strokirk

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by strokirk 3y ago
Having worked in the help-line business, I can tell you that many corporations would and do use LLMs for their helpline, and used worse options before.
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by strokirk 3y ago
How on earth do you know when a remote worker takes lunch?
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by strokirk 3y ago
How do you use Visual Basic on unixes?
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by strokirk 3y ago
I can’t tell from your comment which of these accolades you think is problematic. Can you expand?
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by strokirk 3y ago
And the source code!
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by strokirk 4y ago
That sounds just like me and my backend coding too! What are you doing to justify being to high and mighty?
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by strokirk 4y ago
C#, C++, Python, Ruby, Java… change is rampant.
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by strokirk 4y ago
I’ve actually replaced a bunch of static HTML pages with React, to benefit from TypeScript. I’m horrible with spelling and it helps me a lot.
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by strokirk 4y ago
If they are not pleasant to use, why are you using them? It’s literally the value they are supposed to introduce.
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by strokirk 4y ago
To show something new to the user, state must be calculated and pushed either to the DOM or blitted to a canvas.
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by strokirk 4y ago
I’ve tried Polymer and the web componens, and for a long time it had a really bad accessibility story, and even worse developer experience. It is just google using their size to force bad decisions on the web world again.
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by strokirk 4y ago
It’s a pretty great API, I’d say! The alternatives also have their own warts.
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by strokirk 4y ago
It will cause issues, yes. But personally I’d rather spend two hundred hours fiddling with arm64 issues that going back. The performance and silence is wonderful.
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by strokirk 4y ago
Is there any statically typed HTML templating language, for non-node languages? Genuine question.
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by strokirk 4y ago
Note that the first rule of pep8 tells us: > A style guide is about consistency. Consistency with this style guide is important. Consistency within a project is more important. Consistency within one module or function is the most import
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by strokirk 4y ago
Count me in to! There are dozens of us, dozens!
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by strokirk 4y ago
But isn’t this true no matter the first- and second-language combo? I started out writing C and this definitely influenced how I learned and wrote python code. My colleagues that started out with ruby, or java, also program in distinct ways
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by strokirk 4y ago
Human-written content is also often watery and thin, so not much difference there.
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by strokirk 4y ago
Trouble is, many registrars do with with way worse UX. I own domains from two registrars and loathe to use their interfaces.
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by strokirk 4y ago
My CS education (Stockholm, KTH) didn’t include anything about web service architecture, and information about threads was about how they are implemented in the OS at a low level, not how to use them effectively. I think this stuff is norma
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by strokirk 4y ago
It's even more verbose in a lot of common cases, actually. (Although the ? operator has made things better). --- 1. document.querySelectorAll(".sel").forEach((e) => e.addEventListener("click", (e) => {})) $(&#
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by strokirk 4y ago
It's the exact point they are making. The union of all dislikes and eloquently put putdowns is exactly what many of us bring with us in our heads every day.
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by strokirk 4y ago
Can you name a couple?
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by strokirk 4y ago
Have you tried using plain esbuild and sass in watch mode? That was what gave our app an immense speed boost. I’ve seen some of the same issues you have, with large entrypoints causing slow pageloads due to the number of source files, but f
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by strokirk 4y ago
As a backend developer, I’d say that it is a very apt comparison to your point. The backend and infrastructure space also has a lot of new projects solving old problems being released.
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by strokirk 5y ago
An apology doesn’t necessarily need to involve committing to never doing the action again.
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by strokirk 5y ago
Slack adds a few dozen big features every year, and a lot of them tend to be great. Recently the ”huddle” feature has been used a lot at my workplace.
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by strokirk 5y ago
VS Code, Discord, och Slack are all leagues ahead of their competing app. There are a lot of great Electron apps. Dozens, maybe even hundreds.
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by strokirk 5y ago
Aren't FOSS maintainers famously "my way or the highway"?
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by strokirk 5y ago
Can you share how you learned? I've spent a lot of time trying to learn how to use Qt but it's very complex and hard to experiment with.

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