whilenot-dev

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by whilenot-dev 7d ago
iPhone 13 mini (and ex-SE) user here, this phone looks great! I like the minimal and solid looking design. I think the real keyboard is an interesting and welcoming compromise for its width. If the built quality is on point, I'd see no
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by whilenot-dev 7d ago
I think you should always include the iPhone SE in those numbers. It had similar dimensions, was cheaper and even more minimal. If it weren't for the SE, I would have picked a Mini right away.
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by whilenot-dev 12d ago
> the promises are still async on the microtask queue. you seem to be showing syntax, not semantics Well, GP doesn't want to get rid of concurrency, do they? They are talking about syntactic preferences when they want to "make
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by whilenot-dev 14d ago
> But then would it make sense to make every function async? No, that doesn't make sense at all! You're being too reductionist... I/O has its place in every real world program, and the true limitation (or what you call a &
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by whilenot-dev 17d ago
Debatable, but I think that Flock sells a product that does actively more harm to society than anything from Oracle ever has.
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by whilenot-dev 17d ago
Multiple things can be true at the same time... do you think the seller doesn't want a closely surveilled world with no exits? Besides, money keeps businesses in the economy afloat, it's an artificial good with (more or less) cons
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by whilenot-dev 19d ago
I feel like your definition of Art is too simplistic and incomplete. At least since Joseph Beuys we know that "anything can be Art", and it's just a matter of how an "expression of an idea" is used to lift somet
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by whilenot-dev 19d ago
> Art is a system. And programming is a system too. They are different systems. From a system-centric POV the art world could be considered a system, and the programming world could be considered a system. Programming is a craft and
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by whilenot-dev 28d ago
It's a matter of running a for-loop. You'd get faster response times (no query→index translation), but the storage requirements for the indexes would be larger.
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by whilenot-dev 28d ago
What's got this to do with a UPS? Not having a UPS is an external threat on the reliability of the power grid. Doing a hard shutdown or tripping over power cords seem much likelier local scenarios than any spontaneous combustion of har
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
Why not create indexes for multiple languages, as that would also avoid double translation issues (e.g. GER [query] → ENG [index] → GER [document] )?
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
It makes the manifested statements become more realistic, sure, as I doubt any dogmatic approach could even exist for long. But I don't think this warrants anybody to bring out the pitchforks and scream "HYPOCRISY!", though..
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
"We never use AI. For anything." doesn't mean "We audit every single one of our dependencies, and make sure they never use AI".
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
Why would you expect a dogmatic approach instead of a more pragmatic one?
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
> And that logic will last you for years. A lot of desires that require computation might not be so "logical" in nature, at least not in the automation kind of things. I use a lot of computing for entertainment purposes and lei
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
It's called the Gruen Effect[0], and everything is becoming a product of marketing. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
https://archive.is/fpGFV
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
If it's turned off for EU customers, it's a pretty clear case that it would be in violation of GDPR, wouldn't it?
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
Cool, so you went from > Cloudflare needs the data. [...] If someone is mad, maybe they should pay or use a different architecture. To "they would violate GDPR". Are you ok with that behavior then? And are you basing your ethic
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
> They are not collecting and using your personal data. Do you see how GDPR doesn't apply, then? ...you're contradicting yourself. I'd still question the legality of the data collection by altering the offered service with
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
Even on free tiers there are Terms of Use you'll need to agree to as a user of their services. Like I said, it's dubious to alter a service and collect data without informing the user first, free tier or not. There's a reas
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
> this is fair, they let you opt out, they give you a dashboard So they give you something else you didn't ask for and therefor it's "fair"? I think it's pretty dubious to extend services with such data collectin
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by whilenot-dev 1mo ago
...and I can click on a name in this list and get to that page. How could that a-tag not have been implemented?
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by whilenot-dev 2mo ago
The handling of backpressure is such a good example to distinguish bad from good engineering. A good implementation even presents all the typical "clean" code indicators: DRY, KISS etc.
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by whilenot-dev 2mo ago
All fine and dandy, but in the case of self -checkouts the cashier work is done by myself, and I'm not a machine.
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by whilenot-dev 2mo ago
Just read your blog post[0], thanks for it! If I may leave some feedback here... It'd be cool if you could add some syntax highlighting, because being at it is, it's hard to distinguish comments from code paths. The code snippets
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by whilenot-dev 2mo ago
Cambridge Analytica gathered data to build targeted profiles and used these profiles for political advertising without informed consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
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Digital Independence Day: Switch to the good side every first Sunday(diday.org)
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by whilenot-dev 2mo ago
> I don't think they've been pushing that "It only took us 11 days!" message nearly as hard as their critics suggest that they have. I have to disagree here. From their blog post Rewriting Bun in Rust [0]: > This
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by whilenot-dev 2mo ago
I think you're just neglecting the fact that LLMs only exist in the virtual world, whereas we're interacting with a world that's richer and has much more to offer. The virtual world is still just a mere subset of our world, b

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