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by spinningslate 3y ago
That's not what the post says: >I find it [...] surprising that the top comment [...] is criticising the effort Nothing about it being immune to criticism, just surprised that the dominant post (as the time) was critical. The puzzl
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by spinningslate 3y ago
great example that shows judgement, empathy and trust matter. Some people _want_ direct communication: they find fluff annoying, and don't take any insult or discomfort from it. Others find instruction challenging/insulting&#x2F
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by spinningslate 3y ago
I think you've neatly summarised why it doesn't get upvoted: 1. "could" produce a better diagnosis. Not guaranteed. And better than what? How likely is it to really deliver a better result than appropriately trained s
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by spinningslate 3y ago
I've been steadily finding the love for F# for sort-of-similar-but-not-quite-the-same reasons. I like Python. It's still my go-to language for most things. But I definitely feel a tail off in utility as code base size increases
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by spinningslate 3y ago
I haven't listened to the podcast you mention, but the answer to your question is yes. Quoting the langserver.org homepage[0]: > The Language Server protocol is used between a tool (the client) and a language smartness provider (th
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by spinningslate 3y ago
> simplicity is good and accidental complexity is to be avoided, but it's not something that can be distilled into trite talking points to be taught. No, "simplicity is good and accidental complexity is to be avoided" is
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by spinningslate 3y ago
This completely misses the context in which online discussion occurs: social media platforms. Platforms whose business model depends on capturing eyeballs, and who know that outrage and sensation maximise that. It is attempting to treat a
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by spinningslate 3y ago
Fair. Without doubt, there's some bias/aspiration in OP's post. There is, though, a kernel of interest in the confluence of Mastodon/ActivityPub and mainstream media outlets. The latter have become subservient to the s
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by spinningslate 3y ago
which is what enables the French government to fund companies like lichess in the first place. >Their resources would go further if they left. So, what, say "thanks for the funding that got us started, we're off to fill our poc
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by spinningslate 3y ago
2nd law of Thermodynamics: Entropy increases over time. Quoting[0]: "The entropy of a system can in fact be shown to be a measure of its disorder and of the unavailability of energy to do work." I rather like that - where "wo
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by spinningslate 3y ago
> Most of Google's problems in B2B reflect that the organization has little concept of customer service, in the sense of serving customers. It's not the technology. This, exactly. Google is fantastic at research, great at deve
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by spinningslate 3y ago
Agree. That's a big advantage of thread-based concurrency [0] vs async/await. The decision of whether to do things sequentially or concurrently sits with the caller, not the callee. Which means it's there where you need it
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by spinningslate 3y ago
Big fat "it depends". Specifically, it depends on context. How big is the app? How many people are involved in building it? As with many things, separation of front and back ends grew out of web-scale companies and products. I
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by spinningslate 3y ago
That's not my experience based on two scenarios: 1. Server-side rendered sites in Python using either Django or FastAPI/Jinja2 and htmx; 2. Dotnet back end with Angular front end. In practice - for the apps I've been involved
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by spinningslate 3y ago
or you watch and learn, understand the strengths and weaknesses, and then make an informed decision. async/await is no panacea. Quoting the Loom overview[0]: "Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, pro
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by spinningslate 3y ago
True. Rust's mandate for "zero runtime cost abstractions" is one of the better justifications for async/await. Because async/await, too, has significant limitations, notably: 1. Coloured functions 2. Placing the c
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by spinningslate 3y ago
Also an HTMX fan and hadn't heard of unpoly. Looks interesting (and site design is great). Thanks for the highlighting.
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Definition of fascism from Merriam-Webster[0]: > 1. a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government
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by spinningslate 3y ago
This was excellent reading (if sobering). Naomi Klein is articulate and hard-hitting in equal measure. The idea that bots aren't wrong but "hallucinating" is tech spin taken to a whole new level of delusional absurdity.
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slight aside, but it's refreshingly pleasant to see a cordial discussion between representatives of two competing aproaches. HN is better than some other sites, but there's still a fair bit of polarised "my choice is right a
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by spinningslate 3y ago
> I don't think so. We're naming the collection. The relation is the foreign key. that's why you would see `user_id`, not `users_id`. that depends on your interpretation of "strictly speaking". As a (loose) impl
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by spinningslate 4y ago
> Modelling your frontend as a bunch of reusable components is a big benefit of frameworks. I think it's hard to go half and half with frontend component and backend templating though. I've heard this before, and just don'
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by spinningslate 4y ago
Maybe. Or, perhaps, was told an overly-optimistic story that changed as it floated up the hierarchy: engineer: well, yeah, we've got something. It's OK. But it has limitations and needs to be used very carefully. engineer's
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> They won't look for "Bing" to use ChatGPT No insider knowledge, but it would seem a marketing snafu to go down that route. ChatGPT has brand awareness: Microsoft has exclusive access to ChatGPT. They've been canny
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by spinningslate 4y ago
I've no inside knowledge on Google, so can't comment on the rationale for selecting those being let go. From the outside though, Google under Pichai increasingly looks like Microsoft under Ballmer in the late 2000s/early 2010
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Well yes - at least as things currently stand. It's interesting to me not for what it is right now, but what the trend might be. The extremes are probably something like: 1. Damp squib, goes nowhere. In 3 years' time it's
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by spinningslate 4y ago
Not sure I agree. Yes, it requires more work on the back end: rendering templates for whole pages and parts of pages, then integrating them. I've done it with Python (FastAPI/Jinja2 & htmx). My only SPA experience is with d
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by spinningslate 4y ago
The point is, I think, how you interpret "free speech". In his own tweet [0], he says: "By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law." The information
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by spinningslate 4y ago
I read the "Erlang inspired" more narrowly. Specifically, it's about supporting large numbers of efficient, isolated processes. So there's a single, well-understood concurrency primitive: the (lunatic) process. Having
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by spinningslate 4y ago
Aside from pushing the boundaries of the posting guidelines[0], you've perhaps inadvertently raised an important point. OP's post is an observation of the real world: the inter-related evolution of technology and humanity's u

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