riwsky

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by riwsky 3y ago
The comment you are responding to is sarcastic
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by riwsky 3y ago
Damn. I didn’t even have access to the 32k beta, and now you’re telling me there’s a 200k some folks can access?
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by riwsky 3y ago
Massive kudos to the BBC, for the editorial discipline required here to avoid "[…] is having its moment in the sun"
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by riwsky 3y ago
“Inner platform effect”
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by riwsky 3y ago
GP is referring to fly.io architecting for single instance failures, not its customers.
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by riwsky 3y ago
They broke uptime for the paid tier, not just the free tier. The relevance of paid/free is that free (and cheap paid) plans don’t get fly support over email
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by riwsky 3y ago
Pfft. You looked at the release notes? I knew it was garbage so fast that I got warped back in time to 2021, and stopped using LangChain before it even existed .
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by riwsky 3y ago
Dude did ReactJS dirty in that parting shot. Say what you want about the modern ecosystem, but the core idea of declaring UI state with a virtual DOM was excellent. There is a reason why every major web framework followed suit.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Whether or not one personally likes the idiosyncratic navigation, it’s inconsistent with the font’s normcore ethos
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by riwsky 3y ago
Oh, yeah, it happens all the time even in TS code. We’re on the same page.
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by riwsky 3y ago
it will remember it if you ask it to, like in this example from https://www.typescriptlang.org/play#example/nominal-typing : type ValidatedInputString = string & { __brand: "User Input Post Validation&quot
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by riwsky 3y ago
Or rather, “fining the hell out of companies for offering services to your citizens that your citizens want and the rest of the world is fine with” is such a Stone Age approach
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by riwsky 3y ago
Not checked by the compiler, except for cases where they’re checked by the compiler: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/narrowing.htm... TS is probably the most famous gradual-type system to do th
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by riwsky 3y ago
> Would you know whether to trust elonmusk@twitter.io, without looking it up? I would hate to dismiss someone for a troll only to realize they are not the real elon musk
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by riwsky 3y ago
If open doors did a better job of UX than apple, then you would have been using Android instead of iOS in the first place
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by riwsky 3y ago
Sass is unnecessary in modern stacks; just use tailwind instead
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by riwsky 3y ago
https://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
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by riwsky 3y ago
How does this differ from existing approaches that just follow the entropy?
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by riwsky 3y ago
Know your audience, know your audience, know your audience.
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by riwsky 3y ago
I’m reminded of those pro StarCraft players who retire at like 30 because, while their strategy is perfect, their fingers simply can’t click or hotkey as fast as the twenty somethings.
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by riwsky 3y ago
You misunderstand me. It doesn’t matter how much the sound library is worth: if you weren’t using simulation to build it, then it’s irrelevant for the economic value of the simulation. Like, you can turn lead into gold if you run a nuclear
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by riwsky 3y ago
cries in RSS
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by riwsky 3y ago
*not at all profitable
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by riwsky 3y ago
“The Jepsen is coming… from INSIDE THE HOUSE!”
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by riwsky 3y ago
Complexity theory doesn’t handle it, but that’s why I didn’t use complexity theory. Economics handles it fine: no one’s ever paid you or anyone else to do a wood-breaking simulation at a sufficient physical level of detail to capture the so
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by riwsky 3y ago
This is basically a balanced audio cable, but in a bajillion dimensions
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by riwsky 3y ago
Your wooden stick is dedicated hardware for computing the behavior of wooden sticks. Fascinating? Pretty subjective—but one of the best concrete proxies we have for "fascination" is "economic value" (cf OpenAI's AGI
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by riwsky 3y ago
It means that, even if you think you really hate meetings, he hates meetings 100x more
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by riwsky 3y ago
Requires to? No. Pays “very large, much larger than I would have thought possible”[1] amounts of money to? Yes. Power to the guy, though. He’s earned it. [1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/adding-my-data-point-t
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by riwsky 3y ago
If I had to name one design pattern that really helped my org’s codebase scale into the million LOC range, it would be replacing our database with in-repo json files.

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