mekoka

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by mekoka 1mo ago
> If your goal is to take over the market quick, as many here would like, maintainability is a very low priority aspect of your code base. Is it? How long do you expect to keep your momentum after "taking over the market"? Anec
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by mekoka 2mo ago
It's the same thing as the "oh no, we need to figure something out for our youth on the verge of obsolescence" narrative. It's all about giving an impression of unfathomable power. They don't care that in actualit
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by mekoka 2mo ago
> I can’t conceive of the leadership of the Python or Rust or any other community I’ve ever worked with doing something like that. I'd be prudent to use a clear faux-pas by a BDFL as an argument to push for an alternative, seemingly
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by mekoka 2mo ago
As entertaining as that article was when it came out, I think its apparent wisdom should have been reevaluated for at least the past two decades. Even back when it was written, its pertinence was questionable, since it hinged on the percept
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by mekoka 2mo ago
Short publication intervals. That's the heuristic you're going with? I have dozens of such unpublished long form articles on fundamental topics, just waiting for me to carve some time to polish. I expect that on a sabbatical I cou
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by mekoka 2mo ago
Being dismissive is one way to think yourself "better" than others. But on HN hastier reactions tend to be outright negative or out of context with long articles, as eyeballs actually evaluating the content will take some time bef
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by mekoka 2mo ago
How were you able to pick this up? Not challenging your assertion. Just really curious. Can you point to some clues? I read it (with my own eyes). I can't see actual evidence the text itself is artificial or at least, that it is not h
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by mekoka 2mo ago
Ignorance will always be a better starting point for discovery than wrong assumptions. If you leave comments, they must reflect what the code is actually doing. If during edit it's no longer the case, at least mark them as stale. The
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by mekoka 2mo ago
The article had great advice on this actually. When asked how to get into C, or whether it was more advisable to learn Zig instead, Mitchell suggested that It’s more important to learn how computers work and make the language just a means
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by mekoka 2mo ago
> If this is the ideal model, why don't authors skip the middleman themselves and just put the .pdf/.epub on their website directly in exchange for donations? > On the same note, why do game devs need to give Steam 30% of th
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by mekoka 2mo ago
Using an ORM should not exempt you from designing your schema around the domain. If anyone thinks it's the case they're either using the ORM wrong, or using the wrong ORM, or perhaps creating the wrong ORM. Similarly, designing
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by mekoka 2mo ago
You stopped right before the best part. When they decide to create their own ill designed, badly tested, and undocumented mapper.
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by mekoka 2mo ago
> you give up so much in performance. Not really. ORMs (memory) and databases (disk) are distant by multiple orders of magnitude performance wise. Skipping the ORM to shave off some cycles is akin to haggling over a few pennies on your t
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by mekoka 3mo ago
> It’s doing more harm than good. For context Can we PUHLEASE stop this AI Confidence Theater, people? It’s doing more harm than good.
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by mekoka 3mo ago
The word "entertain" quickly came to mind in that sentence because attracting the audience as a primary concern is typical of the entertainment industry, regardless of the content being educational, news, or otherwise. If we get s
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by mekoka 3mo ago
> what they want to watch What does that even mean? Not everything published has to be with the purpose of entertaining. This is a more recent mindset that came with the advent of the "Content Creator" (think Mr.Beast). But it
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by mekoka 3mo ago
I expect the documentary to get an uptick in downloads as well.
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by mekoka 3mo ago
This isn't a specifically American phenomenon. Humans have fear buttons. If you press the right ones, a sizable portion of any population would trade in significant amount of freedom to feel safer. Those for whom it's almost pat
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by mekoka 3mo ago
It's not really about going back. Evolution happens within a pattern of ebb and flow, back and forth. We never get anything perfectly right. We overdo, then course correct, rinse and repeat. Right now, we're embracing AI, but we&#
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by mekoka 3mo ago
Just try to take those same friends who drive everywhere on a (walking) trail hike inside the city, then come back to report.
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by mekoka 3mo ago
It depends how you store and look things up. There are so many optimization opportunities and strategies to make the lookups fast that this is pretty much a non-issue in practice (e.g. deny list implemented as any combination of runtime o
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by mekoka 3mo ago
Every once in a while an article with a sensational title against JWTs pops up in here and I have to wonder if something new was discovered. But nope. It always boils down to the same "can't invalidate it" complaint, which ca
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by mekoka 3mo ago
I haven't read the book, but I've thought about similar problems. Sharing my attempt at a solution. First, the organization must have an original steering body made up of "true believers" in a shared mission and vision.
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by mekoka 4mo ago
It would be true if they bothered hiding it. But as the featured author said, people seem increasingly not shy of simply forwarding you a screenshot of the AI answer.
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by mekoka 4mo ago
Your analogy is apt in more ways than one. It comes down to how often the point of a journey is to get to the destination. Most old wisdoms teach that the latter is more often just a MacGuffin to embark on the former. If they're right,
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by mekoka 4mo ago
I imagine how you intended your comment to come across and I get it to some level. But I can't help feeling that there's something a bit dystopian in a world where all friction is removed just to more quickly get to the juicy bits
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by mekoka 4mo ago
I'm unclear as to where your outrage is directed. Is it that they give jobs offshore? Or rather that those who get them are now victim of their original accent not being heard by Canadians?
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by mekoka 5mo ago
This is what tends to happen to code when your focus starts to shift away from how expediently you can write it and closer to how readable/maintainable it really is.
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by mekoka 5mo ago
If you're a dev, one approach to specialization is to align with the tooling associated with common "profit center" processes. Become a Salesforce/Hubspot/Odoo/Shopify developer. If you're not interested i
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by mekoka 5mo ago
The article highlights that the real value of the ZK method is in the discovery of the deeper connections that run between ideas that on the surface may appear unrelated. I can see how that could be useful in contexts where the work is ab

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