zdragnar

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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> I think we all jumped on the AI mothership with our eyes closed Oh no, there's plenty of us willing to say we told you so. What's more interesting to me is what it's going to look like if big companies start removing &qu
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Where in the US are you? I was able to book a visit with my primary the very next day less than a month ago.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
The customers aren't pissed, we're doing demos to new departments and lining up customizations and expansion as quickly as we can. We're growing faster than ever within our largest customer. I also didn't say there are n
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> One of the few reliable barometers of an organisation (or their products) is the wtf/day exclaimed by new hires. Eh, I don't think this is exactly as reliable as you'd expect. My previous job had a fairly straight forwar
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> since you couldn’t reliably stop it the computer itself and new teams with new computers come in. Wifi connection settings in Windows have a "metered connection" setting, which disables automatically downloading updates. I do
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
So, does this ban all news related to politicians? Newspapers and television programs sell time and space via advertisements, and there is more in the world than could conceivably fit. Therefore, every inclusion is an editorial decision. An
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
It stores plugins as strings in the database, then pulls those strings back and evals them as PHP on requests. "Better coded" is very much a subjective assessment.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
That works for small customers who actually want to spend time customizing things themselves. Big customers love having to sign support contracts, because it gives them someone to blame when something goes wrong. Nobody else gets to touch a
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
We're in the process of building new gigawatt datacenters for the sole purpose of doing this stuff. If we end up not needing them, there's gonna be a whole lot of capacity sitting around soaking up ongoing maintenance costs. For e
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
They don't make any of the documentation for those settings easy to find or understand because the support contracts make them so much money.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
There are pretty much two usage patterns that come up all the time: 1- automatically add bearer tokens to requests rather than manually specifying them every single time 2- automatically dispatch some event or function when a 401 response i
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
This is pretty much what I meant. Even if the browser is what comes up, the fact is the user isn't interacting with the browser as a browser. They're interacting with their phone through an app (voice => search). They don'
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> And from a product standpoint, there's really only one reason to ship a native app I have worked on several applications where the product managers wanted to make our web app something that could be installed through the app store
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Dynamic height of virtual scrolling elements is a thing. You just need to recalculate the scrollable height on the fly. tanstack's does it, as do some of the nicer grid libraries.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
We've had "natural language"-esque DSLs for a long time. Cucumber is probably among the better known, at least the first that comes to mind. > Yet, with LLMs, we commit our generated source code, completely throwing away t
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> Hence he number of DOM elements stayed constant no matter how far you scroll and the only thing that grows is the Y coordinate. This is generally called virtual scrolling, and it is not only an option in many common table libraries, bu
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Vulgarity aside, I can sympathize. For years I've been told by designers that discoverability and intuitive interacting patterns are so important, yet every aspect of modern design focuses so much on minimizing "distractions"
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> we should probably chalk it up to laziness on developers' part Also, developers at many companies don't own their time. They're given a certain amount per feature that they didn't estimate themselves, and the compan
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Are there lessons on safety that need to be learned here? We already know what the happy path looks like, and we've plenty of lessons on what the unhappy path will look like. It isn't as if electric charge coming from balcony sola
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
That's a pretty far cry from "complexity is unavoidable". Reading that to me implies that the complexity is inherent in programming language design, whereas this follow-up argument seems to say that complexity is the result o
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
We also have to adulterate that methane with bitter smelling agents too warn people of the danger when there's a leak. The line into the house is also limited by a regulator to ensure the pressure is very low. If gas builds up in a bat
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
The only people with any significant amount of lead acid batteries on their property are off grid types who typically store them away from their primary domicile as a fire safety precaution. Fast charging a car/chemical weapon in your
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Welcome to the new era, where programming is neither a skill nor a trade, but a task to be automated away by anyone with a paid subscription.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
That's fine, and there's no need for AI pretending to be a human, or to ask me to talk to a computer as if it is a human. Routine decision trees work really well here. In fact, decision trees are nice because they tell your more o
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
I needed to replace my car's windshield in a hurry while on an extended trip. I called around to see who might have one in stock that could do a rush order. There was one place that had an automated voice system, and I hung up because
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
The cost of growing and running large LLMs far exceeds the economic value of small task automation. Small, targeted, on-device, cheap to run models make sense in some places. General purpose LLMs that take many gigawatt data centers to lose
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
There are plenty of historical records of people having anxiety or depression. There's almost certainly a link between the prevalence and modern, always-on culture, but to suggest that it alone is the cause is blatantly wrong.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Psychiatric treatments return a person to a baseline that can be managed with therapy or healthy coping mechanisms. Chasing a high is not a treatment, it merely defers the problem. As tolerance to the high builds, patients lose the therapeu
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
What? Browser games were half of what made flash popular back in the day before laptops were even a normal consumer device. You're spot on with classrooms not needing tech though. They add complications and distractions on top of an al
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
It juices their "engagement" metrics, which is the drug of choice for investors, right up there with net promoter scores.

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