joelg

yeah I completely agree, I think there's a whole logic of reasons to using useEffect/useCallback/useMemo that the post didn't acknowledge.

personally, I want to have a comprehensive understanding of exactly when and why each of my components re-renders, and to do that I use hooks and design around referential equality. like you said, it's a kind of documentation, more about organization than performance.

not to say that this way is intrinsically better! just that the style is appealing for its own reasons

my understanding (which is definitely not exhaustive!) is that the case between Galileo and the church was way more nuanced than is popularly retold, and had nothing whatsoever to do with Biblical literalism like the passage in Joshua about making the sun stand still.

Paul Feyerabend has a book called Against Method in which he essentially argues that it was the Catholic Church who was following the classical "scientific method" of weighing evidence between theories, and Galileo's hypothesis was rationally judged to be inferior to the existing models. Very fun read.

one of my biggest subjective takeaways from spending hours scrolling around the map is that my impression that the userbase was dominated by software types was ~mostly wrong! feels like less than half, and the rest is huge swaths of normie, artist, furry, and media people

there are a other few places tracking those stats too; I just counted 14487454 in my database :)

point taken, but as the blog post here and many other comments have pointed out, there is a very sharp qualitative difference between just-Apple and Apple+Google doing this. Apple alone has a minority market share but together they cover enough of the market that many websites would be tempted to only allow connections from trusted clients.

The merkle tree is persisted, and updating it is only log(n). You only have to "hash 2n elements" once, and then incrementally maintain it. It's negligible overhead for free log(n) diffing.

The difference is that a trie over the hashes doesn't preserve lexicographical key ordering or support range queries, which are typically expected from key/value stores. But you're right - if you just need `get` / `set` / `delete`, you could just do that!