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by zarzavat 5mo ago
People hate on React because it's popular. That popularity alienates people whose use cases aren't served well by React and they wonder what the fuss is about. But React is really, really good at the thing it was designed for: b
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Young children should be supervised when they access the internet. Adolescents are not going to be defeated by such easily bypassed technical measures. These laws are a trojan horse for control of the adult population. The relative anonymit
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
A cynical person might suspect that the reason they are doing this is so that Linux developers don't have standing to challenge the law on 1st amendment grounds...
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
A programming language with a reference implementation is not a "monopoly", it's a standard. By having a common implementation to write code against we can avoid wasting time on pointless minutiae such as which features are p
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Is that supposed to be a bad thing? I like having only one implementation. Multiple compilers is annoying for users, have to write "portable" code which can only target the lowest common denominator. Only when a feature ships in C
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
It really feels like a mass psychosis. I'm not an AI sceptic insofar as I fully expect to get replaced by some future AI system. But what we have now isn't it. To use a Geohot-inspired analogy, what we have now is like the Google
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
They did that to avoid losing even more money in a strike, not because they wanted to.
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> LLMs don't really scale if you're still the bottlneck This only works if there's no consequences if your code breaks. In the eyes of other humans you're responsible for what you commit. No amount of "scaling&qu
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
What is the essence of a program? The name? No. The author? No. The test suite? No, testing is hard and most projects don't do enough of it. The code? Not really, code can be rewritten. The history of the program being executed by it
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
I don't even mind about that. GCP is a perfectly good platform technically, it's ahead of AWS in some areas e.g. for k8s it's widely regarded to be the best. The product is great. However I have GCP blacklisted because it&#x2
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Rockets are mostly proprietary knowledge so you won't be able to vibecode a starship no matter how smart the AI is.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Shopify has $11 billion dollars in revenue. I assume that buys them at least an email address of a human at Google. Nobody doubts Google's engineering ability. It's their soft skills that are lacking. Google is culturally unable t
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
GCP is basically just a toy. If you're hosting something important there you should probably not do that. It works as a Plan B, but by no means should Google be your Plan A. I don't know what happened in this case, there's a
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
https://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/libc/9sys/abort.c
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
When Google search first appeared it was miles ahead of the pack. There was no alternative worth using. They had a true monopoly insofar as nobody was able to compete. Nowadays, if Google Search were to disappear, I would hardly notice. Tha
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Same in Mobile Safari.
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I haven't used Google search for years. It's almost totally irrelevant at this point and existing on pure inertia. I'm aware that most people still use it, but it's nothing like the glory days when Google was far ahead o
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
> HTTPS on a blog does nothing. It does nothing now . There used to be ISPs who injected ads into web pages as an additional revenue stream. This stopped being a viable strategy precisely because browsers forced a transition to HTTPS. A
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
To expand on this, PyPI is slightly less vulnerable because Python users tend to install mega packages (such as numpy or django) and do not frequently interact with their package manager. There is also not a culture of using sub-dependencie
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Somewhere right now some human artist is being tasked with drawing illustrations of pelicans riding bicycles to be used as training data at a big AI lab.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
What? No. A PR is me giving my time to the project. I don't get anything out of it except the warm feeling of having helped out. If I have to pay money to submit a PR then I'm going to play video games instead.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
"Melted sand" sounds strange because English already has a word for that: "glass".
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Yes they are. For example, Blink/Webkit allow <meter> and <progress> to be styled. Firefox does not support those pseudoclasses so you can't style those elements cross browser. Then there is <input type="range&
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To be honest HTML is a pain. For example the HTML approach to style parts of a control is to use pseudoclasses. Sometimes the selectors are different across browsers! Then you have to test across browsers because who knows if it will actual
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
As long as there is an option to give refunds then nothing is being compelled.
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Not all code is fixable. Sometimes the best thing to do with code is to throw it away. Without any human code to grab on to, AI has a habit of writing code that is pervasively low quality and rife with misunderstandings such that it always
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Some programmers are gardeners. It sounds like you're one too. Your job is to maintain a large existing codebase. You probably didn't understand the entire codebase before AI, nobody did, so it doesn't matter that you don&#x2
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Apologies but what is a Boris Cat?
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Not if you use that tool, then it's just scary.
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Python recently went the other way and added an assignment expression. I actually wish more languages would go further and add statement expressions instead of having to imitate them with IIFEs. C just wouldn't be C without things like

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