azangru

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by azangru 5d ago
If the argument, which seems to be "code is cheap; let's write implementations for multiple platforms", remains true, what do you think will continue turning the wheel?
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by azangru 21d ago
Signal requires a mobile phone for an account; so it's not entirely web-friendly. Plus, can you read what's posted to signal without an account?
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by azangru 23d ago
Well, DHH managed to attract Dell, which are kinda sorta promising through a single representative that their new XPS laptops are fully tested with Omarchy: https://www.youtube.com/live/Bic2KjFFj6w?si=g0wyGBQi63NmhWr5..
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by azangru 23d ago
> Then there's also Tuxedo (which I understand are only rebranded chinese OEMs but still...) My understanding is that System76 is also a rebranded Chinese/Taiwanese OEM.
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by azangru 23d ago
> given that developers are the one group of people today that don't generally have a problem running Linux on the desktop. I am a developer; and I do have a problem: I don't have a choice of good laptops that are guaranteed to
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by azangru 25d ago
I hate it when a comment tells me to see JIRA-1234. What if in a year's time we stop using Jira?
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by azangru 2mo ago
All that time spent programming those visuals. Which, I think, ironically, have made the article harder to read, not easier.
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by azangru 2mo ago
Do your sass customers know what javascript is or how it's different from java? Does this mean developers shouldn't care either?
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by azangru 2mo ago
> it's that small businesses cannot buy phones, install a patched version of Android without a restriction Pardon my ignorance; but why would Android need to be patched? Is it because it wouldn't run on the phone hardware other
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by azangru 2mo ago
> This new trend of content appearing while scrolling down is so terrible accessibility-wise, I do not understand how Mozilla of all institutions would do it. Could you explain what is wrong with the accessibility of this page? All the c
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by azangru 2mo ago
From the title of a chart: > The venture-funded open-source ecosystem: total disclosed funding, USD M > Bars grow as you scroll. The bars, in fact, don't grow as you scroll. And I don't even see why they should.
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by azangru 2mo ago
Not OP; but I would define it as a cluster of specific and strongly held opinions on several topics, such as race/ethnicity, sex, migration, climate change. These opinions cluster together, and produce certain recognizable behaviors i
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by azangru 2mo ago
I'd rather have something I can tinker with on my own machine, thank you very much
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by azangru 3mo ago
> And then please, please test for prompting with challenging assignments that would usually be beyond a student's skills Does this mean you will requre all students to pay for a subscription to an llm provider?
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by azangru 3mo ago
> You can cheat on your homework all you like, but you'll completely fail the exams This might sound principled, but we need to recognize that school administrators are incentivised to have as few kids as possible fail their exams;
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by azangru 3mo ago
Well, at least the copy on the site reads like satire. I didn't notice it at first, looking at components; but then I started reading the text. P.S.: The popover description is brilliant: > The obtrusive newsletter modal every AI st
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by azangru 3mo ago
Thanks! Found it.
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by azangru 3mo ago
> Source available in Github through NoSuggest website. Where? I couldn't find any link to the source on the website.
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by azangru 3mo ago
> Submit a feature (our version of a pull request) that looks and behaves exactly the way I want What happens after the submission? Who reviews the feature? How long? Are there any limits to the size of the diff? Do reviewers push back?
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by azangru 3mo ago
Will there be developers at all then? What would they do? What would define their role? What skills/qualifications would they need?
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by azangru 3mo ago
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand Users don't. Question is, do developers, who are tasked to read, modify, and maintain the code?
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by azangru 3mo ago
> I earn a small fraction of what NYTimes earns. If I'm not desperate, why are they? He is an individual, and they are a company of about 6,000 people?
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by azangru 3mo ago
> you need to subscribe to changes manually (use effect) to create computations How do you mean? Since the render function reruns during every update to state/props, derived/computed values can be calculated from the updated st
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by azangru 3mo ago
> a typical config & plugins stack for (webpack + eslint + prettier) is nearly impossible to reason about. I think people just don't want to bother. They don't want to read the docs, or maybe watch a video or two (back when
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by azangru 4mo ago
But why is push vs pull the definition of reactivity? I suppose we can say that there are different kinds of reactivity. Signals is one kind. Observables à la rxjs is a different kind (the whole model of programming with rxjs was referred t
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by azangru 4mo ago
React reacts to changes in state or properties by automatically updating the UI. What's not reactive about that?
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by azangru 4mo ago
> Observables - streams > Signals - reactivity The r in rx stands for reactive.
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by azangru 4mo ago
> have you tried working seriously with claude code or gpt codex and which part of it did you not enjoy? I haven't. But I found myself, to my surprise, not particularly interested in trying; which makes me wonder what motivates othe
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by azangru 4mo ago
> battling with AI, trying to get it do what I wanted What I am selfishly curious about is: is it possible to remain a software developer, and ignore AI? To write code the same way we did before 2022? I understand that there are many com
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by azangru 4mo ago
> now that Google isn’t really Google anymore I can't say I've noticed any changes about google search on desktop recently. Yes; there is an AI overview widget at the top of the page; but it's been there for at least a yea

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