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kitsune_on What I love about Django

The ORM is really not good in my opinion because it is ActiveRecord'ish and has all its downsides. I wouldn't use Django for any moderately complex domain. But even with simpler CRUD style apps I don't really see the point in it.

kitsune_on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

C.R.E.A.M.

kitsune_on Django 6

Both Laravel and Django use Active Record, great for CRUD but I have yet to see a project where it worked with more complex domains.

kitsune_on Django 6

Great for simple CRUD apps but it falls apart with more complex enterprise requirements.

kitsune_on OpenDesk – a flexible all-in-one office suite for the public sector

https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk

kitsune_on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

Well I guess that's good bye Pixel and Android for me then.

kitsune_on New Windows 11 build adds self-healing "quick machine recovery" feature

Would be great if I could use it with my 6700k.

kitsune_on The Monster Inside ChatGPT

I managed to cook up a fairly useful meta prompt but a byproduct of it is that ChatGPT now routinely makes clearly illegal or ethical dubious proposals.

kitsune_on MCP is eating the world

It's not.

kitsune_on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

Oxford, Cambridge, ETHZ, EPFL, etc. are probably salivating right now.

kitsune_on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

Insane how freely the US is giving away its status as a brain drain magnet (context: I'm European).

kitsune_on Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source

That doesn't provide that much clarity to me (a user of NATS).

kitsune_on Plain – a web framework for building products with Python

Active Record leads to a big ball of mud.

A lot pythonistas who only know Django have no idea that there other ways of building web apps.

kitsune_on Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)

Isn't this just fraud?

kitsune_on The German language broke my website

The main problem is that no one uses the word (which is already not well known) outside of the road context.

kitsune_on Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?

Look, you just end up normalizing Nazism. One of many small actions that add up.

kitsune_on Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qDRYi1IYI2o&t=35s&pp=2AEjkAIB

Watch this at 00:35. Debunks your entire point about "the look" with Hitler doing the salute exactly as Musk did it.

I'm from Switzerland / Swiss German and maybe we just watched way more WW2 docs in high school and had more exposure to the various ways a Nazi salute can be done, but across the German speaking sphere we all saw this as a Nazi salute. In this variation it was often done with hand on breast during "Sieg!" and then the extension with "Heil!".

kitsune_on Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?

You are not allowing a broader discussion on this by having it flagged. I asked you how a discussion on ethics and symbolism doesn't fall under "intellectual curiosity" in a other reply. It's difficult to not come to the conclusion that you support Elon Musk and approve of his behavior. Calling it "celebrity trolling" is the cherry on top.

On Elon Musk:

- By most measures one of the richest and most influential persons in the world

- Owner of X

- OG member of the PayPal mafia

- Spent millions on Trump's election

- Official member of the new administration

- Makes two (not one) Nazi salutes on public television

But no, discussing what this means or implies does not satisfy one's intellectual curiosity.

kitsune_on Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?

How does a discussion about ethics and symbolism not fall under intellectual curiosity?

kitsune_on Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?

Elon Musk makes the Nazi salute twice in a row. HN: Nothing to see here.

kitsune_on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

Bring back IRC

kitsune_on Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon

Yes, and while a little bit better, I think it's still quite bad.

kitsune_on Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

Given the number of poor product managers and product owners I've encountered in my career - those who don't seem to care at all about end users or people in general - I'm surprised incidents like this don't happen more frequently.

kitsune_on Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon

I mean, I personally don't expect much from the creative machine that brought us Rings Of Power.

kitsune_on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

Tik Tok is not a public square. A public square is a public square.

kitsune_on Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer

I mean there is a clear difference in how ORMs that use the data mapper pattern like Hibernate or Entity Framework etc. ultimately allow for a cleaner overall application architecture vis-a-vis ActiveRecord (the pattern) which usually ends up leaking throughout the entire application.

kitsune_on Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer

I have yet to see a software project where ActiveRecordish ORMs did not end up making the modelling of business processes and translation of use cases into code overly messy and complicated, Rails or Django.

kitsune_on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

It's a tangent but I think two white collar workers being able to afford this and having this lifestyle is why Trump won.

kitsune_on Research in psychology: are we learning anything?

This is basically just scientific fraud, no?

kitsune_on A modest critique of Htmx

There indeed is complexity, but a lot of the projects that are created to deal with that complexity that gain traction are made by people who don't have much experience in general, or lack exposure to non-frontend programming, so you end up having to deal with a lot of half-baked stuff. It's kind of a lethal cocktail.