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by tl 3y ago
The author could use some better examples. Magic at runtime (the PHP example) is very different from magic at compile time (the Svetle/React example).
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by tl 3y ago
Performance matters and is sufficiently captured via working incremental updates. The single largest upside of a proposal like this is captured by using SQLAR over ZIP. That's what the Library of Congress does when SQLite claims them a
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by tl 3y ago
"Is this principle or opportunism?“ is necessary but insufficient skepticism. Convincing people to argue or vote against their own interests is also a pervasive problem. In American politics, it is called “turkeys voting for Thanksgiv
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by tl 3y ago
> Having a good word processor and a good spreadsheet on any software/hardware platform was absolutely vital in 1980s. To this day, I cannot believe Apple shipped the Macintosh without a means of running VisiCalc.
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by tl 3y ago
All 5 of those age better than React. Also, you are conflating languages and platforms. Counterexamples / Retorts: - https://catonmat.net/5-best-programming-languages - https://stevelosh.com/blog/2
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by tl 3y ago
Apple Arcade is nostalgic in the sense that the entire catalog of games is short enough that you can iterate it. (Note: still zero games that start with a V) The games aren't bad, but everything is the list has a better version elsewhe
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by tl 3y ago
Looking at my library, it's about half: - Game used to be Mac playable, but isn't because of 32-bit - Game doesn't have a Mac version at all Valve's work on the Steam Deck shows they could fix both problems but why sho
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by tl 3y ago
His reasoning is fairly straightforward. From the article: > I have found that running every day, consistently, vastly improves my mental and physical well-being. > Every minute you run is your minute, and no one else's. And it f
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by tl 3y ago
It's been a while. Wikipedia [1] is relatively useful here: 1890 - Start of conventional anti-trust enforcement 1930 - Ramp up of law's usage (under FDR) 1966 - First dissent against anti-trust (Brown Shoe Co. v. United States) 19
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by tl 3y ago
Having used RTK and RTKQ, I cannot believe they come from the same authors. RTK is mostly serviceable, though for most projects, not using Redux is better. I’ve never seen a case when RTKQ was an improvement over fetch(). Obviously, deletin
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by tl 3y ago
That's ...not a feature of React Native. It's possible to reload the app's content on code change, but this very clearly intended for development only.
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by tl 3y ago
React: - had a 3 year head start on Svetle (2013 vs. 2016) - has major engineering orgs behind it. Facebook started it. Microsoft makes it work with Typescript. - is easier to get started with. While JS-compilation is common, it's requ
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by tl 3y ago
Doctorow has been lionizing Khan since her appointment. She and the FTC were dormant for almost the past two full years and came out swinging relativly recently. It's hard to tell if the slow speed of action is necessary or if we shoul
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by tl 3y ago
Tried systematically buying every alignment minus. Getting all of them yields "Nanobot light sphere consumes earth" which sets human population to zero. You must have accidentally bought an alignment bonus.
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by tl 3y ago
Minor nit: > The kind of platform company we want to be hasn’t changed since 2020. Our features are all generally a command or two in flyctl, and they work for any app that can packaged in a container. can be packaged
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by tl 3y ago
We have this problem today. I've never worked on a team that didn't have at least one person whose coding ability largely stopped at what you could copy and paste. Pre-internet, they were assigned non-programming tasks or things t
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by tl 3y ago
> True, but only one of these parties ever talks about fixing the system. To be fair, of course, that's partially because the data says they'd win almost every election if it came down to a straight popular vote, so any system
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by tl 3y ago
I liked BotW. Weapon durability was annoying, but in practice it means you pin map locations of good weapons that respawn every blood moon updating those pins as you find better weapon spots (this step happens because the weapon is carried
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by tl 4y ago
> To properly handle errors, there needs to be an exhaustive enumeration of the types of errors. This is hard to generalize across all applications and this RFC just sidesteps it entirely. It's covered by the "type" proper
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by tl 4y ago
Your tool does not allow for classic federal tax rates. It caps in the high 30s claiming higher taxes "do not work" in spite of the fact tax rates were double that for decades.
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by tl 4y ago
You can choose between: 1. XML-based (the entire database is one xml file) 2. SQLite-based 3. Roll your own (by providing an implemention) #1 is terribly slow for most cases and not publicly available on iOS. #3 was released early in the io
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by tl 4y ago
Want and ability are two different things. Valve released a phenomonal but imperfect update to the Nintendo Switch which has sold about 1% as well. If Sony released a PlayStation Phone tomorrow, and failed to update it for years despite mas
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by tl 4y ago
> Storyboards are slow compared to Live Preview Citation needed. Even on Apple silicon, I'm not even sure Live Preview can crash faster than Interface Builder and it has no shortage of practice. > lead beginners to adopt bad patt
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by tl 4y ago
From ChatGPT: > Limitations > Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021 To the extent that OpenAI is stale not incorrect, the inflation is interesting but not surprising.
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by tl 4y ago
Perversely, because the industry creates this pressure, low-tempo periods that are employer-specific cause anxiety and paranoia. This is even more true right now as large companies continue to announce layoffs.
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by tl 4y ago
Phoenix / Elixir (really, BEAM) enforce a worldview that results in non-bottlenecking code. You can do this yourself with a certain amount of disclipine in other languages. You should do this yourself if you are getting millions (or
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by tl 4y ago
HN posting: Win for Open-Source Legally: Settlement Reached in Stockfish vs. ChessBase Title of article: Settlement Reached in Stockfish v ChessBase Was the title edited, or is this editorialism? Also: > The agreement also includes the n
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by tl 4y ago
That is a regretable choice on Apple's part. First, on the US layout as least, there's a series of standard overrides dating back decades. OPT+Q is the rarely used œ (@ is SHIFT+2 on most US layouts), but some are helpful like ® (
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by tl 4y ago
> When a user logged into a voice room closes the DISCORD application window by clicking on the "X" icon at the top right of the window in Microsoft Windows, they actually just put the application in the background and stay log
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by tl 4y ago
> Its the fact they don't prevent criminal / unethical behaviors beforehand, and banks get away with alot before anyone intervenes. A better example is the IRS with a double standard of overzealous enforcement against individua

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