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by lucideer 3y ago
This is absolutely true, but I haven't seen any language ecosystems that have gotten things wrong as often as Python. And quite a few where the tradeoffs are minor enough to be well worth some sanity & consistency.
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by lucideer 3y ago
I think you might have misinterpreted the commenter you're replying to: it sounds like you're arguing for the same side of the argument?
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by lucideer 3y ago
There's no hard line to be drawn anywhere - trying to shoehorn the argument into the metaphor of a line somewhere doesn't track. Two framings to attempt to answer your question reasonably: Framing 1: Should information on all the
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by lucideer 3y ago
This is very true in this case, but not in all cases, & I think the gp's point w.r.t. such things being (relatively) obscured applies universally. All systems stand to benefit from constructive feedback on things being clearer &amp
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by lucideer 3y ago
> people might not want to care [...] you sound like you are chastising others for not caring. You sound like you're reading things from my comments that suit your own rebuttal rather than what I've actually said. From my fir
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by lucideer 3y ago
> Who wrote the network transport code that shepherded the bits from your post to the hacker news backend? What Ethernet devices did it transit and who wrote that code? What tradeoffs were made between hardware performance characteristi
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by lucideer 3y ago
> Joe Schmoe and Programmmer Paul live in two different worlds This is essentially the problem: the driving of the world to extremes. Joe's & Paul's worlds are demarcated by the systems they operate in. Their knowledge is
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by lucideer 3y ago
> But as an user, why would he/she care about how it works I find this (extremely prevalent) perspective increasingly demoralising. Why wouldn't he/she care? There's an important distinction here between the use o
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by lucideer 3y ago
> We don't want the "always copy paste" scenario surely. We want the model to guide people towards becoming stronger engineers, not weaker ones. I don't think that these kind of safety-rails help or work toward this
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by lucideer 3y ago
> "It's better and safer for people to remain ignorant" is a terrible take, and surprising to see on HN. Noone is saying that - that's your reframing of it to suit your point. AI isn't the canonical source of i
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by lucideer 3y ago
> Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI & from her own blogpost on this announcement[0]: > I will return to supporting the CEO and leadership team as I have done previously as Exec Chair. In addition, I will exp
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by lucideer 3y ago
This (unlike the op) is actually great. Truly surprised to find something like this in 2024. Thanks for the link!
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by lucideer 3y ago
This is indeed an impressive resource if you're compiling a set of examples for a slidedeck on the vacuousness of "design" in corporatised digital marketing. Bookmarked.
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by lucideer 3y ago
I think what this article describes is normal & probably "smart" from Bytedance's perspective. > Social media success is a delicate balance No it isn't. It's three things: 1. Luck / Startup x-factor: w
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by lucideer 3y ago
It's not supposed to be, but I wish it were. An accurate source of slang & contemporary language would be fantastic.
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by lucideer 3y ago
> The sheer usefulness and viability of Urban Dictionary attests to the fact that most people don't actually care about licenses. Urban Dictionary is indeed extremely useful, but I think making this out to be evidence that people
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by lucideer 3y ago
The core app itself is 100% Rust, but it supports integration via Microsoft's Language Server Protocol[0][1]. In practice, this means you will be running daemons locally for each language, which may be written in any language. Often th
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by lucideer 3y ago
StrictYAML is a great initiative. On the other side of the fence I also love JSON5, for opposite reasons - it's essentially "UnstrictJSON". JSON5 has achieved a reasonably high level of adoption (though I think it's plat
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by lucideer 3y ago
> it was an advancement That was certainly the selling point. I never saw any advancements in it - the features were aesthetic syntactic sugar.
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by lucideer 3y ago
> I don’t understand why people are still using it It's a good comaparator, there are indeed a lot of similarities, but I never understood why anyone ever used Coffeescript whereas I do think I have a solid understanding of why pe
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by lucideer 3y ago
This is exactly my point. There are systemic reasons for these systems to be underresourced - there's absolutely no need for theories about deliberately crippling OSS offerings.
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by lucideer 3y ago
> The lesson is that you absolutely cannot trust corporations to uphold OSS ethos I'm absolutely with you here but I think this is a matter of least worst situations: I still think an OSS corporation trumps a non-OSS corporation r
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by lucideer 3y ago
> some subtle missing documentation or some subtle bugs or some subtle missing important features Unless you're implying that Supabase are for some reason deliberately releasing separate defective software to the open source commu
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by lucideer 3y ago
All of the problems you point out are entirely related to money in politics though. The gp said "Democracy is being eroded if an actual power can be obtained through accumulating wealth" - that's the point here. Politicians a
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by lucideer 3y ago
> based on a misunderstanding of how houses are actually built/designed/engineered. Most of what you see being built today is dimensioned based on available timber. It's part of why all the houses look the same It's
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by lucideer 3y ago
> The difference is subtle, but significant. In the pull request model, you create a fork of the original repository, push changes to it, and ultimately propose to merge changes back. In the change proposal model, you prepare a change,
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by lucideer 3y ago
> or my job stays relevant As an abstract, I would wager AI will take off AND your job will stay relevant. As an individual, the relevance of your skillset within the professional sphere is more variable - some jobs change more frequen
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by lucideer 3y ago
Origin & usage of the term are fine, but structurally a lot of that Wikipedia article seems like original research. Also, grouping the current "AI summer" in the "2005-" category seems questionable.
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by lucideer 3y ago
I think many people on both sides of the "AI is a bubble" debate seem to continuously carry the same misconception: that significance is somehow tied to merit. On the "AI is just a bubble" side we have: AI is not as good
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by lucideer 3y ago
> It would be nice if you could style it in different ways I think a big part of the problem here boils down to much of the thinking behind specs being accessibility=screen-readers, rather than considering accessibility in terms of UX

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