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by zeroq 16d ago
I have to make a confession. I've been using different version control system for the last 25 years, but everytime I'm doing anything more complicated than basic commit/push I feel absolutely overwhelmed and terrified that I&
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by zeroq 26d ago
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a huge waste of time (or to be on a more positive note - potential). Just the first example "Device type in JS". "A coarse pointer does not mean “mobile”, and a fine pointer does not
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by zeroq 29d ago
> Did you know that we name around 2,000-3,000 new products every year? It's more likely that the whole product catalog contains 2-3k products. [1][2][3] So no, you don't. [1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en&#x2
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by zeroq 1mo ago
I has never been so bad as in the couple last years. And it's getting worse. I never had to wonder if Steam is going to be working today, so I could play my game after work, but it's been an issue with GitHub since covid. At least
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by zeroq 1mo ago
It's been a downward spiral since covid. Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.
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by zeroq 1mo ago
disclaimer: I haven't seen the code TS/JS is not the problem. You can, and you should eject your dependencies and package them with your releases. And I don't understand why it's not a common practice. You can even bundl
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by zeroq 1mo ago
I've been saying this for years - the best way to wrap your head around AI and LLMs are to think about them as "a whole internet wrapped into a single zip archive, with immensely clever solution to query the data". That'
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by zeroq 1mo ago
tangent Once I've tried one SCM to track every single change to my files, and the other for bulk commits. The result was quite satisfying. It was some 15 years ago, we just switched from CVS to SVN and everyone thought it was the end o
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by zeroq 1mo ago
A good moment to remind everyone that if we took the promise for granted, that AI will in fact prevail and prompting is the one skill that will rule them all... we'll lose all domain experts in one generation. It's less of "s
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by zeroq 2mo ago
This. It's easy to make a good call, but it's really hard to stick with it. The main financial advice I'm giving to all relatives is to write down their decisions before buying anything. Or, if you're looking for a long
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by zeroq 2mo ago
> The discs have been a formality for longer than most gamers understand or want to admit. Sony is discontinuing disc sales as a response to how gamers are buying games not the other way around. On the contrary. It's been a very lon
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by zeroq 2mo ago
> I don't understand the fierce resistance to comparison with human behavior Because at the end of the day, regardless if it contains randomness or not, it's an algorithm. Your operating system is a very long mathematical expre
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by zeroq 2mo ago
This is HN for Christ's sake. Stop treating deterministic algorithms like they are humans.
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by zeroq 2mo ago
A textbook definition of "feature creep". I have absolutely no idea if CodePen is feeling pressure from their shareholders or want to cook before the IPO, but I often wonder why Spotify needs 3,000 [1] developers working full time
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by zeroq 2mo ago
tangent thought experiment So you bought that top of the line security-as-a-product thingy you can stick in your rack and it will make sure that your network is impenetrable? You know, like those CISCO bricks everyone major company is buyin
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by zeroq 2mo ago
I'm afraid that HyperCard is too old for broader audience to be able to grasp how extraordinary experience it was providing. As a 6-7yo I had a collection of English words, stored with my own definitions and pronunciations, using basic
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by zeroq 2mo ago
Sad side of this is that decision makers are seeing these and think that AI can replace yet another department in their office. I just saw a nice presentation from SecFest from a guy who ran a red team, but now they pivoted to basically any
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by zeroq 2mo ago
This is exact same difference as between junior and senior engineer. The premise now is that everyone and your mom can vibe code next unicorn during a lunch break using the latest llms, but the difference between a rookie and a seasoned pro
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by zeroq 2mo ago
Good Lord. Reminds me of Good Parts, Bad Parts meme of JS.
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by zeroq 2mo ago
This is very similar to 30yo exploit in which you placed an alternative, infected dll inside a folder with mp3s (winamp), or photos (windows picture viewer).
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by zeroq 2mo ago
Aye, you're right. My father took me to that conference so that would be closer to 2000 or 2001. Fun fact, around that time I attended 3 "microsoft summit" - that was the name of the event - and every time the absolute banger
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by zeroq 2mo ago
Not at all. Ever wondered why, even on modern websites, css is riddled with repeated statements with this weird "moz-" prefixes? In 2006 when working at Wikia I wrote a tiny lib for deep linking. The lib started at 25 lines with n
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by zeroq 2mo ago
And that's probably a product of different incentives. Consultancy is getting paid for doing things. Product company is getting paid for getting things done.
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by zeroq 2mo ago
In 2004 we solved the types for JS with ECMAScript 4 (or ActionScript 2.0). Unfortunately this was in the middle of browser wars, so no one cared about the standards and all of that work was lost like tears in rain. Around that time I atten
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by zeroq 3mo ago
would it be possible to gdrive/rsync/git the data between machines and then use the data on an online server for retrieval (given that I would handle data sync myself)? also what exactly are you using for search? does it support t
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by zeroq 3mo ago
I'm sorry for not taking the time to read the docs, but I have a question. Some 20 years ago a friend of mine has set up a local proxy (python if I'm not mistaken) that was gathering all his web traffic and served him as a long te
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by zeroq 3mo ago
also a tangent - I can't find it right now - something I feel quite similar, albeit far less practical, was an experiment in which neural network was laid out as a 2D grid, i.e. screen, and it was trained so that specific inputs would
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by zeroq 3mo ago
My biggest gripe about AI is that very few people actually understand that, and many think that LLMs are "thinking" and capable with "coming up with a novel solution". They are not. The only reason one might think the so
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by zeroq 3mo ago
But that's exactly what LLMs are. :) My mental model and go to ELI5 is "imagine you compressed the whole internet into a zip-like archive and you have an extremely clever and efficient way to search it for data". I'm old
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by zeroq 4mo ago
On one hand I've been using almost the exact statement 25 years ago in my Flash (ecmascript) tutorials to narrow down the point of operator precedence. I still believe it's a good piece on your powerpoint if you want to teach. It&

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