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shakesbeardon Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

What a lot of folks are struggling to understand (myself included) is how this actually reflects on the quality of life?

You're more productive? Nice ... for you or your business/employer? Do you also get more free time out of it? With all this free time you could actually travel and do a language school for 3 months. That sounds like an improvement in quality of life to me. Not better translations in that language.

The life of my family (we have a good life) hasn't become significantly improved with LLMs. We still struggle with the same problems as before. These companies don't solve the big problems of societies and that's why I feel like their value is not justified.

shakesbeardon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

Slack (canvas and huddles), Circle CI and Bitbucket are also reporting issues due to this.

shakesbeardon Why our website looks like an operating system

Same. Clicked around. Was annoyed that a single click on an icon opened the window and not a double click. Used the navigation a bit and left.

No idea what they do.

shakesbeardon Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured

That's literally how any representative democracy work, just at a different level? The Free State of Bavaria could say the same about the Federal Republic of Germany.

shakesbeardon Cognitive load is what matters

We've only made good experiences with layered architecture (onion architecture in particular, which is quite straight forward). We also never built it with the idea in mind to ever replace the storage engine. No, the big, big benefit has been that we can test everything without ever mocking a single class.

I also don't get the point about "going back to IoC" ... how is that mutually exclusive from using a layered architecture. This section was weird and didn't offer any good alternative.

shakesbeardon PHP 8.4.4 Released

> and now 20 years later we are still stuck with the same garbage.

and it hasn't been an issue ever. because all userland code lives in its own namespaces.

shakesbeardon PHP 8.4.4 Released

That's just not true. It's not JS. Composer will install exactly one version of every package. If your dependencies have incompatible dependencies themselves, then Composer will refuse to install the package. And this fact has led to PHP packages actually being maintained and kept compatible with each other. Of course, sometimes you run into dependency issues, but it's worth it because you'll always have quite clean, flat and small vendor directory. Compared to the node_modules horror it's great for maintenance.

shakesbeardon PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore

That's why every serious PHP programmer is using a static code analysis tool nowadays.

It would easily catch this. https://phpstan.org/r/a827ff45-4ee2-4bee-8ae0-935832e627b3

shakesbeardon Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team

Yeah, but that's not a fair comparison. Toyota alone has 40 hybrid models. Tesla has like 4 ...

Here's some stats from 2022 and Tesla was 15. in total car sales. [0]

[0] https://www.carlogos.org/reviews/worlds-top-selling-automake...

shakesbeardon Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/

shakesbeardon Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

Also see https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws?tab=readme-ov-file#th...

shakesbeardon How to compete with Patreon

I loved Flattr ~10 years ago. You said "I have $40/month" and then these funds were allocated based on which things you flattr'd during the month (there were little buttons on the websites/blogs). Of course you could also say "include this content creator every month".

It was so simple and elegant. As a consumer I had cost control, too. Plus there were no micro-transactions, only one charge to me.

shakesbeardon An Internet of PHP

You shouldn't deploy .env files to production. You should set the actual environment variables on production. .env files are intended for convenience on non-prod systems.

shakesbeardon Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp

wow, now that's a website I haven't thought of in a while

shakesbeardon Let us serve you, but don't bring us down

They provide monthly torrents. Can't imagine that to be too slow unless there's literally no one seeding.

shakesbeardon Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

Huh? I'm an introvert and I can communicate and actually like interacting with people. But I'll need time for myself to re-charge afterwards. But everyone needs to re-charge somehow.

shakesbeardon Show HN: G-Script – Visual Scripting for the Web

Piggybacking on this: How does it compare to https://n8n.io/?

shakesbeardon Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop

Same in Switzerland. The selection has grown considerably over the last years.

shakesbeardon Genders.wtf

You may wanna read up on honorifics [0]. That stuff is cultural and you'll be persevered as unprofessional or even non-trustworthy by failing to properly use it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific

shakesbeardon Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

Don Bradman in Cricket.

Apparently, a good batting average for a modern-day batsman is 40+ with those above 50 being exceptional. Bradman's average was 99.94. The second highest average of all time is 60.97.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bradman

shakesbeardon Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size

Same in Switzerland. Almost all letters are A4 folded in half inside a C5 envelope.

shakesbeardon Ask HN: Is back end dev generally easier than front end?

What I haven't seen mentioned here is that as a backend dev you're usually much closer to the business people. You'll have to talk to them, understand their needs and translated them from their language into code. You'll have to come up with a design and implement it. Business logic is more common to be found in backends than frontends in my experience unless you do something with really sophisticated UIs.

shakesbeardon A look at modern PHP

You may have missed it, but with PHP 7 the language has even more shifted towards stricter typing paradigms. People use strict comparison, typed properties, typed arguments, etc. Couple that with one of the popular static analysis tools and you'll never see any such errors.

shakesbeardon Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

Looks really good! Are there any plans for custom authentication or pre-request hooks? Asking because for my API I need to be able to sign requests.

shakesbeardon Domino's: Pizza and Payments

How was he able to see the raw responses from the payment gateway? Do they use HTTP instead of HTTPS to make these requests?

shakesbeardon How Rebounds Work

"We were standing in the lay-up line, warming up and shooting, and Rodman was standing back and watching everybody shoot. I said, ‘Hey, come on, you have to participate; everybody’s shooting lay-ups, you have to shoot lay-ups, too.’ And he said, ‘I’m just watching the rotations on the basketball.’ I said, ‘Excuse me?’ He said, ‘Like, when you shoot, your ball spins three times in the air. Joe’s sometimes has 3 1/2 or four times.’

That’s how far Rodman had taken rebounding, to a totally different level, like off the charts. He knew the rotation of every person that shot on our team — if it spins sideways, where it would bounce, how often it would bounce left or right. He had rebounding down to a science, and I never heard anyone think or talk about rebounding and defense the way he could break it down."

Isiah Thomas on Dennis Rodman's rebounding. http://www.businessinsider.com/dennis-rodman-basketball-geni...

shakesbeardon I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

Couldn't believe it myself, so I opened a French newspaper.

http://www.lemonde.fr/football/article/2014/09/17/ligue-des-...

Looks like it's indeed like she told you.

shakesbeardon Exec($_GET

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/taint

shakesbeardon Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

Shameless plug for http://bigwhoop.github.io/lyme/. It's a jQuery plugin, open-source and supports up-and-down movement via hotkeys. ;-)

shakesbeardon Rambling On [PHP] Internals

Yes, 8 years ago ... PDO and prepared statements is the quasi-standard since the release of PHP 5.1