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by lessaligned 3y ago
...it's useful to (over)generalize sometimes to get more explanatory power for things. I mean, it probably says nothing useful about programming, but the other way around, thinking of "uncolapsed" wave-functions as lazy-evalu
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by lessaligned 3y ago
There's an even deeper way to thing about it: if you actually want to parallellize the simulation of multiple scenarios, or if you're running smth. that needs to compute smth in >4d, quantum mechanics + parallel universes&quot
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by lessaligned 3y ago
exactly, the build step is there anyway, so why not get "what you're paying for"
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by lessaligned 3y ago
Makes sense, is you're a 5+ years experienced JS dev. But a more junior dev (or someone often switching languages between eg JS / Python / Go etc. all day who finds it hard to remember language details) would benefit a lot
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by lessaligned 3y ago
Can you explain the choice of JS over TS?
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by lessaligned 3y ago
what other good recommendations do you have for auth?
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by lessaligned 3y ago
...this could make some people VERY angry :)
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by lessaligned 3y ago
"room-temp semiconductors in 2023 were just small blocks of stuff levitating atop magnets without needing to be cooled. XYZ really did manage to produce them into useful shapes that still remain superconductive when you push more than
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by lessaligned 3y ago
...nothing happened to the markets ~2017 when the transformer architecture (behind the current AI boom) happened. Nor in 2020 when it was pretty obvious shit scales and generalizes well. ONLY when it got built into an actual product (ChatGP
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by lessaligned 3y ago
I arrived at the same wisdom eg. the "Throw Away then Strategize/Plan" process, but... how the heck to you manage to sell/explain this to people at the same or higher levels? Imo lots of people are very disgusted by t
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by lessaligned 3y ago
"the fork was very very bad for eating soup - this is a story about how we migrated to a spoon" ...firecracker does fine what it was designed to - short running fast start workloads. (oh, and the article starts by slightly misusin
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by lessaligned 3y ago
what pants it only had a skirt with GDPR branded on it and nothing under...
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by lessaligned 3y ago
cool so in cloudland, Azure ca finally face some strong competition as orgs who were only using its crappy stuff solely bc it seemed to be a "safer" bet from a EU regulatory perspective get to do more AWS and GCP now...