car shortage. Which was weird. It was really hard to find certain models of popular brands... One of my motivations for buying a new car at the time was
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by jongjong 1y ago
I'm not really interested in communism but I will support it if it lets me have a Blockchain-based DNS system. All the arguments I'm hearing against a Blockchain DNS system are rooted in petty crony-capitalist thinking. This kind
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by jongjong 1y ago
Speaking of DNS, I still cannot comprehend why we still rely on the current complex, aging, centralized, rent-seeking DNS. It's one one of the few parts of the internet which could potentially be replaced over time with very little dis
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by jongjong 1y ago
Ok now all we need is an AI transformer model which can handle bezier curve embeddings as primitives instead of vector embeddings.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Well even those are perfectly consistent and deterministic. The casting rules are contrived and inelegant, but they're consistent.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Great point. Also, having to support multiple IDs is a maintenance headache. IMO, a major problem solved by UUIDs is the ability to create IDs on the client-side, hence, they are inherently user-facing. A major reason why this is an importa
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by jongjong 1y ago
This article makes a solid case. The worst kinds of bugs in software are not the most obvious ones like syntax errors, they are the ones where the code appears to be working correctly, until some users do something slightly unusual after a
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yep pretty much. It's just absurd. I wonder if billionaires notice any difference at all going from a net worth of $100 billion to $200 billion. I doubt they feel any difference at all in their lifestyles or happiness levels. Maybe the

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