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shynrou··on Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
I tried using it 2 years ago on a mid complexity webapp and it blew up in my face as soon as things got a little more complex. The hidden mechanics of everything made it absolutely horrible to debug. Including some serverside rendering issues in the svelte code base at the time. The pain wasn't worth it in the end. I'm probably never gonna touch svelte again without having to. Similar experience with preact. It works till it doesn't.
shynrou··on The Para Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
I'd recommend obsidian, works well on mobile and desktop, and documents are plain .md files in directories.
shynrou··on No, GPT4 Can’t Ace MIT
Some things to think about a) your prompt is ambigious in the sense of do you want masculine nouns or nouns prepended with "der". b) Prompting in the language you want the output to be usually results in better output. c) German is actually a really difficult case for articles as feminin nouns can be use "der" depending on context and meaning. Making it harder for LLMs to pick up. e.g. Die Welt dreht sich. Auf der Welt leben. Auf die Welt gekommen.

d) GPT4 is significantly worse in german and most other languages, than in english anyways.

shynrou··on ChatGPT generated a puzzle game
Exactly. When the first news came out about it's ability to "understand" code, find bugs and improve uppon it, I tested it with some snippets of mine. It just gave boilerplate best practices you find on 100 of blogs, but was not able to make meaningful contribution. It claimed to have introduced a feature while only having found another way to write the same snippet. On other things it straight up invented variables & functions that didn't exist.

As long as the task is in it's training set, it can give you a decent answer, but it can't code it just mimics doing so...

shynrou··on The gap between how old you are and how old you think you are
Feels weird reading of all these same experiences. Since my childhood I always felt older than I was. Any body got a similar experience?
shynrou··on The hardest part of being a junior developer
Try to shift your perspective, asking for help when needed is a strength. It means you know your limits, that your not infalible. Asking for help is often the most productive thing you can do.

It always feels bad not getting anywhere or even worse having to scrap past work, but not checking with others wastests everybodies time. Other people are waiting on your results even if you never meet them. And if nobody is able to help you can either try to plow through or accept defeat.

shynrou··on Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party
When you want to have infinite scroll, but have no new content to show. :'D
shynrou··on PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespaces to modules
That's not how statistics work, unless you assume there is a correlation between tab users salary and their willingness to respond to surveys. Which would also be an interesting find
shynrou··on For naturally introverted people, acting more extroverted can backfire
Then you are probably just in the middle between both. Like with most of these categories it's a spectrum.

Also not all being with social is equal. You may converse less together just enjoying the presence. Have deep passionate conversations or the dreaded forced encounters.

shynrou··on Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans
Yeah you are absolutely right. Here in germany a lot of companies pay a decent premium on temporary/loan workers and freelancers just to not be bound to then.
shynrou··on Why modern software is slow
But that's kinda the point, when you are on a low to mid tier setup you now have to download 50GB of 4k textures you're never gonna see.
shynrou··on MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars
..., yet. Mostly because of the tech being decently locked down by license and limited access currently. At the pace these models are developing it's pretty much unthinkable that it will not have a big impact in the next 20 years.
shynrou··on Bits of advice I wish I had known
"but" expresses conflict, nuances and compromises. Life is not simple and our thoughts, actions and feelings are often not rational or in line with each other, there for dismissing anything before "but" is a way of actively not listening.

- "I believe in free speech, but some opinion are too abhorrent to be protected." -> Maybe free speech should not allow people to slander, extort, abuse people? Or at least not give them a jail free card.

- "I am sorry I reacted like this, but they went too far" -> This person can indeed feel sorry and feel somewhat justified, because maybe both parties involved did something worth being sorry for.

shynrou··on Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be
I have worked in both kinds of projects. Those where the backend was the mess and those where the frontend was it. Good devs, who take care and are given the time to do it right, can create both in clean manner. I think usually the problem why frontend tends to get messy: There is usually a lot more pressure, unclear goals and instructions involved. And of cause a foundational technology that is already incredibly messy especially if you have a wide browser support goal.
shynrou··on I have no capslock and I must scream
That's a cool text. It feels like the language switches to old dialect. It reads and probably sounds a lot more like old german or dutch.
shynrou··on One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
Looks like a really cool open source project, will definitely check it out.
shynrou··on Programmers’ emotions
Shame is not really constructive though, if you know what you are capable off, accept that you will always have to learn more and do your best each day. There is no need for shame. Even if your PR comes back with 20 issue even though you didn't see any.
shynrou··on Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering you like (2020)
In addition to that, the title is more descriptive of what other employees should expect from you. A programmer is a typist, tasks in results out, no creativity or problem solving expected. Developer creates something new so a little more creative. Engineers engineer stuff they plan and make things work. Architect strictly plans. I don't say thats what they do but a lot closer to what people expect.
shynrou··on Google introduces $50 4G smartphone
Yeah it really seems like just undercutting prices, to get their software out there. Similar to Amazons pricing of Echo and Kindle.
shynrou··on Technical debt is not debt; it’s not even technical
Most teams I have encountered so far don't have an anyone that experienced with scalable database systems. So you have to choose the best you can do at that moment without loosing your momentum. When more users come more funding will come and you can hire someone who can repay the technical dept chosen before.
shynrou··on Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
Yep because they would not get anything done ;)

In my experience as a web dev, all the performance goes out the window as soon as the tracking scripts are added.

shynrou··on YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives
I would differenciate between the two. A content creator makes first and foremost content and advertises second to fund that endevour. While influencers have often no clear line or almost exclusively make ads.

Imho: Influencer are cringeworthy, they deserve the title.

shynrou··on Show HN: Prism - An API Gateway for Node.js Microservices
Just as a note: prism/prism.js is a fairly popular syntax highlighter. Might make it more difficult to get traction.
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And that kids is the reason you should never use wikipedia as a source.
shynrou··on The End of the American Internet
I wouldn't dare to call some one with an income of 60$ per month not poor...
shynrou··on I no longer build software
I live in germany here you can earn a decent salary if your in one of the mayor cities.
shynrou··on Show HN: Convert text documents to knowledge graphs
You may want to make the demo section work on small phone screens. Otherwise looks cool :)
shynrou··on How JavaScript Was Created and Why the History Behind It Is Important
I think the author is wrong in saying the DOM and BOM are a part of JS since they are a part of the Runtime Environment just look at node.js. JavaScript is ECMA Script. We also define what Version of Javascript we use by denoting the ES Version.
shynrou··on Power pioneer Hideaki Horie invents new battery 90% cheaper than lithium-ion
No mention of the energy density, which is probably a decent amount lower.
shynrou··on Payfone raises $100M for its phone-based digital verification and ID platform
It reads like an ad written by themselfes... How can it be privacy focused, when the whole premise is that they check your data against databases of other companies.
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