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by zarzavat 9mo ago
If it's so easy to replicate, why isn't there any other app that has replicated it? Signal is the closest but they fall short because they prioritize privacy over features. Which is their choice to make, but it means they have rul
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
The alternatives suck. WhatsApp strikes a good balance of usability and security. Telegram is too insecure (no E2E by default). Signal is too secure (no chat exports). Nobody has even bothered to make an app that stands toe-to-toe with What
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
Perfectly sure. XML is eXtensible Markup Language, the generalized counterpart to Hypertext Markup Language. XML, HTML, SGML are all designed to be written by hand. You can generate XML, just like you can generate HTML, but the language w
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
You have to use the right tool for the job. XML is extensible markup, i.e. it's like HTML that can be applied to tasks outside of representing web pages. It's designed to be written by hand. It has comments! A good use for XML wou
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
The best code is no code.[0] The main "issue" I have with Claude is that it is not good at noticing when code can be simplified with an abstraction. It will keep piling on lines until the file is 3000 lines long. You have to inter
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
I have always said this and had people on HN reply that they don't get much use out of autocomplete, which puzzled me. I'm starting to understand that there are two cultures. Developers who are mostly writing new code get the most
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
I don't think it's viable to containerize an IDE. Running user code at full permissions is a core feature for an IDE. The programs that the user develops in an IDE could potentially touch any OS surface. When the user is a develop
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by zarzavat 9mo ago
> And that's the most likely outcome The recent electoral success of AfD in Germany and the National Front in France seem to point in the other direction.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
I find both are useful. Claude is my loyal assistant who tries its best to do what I tell it to. GPT-5 is the egotistical coworker who loves to argue and point out what I'm doing wrong. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's co
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Right, I was referring to logical databases rather than the database server itself.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
If you need to restore the production database do you also want to restore the task database? If your task is to send an email, do you want to send it again? Probably not.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Indeed. Apple should close those forums. It damages their brand to have such antagonistic people pretending to be support agents. A company of Apple's wealth could afford to have a small army of people in the Philippines do the same jo
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Yes, too much emphasis is put on Trump. He's just the President. This crisis has been 80 years in the making. It's the Supreme Court that has expanded the powers of the President, and previously of the Federal government, far be
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Laws can be changed. This is right now a trillion dollar industry, perhaps later it could even become a billion dollar industry. Either way, it's very important. Strict copyright enforcement is a competitive disadvantage. Western coun
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> I'm sure everyone has worked on sites where you're scared to make CSS file edits because the unpredictable ripple of changes might break unrelated pages. CSS gives you multiple tools to solve this problem, if you don't u
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
In the webdev world being late is the same as being early. Just wait for the pendulum to swing back. Tailwind is like GenZ has discovered the bgcolor="" attribute. > Markup and styling are intrinsically linked, making any chang
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
The point of CSS is specifically to separate styling and semantics, so that they are not tightly coupled. If you were writing a blog post you would want to be able to change the theme without going through every blog post you ever wrote, no
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
London. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/europe/london-polic...
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
I use and love Apple Pay, but it's not ideal for every situation. The biggest flaw is that it requires waving your expensive phone in the vicinity of the reader. Apple Pay is more risky than contactless cards. There is a risk of droppi
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
40% of the population is obese. The framing seems on point to me. The actual advice is less so. Even more red meat is not the solution.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
How are you qualified to judge its performance on real code if you don't know how to write a hello world? Yes, LLMs are very good at writing code, they are so good at writing code that they often generate reams of unmaintainable spag
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> You cannot load any data in a regular React application before you loaded both React and your React components that trigger the fetch. You totally can! Don't call fetch directly from a component - it's brittle. Write a hook t
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
This is the reasoning deficit. Models are very good at generating large quantities of truthy outputs, but are still too stupid to know when they've made a serious mistake. Or, when they are informed about a mistake they sometimes don&#
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
No. My point is more nuanced than that. All of the things in the article have value to someone, but their value to you is defined in terms of how much better they make your product. If you spend so much time on the cumulation of product-a
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
> It should load quicker compared to traditional React apps where the browser loads the HTML, then loads the JS bundle, and only then renders a loading skeleton while likely triggering more requests for data. Then your JS bundle is broke
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Au contraire. Web development has always been fun, unless you add all the crap mentioned in TFA. If you feel you need all that stuff to feel grown up, then I guess LLMs help a lot. But the barometer hasn't changed: make something that
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Yes, and? There are Huawei stores all over Asia, that little place where 60% of people live.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Yes but that only works if the questions are identical . Often however they are merely similar, but closed as duplicates nonetheless.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
The reason that interior doors in general open inwards is fire safety. Doors that only open outwards can be obstructed from the outside, preventing evacuation.
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by zarzavat 10mo ago
Presumably the number they are doing is less than 2 otherwise this is disgusting.

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