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grok22··on Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API
Same conceptually as https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud?
grok22··on Code Browser
Doesn't seem to work to display the hierarchy in existing code unless you structure it using some syntax to allow for the code-folding to work.
grok22··on A Defer Mechanism for C
If the proposed implementation requires a guard clause, then it seems like it is no better than the while (TRUE) implementation above and it's not worth the support in the standard. Maybe it's a bit more structured and covers a few more use-cases, but not worth the standardization.
grok22··on Pimutils: The coreutils of personal information management
There are a few single file kanban scripts that store in your browsers local storage.

https://github.com/linuxcaffe/tw-kanban-js https://greggigon.github.io/my-personal-kanban/ -- I use this sometimes

grok22··on Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should
What you wrote reminded me of this ('Why is programming fun?' from The Mythical Man-Month, by Fred Brooks): http://grok2.com/progfun.html
grok22··on Ask HN: Paid email service provider for poor people?
migadu.com -- https://www.migadu.com/pricing/ "micro" is 19$ per year
grok22··on How to Live with Dying
Once dead, you cease to be, so it's only natural that people focus on their life and living it. I don't see any need to obsess or focus on death. Death comes as a shock, true, but, you cease to be after and so it doesn't matter. It's a point on the journey that is life and it's best to focus on the journey.
grok22··on Defer Reference Implementation for C
I think perhaps this is the wrong way to look at it -- having it as a standard way to do things built into the language simplifies this (not everybody needs to know tricks) and also most likely will be more portable across platforms.
grok22··on Pixel 5
> The 5 also has 2GB more RAM, 200mAh more battery life, a 90hz screen with more contrast (1M:1 vs 100K:1 ratio), aluminum vs. plastic body, and Gorilla Glass 6 vs. 3.

After a while of use, some of those (more RAM/battery/screen/body material) are not tangible changes you notice. But, yeah, am with you on needing separate devices for different networks and that maybe 5a might be the right value-for-money.

grok22··on Pixel 5
To me, it seems like the 4a 5G is the better phone (slightly larger screen, audio jack!!!) and is cheaper by a couple of 100 dollars. Is the wireless charging and water-proof worth the extra 200?
grok22··on Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'
>As for disposal, I crush the bulbs in a paper bag and then huff the mercury fumes for recreation.

Seriously though, how do you dispose of them? Save the mercury forever? Is there even a noticeable amount of mercury in them?

grok22··on Won’t Subscribe
Came across PressReader and Scroll in the comment section of TFA. Anyone use PressReader? It seems funky in that it seems like it has actual images of the physical newspaper or magazine (so the layout of everything is like the actual physical paper or magazine). Do you find that difficult to use? On the samples I had to zoom and scroll to read anything, but it kind of felt nice too. Is it worth the 29.99 monthly subscription?
grok22··on Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
Mozilla attempted to solve this using "Persona", but it never took off and they shut it down. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Per...
grok22··on Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am
If like me you didn't click all the links on the article and were wondering where the 100GB for 18$ pricing was (it wasn't on the main pricing page), it was at: https://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
grok22··on Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence
The doc said "don't think of vit-d as something magical" and you are saying "what if it was with k2 and magnesium; that might be more potent and magical" -- I think the doctor's general conclusion still holds that it is not proven that vitamin-d helps with certain diseases. And the fact that doing RCTs is time-consuming and expensive still holds. And without these RCTs, at present, we can't conclusively tell if the combination you suggest will help for those diseases that she mentioned.
grok22··on New Racket Language Website
The are section titles and features regarding that section are listed right below it. It's a bit repetitive, but still trying to highlight the things that make Racket a great language.
grok22··on New Racket Language Website
That seems intentional -- the 2nd header is to highlight that it has features that help in creating your own language variant (and is a big-part of it's many strengths).
grok22··on Single Page Applications using Rust
I am interested in understanding this further -- is there a write-up or explanation with example anywhere regarding how you achieve this in Blazor.
grok22··on BuckleScript Is Rebranding
This seems like it is only adding to the confusion. Is only BuckleScript rebranding to ReScript or the entire Reason/BuckleScript eco-system? Also BuckleScript is a memorable name and ReScript is just "meh"...

Edit: The "rescript-lang.org" page is clearer -- it's the entire Reason/BuckleScript world is being rebranded into a single unifying thing. Still confusingly though, they call this the "documentation" site.

grok22··on TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?
This is a fantastic idea! To me, it seems like this would be possible only by human curation and not using any automated system which means someone with foresight will have to invest upfront the capital, time and energy to make this a reality (as opposed to a few talented engineers go off with some ML/NLP thing to figure this out).
grok22··on Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365
Did you find anything interesting? I started doing this recently and did not find anyone misusing my email so far and am now wondering if it's worth the extra effort.
grok22··on Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language
I find the title surprisingly annoying. What the heck is "surprisingly good"? As compared to what? (I know, I know; reading the article would've clarified). And what the fuck is a "server language"? The title made me want to not read the article just to come to know of yet another new developer come in contact with something they haven't used before and make obvious or irrelevant pronouncements like they discovered something new. Or maybe I am just growing old :-).
grok22··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
Not sure why you feel that way -- I don't see it as a gambling site because you aren't losing your money to someone else. The interest seems in line with other saving accounts while having some incentive to encourage saving more? Overall good for you in the long run, isn't it? Inspite of any compulsions to gambling you might have.

Edit: Editing to also say that enticing you to tune in to look at weekly results doesn't help I guess and makes it feel like something you could get addicted to and emotionally frustrated when you don't win? In that sense maybe not good?

grok22··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
Yeah, it would be good to fix this early (even if it means maybe fixing the copy on the front page to not trigger these automated scrapers). I was confused as to why my company would block a financial site and was wondering if you purchased the domain from a previous service that was gambling related.
grok22··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
My company is blocking your site as a gambling site! Isn’t that a big red-flag?
grok22··on War over Being Nice
This is a complicated issue with various shades of gray in between and no black-and-white answer unfortunately. One can go wrong either way depending on the expectations of all the involved parties.
grok22··on Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
Nothing wrong with that, but likewise, what is wrong with trying to make money off of Google making money off of your information? At some-point, if the asymmetry is so large, it does make sense to try and capitalize on that.
grok22··on Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
Does anybody find that graph view (like in Obsidian) useful? I play around with it for a while, but I don't really find it useful for any particular thing. Also overtime that graph grows too big to be visually easy to see patterns etc.
grok22··on Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
If Google charged for the same services instead of providing it for free, would they make the same amount of billions? I assume everyone would agree that they would make way less. So the exchange in value is asymmetric and it still sort-of makes sense that you get some money for the outsize value that your personal details represents to them.
grok22··on How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha
With REST, for example, you usually have a smaller set of well defined APIs whose surface area is pretty visible and it could be custom optimized up-front or even disallow certain kinds of queries. GraphQL seems to provide enormous flexibility for the front-end engineer to generate any kind of request that it might not be possible upfront to anticipate all the kinds of requests that will be made and optimize them?

While it might be orthogonal to the design decision, it might add to the amount of unanticipated work that will be required just because of the enormous flexibility.

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