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by nzach 2y ago
> Do you think this is actually faster than reading the docs? It depends on your goals, I guess. Do I really need to read the whole D3.js docs just to transform a csv into a pretty map? I'm not arguing against the docs, I genuinel
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by nzach 2y ago
> the commits produced Maybe this is the problem ? I quite like using LLMs for coding, but I don't think we are in a position where a LLM is able to create a reasonable commit. For me using LLMs for coding is like a pair programming
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by nzach 2y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, Primeagen has a pretty great video on how he used several encoding schemes to save bandwidth in one of his projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9tbqSIm-E
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by nzach 2y ago
> Our Solution: Use Redis and Postgres Database Polling + leader election using RedLock To me this seems one of the worst architectural choices they could have made. I'm assuming they had some constraints that were not mentioned in
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by nzach 2y ago
For context, Technology Connections did an entire video on the brown color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
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by nzach 2y ago
> The death of a program happens when the programmer team possessing its theory is dissolved. I really like this quote. And if we look at what is generally called "legacy software" it mostly fits pretty well with this descripti
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Ask HN: What is your favourite keyboard customizations? (qmk,system config)
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by nzach 2y ago
Yes, Chrome is the de facto standard for the open web. And everyone agrees this is too much power for a single company to have. But most people seem to think that just removing Chrome from Google would fix this issue. People seem to forget
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by nzach 2y ago
> Legislation about architecture decisions taken in software products seems preferable? To me this option seems more practical. And we already have some precedence for this kind of solution. For aviation we have entities like EASA issuin
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by nzach 2y ago
Is this really a problem we need to solve with technology? I've never seen this happen in the real world. But by the motivation presented in the repo as well as some commentaries in this thread I got the impression this is a miscommuni
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by nzach 2y ago
If your goal is to reduce the influence Google has on the browser market is this really the best move? From a practical standpoint I find it hard to believe. While I agree that monopolies era bad for consumers and that the position Chrome c
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by nzach 2y ago
I think the reasoning for DRY was kind of lost in translation. “any time you have to copy paste, look for an opportunity to abstract” assumes that having an abstraction is always better, but I don't think that is the case. In my opinio
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by nzach 2y ago
> My worst experiences universally have always been python projects. Do you mind sharing why do you think this happens ? Although I never worked professionally with python, this sentiment matches with my experiences as a user. So I don&#
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by nzach 2y ago
>But sometimes you will get some feedback. And sometimes that feedback is nasty. Hopefully I wont be one of these, but why do you use bad AI images as the most prominent piece in your posts ? I've read one post and its not bad, but
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by nzach 2y ago
The author suggests everyone should watch the Larry McEnerney lecture but he seems to have missed a pretty important point from that lecture. A really big point Larry tries to make during his lecture is that there are 2 types of writing. On
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by nzach 2y ago
> even when removing features is more efficient Efficient in what sense ? > Our conclusion is that people systematically overlook subtraction; it’s not that subtraction is always better My personal experience agrees with these finding
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by nzach 2y ago
Is the idea of doing statistics directly in the database a relatively new development? This seems like such a great idea, but this is just the first time I read about this. This is a great article, thanks for sharing.
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by nzach 2y ago
This is a fair question. Initially I just assumed this was true. Because someone who did research on this topic would not get something like this wrong. And besides that, if you know a little about the project this name could make some sens
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by nzach 2y ago
> I am not sure why the Go team went down this route. Maybe it simplifies the compiler by having this bespoke assembly format? This was to allow for easy cross-compilation. You should probably clarify that you are talking about 'gol
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by nzach 2y ago
Here is a really bad POC for golang tests, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/nzachow/lmlinter Right now it just prints the prompt in the terminal.
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by nzach 2y ago
>Getting all your teammates to quit giving all their tests names like "testTheThing" is darn near impossible. Sometimes people are pretty bad a coming up new names, but selecting a good name given some options generally isn&#x2
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by nzach 2y ago
In this case is safe to assume abc@foo.com, a.b.c@foo.com and abc+def@foo.com are all the same inbox. So you can just use the canonical form (abc@foo.com) to hide where you got this email address from.
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by nzach 2y ago
Hiding information behind a non-standard encoding is a really smart idea. I will update my technique to use incorporate this method, thanks!
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by nzach 2y ago
I've seen quite a few people here reccomending the use of . and + from gmail, but I don't think its a good idea at all. Most people who work in the 'email marketing' space know about this feature. So it's common to
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by nzach 2y ago
As the sibling said: "not at all". But I see why this could be confusing. In the article he wrote: > Postgres will happily add padding to the underlying data in order to make sure it is properly aligned at the physical layer. H
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by nzach 2y ago
This only applies to streamers who got the game for free. I think this is a bad practice, but it's an already well established practice with 'review outlets'. I remember seeing a yt video a while ago where a reviewer talked a
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by nzach 2y ago
But this doesn't apply to all domains equally. Debbuging, for example, is harder than programming. And the difficulty is related to the 'amount of code' you are debbuging. This means it is pretty easy to verify the Copilot&#x
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by nzach 2y ago
But from a practical standpoint how do you sell 'a branch' of a software-based company? Do you sell/license the software? Do you charge this new company for API access to the 'old' services? I've had a really h
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by nzach 3y ago
Maybe "Redhat for individuals" would be a better business plan? You charge 20 bucks for month, and from this you pay 10 straight to OSS developers and with the other 10 you hire a team to offer a N1 level of support to your custom
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by nzach 3y ago
For a more stdlib-oriented implementation you could look at this proxy: https://github.com/jpillora/go-tcp-proxy/blob/master/proxy.g...

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