Yup, the code in the above repo is based on https://github.com/metavoicexyz/tortoise-tts-modal-api
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Most small to mid-sized companies would almost always opt to pay a bit more for a managed offering and not have to bring in expertise in-house for things that are not their core competency.
I personally don't think this is "dehumanizing" or unfair, since the whole point is to explicitly opt in for such a life. There are enough people out there who want to dedicate a lot of their time to working on a team or mission they care about, and OP's narrative is great at selecting for people like that.
Why does this happen? I think a partial explanation is in this Nietzsche essay [1], where he says, "every concept arises from the equation of unequal things" — in other words, the abstractions of the world were built bottom up in our heads, and the Platonic essence of things is just a fairy tale we tell young programmers so they can sleep easily at night.
1. http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_various/on_truth_and_l...
Chekhov's minimal, efficient, realist style is unique to him and complements his tone and content, but it's not a necessary condition for good writing. Consider Nabokov's short story Symbols and Signs (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-si...) which is beautiful purely because of subtext and texture.
> The trouble with frameworks is that to use it, you have to match your application to the language of the API. If you’re not careful, you end up coupling your system to the framework. This means that you create a cycle between yourself and the framework by architecting your component as an interpreter from F_o to F_i.
You can avoid this cyclic dependency by marginalizing the framework at the edges of your application, as suggested in the post, but that strikes me as much easier to do with libraries.
1) there is no viable search competitor to Google, therefore
2) search must be a much harder problem that takes more engineers than we expect, therefore
3) it's hard to reproduce Google's success because you can't actually do what 10^n engineers do in a weekend.
I think that's plausible, but it needs to be emphasized that search could very well be not that hard, but no one has overtaken Google because they have inferior marketing, distribution, present too high of a switching cost, etc.
Just because Google has a bunch of engineers solving that problem (and reproducing what Google does seems complex for correct reasons pointed out in the article) doesn't mean that the engineers are actually adding that much marginal value. My guess is that even if Google invested less in search engineering, and didn't solve real time indexing and some other edge cases this well, it would still be leading the field.
- Magit, to quickly organize hunks into commits and do general git things
- Org mode, to organize TODOs, thoughts and even draft code snippets and designs
- Language-specific layers with great features (usually REPLs, support for refactoring, autocomplete — stuff you expect from any other IDE).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
Hesse, Steppenwolf — read this at an angst-filled time; the way this book builds and reconciles the conflict between two personalities that goes on within the main dude's head was extremely cathartic to my own life
Adams, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — introduced me to the inherent absurdity present in the modern world, technology, the scale of the universe, the condition of our own existence, etc, and how making light of it helps you grapple with it and live with it
To those skeptical that "old books" can have aesthetic relevance even today, I highly recommend reading the first chapter or even the first paragraph:
> Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
It's not possible to never use global state — it makes sense in some cases. And then you end up with harmless things like adding memoization leaking memory when not done properly.
This is the most appealing thing about modernism to me — instead of continuing an exploitation of techniques that had been perfected, modernism was an exploration of what was possible — an attempted unbundling of the things that strike us about art like color, shape, texture, forms, frames, etc. The fatalism is a necessary consequence of this idea of taking some simple axioms and carrying them to their extremes.