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mavu··on Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
I am looking forward to the moment, when all the people who consider this the 2nd coming of christ equivalent for the crypto world realize that it's just business as usual.
mavu··on Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast
> Million ships <1kb brotli bundles after tree shaking and minification. Get fast bundle load times!

The whole Javascript ecosystem needs to be burned to the ground and never spoken of ever again.

mavu··on Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
you can tell yourself that all day long if it makes you feel better.

In Europe, uber is exploiting the most vulnerable in our societies, and profiting of the harm they do to people and communities.

Not to mention, breaking laws, endangering passengers, using outright evil methods to keep their workers money.

mavu··on DRY is an over-rated programming principle?
> Instead of our code being architected around the concept of how pizzas are made in the abstract, its architecture is tightly coupled to the specific needs of these two pizzas that we happened to be dealing with. The chance that we will be putting this code back the way it was is extremely high.

Mistake 1: Switch from DRY to premature optimization.

> You might think that legit reasonable developers but would not actually do something like this and would instead go back to the existing invocations and modify them to get a nice solution, but I've seen this happen all over the place.

Mistake 2: Assumption of incompetence to support your argument.

> . As soon as we start the thought process of thinking how to avoid a copy paste and refactor instead, we are losing the complexity battle.

Mistake 3: Strawman argument. DRY does NOT lead to over-complicating things. Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things.

Now, i wasted 5 minutes, so you can waste some more to reply to this comment, instead of completely ignoring this dumb random blog post.

mavu··on The GPU shortage is over
Nature is healing.
mavu··on Ask HN: Forensic analysis for 50 year-old tape?
Contact this guy: https://www.youtube.com/c/CuriousMarc

If he does not have a machine capable of reading the tapes in his house/museeum, he will know someone who has.

(and as a bonus, the recovery might end up as a entertaining youtube video)

mavu··on The Vale Programming Language
Yes! All of those, in any combination. And new innovations on top.

Litterally anything is better than dragging conventions from the 1960s forward; from a time where ASCII was all that was available.

Use Whitespace, Try unicode glyphs for different syntactic functions, try to approximate natural language, TRY NEW THINGS FFS.

mavu··on The Vale Programming Language
This just makes me incredibly sad when I see new programming language that does not even an tiny effort to improve syntax. Always the same old mess of {}[]() all over the place. And even ; to end the line. Sad.
mavu··on Kimchi: The latest update to Mina's zero-knowledge proof system
How anyone can read that text and not see that they are being burried under piles of bullshit, is beyond me.
mavu··on Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social
Not if they actually are. Then it helps to make informed decisions.
mavu··on Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg
Oh, don't worry about it, with the amount of (increasing) energy demand and the resulting pressure on climate change, Crypto is working hard at removing that bad influence.
mavu··on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?
The tone of that article makes sure that I stop reading after 2 paragraphs.
mavu··on A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
The problem starts even earlier.

Touchscreens (or touch surfaces) should not be used for any kind of vehicle function. period.

If you need to take your eyes away from the road, it is a shit ui.

If you can't feel but have to look to see the result of your interaction, it is a shit design.

If you need to look at the center console and down, it is even worse.

There is only one reason to get rid of all the buttons and switches, and that is design. because "ape goes ohhhh!".

And that should not be a consideration that is prioritized over safety.

mavu··on Sloth poaching in northwestern Colombia
Humans are disgusting (and i mean the buyers) and this is one of the stories that makes me hope the next pandemic will do a better job.
mavu··on Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
Answer: "Because your team is smart and doesn't follow every hype as it happens."
mavu··on What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important?
> tokens that are used to give attendees a way to prove their record of life experiences.

I swear, if all the crypto people would just take a step back and take a good long look at what they are doing, graphics card prices would be back to normal in 4 weeks.

mavu··on TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)
Very nice. I hope this makes some news and show people more clearly what they are actually spending money on.
mavu··on Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
Soo.. how long would it take for the operator to detect that the units weeding all human foodcrops in the US have been hacked and are weeding the actual crop instead of weeds?
mavu··on Crystal 1.0 – What to expect
It's possible to have the compiler running on raspbian. I did that with an older version, (not tested with current, but i guess it should still be possible) and it works nicely.

I found that easier than constant crosscompiling.

mavu··on 750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
"Florida man releases 750M genetically modified mosquitoes"
mavu··on Building binary deb packages: a practical guide
This is better: https://github.com/phusion/debian-packaging-for-the-modern-d...

(someone with the applicable knowledge please fork and continue it)

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