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by pmontra 5mo ago
I'm making more than 50% of my money from a Rails app providing a JSON API to a Vue frontend. The only HTML sent by Rails to the browser is a page with the Vue code and the initial data. It's not the first web app with a similar a
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> Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, or Star Wars (ok, space opera), where engagements take place at absurdly short ranges. I think that is we could maneuver spaceships like cars and get from place to place in seconds then we would engage
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All of those authors usually have to resort to the idea of "shipping lanes" so if the heroes are stranded between two planets eventually someone else will pass close to them on the way from one of those planets to the other one. T
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Babylon 5 is at the beginning of the uncanny valley of computer graphics so it looks funny (I think they used Amigas) but if you pretend that those effects are of current cinema quality, everything else is good. They travel with hyperspace
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The point of OP could be right but I decide to provide a counter example. This morning I asked Claude to find why locale = empty string slipped into some of our customers records. Of course it's something I used to do myself but it did
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A probably very naive question: why not pistons?
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$17,500 (15k Euro) is not low cost in most of Europe but hey, it's still cheaper than most of the other new EV cars. What we need is a car under 10k.
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The article is from April, a different F1 world. The ratio between the combustion engine and the battery is currently 50/50, when it's not 50 and 0 because the battery is empty. That has led to a number of inconveniences. Among th
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by pmontra 5mo ago
I used both Rails and Phoenix. ActiveRecord is more pleasant to work with than the ORM of Phoenix IMHO, but not everyone shares the same feeling. Despite having built in concurrency my team ended up building a version of Sidekiq because sup
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What I'm seeing is a little eternal September of support tickets about programs that fail to interface the JSON API of a customer of mine. The API is always allucinated. In the best case there are out of place attributes. Often they do
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The easiest way is still too verbose. I quote an example. After a record got into r: Integer id = r.getValue(AUTHOR.ID); String firstName = r.getValue(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME); String lastName = r.getValue(AUTHOR.LAST_NAME); I would ex
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Anecdotally, I bought a HP laptop in 2014 with the basic 8 GB of internal RAM (4+4) and two 8 GB chips from a third party vendor. I opened the box and immediately threw away the 4+4 and replaced them with the 8+8. As you can guess it was mu
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Web services could have at least one developer using Firefox and another one using Safari. I'm the one with Firefox for my customers. Their web apps work with at least Chrome and Firefox. Safari is on them, if they have a Mac. Nobody e
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Could you give an example? I've been working with a Linux desktop since 2009 and everything seems to work.
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https://xunroll.com/thread/2054610152817619388
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Business wise, neither Google nor Facebook were impacted IMHO. Google sells the tools that WhatsApp need to run and Facebook bought WhatsApp and kept its FB users in house. Probably phone operators were not impacted too: SMSes bundled with
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Yes, I can use TRAMP but as I ssh to the server anyway to run commands, I'm editing the files with vi there. Furthermore I'm sure I don't inadvertently edit the local version of the file instead of the remote one, or that I f
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How about the career of the bosses of that union? You are not paying to advance them to the next step but suppo3End Child Poverty is probably well received by the people that will support them in their next job.
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It's no more 1990, when Python was born. Editors have been automatically indenting bracketed code for a long while. Probably notepad doesn't, or maybe plain vanilla vim.
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Nevertheless it happens that while moving code around one wonders what indentation level that code should go. Undo, undo or git show the original code, look at it, retry more carefully. Brackets would allow the editor to autoindent the past
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> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free. No way they are doing it for free. Basically they tied Gmail 1:1 to Android accounts. I have a Gmail mailbox for a few reasons: 1
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Well, I'm absolutely sure I can't win a race respecting the rules. I would bet that no HN reader can, even if I don't know if there are pro drivers here. I add that my bet of winning at Monza (a stop and go track with minimal
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I'm not sure I understood your question. Literally, of course not, but how does it relate to my points? If I had a car 100 km/h faster on straights, after some training I would probably win Monza, but that would be a car that does
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Tipler 1979.
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I replied to a comment about AI in sports and I build on that. We praise car drivers despite most of the performance in their sport comes from the car. The driver makes the difference when two cars are close in performance. Brilliances or m
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Sports are safe. Machines came after runners (motogp, formula 1) and yet we cheer the winners of the 100 m at the Olympics Games. Fully autonomous bikes and cars won't change that. AIs destroy chess players. We still cheer the world ch
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It's a very long post with a mix of technical (math) and philosophical sections. Here are the most striking points to reflect upon IMHO. > It seems to me that training beginning PhD students to do research [...] has just got harder,
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I was born in the second half of the 20th century, I read Pinocchio as a child and the Grimm brothers and more. Those were the books for children. Did they damage us compared to kids of 50 years later? I can't tell. Probably nobody can
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I would naively suppose that the agent is able to read the man page or run the help command of the tool. They usually contain plenty of information. But bending the tool to suit the agent has some value. The GNU-AI suite of userland tools?
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There are many theories of consciousness but nobody knows if one of them is correct and nobody can use one of them to build a conscious machine. Compare that to theories of physics. None of them is 100% correct but they give us the tools we

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