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by preommr 1y ago
This feels like it should've been a git issue rather than a blog post. No feedback from the author, no explaining what the code does at a level for people new to zig, no explanations of the fundamental problem (i.e. files, buffers, and
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by preommr 1y ago
On gc: > Wasm GC is low-level as well: a compiler targeting Wasm can declare the memory layout of its runtime data structures in terms of struct and array types, plus unboxed tagged integers, whose allocation and lifetime is then handled
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by preommr 1y ago
I've resorted to just running custom scripts with if statements instead of fancy assertions. But occasionally I'll use vitest as well which has the same api as jest, and is much simpler. Especially if vite is already being used. I
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by preommr 1y ago
Others have already mentioned how why this is a bad idea (e.g. common plaintext tools don't work, added complexity, etc.) But I'll also mention that this pretty much already exists. You can have whitespace options for git. I also
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by preommr 1y ago
I didn't like the article. I feel like some authors would really benefit from writing a first draft and then condensing it down to 1/n. In this case, like 1/10. The author has an interesting and explicit model as a table for
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by preommr 1y ago
Any whispers of something like lit being made part of the webcomponents standard? Web components are nice because they're browser-native, but they don't support reactivity, which in hindisight, is a massive oversight, issue, whate
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by preommr 1y ago
> It might finally be time to switch to Deno or Bun =( Bun has been great. Deno... perhaps the less said, the better.
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by preommr 1y ago
I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies. I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel l
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by preommr 1y ago
> Chaplicki did it with ELM, Abramov with Redux, day8 did it with re-frame, and the beat goes on. None of these projects reinvented the concept of FCIS. These are just projects that had functional elements, or were outright functional la
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by preommr 1y ago
I really do wonder if this is still the case. As a younger millenial I am somewhat familiar with the legends of yore. But not as familiar as someone older that was around when the tech world was much smaller and more intimate. Where people
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by preommr 1y ago
They are firing leadership. There's a ton of middle managers and high-ranking roles whose jobs are to basically supervise other people. If the people go, they do too.
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by preommr 1y ago
I am curious which of the following (if any) you would define as alone: 1) one person but they take VC funding 2) one person but they use open source solutions 3) one person but they live with their parents 4) one person that lives complete
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by preommr 1y ago
> the prime minister has to convince the king that it's something worthy of military action. As the king is well fed, it's difficult to bribe or blackmail kings into acting against the state. This only works on paper, and on pa
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by preommr 1y ago
I couldn't understand what the hell they were talking about so I put it into chatGPT as a last resort. > This paragraph expresses a strong critique of a particular argument or philosophy — though it's not explicitly stated what
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by preommr 1y ago
Not op, but I assume it means that there's rank polymorphism (i.e. data can be of arbitrary dimensions, and there's support for things like functions working on both N-dimensions, without having to specify n, or maybe setting cons
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by preommr 1y ago
> "treat you better than everyone else." People say this, but what is better service? It's not like you get better or more food, or get the food faster since all that depends on the kitchen that isn't getting tipped d
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by preommr 1y ago
Sketch was the market leader in ui design tools. Before that, it was photoshop. Only a step away from using something like blender or after efffects tbh. It was also mac only. And desktop only. It turns out design is one of those things t
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by preommr 1y ago
By leveraging an oversaturated labor market. This will upset people, but I love programming enough that I would do 996 at 40k-50k usd, with half going to rent and potentially even paying out of pocket for medical insurance.
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by preommr 1y ago
> But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers. Absolutely baffling comment. Like if kids started eating healthy and the complaint was 'yea, but they're not interested in gr
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by preommr 1y ago
> A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. I have been pretty successful at using llms for code generation. I have a simple rule th
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by preommr 1y ago
> they are actually crazy and frittering away 2B on hype This assumes that being careless with billions can only ever be crazy. If you're already set for life, why not gamble (including at completely irrational levels) for even more
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by preommr 1y ago
> which no one has touched ever since. The engineer who told me this had spent a few days trying to understand it and said (after having worked in this area for years) was stumped by it. yikes
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by preommr 1y ago
Started off as a way to pay people less, especially for odd jobs. Grew to a point where it's disconnected from the actual value of the service, so people like waiters make way more than if it was priced according to market price, but p
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by preommr 1y ago
> "Lurking, Lifting, Licking" Ok, I went from being pleasantly surprised to breakout laughter at that point. But I also think this points out a big problem: high-quality stuff is flying under the radar simply because of how muc
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by preommr 1y ago
He already had enough wealth that he was in a threshold where it wouldn't matter if he got a few more billion if that the was the lifestyle he was willing to lead. There isn't a magical kind of sugar, or drug that's available
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by preommr 1y ago
Elaborate, because I have serious doubts about this. If we're talking about just slapping on tailwind+component-library(e.g. shadcn-ui, material), then that's just one step-above using no-code solutions. Which, yes, that works wel
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by preommr 1y ago
Can I point out that this administration has gone out of it's way to flaunt it's disregard for the law and constitutional norms? Is anyone buying that the US can't pressure El Salvador to get back someone it wants? Anyone in
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by preommr 1y ago
> If you're wildly successful at something with significant real world influence, why would you care so strongly about something as relatively inconsequential as a board game or a video game? All the other comments are about Zuckerb
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by preommr 1y ago
Just shave off a few billion from that 7 trillion dollar plan. What's the big deal?
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by preommr 1y ago
> And the vibe of the whole thing is very topical, of course, with the US basically demanding we spend more money subsidizing their defense industry by buying their overpriced armaments from them while at the same time key people in the

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