stephenr

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by stephenr 6d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824 > one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browsers, and we couldn't keep up
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by stephenr 8d ago
... is this meant to be satire? You're familiar with the main storyline yes?
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by stephenr 8d ago
Are you saying that a story where voting is reserved for "some people" is what is needed for a democratic government?
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by stephenr 2mo ago
How long ago was this? I tried their "local ai autocomplete" thing a few years ago for a little while and it was hot garbage. It guessed the right/acceptable completion about 30% of the time at best. I haven't looked at
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by stephenr 3mo ago
I would happily write stored procs using the current language support for a decade without pay, before I'd subject myself to putting javascript in a fucking database engine. > And how is it "minutiae" to be able to figure
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by stephenr 3mo ago
> such as vector indexes and JS stored procedures So, the stuff that basically appeals to people chasing the AI dragon, and has zero practical use for 99.999% of developers making real products? > I wish I was joking! I wish I could c
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by stephenr 3mo ago
To me the biggest "unknown" with Percona is that MariaDB (the company) bought out Codership (the creators of Galera Cluster, which XtraDB Cluster is based on) and it doesn't seem to be OSS any more. I'm sure for some s
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by stephenr 3mo ago
The comparison with MySQL/MariaDB is unfortunate, given that since the "split" MariaDB has shown itself to be every bit the corporate owned "FOSS" project while its supporters still harp on about how terrible oracle
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by stephenr 4mo ago
We are clearly talking about different things. Access to source control is required on a developer workstation. It is not required inside an application environment on that workstation (eg a VM or other such system that both provides a stan
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by stephenr 4mo ago
> Most of the recent supply chain attacks specifically target stealing secrets from development environments. If your secrets in a dev environment can actually do any damage if leaked, you're doing something very fucking wrong. &g
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by stephenr 4mo ago
> If you already had left pad cached then you were not affected by its disappearance. The evidence of course is that when you say "left pad" no one knows what you're referring to because nothing bad ever happened. > If
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by stephenr 4mo ago
I mean even if you blindly copy in the dependency (I'm not saying you should) you've already solved two supply chain issues with install-on-prod: - dependencies "disappearing" (aka left pad 2, electric boogaloo) - depend
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by stephenr 4mo ago
I'm glad other people are starting to realise this. Just a word of warning from someone who's always advocated for this approach: Prepare to be inundated with ridiculous, nonsensical arguments about why it's impossible to wor
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by stephenr 4mo ago
If I show a person on the street a Fuji apple and a Honeycrisp and ask if they're approximately the same, they're going to say yes even if they're labeled. Php has had a strict equals operator for decades. You not using it is
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by stephenr 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure it is actually.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
South Australia. Possibly other Australian states too, I haven't checked (I live overseas currently)
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by stephenr 4mo ago
> Yes, we punish the individual driver that did it, but we still allow humans to drive cars. Yes because bad drivers aren't representative of all drivers. You also missed the part where laws are changed, safety laws are strengthened
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by stephenr 4mo ago
If a child is "folded in half" by someone looking at their phone, no one accepts that as "good enough", and there is a direct action: the driver responsible will lose their licence and likely end up in prison. If it happ
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by stephenr 4mo ago
... the only sarcasm I posted was about screaming at the universe in response to his suggestion that the only alternative to people loading up a text editor with a million shonky plugins to try and make it an IDE, is to eschew all IDEs.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
Your comment implies that you've somehow misunderstood my comments and thus think that I am using Microsoft's hot garbage text editor with a million plugins. I can assure you I am not.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
Good point. Any editor is a needless dependency. True developers just scream at the universe and it responds with cosmic radiation that flips the correct bits to form the binary code they intended.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
So what you're saying is, you don't really know what spicy autocomplete is generating because you aren't reading it. Great stuff champ. Really dispelling the idea that vibe coders have no idea what slop is being churned out.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
Which other community imports a third party package rather than writing `% 2 === 0` (or it's equivalent) code to test if a number is even or not?
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by stephenr 4mo ago
If you've all been reduced to vibe coding and hoping for the best I'd suggest that you aren't really participating in the software industry either mate.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
> I do it because I didn't write the codebase - the drug dealer did. .... are you saying that you can't just open up a file "written" by spicy autocomplete and add/change parts of it?
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by stephenr 4mo ago
Part of the problem is that people are adding a metric fuck ton of extensions onto a text editor trying to make it into an IDE. If you start with an IDE first you likely need far fewer extensions.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
Who would have guessed they'd find something more objectionable than AMP, to fuck over site owners.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
> It's only natural to use the stuff that is out there Sure, if your entire "community" lives and dies by a nonsensical "don't reinvent the wheel, there is a package for that " chant that would rival the mo
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by stephenr 4mo ago
Did you not read point 3? Developer experience level is a part of the problem.
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by stephenr 4mo ago
How many other languages of any kind have a standard library that is so bizarrely lacking as JS? Now how many other mainstream languages of any kind have a standard library that is so lacking? Now how many other mainstream languages h

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