solatic

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by solatic 3mo ago
> I've said for a long time that composability in software is a bit like playing Tetris: the lines have to clear. I love this analogy, and I find it darkly hilarious that most sibling commenters don't seem to understand. Maybe
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by solatic 3mo ago
I'm not convinced. Hyperscript's reactivity model is highly greppable, and it keeps the no-build approach to Web frontend interactivity. It's "just enough" in the same way that HTMX is. React probably scales better
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by solatic 3mo ago
Just curious: the people behind HTMX have a frontend sibling project called Hyperscript, which handles stuff like frontend state: https://hyperscript.org/docs/reactivity/ Did you give it a try?
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by solatic 3mo ago
AWS and Google at least own their own hardware (Trainium and TPUs, respectively). It's a moat in the sense that designing, building, and deploying your own chips at scale is quite a feat and not easily replicated. The vertical integrat
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by solatic 3mo ago
> have never measured it That's because it's practically impossible to collect objective data here, i.e. without confounding factors. A product where the user spends 99+% of their time reading/consuming is almost certainly
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by solatic 3mo ago
> 10 years ago, apps had to explicitly state if they needed network access. And then the powers that be decided that really all apps need network access no matter what. Why does network access need to be a binary, all or nothing? When yo
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by solatic 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm working on a communications platform as a side-project, architecturally providing reliable communications is exceedingly difficult to self-host. * Mobile calls are another form of push notification, Apple/iOS requires se
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by solatic 3mo ago
You're right, but idTech is almost by definition that "novelty" kind of engine. And it did help id to sell more games. It's just apparently not enough.
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by solatic 3mo ago
This is not an argument that founders should seed 25k EUR to cover liability, it's an argument that GmbH bank account amounts should be visible publicly. If I want to put in a catering order, the catering business does not need 25k EUR
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by solatic 4mo ago
> Surely having these guarantees for some packages beats having it for none? > You can just define that option in your own configuration This is exactly what I'm talking about. Once you have Nix on your system, it infects ever
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by solatic 4mo ago
> You can just silently use it and enjoy the convenience for the declarative parts of your setup, with no detriment to your ability to run the imperative, ad-hoc setup scripts that your company requires. That's the kicker though. Ni
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by solatic 4mo ago
I ran NixOS for a while, before I switched to Apple Silicon, so I consider myself fairly well-versed-enough (although nowhere near an expert) in Nix and the Nix ecosystem. My last four jobs have all issued me MacBook Pros; the last three wi
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by solatic 4mo ago
Necessary qualifier: for browser-based user sessions. Plenty of good uses for JWTs for service-to-service communication. edit: I read some of the linked stuff, e.g. https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-
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by solatic 4mo ago
> many people who’d consider a VPS would happily slap a .env with an unencrypted secret then ssh to update I just want to point out that you can totally still do this with Kubernetes. Of course it's not correct, but you can save tha
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by solatic 4mo ago
That's true, but it's about as helpful as a self-help book. Therapists, coaches, mentors are all helpful in that case.
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by solatic 4mo ago
> Have you considered just answering truthfully? To give you just a little more context than other commenters - You answer truthfully when you're interviewing from a position of power. Either you're already employed somewhere
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by solatic 4mo ago
Did you read the original article? > The Facebook / Meta outage was so significant The author specifically called out the Meta outage, as if he was offering a prescription ("It's easy to configure systems with tools like A
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by solatic 4mo ago
It replaces DNS's pull-based architecture (contact a DNS server to get the IP address) with a push-based one (push the IP addresses to each /etc/hosts file). Suggesting that a push-based, Ansible-based architecture will scale
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by solatic 4mo ago
Use Ansible to update /etc/hosts on hundreds of thousands of hosts every time a host is added or removed? Thanks for the laugh...
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by solatic 4mo ago
> Stocks going down didn't un-research drugs Drugs cost pennies to manufacture after they are researched and make their way through the approval pipeline. There are many generic drug manufacturers who can work off the existing formu
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by solatic 4mo ago
> Concentrated ownership of the wealthy is not synonymous with “the public.” I 100% agree. It's terrible that large private companies like Cargill and any others large enough to make this list: https://www.forbes.com&#x2F
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by solatic 4mo ago
Then perhaps the big AI companies aren't actually worth that much.
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by solatic 4mo ago
The public should own more than half. Via the stock market. Where public shareholders can vote in elections to control the Board of Directors, and elect Directors that act in the fiduciary interests of shareholders, and return excess capi
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by solatic 4mo ago
The issue I have with these pieces is that AI will not affect the whole economy evenly. The disruptions come in bursts and fits: first digital artists were disrupted (e.g. Adobe Firefly), then junior engineering roles were disrupted, curren
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by solatic 5mo ago
> But then why is it structured in that manner? What's the purpose? This is bizarre. When you agree to take a $100k base salary, you don't get all $100k on the first day; your salary is split into pay periods, and if you leave
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by solatic 5mo ago
I don't think this is actually anything new. In large-enough companies, even before AI, it was and is quite common for executives to lose touch with base reality. I don't think anyone is under any delusion that people like Mark Zu
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by solatic 5mo ago
Why does the voice need to be sent to the server? Why not perform speech-to-text on-device? Is the p10 phone/laptop not capable of this yet, despite every "dictation" feature I see in every modern OS?
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by solatic 5mo ago
> Code is a liability You're over-simplifying. Code in and of itself is neither an asset nor a liability. The minimal amount of code needed to solve business needs with no additional complexity is an asset with some maintenance liab
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by solatic 5mo ago
Guess this is an unpopular opinion: If you run more than one service/codebase, you might be better suited to using a proper container orchestration platform. Doesn't have to be Kubernetes. AWS ECS, GCP Cloud Run, Kamal are all mod
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by solatic 5mo ago
> people will choose fresh over canned, for obvious reasons Not at all obvious. A lot of "fresh" produce in the US was refrigerated for more than a week before it arrived in the supermarket, from varieties that were designed to

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