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by pphysch 2y ago
Markdown is ubiquitous even in boring corporate technical writing processes nowadays. Nothing hip about it.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Why does it need to be side by side? Just let each client choose WSIWYG or raw.
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by pphysch 2y ago
How does WASM make less sense than the current paradigm of treating JS as "byte code for the browser"? Python is not that different from Typescript. Neither can be interpreted by the browser. Both can be compiled into JS or WASM t
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by pphysch 2y ago
Postgres has ways to simplify connection management, if that is a blocker for you (pooling, pgbouncer, postgrest, etc)
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by pphysch 2y ago
Come on. We can draw a straight line from the GFW to companies like Baidu and Alibaba. Without it, they would (initially) struggle in direct competition with endemic US products.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Many other countries produced effective vaccines without a whiff of NIH funding. And the mRNA tech was mainly funded through DARPA, IIRC.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Then your implementation can be as simple as CREATE TABLE documents (content JSONB);. But I suspect a PK and some metadata columns like timestamps will come in handy.
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by pphysch 2y ago
It's simply not that widespread of knowledge. Modern Postgres users would never suggest Mongo, but a generation of engineers was taught that Mongo is the NoSQL solution, even though it's essentially legacy tech. I just ran into
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by pphysch 2y ago
America has been a plutocracy for decades; Trump 2.0 isn't new in that sense. I think beneath Musk's buffoonery there is a political pivot happening. Part of me wonders if he is a heel to make Trump seem more normal.
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by pphysch 2y ago
One day on HN I read a thread about how academia is (credibly) inundated with fraudulent research/publication practices, the next day I read a comment about how Western academia is (vaguely) the last vanguard against civilizational col
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by pphysch 2y ago
When it comes to quantities, point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing . Simply put: "1, 2, 3, 4, many". Designers should be conscious when quantities might cross this (approx) subitizing threshold, an
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by pphysch 2y ago
Yep, I traveled all over Western EU during Ukraine war
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by pphysch 2y ago
The PRC essentially pioneered the concept of digital sovereignty with the "Great Firewall" approach in the late 90s. It was famously ridiculed by Bill Clinton as a hopeless endeavour. In the wake of 2014 and souring relations with
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by pphysch 2y ago
I was seriously considering moving to Western Europe during Trump 1. Dodged a bullet there.
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by pphysch 2y ago
With any semblance of security, you do.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Yes, I mean it affectionately.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Last time I checked, simply running Django through the ASGI interface dealt you a baseline perf hit.
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by pphysch 2y ago
I think anything that applies to RoR applies equally to Django. RoR got there first, but Python is a more relevant PL with broad ecosystem. I would always recommend learning Django over RoR, unless you specifically want to learn a niche lan
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by pphysch 2y ago
then you have to rewrite your whole app to use asyncio keywords and colored ORM methods. A gevent monkey patch, or eventually nogil concurrency makes a lot more practical sense.
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by pphysch 2y ago
I attended a woo-woo university course, where the instructor invited a interpretative dancer to give a lesson. The dancer bright out some paper, pencils, and almonds, and had everyone spend half an hour silently writing about their single a
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by pphysch 2y ago
Wouldn't a hybrid approach makes sense? Periodically classify users as hot/cold based on their activity, build hot-follower timelines on write, and build cold-follower timelines on read.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> unless Al Qaida suddenly showed up in Greenland If invading Greenland was an actual real goal, something like this would definitely "happen", to manufacture the necessary pretext. Way cheaper than the alternatives.
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by pphysch 2y ago
OpenAI rushed out "chain of reasoning" features after DeepSeek popularized them. They are the loudest dog, not the fastest. And they have the most to lose.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Especially in the LLM era...
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Does anyone care about that? Yes
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by pphysch 2y ago
I don't think this is unique to AI. There are categories of knowledge that are infested with bad practices (webdev, enterprise software), and even a direct web search will lead you to those results. AI definitely regurgitates many of t
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by pphysch 2y ago
> In a world where AI is writing the code, who cares what libraries it is using? I don't really have to touch the code that much, I just need it to work. That's the future we're headed for, at lightning speed. This attitud
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by pphysch 2y ago
That implies DeepSeek waltzed in and stole something resembling (ill-begotten) "trade secrets". It's more like DeepSeek legally bought OpenAI's public product, tore it apart and successfully RE'd it / used it t
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by pphysch 2y ago
I think the field will mature into a traditional specialist field like doctor/pharmacist. Well-paid junior positions may cease to exist, because we just don't need an army of juniors pumping out low-quality code anymore. But exper
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by pphysch 2y ago
Code monkeys can essentially be replaced by GenAI (that is, a competent SWE team needs fewer or zero low-skill code monkeys going forward) but the "field" goes way beyond code monkeys. Replacing piles of expensive crappy SaaS with

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