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by kjgkjhfkjf 26d ago
A spec-compliant Unicode renderer is expected to render 259 flags [1]. So 8 bits isn't quite enough. You would need 9. Obviously an arbitrary bitmap of dimensions that could be used for a recognizable flag would need orders of magnitud
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by kjgkjhfkjf 26d ago
In case anyone else was curious about using a lookup table: there are there are fewer than 256 recognized countries or territories [1], so 8 bits should be enough for a key. This would be superior to the 11-bit encoding presented here becau
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by kjgkjhfkjf 3mo ago
Perhaps it would be simpler to make all non-essential cookies illegal. I cannot imagine why any reasonable person would want to accept non-essential cookies, other than in the course of following a path of least resistance.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 4mo ago
I wish Cloudflare provided a paved path for user auth. Better Auth seems to be the most common recommendation for Typescript applications, but there currently doesn't seem to be an official integration with Workers either from Better A
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by kjgkjhfkjf 4mo ago
I like the concept. It's fun. Feedback: 1. The ball seems a bit soft. I suggest you get a real golf ball and putter and see how they behave, if you haven't already. 2. It would be nice if the camera positioned automatically so tha
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by kjgkjhfkjf 4mo ago
The script to create the benchmark numbers appears to be inserting 100 batches, not 10. (The benchmark numbers in the table appear to be consistent with the text, so I guess the actual script used to create them was correct.)
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by kjgkjhfkjf 5mo ago
When I left Google in the mid 2010s, there were a couple unusual constraints: 1. They had the majority of their code in a vast++ monorepo. 2. There was a policy that forbade having code from this monorepo on your laptop. Most companies and
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by kjgkjhfkjf 6mo ago
Markdown is much easier to write quickly than HTML. Situations where I write Markdown quickly include writing messages on Slack and for AI chatbots. I wouldn't want to use HTML in either of those cases.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 6mo ago
Seems like it would be simpler to give the agent tools to issue ChromaDB (or SQL) queries directly, rather than giving the LLM unix-like tools that are converted into queries under the hood using a complicated proprietary setup.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 7mo ago
It seems like the author feels like a fraud because they successfully made a contribution without learning anything. The quality of a contribution is not a function of how much you learned or grew while you made it. Learning and growth are
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by kjgkjhfkjf 7mo ago
> if you have a job where you create complexity for others, you will be found out This explains the panic. It describes most roles in big tech.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 7mo ago
The article seems to conflate complexity and scalability, but there's a kernel of truth to its premise. The larger the tech company, the more maddening the processes tend to be. Maybe the next generation of AI-enabled companies will be
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by kjgkjhfkjf 8mo ago
The article is a bit dense, but what it's announcing is effectively golang's `defer` (with extra braces) or a limited form of C++'s RAII (with much less boilerplate). Both RAII and `defer` have proven to be highly useful in r
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by kjgkjhfkjf 8mo ago
I was very impressed by AI-generated CSS when I didn't know CSS. Then I learned CSS. Now I am not as impressed by AI-generated CSS.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 8mo ago
I feel like this book has aged badly, particularly the parts about encounters with very young girls. It's also very repetitive and far too long, in my opinion.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 9mo ago
I clicked on the link expecting information on how to shed big tech's golden handcuffs. Instead of that, I was assaulted with a bunch of barely coherent bragging about the author's career and sex life. 1/5 would not click aga
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by kjgkjhfkjf 9mo ago
Cloudflare's goal is to become the default choice for anyone deploying an app to the cloud. It makes sense for them to support popular frameworks such as Astro, so that they can ensure that the frameworks work very well on their Worker
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by kjgkjhfkjf 9mo ago
Proposals like these seem to assume that FOSS is mostly produced by unpaid volunteers. But a lot of the open-source stuff that I personally use is produced by massively profitable companies. For example, I am currently working with React, w
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by kjgkjhfkjf 10mo ago
Yep, and I think it is a great way to draw attention to their work!
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by kjgkjhfkjf 10mo ago
I'm glad you wrote it up. Thanks! But I feel like the folks behind the HTML5 spec and the comprehensive test suite deserve the lion's share of the credit for this (very neat) achievement. Most projects don't have a detailed s
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by kjgkjhfkjf 10mo ago
It would be very interesting to see a post-mortem for each of the design mistakes, with links to the original design discussions and docs, and analysis of how the decision-making process went astray.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 10mo ago
That's an interesting point, but in many (most?) cases productivity doesn't depend on all services being available at the same time. If one service goes down, you can usually be productive by using an alternative (e.g. if HN is do
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by kjgkjhfkjf 10mo ago
The system rewards people who can exploit it.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 11mo ago
To be fair to Rust, the issue was an "unwrap" in the Rust code[0]. "unwrap" means "if the operation did not succeed then panic". Production Rust code should not use "unwrap", and should instead have l
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by kjgkjhfkjf 11mo ago
My guess is that Claude's "bad days" are due to the service becoming overloaded and failing over to use cheaper models.
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by kjgkjhfkjf 11mo ago
Seems like a substantial fraction of the web was brought down because of a coding error that should have been caught in CI by a linter. These folks weren't operating for charity. They were highly paid so-called professionals. Who will
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by kjgkjhfkjf 11mo ago
The repo[0] currently has been forked ~41300 times. [0] https://github.com/wesbos/JavaScript30
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by kjgkjhfkjf 11mo ago
This is quite likely to be in the training data, since it's one of the projects in Wes Bos's free 30 days of Javascript course[0]. [0] https://javascript30.com/
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by kjgkjhfkjf 11mo ago
I love it!
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by kjgkjhfkjf 1y ago
CTO is usually the exec responsible for the entire tech org. The CTO reports to the CEO, and the top managers and maybe a few ICs in the tech org report to the CTO.

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