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721.
by thom 3y ago
It's interesting because traditionally "gold plating" can have connotations of overdoing something, making something slow and expensive that could have been simpler.
722.
by thom 3y ago
Do you just use a single screen? I've noticed a trend that people seem to be moving to one giant screen (and now apparently one small one), instead of dual monitors. I don't think it should be forgotten what an enormous productivi
723.
by thom 3y ago
Also just because it’s not shown here, IDs can be declared with tag#id syntax.
724.
by thom 3y ago
The ‘best’ is probably some sort of heterogenous RAID/ZFS mirror setup which can survive the death of disks and potentially evolve over decades. Then you want at least two versions in different sites that are kept in sync in case of a
725.
by thom 3y ago
Awful lot of lede buried in the “Read 3 books: 12 hours” here.
726.
by thom 3y ago
I find it easier to picture the universe as more of a growing network of connected things, rather than an object with strict internal or external dimensions. I don’t think it (or anything) is infinite, but it might as well be because it cle
727.
by thom 3y ago
Yeah, you really shouldn’t be building this (or really any sort of important or destructive interface) with LLMs unless you have an intermediate representation which users can inspect and understand. Even if the understanding of English wer
728.
by thom 3y ago
I've been reading The Roman Empire in Crisis by Paul N Pearson. It summarises a lot of fairly recent discoveries (a palimpsest of Dexippus, archaeological evidence of battles etc) to give a more detailed account of the Crisis of the Th
729.
by thom 3y ago
Most of my experience using jQuery was on sites that required progressive enhancement, and the easiest way to do that was to create an htmx-style framework anyway.
730.
by thom 3y ago
Worst case is you learn lots of interesting stuff that makes it easier to at least integrate other people’s work, so what’s the risk of diving in?
731.
by thom 3y ago
Scipio Nascia wasn’t punished for Tiberius’ murder. Spurius Maelius didn’t get a trial but people celebrate Cincinnatus as a hero. Seems to me that the same undercurrents were always there, they never got resolved, and sure, eventually thin
732.
by thom 3y ago
This isn't really true, given the Conflict of the Orders etc. Even in the Gracchi's case, they were essentially trying to pass land reforms, and Rome had a history of responding to that with violence since at least 486BC. Nobody i
733.
by thom 3y ago
I don't disagree with the central thesis, and you can argue all sorts of moments for the fall of the Republic, but the establishment of client armies started with Marius, not Caesar. Even then, it was in response to political, economic
734.
by thom 3y ago
Cicero was one of the central figures of the Late Republic (or at least made sure he was seen as such, while others decided the actual fate of Rome). What’s your objection here?
735.
by thom 3y ago
Hadn’t really thought about this before, but I suppose this is a fairly obvious result of Archimedes’ principle.
736.
by thom 3y ago
I keep wanting some sort of dynamic desktop globe, where I can set the maps to basically any era and picture the world back then. See Alexander’s conquests, Rome’s rise etc. Feels like this hardware must be possible at this point?
737.
by thom 3y ago
Start treating reporting and monitoring as first class parts of your domain instead of some text. Do the same modelling/event storming exercises you’d do for everything else with these operational requirements.
738.
by thom 3y ago
Yup. And to be honest there’s a bunch of additional complexity in Clojure transducers that I very much dislike (all the reducing function stuff which is almost never actually used and which is secondary to the purpose of creating a sequence
739.
by thom 3y ago
Even something as simple as VisualVM makes this fairly easy for Clojure code.
740.
by thom 3y ago
Transducers aren’t just faster, they offer more functionality, with the ability to reuse the logic no matter where your inputs and outputs are coming from. So it’s no real surprise that there’s more implementation complexity. Client code is
741.
by thom 3y ago
Yep. It’s the world’s most tired meme.
742.
by thom 3y ago
Very well put. Effective businesses are good at communicating and sharing these models so everyone is able to reason about them, and if they’re lucky anticipate future articulation points.
743.
by thom 3y ago
It’s possible that in the age of LLMs this stops being a silly idea, but let’s not pretend it hasn’t up until now been a very silly idea.
744.
by thom 3y ago
Just a note for anyone who needs to hear it: you don’t even necessarily have to be a maintainer and have complete open source repos to show off. If your entire GitHub is you just forking libraries, fixing a bug or adding a feature, and then
745.
by thom 3y ago
As in, not even #pragma once, or you consider nonstandard stuff disqualifying?
746.
by thom 3y ago
One of the first places I worked ended up creating quite a nice framework where components would ask for data that was all put in a single SHAPE query, and the view layer was just XSLT (which is a perfectly nice functional language once you
747.
by thom 3y ago
Every generation credits itself with some form of unattainable stoicism and yet progress marches on. I have no problem believing in 10x developers, but in my experience it’s always been down to hard won knowledge of the right architectures,
748.
by thom 3y ago
SerenityOS's codebase is extremely clean: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
749.
by thom 3y ago
Perhaps moreso Monkey Dust?
750.
by thom 3y ago
I now also see Comic Pascal from 1984, fair enough.

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