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by twhitmore 14d ago
I liked Fable 5, as it didn't gabble like Opus did. It was good at clarity & conciseness. Fable 5.1 -- to my early impressions -- seems to have gone backwards again. Opus 4.8 was terrible for babbling self-invented jargon. (But sti
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by twhitmore 1mo ago
Good article, and I agree with the author's enthusiasm. However his points that "cheap parts are a great enabler" and "shipping costs are high to Trinidad and Tobago", while true, don't actually counter the OP&
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by twhitmore 1mo ago
A typical place this distinction is useful is that it determines whether the test-suite runs to completion with multiple tests, or panics/terminates hard on the first failure.
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by twhitmore 2mo ago
Some of it is Conway's Law, much though seems purely "cargo cult engineering" or "FAANG cosplay". Less-competent devs and CTOs hear that Amazon & Google use it, then decide their 12-person team needs to rewrite
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by twhitmore 2mo ago
Or not. For simple to moderate requirements, plain HTML with a small templating helper is genuinely simpler than React. React’s complexity isn’t just components — it’s effects, state‑management conventions, data‑loading patterns, and the su
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by twhitmore 2mo ago
Grid layout error in your CSS/ HTML, I think. You've assigned `grid-area: main` to the content but the parent grid doesn’t define "main" in its grid-template-areas; the browser creates an implicit grid row/column to
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by twhitmore 4mo ago
What an incompetence & embarrassment. This seems like a failure of product management, management & executives rather than actual software craftspeople. Those responsible -- all of the people -- should be promoted to digging ditches
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by twhitmore 7mo ago
Does the Zig language not have useful exceptions/stacktraces that can be propagated out? At a high level, all non-trivial programming is composition. And (see principle of encapsulation) the vast majority of errors shouldn't be re
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by twhitmore 10mo ago
Exception handling would be better than what we're seeing here. The problem is that any non-trivial software is composition, and encapsulation means most errors aren't recoverable. We just need easy ways to propagate exceptions ou
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by twhitmore 10mo ago
Interesting to see Rust error handling flunk out in practice. It may be that forcing handling at every call tends to makes code verbose, and devs insensitized to bad practice. And the diagnostic Rust provided seems pretty garbage. There is
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by twhitmore 1y ago
Checked exceptions were a reasonable idea, but the Java library implementation & use of these was totally wrong. Checked exceptions work well for occasional major "expectable" failures -- opening a file, making a network conne
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by twhitmore 2y ago
The examples at the start seem confused & poor. A type that "can return either one result, many results or an error" is trying to fit two different cardinalities into a single API. APIs should either be typed to be unary (poss
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Interesting. The corruption was in a math.pow() calculation, representing a compressed filesize prior to a file decompression step. Compressing data, with the increased information density & greater number of CPU instructions involved,
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by twhitmore 3y ago
This article is very interesting. I have previously noticed the contrast between strict state representations, and the messier practicalities of user- and externally-sourced data. I like the insight of splitting Intent and State. There&#x27
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by twhitmore 3y ago
I don't know, I've met a lot of devs who've found the "true religion" of strict data integrity and have been reluctant to allow for the messier practicalities of user- and externally-sourced data. None of them calle
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Difficulty & cost evolving the interface between microservices can seriously hinder improving the actual product. I've seen the misguided adoption of microservices affect a couple of companies & products.
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Yes, there's this amazing thing called "documentation". Confluence works well if you KISS - write just what the audience needs to know, in terms they can read & find. Avoid writing grand tracts of wanna-be architecture,
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Exactly this. At this point the obsession with categorising potentially useful & useable behaviour as UB should be widely acknowledged.
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Greed, excess and short-term capitalism. My particular beef is disposable/ short-lived goods -- the impact on the Earth of a product that lasts for 30 years is far less than one designed to need replacement after 5. Yet weenie product
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Chinese hackers breach email of Commerce SEC Raimondo and State Dept officials(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by twhitmore 3y ago|1 comments
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Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China(nytimes.com)
4 points by twhitmore 3y ago|3 comments
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Chinese hackers intent on collecting intelligence on the United States gained access to government email accounts, Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday night. Microsoft said that in all, about 25 organizations, including government agencies, had
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Perhaps I can share my personal experience. I have always felt tired/ crashed after having sugary foods. Sugary cakes & chocolate can leave me feeling pretty unpleasant. It might have been workable if eating more restored my mental
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Haven't read the full paper, but several aspects of this sound less than fully reliable. It reminds me specifically of 90's multi-client LAN database systems (dBase, Clipper) where clients coordinated via file locks. Unreliability
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by twhitmore 3y ago
Yes. The Archive version seems fine though. https://web.archive.org/web/20230327033150/https://www.wired...
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by twhitmore 4y ago
Behaviour is what needs to despatched, and behaviour is what benefits from applying eg. strategy pattern, delegation, orchestration. Extracting important business behaviour into objects allows applying OO (ie, powerful despatch rules) where
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by twhitmore 4y ago
Limited in size as URLs encounter size limits: https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184/768795 I wouldn't consider state in the URL fully general, as data can easily exceed that for many apps; but it's a useab
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Fast subtype checking in the HotSpot JVM (2002)(researchgate.net)
1 points by twhitmore 4y ago|1 comments
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by twhitmore 4y ago
Cliff Click & John Rose on the JVM's subtype check -- achieving complete subtype checks in only 3 instructions and 1 memory reference, essentially all of the time. Nice paper for those interested in language implementation & op
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by twhitmore 4y ago
My understanding is that radioactive waste volumes & activity differ based on reactor type. Light-water reactors (PWR/ BWR) only burn 3% of the fuel energy hence leaving large energies as mid- and high-level radioactive waste. Heav

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