Browser vendors have really dropped the ball in supporting CSS, which is no doubt how we get comments like the above. Firefox is likely the least-worst offender, but as you point out still needlessly complicated for…
> is Zig the closest to filling that niche? Given what you said about Go, presumably that is Solod (https://solod.dev)
A closer analogy is going to a gas station where a microwave is offered to heat up any food you purchased. If you don't want to heat up the food, cool. If you expect the food to come hot you're in the wrong place.…
Is doing something for yourself really working for free? That's an interesting take. But I can understand why you don't want this for yourself, so enjoy the page in all its splendour as it is already!
Users being able to supply their own stylesheet is a core tenant of CSS. Go nuts and make it look however your heart desires!
> Consumers are represented by representatives who should have their interests in mind Exactly. Representatives are merely messengers, so they can only represent the consumers when sharing the message of the consumers…
> Consumers cannot possibly understand all potential ways in which they can be screwed over In a democracy, consumers and the government are the exact same thing. Since they ostensibly do not understand all of the…
> "My phone is a server now" would've been better Not really. No sign of a phone. Just a computer — same as what all other servers run on. "My server runs on a computer with a form factor that is atypical for server…
> If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right. Has coding ever meant anything else? This is just semantics, but I don't think a product person talking to customers to…
> The amount of non-determinism in compiler and LLM output is so vast that even comparing them is silly. What is that supposed to mean? Yes, LLMs are often considered to be non-deterministic because, in practice, they…
What is product management and service management? I tried asking the AI: - A product manager (PM) guides a product from its initial idea to its final launch and beyond. They define the product vision, set the strategic…
Proponents of what? Growing the pie isn't going to convince anyone who has a small slice of anything. Maybe you've never seen a pie before, but no matter how much it grows by the angle of your slice remains the same.…
The last time a programmer wasn't a manager was when they were handed a piece of paper with toggle combinations and their job was to flip the toggle switches as detailed. AI doesn't seem to have much applicability in…
What boggles your mind is not that people are falling for the genetic fallacy, but that others are calling them out for falling for it? Does this stem from you believing that there is value in making logical errors, or…
Every value must have a zero value was congruent with the dynamic languages of the time, which is signifiant as Go was designed to "feel like a dynamic language" that was able to handle production scale (i.e. something…
"Production-grade" typically means something that has been battle tested by users and has gone through all the trials and tribulations of dealing with their complains, suggestions, and other feedback to see an initial…
Those who held that philosophy (Thompson, Pike) are now retired. Those who still have careers ahead of them want to have something to do. The natural consequence of a "bullshit job" economy.
Only if the compiler is perfectly naive. With the state of today's optimizing compilers, the output might be very different from what you'd expect. But it also doesn't matter because the business goal is the results…
I was pleasantly surprised driving through the boonies recently. Scanning through the channels I stumbled upon a station that I'd say was playing only 20-30% typical radio hits, with the rest filled with artists you may…
PGlite offers the "real database" compiled to WASM, which can then be embedded similarly to SQLite. You don't have to choose between PostgreSQL and "just a file".
The last time I remember seeing the same kind of behaviour was when document databases appeared on the scene. Content creators far and wide were writing about MongoDB vs Postgres, stories about rewriting an app to be…
Do you see any other examples of where technical excellence is attention grabbing? From my vantage point, when something does a great job at solving a problem better than everything else nobody spends their days trying…
Yes, it is nice that there are still glimmers of the good old days of the internet.
Of course, the genetic fallacy is just that: a fallacy.
Absolutely. Which is why the hackathon was conceived: to serve as an escape from the real world. All good things must come to an end, I suppose.
Browser vendors have really dropped the ball in supporting CSS, which is no doubt how we get comments like the above. Firefox is likely the least-worst offender, but as you point out still needlessly complicated for…
> is Zig the closest to filling that niche? Given what you said about Go, presumably that is Solod (https://solod.dev)
A closer analogy is going to a gas station where a microwave is offered to heat up any food you purchased. If you don't want to heat up the food, cool. If you expect the food to come hot you're in the wrong place.…
Is doing something for yourself really working for free? That's an interesting take. But I can understand why you don't want this for yourself, so enjoy the page in all its splendour as it is already!
Users being able to supply their own stylesheet is a core tenant of CSS. Go nuts and make it look however your heart desires!
> Consumers are represented by representatives who should have their interests in mind Exactly. Representatives are merely messengers, so they can only represent the consumers when sharing the message of the consumers…
> Consumers cannot possibly understand all potential ways in which they can be screwed over In a democracy, consumers and the government are the exact same thing. Since they ostensibly do not understand all of the…
> "My phone is a server now" would've been better Not really. No sign of a phone. Just a computer — same as what all other servers run on. "My server runs on a computer with a form factor that is atypical for server…
> If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right. Has coding ever meant anything else? This is just semantics, but I don't think a product person talking to customers to…
> The amount of non-determinism in compiler and LLM output is so vast that even comparing them is silly. What is that supposed to mean? Yes, LLMs are often considered to be non-deterministic because, in practice, they…
What is product management and service management? I tried asking the AI: - A product manager (PM) guides a product from its initial idea to its final launch and beyond. They define the product vision, set the strategic…
Proponents of what? Growing the pie isn't going to convince anyone who has a small slice of anything. Maybe you've never seen a pie before, but no matter how much it grows by the angle of your slice remains the same.…
The last time a programmer wasn't a manager was when they were handed a piece of paper with toggle combinations and their job was to flip the toggle switches as detailed. AI doesn't seem to have much applicability in…
What boggles your mind is not that people are falling for the genetic fallacy, but that others are calling them out for falling for it? Does this stem from you believing that there is value in making logical errors, or…
Every value must have a zero value was congruent with the dynamic languages of the time, which is signifiant as Go was designed to "feel like a dynamic language" that was able to handle production scale (i.e. something…
"Production-grade" typically means something that has been battle tested by users and has gone through all the trials and tribulations of dealing with their complains, suggestions, and other feedback to see an initial…
Those who held that philosophy (Thompson, Pike) are now retired. Those who still have careers ahead of them want to have something to do. The natural consequence of a "bullshit job" economy.
Only if the compiler is perfectly naive. With the state of today's optimizing compilers, the output might be very different from what you'd expect. But it also doesn't matter because the business goal is the results…
I was pleasantly surprised driving through the boonies recently. Scanning through the channels I stumbled upon a station that I'd say was playing only 20-30% typical radio hits, with the rest filled with artists you may…
PGlite offers the "real database" compiled to WASM, which can then be embedded similarly to SQLite. You don't have to choose between PostgreSQL and "just a file".
The last time I remember seeing the same kind of behaviour was when document databases appeared on the scene. Content creators far and wide were writing about MongoDB vs Postgres, stories about rewriting an app to be…
Do you see any other examples of where technical excellence is attention grabbing? From my vantage point, when something does a great job at solving a problem better than everything else nobody spends their days trying…
Yes, it is nice that there are still glimmers of the good old days of the internet.
Of course, the genetic fallacy is just that: a fallacy.
Absolutely. Which is why the hackathon was conceived: to serve as an escape from the real world. All good things must come to an end, I suppose.