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by preommr 11mo ago
crtystal and nim, probably not. Zig... is surprisngly used a lot given how rough the state of the language is. It makes me think that if it ever reaches v1.0, it has a very good chance of being at least a "Kotlin", probably a &quo
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by preommr 11mo ago
Six degrees of "Kevin..", I mean, Racket
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by preommr 11mo ago
I thought the same thing. I also have an assert function I pull in everywhere, and this trick seemed like it would be cleaner (especially for one-off scripts to reduce deps). But unfortunately, using a default clause creates a branching con
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by preommr 11mo ago
meh article > Why is the name of person1 of type string and not the literal "Jerred"? Because the object could be mutated to contain any other string. Not really, if you declare {name: "Jerred" as const}, it's st
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by preommr 11mo ago
Except that Cloudflare is geared towards ddos protection - i.e. you can monitor, get alerts, turn on temporary protection, etc. It can do this because that's it's main business. It's not possible to have the same expectations
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by preommr 11mo ago
It looked AI generated so I got curious because it looks like some kind of link sharing forum. I think it is a blog post (you can see it here https://tickerfeed.net/articles ), from something called the "free lunch blog
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by preommr 11mo ago
Great start! Just want to say, you did all the right things: Simple instructions, to the point and, and I can't stress this enough - examples. Like 9/10 when someone shares their language, they have little to no examples and it&#x
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by preommr 11mo ago
No no, don't give me this. I was there before 10 years ago. I remember the pain in the ass that was hosting your own web server and own hardware, dealing with networking issues with cisco switches and thinking about getting a ccna. I r
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by preommr 11mo ago
What the hell have you built? Turns out a pretty straightforward service. That diagram is just aws, programming language, database. For some reason hadoop I guess. And riak/openstack as redundant. It just seems like pretty standard stu
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by preommr 11mo ago
Left wing candidate wins in extremely Left wing city, against "Cuomo"[0], to become mayor and people are celebrating this like it's some historical achievement. Everyday I grow more blackpilled about the balance of powers in
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by preommr 1y ago
> Microsoft is also based in the USA, and the political climate over there makes me want to depend as little as possible on American tools. I know that’s a long, uphill battle, but we have to start somewhere. I miss the days when we had
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by preommr 1y ago
These discussions are so tiring. Yes, they're bad now, but they'll get better in a year. If the generative ability is good enough for small snippets of code, it's good enough for larger software that's better organized.
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by preommr 1y ago
> For a compute-intense task like audio or video processing, or for scientific computing where there's likely to be a requirement to fetch a ton of data, the browser is the wrong place to do that work. ... I mean... elaborate? Every
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by preommr 1y ago
??? I absolutely failed to follow the logic of this article - is there any? The toy examples having the same amount of code is meaningless. They're saying it's bad because react is more complicated. But this works in react's
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by preommr 1y ago
It's genuinely just this. The rise of more grass-roots news sources (podcasts, memes, social media) also leads to tons of conspiracy theories, and mistrust that builds this idea of corruption being ubiquitous, just not out in the open.
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by preommr 1y ago
>For your note on different states for screens. Can you elaborate or give an example? I'm quite interested in this mode that you're describing. I meant the very obvious feature (you might already have it) of objects with proper
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by preommr 1y ago
Unfortunate that this didn't get more traction because it's a pretty cool app! I like the user interface and overall design. Also very nice onboarding of just logging in and trying the app. Based on the title I thought that the po
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by preommr 1y ago
> I had a friend who would drink a gallon of whole milk a day to maintain weight because he did so much at the gym. That's around 2.4k calories. That's like three slices of costco pizza and a large coke. I can do that like 3-4
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by preommr 1y ago
> I'm seeing the downvotes. I'm sorry folks feel that way. I'm regretting my honesty. What honesty? We're not at the point of "the Godfather was a good/bad movie", we're at "no, trust, there&#
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by preommr 1y ago
> if you don't use the xml changeSets I find it crazier that people use xml changesets. My setup is to use sql files versioned by date. Each file has changsets (regions demarcated by comments) for single transaction actions (like c
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by preommr 1y ago
I disliked the whole article, but as a quick tangent, the following: > . People are often far more anxious about flying than driving, even though commercial airline crashes are incredibly rare. ...surely can be explained, that if adjuste
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by preommr 1y ago
> One man in my parish is aged between 30 and 45, and in a bet he ate seven bowls—and that’s not counting the bowls of rice wine he drank. One old man, aged 64 or 65, said he had no appetite, and finished five bowls. Surprisingly comical
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by preommr 1y ago
> It made sense to me that the persuasion principles I learned in Robert Cialdini's Influence would work when applied to LLMs. And I was pleased that they did. No, no. Stop. What is this? What're we doing here? This goes past d
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by preommr 1y ago
It is order of magnitudes easier to understand behavior through examples than through a reference-like documentation. People suck at naming things, and then documenting them. Just today I spent the last few hours trying to figure out how to
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by preommr 1y ago
> low social trust and cohesion necessarily require increasingly authoritarian measures Then this country is fucked. It's really hard to have some kind of national identity when the previous PM goes and says things like Canada might
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by preommr 1y ago
> People said the same thing about so many other online services since the 90s. And this leads to something I genuinely don't understand - because I don't see ads. I use adblocker, and don't bother with media with too many
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by preommr 1y ago
I hate AI, the other day a goblin broke in just as I was talking to chatgpt and asked me how many Ls in apple, and before I could say anything, the ai gave the wrong answer and I got stabbed. But seriously, what're these scenarios? Wai
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by preommr 1y ago
Not the parent comment, but I'll respond. > Your comment shows some ignorance and a complete misunderstanding of the problem domain. oof, this is a very strong position to take, and one would assume you have a very convincing follow
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by preommr 1y ago
Is there something about cUrl that attracts these AI bots, or is it just better documented by them - because I was going to say that this is old, but then I checked the date and realized that this is a new problem. Going down the rabbit-hol
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by preommr 1y ago
My personal conspiracy is that Golang is an epic prank. Make a language that's really good in some ways and just horrible in other ways for no reason whatsoever. So that when it's critics point out contradictory features like embe

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