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I do like the look of this! It seems like it nicely provides that without like kicking you into React, which I have ended up having to draw a hard line against in development after my first couple experiences not only with it, but how the distributions in AI models make it a real trap to touch. I'll swap this in in one of my projects and give it a go. Thanks!

> GraphQL isn’t bad. It’s just niche. And you probably don’t need it.

> Especially if your architecture already solved the problem it was designed for.

What I need is to not want to fall over dead. REST makes me want to fall over dead.

> error handling is harder than it needs to be GraphQL error responses are… weird. > Simple errors are easier to reason about than elegant ones.

Is this a common sentiment? Looking at a garbled mash of linux or whatever tells me a lot more than "500 sorry"

I'm only trying out GraphQL for the first time right now cause I'm new with frontend stuff, but from life on the backend having a whole class of problems, where you can have the server and client agree on what to ask for and what you'll get, be compiled away is so nice. I don't actually know if there's something better than GraphQL for that, but I wish when people wrote blogs like this they'd fill them with more "try these things instead for that problem" than simply "this thing isn't as good as you think it is you probably don't need it".

The execution didn't finish; it started. Big policy changes typically take time to solidify, and it'll probably take a bit to get a reliable read on its trajectory. But there is international momentum on this, so making predictions based on whatever percentage of people that were supposed to have their accounts deactivated actually did the day of (if we even have that data, and I doubt that we do), is probably not going to be useful.

It is both telling and very, very funny to confuse asking for specifics for making an argument against something.

> I would encourage you to learn about them as if they were just incredibly robust databases that even governments would struggle to take down. Surely you can think of something cool to build with that, which doesn't involve money.

Why is it so popular for someone in tech to assign everyone else the task of thinking up something useful to do with technology x they think is cool?

> It's not an overstatement to say that distributed ledgers are as big of an advancement for human coordination as democracy was.

Ok, if that's really your thinking then you need to lay out: here's an impossible-to-ignore thing we can do with this, and this is how, and this is why this wouldn't be possible without this thing.

I am literally asking you to show me what you are talking about.

Who retired early? What did they make with Lisp? Do you have a link to that thing they made? Was it actually something special about Lisp or did they just happen to use Lisp while making something that could have just been as easily - or more easily - done with something else? Is that real-world, specific, material outcome replicable by other people and they should know about it?

"Lisp makes people rich, and I love being rich. Using Lisp actually can't help but make you rich. But I can't actually provide any examples of that happening or how they might translate to anyone else. Get so rich with Lisp. Lisp."

Show me!

> The ability to manipulate compile-time so effortlessly is a new dimension of programming. This new dimension enables you to write fundamentally better code that you’ll never be able to achieve in a lower dimension.

Show me. Specifically, material outcomes that I will care about.

Serverless gets a lot of hate for its name, but I have had so much success with it myself that I have moved on to its successor and have started developing for computerless architectures.

Well, so much for that sentiment! Those onion letters definitely struck me as the original "look we can make chairs out of avocados" use case for dall-e. I guess it's not surprising that good looking AI images turn out to not be AI images in the first place.

> No one "exactly designed" this road to kill children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

I dislike easily 90%+ of the images I recognize as AI-generated, but the ones on this internet web site I think are a good use of the tech.

> The waiter brings over the bill, in a black rectangular wallet, and walks away.

This is when you pay, just have your card or whatever ready to go. Skip the extra limbo state and leave when you're ready.

Put on a five-minute song and start hyperventilating. You can tell pretty quick.

I love this kind of thing. Something about the font hurts my eyes though, I think there's just slightly too few pixels in it.

This has been my experience as well. I find that the copy/paste workflow with a browser LLM still gets me the most bang for the buck in both those cases. The cli agents seem to be a bit manic when they get hold of the codebase and I have a harder time corralling them into not making large architectural changes without talking through them first.

For the moment, after a few sessions of giving it a chance, I find myself using "claude commit" but not asking it to do much else outside the browser. I still find o1-pro to be the most powerful development partner. It is slow though.

I dunno, can you fill your tank up with bitcoin when you need to get to work?

Karma is a number that can go up. Numbers going up is a supernormal stimulus for humans.

This whole thing has felt like the other person in an unhealthy relationship ending things. Maybe a little painful at first, but very obviously, and immediately so, for the best.

It's not though - the restaurant pays the employee as low as $2.83 per hour. Restaurants should have to pay their employees the same minimum wage as everyone else, and anything the customers decide to give the wait staff should be extra (if tipping really should be legal at all)

On balance this is a very classist reaction. Restaurant staff in general is not going to stick their neck out to assault customers.

The better societal rule is to disallow tipped employees from receiving less than minimum wage. A better step yet is barring restaurant staff from receiving tips altogether. The marginal benefit from letting them accept the generosity of customers is far overcome by abusive employers leaning on the guilt of customers to pay their employees something to live on.

A number of years now.

This isn't quite right; the University of Chicago study replicates what has already been known for a long time - that musicians can develop their pitch memory around the timbral context clues of a particular instrument. However, this learned pitch does not generalize to other instruments and/or common everyday sounds (train horns, washing machine vibrations) in the way that people with absolute pitch can instantly identify.

An analogy to this might be that a colorblind person if shown enough fabric and told what the colors were can eventually associate the texture of the fabric with a given color and can learn to do this translating in their head, but they will not be able to train their eyes to see color no matter how much practice takes place.

Rick Beato covers the subject rather well in his video "Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=816VLQNdPMM

If it were the case that such a substantial number of amateur test subjects could develop absolute pitch from doing a few exercises, we would expect to see commensurate numbers of musicians who spend thousands of hours playing music to also develop this skill, but this is not and has never been the case.

You both did a much better job answering those points than I was prepared to do, that was really nice to see.

> I simply can't get good, data-based positions from those that are here to cry for the blood of those they label criminals.

That's the nature of it, unfortunately. The people who freak out the most about murder are the most excited to call for additional murder, and the mental gymnastics needed to resolve that cognitive dissonance means you're not going to get a good faith argument. They don't even necessarily believe what they're saying in many cases, it's just lashing out after getting riled up thinking they're being targeted somehow. There seems to be a lot of that here in this thread especially, since the victim was a techie.

I try to remind myself that it's not about convincing the person you're responding to, it's about reaching who else might be reading.

Damn.

It's a liberal city, not a progressive one. That analogy is quite bad and I think you know that - there is no answer to the problem of homelessness that does not involve spending large amounts of money, and the implying that the answer doesn't is quite dark.

Shouldn't it be decided on an image-by-image basis? If the resulting image doesn't infringe copyright, what's the relevance of how it was made? That's how it's worked up until this point.

I mean, maybe because the impact is so severe we should HAVE new laws affording more protections to artists, but that's a different argument right?

> Their eyes were the clue. The pupil initially constricts when participants are shown the two options. The time it takes for the pupil to subsequently dilate reflects the amount of mental exerted. The pupil-dilation times of participants assigned hard tasks fell off significantly as the experiment progressed

Maybe tracking pupil dilation time with your webcam can give you a live reading of how tired you are or how much you're exerting yourself at a given task. I'd pay for this.

I dunno, maybe look at more than one company doing layoffs and think about whether the group as a whole is in dire fiscal straits, whether they're continuing to hire through the layoffs, and who the winners and losers will be through the whole ordeal. Those details are elsewhere on the thread and are easily googleable if you have a real interest.

If you have a hard time believing capitalists wouldn't literally do capitalism when they see a chance for it, I don't know what I can tell you really.

"I don't really see it" is a pretty... well it's something, that's for sure.