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antonyt··on The 4-chan Go programmer
Who said it was related to 4chan? The title promised 4-chan go programming, and that's what the piece delivers (`chan chan chan chan int`). It's just a harmless pun.
antonyt··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
It's arguably unreasonable in a physical space but this is virtual space we're talking about.

In more open ecosystems like the web browser, you can literally install extensions that tell you where you can buy something for cheaper. I'm sure Amazon, Walmart, and friends would love for that to be impossible.

The virtual space only "belongs" to Apple because they've deliberately walled it off.

antonyt··on Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
TIL. Have links to any details about this? I'm very curious!
antonyt··on Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
It's impossible for a .NET library to not work with F#. It's very possible (and even likely) for a .NET library to prevent you from writing idiomatic F#.

You're right that it's a second-class citizen.

antonyt··on Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work
Is it really so fundamentally different from GCP

No, they're all mostly the same on a fundamental level. If you're familiar with any of the big three, you're far ahead of someone who has never used public cloud before when learning a new one. Nonetheless, some employers won't want to eat the cost of getting you up to speed.

Employers I've been exposed to tend not to care which public cloud you've used, just that you're familiar with how cloud works overall.

antonyt··on OpenFeature: Standardizing Feature Flagging
OTel made sense because there were multiple observability vendors eager to lock you in with proprietary formats and SDKs. The motivation behind OTel is to instrument once and ship anywhere, whether your vendor is Datadog, Splunk, Sentry, or whatever.

This seems to be the same thing for feature flags, because these days people are farming FF management out to vendors like LaunchDarkly.

antonyt··on Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale
"Perfectionism" can be just an excuse for avoidant behavior. I'm going to focus on this thing until its perfect. Does it need to be perfect? No, but I enjoy fiddling with this one thing and don't want to think about this other pile of work that's less fun to engage with.
antonyt··on The problem with OpenTelemetry
OTel is flawed for sure, but I don't understand the stance against metrics and logs. Traces are inherently sampled unless you're lighting all your money on fire, or operating at so small a scale that these decisions have no real impact. There are kinds of metrics and logs which you always want to emit because they're mission-critical in some way. Is this a Sentry-specific thing? Does it just collapse these three kinds of information into a single thing called a "trace"?
antonyt··on Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
Even before the Canva acquisition, their decision to release a separately-purchased "v2" of their suite ruffled a lot of feathers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_Photo#Version_2
antonyt··on Self-Serve Dashboards
Would you expect every article about SQL to say "structured query language" at the top? Some abbreviations become so common they transcend the expectation of definition. BI is arguably one of those - if you're not familiar with it, you're probably just not the intended audience for the article.
antonyt··on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
Giving the parent the benefit of the doubt, they probably were confused by the idea of people taking these pills to get high. That's generally what is meant by the term "recreational use" when it comes to drugs.
antonyt··on Microsoft Issues New Warning for 70% of All Windows Users
Out of curiosity, what are these companies migrating ASP.NET apps to? Newer ASP.NET (Core) on Linux? Or are they swearing off .NET entirely?
antonyt··on Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
Only because you've chosen a certain definition of stability. For most people, I'd bet leaving a job voluntarily for a new opportunity yields a higher sense of stability than enduring getting laid off, having your teammates get laid off, or having your org structure drastically change.
antonyt··on Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
If you're a reasonably well-performing IC at US big tech, your "boss" is often also a grunt with little real control over your salary. Just a different flavor grunt from you. In my experience, these managers are often happy to throw money at you but don't have much latitude to do so. Having a competing offer gives THEM leverage to try to convince those guarding the money hose to open the faucet a little.
antonyt··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
I hate ads, but I'm struggling to understand how something being an ad disqualifies it from being art. Advertising is a creative human endeavor. Ads are designed to make you feel something, just like art.
antonyt··on The problem with invariants is that they change over time
This is a solved problem. See UUIDv6 and higher.
antonyt··on No one buys books
Chiming in with the others to say that my experience with e-readers has been great. Physical books can grow to be a huge burden over the years.

For me personally, e-readers have not caused any loss of focus. In fact, the integrated dictionaries often keep me MORE focused than the interruption represented by pulling out a dictionary or googling a word.

I'll acknowledge there is a tactile joy to physical paper that is lost when using an e-reader, but for me it's well worth the trade-off for the the portability and space saved.

Also consider that often, people who are expressing skepticism of digital reading have only ever tried it on laptops and iPads, which is a very different (more distracting) experience from an e-ink reader.

antonyt··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
The real villain here is OpenTable!
antonyt··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
I think their point is that you're not taking a principled stand by stealing. If it matters enough to you to "boycott" the company, walk the walk and don't play the games by any means.
antonyt··on VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development
Same experience here. I've used WSL2 as a daily driver for work for 2 years now. It feels so close to being "awesome," but the rough edges are maddening. The issues are slowly being addressed, but I still can't recommend any use it over native Linux - at least for a work machine that you don't have full control over.
antonyt··on Ask HN: How do you know it's time for you to quit your FAANG job?
Depends on who you ask. In a literal sense, no. But lots of people use "FAANG" as a shorthand for a wide range of established tech companies with relatively high compensation (and RSUs with actual value). In that sense, yes.
antonyt··on 400 license plate cameras coming to San Francisco
Some quick options come to mind:

  - unjust distribution of the cameras themselves

  - camera data is used for selective enforcement (alert a nearby office when minorities are driving through white neighborhoods)
Tools are only as unbiased as the people deploying and using them.
antonyt··on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
They must be talking about teams at Amazon, Google, or Samsung. HomeAssistant doesn't have hundreds of staff to begin with.
antonyt··on Universities accommodate food delivery robots
As someone in the Triangle, no I've never seen one of these. The article mentions Charlotte specifically.
antonyt··on Htmx Is Composable?
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I do think the bar for proof-reading published material (like a blog post) should be much higher than the bar for informal communication (like a forum comment).
antonyt··on Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (2022)
One of the most common reasons to “mark a record as deleted” rather than deleting it is so you can undo deletes without having to fish data out of a backup. I.e. soft delete is effectively a recycle bin. It might not be a user-facing recycle bin, but it’s a recycle bin nonetheless.
antonyt··on Pope formally allows priests to bless same-sex couples
Who is “we”? I would guess you are describing the garden-variety US “cafeteria Catholic.”

But different Catholic populations around the world have different degrees of dogmatism, and papal statements like this can have profound human rights impacts in the long run.

antonyt··on Stable Video Diffusion
I see, thanks!
antonyt··on Stable Video Diffusion
Do you have link for the VS Community terms you're describing? What I've found is directly contradictory: "Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps." From https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
antonyt··on iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps
Go after the people going out of their way to put an extra hundred bucks in Apple's pockets? I guess anything's possible...
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