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anton-107··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
According to PISA they did change the tests to be more relevant to using computers. Reading tasks are mostly practical: websites, emails, forum posts, comparing multiple sources and judging whether a source is credible.

So this "old testing" framework is at least from 2010s rather than from 1950s.

anton-107··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
I must appoligize - it is there, hidden under "Form elements" in the left menu. Kudos to the authors!
anton-107··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
Why do all the UI component libraries always feature an accordion (something i can build myself in 5 minutes and very rarely need), but always omit a date picker / calendar component (something that is needed almost in every corporate web form and really requires a lot of effort to build)?
anton-107··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
does this update also enable precision finding from the watch? would this start working with the previous generation of airtags as well (currently you can use precision finding from your iphone, but not from the watch)
anton-107··on Grandmaster-level chess without search
take millions of games of human players of certain rating only as your learning data?
anton-107··on Neolithic boats found in the Mediterranean reveal advanced nautical technology
"Sapiens" by Yuval Harari is really remarkable overview of human history and is much more recently written. I read it twice already and enjoyed it a lot both times.
anton-107··on Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works
Getting "Error: Internal error while processing request." while trying on my personal public github repo. HN effect?
anton-107··on Testcontainers
Can I run this in GitHub Actions?
anton-107··on How ChatGPT made me lazy
Some of the dog breeds, most notably French Bulldogs, have been specifically bred for qualities that enhance their interaction and dependency on humans (like having a unique set of facial features and expressions that many people find irresistibly cute and compelling).
anton-107··on Lapce
Warp terminal comes to mind as well. But I believe they are just plain closed-source. What makes these projects fake open-source?
anton-107··on Lapce
getting acquired by a big tech who wants to catch up with Microsoft's dominance in developer tools is one possible out
anton-107··on Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools
Hmm, if generating new code is an easy task for GPT, why don't you ask it to create a new project from scratch every moment a user comes up with a new feature?

Who needs to maintain an old codebase if you can rewrite it adding new features at whim?

anton-107··on Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]
and is there no such pair of planets that revolve around the Sun while staying on the same "side" of the Sun?
anton-107··on State of JavaScript 2021
Correct, but people are more likely to learn a new skill or a tech stack in their 20s than in their 40s. And when current 65+s were in their 20s javascript wasn't a thing yet.
anton-107··on State of JavaScript 2021
65 year olds don't do javascript. which is explainable since javascript itself is ~28 years old and node.js is like 15?
anton-107··on Top Chess Engine Championship
Would be interesting to see AlphaZero in this contest, but I don't think it is open source

[1] How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT6CR9_6l4

anton-107··on SRE Doesn’t Scale
it's coupling via network calls instead of in-memory calls
anton-107··on Thinking About Glue Code
Someone in this thread gave an example of casting floats to integers being glue code. But how exactly you want to cast - using round, floor or ceil is a business logic. Where is the meaningful difference in this example?
anton-107··on AWS icon quiz
I would guess text labels with services' names are supposed to be part of those icons
anton-107··on JavaScript is Good, Actually
> It's not a great language (clearly demonstrated by the discussion about it being good or not) but it's not terrible

I'm wondering what would be an example of a great language? Because we know that there are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses

anton-107··on Some birds use discarded cigarettes to fumigate their nests
i'm wondering if 15-25 generations (that's approximately how many generations of garden birds were there since the invention of the cigarettes with filters) are enough for evolution to actually show this trend here
anton-107··on Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation
But in return it's also extremely cheap to bootstrap and fail
anton-107··on Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late
Angular 2+ user here: - Components have nice API and are pleasant to use - Dependency injection containers out of the box are good for those who value inversion of control in their codebases - Change detection is good and fast. Gone are the times of leaky abstraction of the digest loop - Tooling has caught up: Angular CLI for rapid start, server-side rendering works just fine. You are using npm, webpack, typescript (brings es2016 features to you), modern testing frameworks and what not - Redux works nicely with Angular2+ as well, it's not exclusive to React - You can wrap pretty much any 3rd party browser widget into Angular component within maybe one hour of work

I guess when your open source library passes a million downloads per month, you are not worrying too much about marketing anymore. So i'm not quite sure why it's so important for the author to declare one and only one winner in the race. Both React and Angular users are benefiting from the competition

anton-107··on Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE
> jump to implementations

not a trivial thing to implement for Go though. Last time I checked the Go plugin for Intellij was missing this functionality

anton-107··on The Way of the Gopher: Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang
Or... just use the battle-tested tool that solves this exact problem well for you. Put your cache into Redis or other in-memory cache.
anton-107··on A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra
What would be a good textbook for Math 101, specifically to learn some advanced mathematical formalism without actually diving in applied science behind it?
anton-107··on How to implement a spreadsheet
Does anybody know any good open source spreadsheet implementation with JS+DOM?
anton-107··on Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
So does querySelectorAll, that's not the issue with jQuery API.

The problem is that "jQuery" function, aliased as "$" has 9 signatures (doing 9 different things, depending on which arguments you send to it), while querySelectorAll does only one thing

anton-107··on Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
Sorry for confusion, what i meant was: yes DOM API is a bit verbose, but jQuery is exactly the opposite in a bad sense: it's using too few words to express too many different things.
anton-107··on Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
I've always seen jQuery as an additional layer to handle browsers' API inconsistencies. If browsers you need to support have consistent APIs now - there is no reason left for adding this layer to new projects anymore.
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