chrsjxn

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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Yeah, that's where I'm at, too. Authoring web components directly is too low level to be practical. You can easily end up reimplementing a ton of existing framework logic around rerenders, reactivity, event handlers, etc. And ther
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
For me, this feels worse than wikipedia using JSON as an example. JSON isn't a great HTMl representation, and the wikipedia examples are definitely missing details about how the underlying API is used. But extremely simple HTML just fe
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
I really struggle to understand how someone with fundamental programming knowledge and the relevant HTML/CSS skills could run into issues like this without some serious mental blocks. The HTML and CSS are going to be the same. Any UI s
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Maybe this is just a terminology mismatch, but when you say "incident" that's been a pretty urgent process everywhere I've worked. Other people are talking about breaking CI, which just sounds miserable. Raising awarenes
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Heh. I've been there and tried to do this with feature flags and a handful of other tech debt work. It can feel good to make people do their chores, but you can also burn a _lot_ of bridges by forcing relatively minor maintenance work
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
The awesome thing is that this comes right after an example that uses about 200 characters... I know we love to talk about optimizing web contents, but a single selector and a few hundred bytes (before minification and compression...) is no
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
There's like two main ways this kind of mistake happens. One is a programmer using the wrong string ID. Probably a mistake when searching a translation file/db. The second is missing context. The word "zip" has multiple
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
The "framework" here is exceptionally small. You can read the whole thing: https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/blob/main/src/van.js Personally, it doesn't do enough that I'd serious
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
This narrative ( https://vanjs.org/about#story ) about modern JS tooling being opaque, exclusive, and hard to learn is frustrating. If all you need is HTML rendering and basic state, any modern web framework will do that extr
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Tag functions being implemented with a Proxy ( https://vanjs.org/tutorial#api-tags ) could make that a little cumbersome, and would break the abstraction that `div(...)` just returns an HTMLDivElement you can do whatever you
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
I feel like that just makes it worse (though I didn't know about the DA's office messing up the paperwork). Let's assume that understaffing and additional work required to close cases are the main causes for the low clearance
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
SFPD had a 6% clearance rate for all property crimes in 2020, with reports that it got lower since [1]. There are a lot of anecdotes, occasionally newsworthy, about SFPD watching theft happen and doing nothing about it [2]. SFPD also appear
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
I'm mostly thinking outside the scope of just this one example. Even good recipes have a lot of variability in cooking time. The differences between how hot people cook at home and how hot they cook in commercial spaces is one of the o
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
> You are not going to be able to cook chicken in 3-4minutes per side like so many recipes claim. It's just not possible to have a good outside temperature and a good inside temperature no matter how you cook it if you only have tha
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
The semicolon and all the brackets look to have a lot more emphasis than they do in many common monospace fonts, which makes a lot of sense if you're designing your font for developers. Same with the 1Il distinction they show off in th
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
There are so many ways for "impact" to go wrong during promotions and performance reviews. I think my favorite were projects that just didn't have any metrics. Or that claimed to have metrics, but somehow they were never shar
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
There's some difference, but I'm still not convinced. An htmx app is still using JS to manipulate the state of the DOM based on the results of API calls. You could build an app with web-components that do the same local modificati
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
I love articles like these, because the narrative of "JS framework peddlers have hoodwinked you!" is fun, in an old-timey snake oil salesman kind of way. But I'll be honest. I'll believe it when I see it. It's not t
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Feel free to check my math, but Waymo's 2 accidents in 1,000,000 driverless miles ( https://blog.waymo.com/2023/02/first-million-rider-only-mile... ) is higher than the rate for human drivers in any of the year
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
That's just a local bias. I used to live where a street turned from two-way to one-way, and people drove the wrong way all the time. But that doesn't change the fact that human beings are extremely safe drivers. NHTSA reports less
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
To be 100% clear, my main AI fear is that these tools are going to be exactly as dumb as people but much, much faster. We know optimization engines (like social media algorithms) can cause harm by amplifying human speech. And even without a
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Automatic translation is impressive, to be sure. But looking up information and translating it into other languages is well within the realm of human skill. And the information it's translating came from people to begin with.
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
So much of this is going to hinge on what "smarter" means. My local library has heaps more knowledge than most individual people, but it'd be weird to call it "smarter" than a person. And automation is generally che
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
That statement seems like such science fiction that it's kind of baffling an AI expert said it. What does it even mean for the AI to be smarter than people? I certainly can't see a way for LLMs to generate "smarter" text
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Only stealing from people who haven't asked you nicely to stop doesn't scream "highly ethical" to me Security researchers put a lot of emphasis on responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities. The maintainers of this project c
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
This feels like it would make the situation much worse from a legal perspective. If you know your AI produces code that is "tainted" by license violations, adding code to hide it after the fact suggests that you're intentiona
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
Same here! I think it helps me read faster online, but it's probably just a fidget-y habit.
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
You've got to love a website that makes text selection invisible by default. I'd probably double check assumptions on the cloudfront issues. Switching carriers or adding VPN might connect you to a different edge node. Some web ass
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
100% is an odd choice for a utilization target. Just about every service I've ever monitored has had some fairly clear inflection points where higher utilization starts to affect performance. It could be things like more time spent on
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by chrsjxn 3y ago
I've asked a few streamers for their perspective, and the response is vague but more per view than ad impressions I'm assuming this is mostly just because the ad revenue on youtube is pretty low

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