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Comment · 1 year ago
There's nothing stopping an HTTP API from returning both HTML and JSON from the same endpoint. Just have the client send "text/html" or "application/json" in the Accept header, depending on what it needs.
Comment · 1 year ago
What other language ecosystems have had this happen systematically? This isn't even the first time this month!
Comment · 1 year ago
DHH switched from Mac to Linux and is in the process of experimenting with his setup, but since he's famous within tech, it's getting a lot of attention. There's really nothing special about it.
Comment · 1 year ago
In my first job I had to work with healthcare software and it horrified me. There is a standard for interop, HL7, but every system implements HL7 in its own special way so there are "integration engines" to massage the data so that they all conform to the same standard.

It's a gigantic grift.

Comment · 1 year ago
> has a better understanding of your codebase, with more full-stack functionalities

Can you elaborate on what this means?

Comment · 1 year ago
It reads like they asked the AI how it could help and just pasted whatever it said
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Comment · 1 year ago
As an european, the US doesn't appear to be very friendly to me, or rather, their friendliness is conditional on the EU acting like a vassal state (or vassal federation). The current US administration doesn't even pretend like that's not the case, but past administrations acted like this as well.

China seems very much like a more straightforward and predictable trading partner.

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Comment · 1 year ago
> The one exception I'd say in the UK are MG EVs, which for some unknown reason some of my fellow Brits have some sort of affinity to as a brand.

I have news for you about MG, it's been a Chinese company for almost 20 years now.

Comment · 1 year ago
While I agree that the value of LLMs is wildly overstated, I disagree that it is less useful than bitcoin mining, which is entirely useless. At least LLMs can produce usable output.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Ironically, the author could well benefit from running this slop through an llm to make it more professional.

Have you considered that it is not the intent of the author to appear professional? That running it through the Slop Generator would obfuscate their intent to be snarky towards those who outsource all their thinking to Slop Generators?

Comment · 1 year ago
Shipping the chips back to Taiwan to be packaged so they can then be shipped back to the United States for sale is a positive? What are you talking about?
Comment · 1 year ago
The majority of people care about the quality of their work when they are starting off. Not caring is a learned behavior. When you repeatedly get reprimanded for it, you learn not to care as a way of protecting your mental health from taking even more damage.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's because the caloric intake is greater than the expenditure. You won't lose weight if you're active but eating more calories than those you expend. Is this not common knowledge at this point?

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