mukunda_johnson

Honestly we are headed towards a disturbing height of inefficiency in software. Look at software today, 1000x less efficient than what we had in the 90s. Do businesses care? No, they focus on value. The average user is too stupid to care, even though all their RAM is being sucked up and their computer feels like shit.

The only thing that's keeping us from that hell is the "correct" part. The code is not going to be properly tested or consistent, making it impractical for anything substantial right now.

I don't know how the web does it. There are so many cool things being added. How do they keep the spec manageable? What if someone wanted to build a compliant web browser from the ground up?

There was a good reminder in the Hanselminutes interview with Shaundai Person about blogging for yourself. It was a while since I listened so I'm fuzzy on the details - all I remember is that I enjoyed the interview and there was some relevance to this topic.

Also, blogs are no doubt a major source of AI training, so maybe more worth than before.

Pretty neat. I would have expected it to take a bit longer, but I suppose the optimizing step is the real magic in a compiler.

I prefer stack traces in errors. It's gives so much more automatically so you don't have to worry about manual annotation. Stack traces and debug logs are the way to go. I like to use panics for exceptional conditions just for the convenient escape with the stack trace.

No doubt the most errors in my SQL syntax when writing migrations is the extra comma.

I think most of those are Instagram shoving it in your face. Yeah I'm a "Threads user", but only because of the inline feed in Instagram. I'm annoyed when there is a notification blip but it turns out to be Threads spam.

the shitstorms usually have a community behind it. Even if it sucks, it's supported and will be maintained to a point of it "working." If someone writes their own thing, chances are they won't go the extra mile and build a community for it. Then, when it comes to maintaining it later, it might grow untenable, especially if the original "tinkerer" has moved on.

> It’s very similar to thread-local storage. We know how bad of an idea thread-local storage is. Non-flexible, complicates usage, composition, testing.

I kind of do wish we had goroutine local storage though :) Passing down the context of the request everywhere is ugly.

I prefer light mode for most things, but use dark mode anyway to save battery on an OLED Screen :)

I don't think so. If you find otherwise (without any stupid MX/forwarding magic), let me know! Silly that the price keeps going up when I'm basically only using their spam filter.

No idea about Youtube accounts.

Those kinds of puzzles are part of the CCAT test (annoying test for "cognitive aptitude") and I used this trick.

In Doom, < and > are strafe, and it works here too.

TIL that Conway's game is turing complete. Wow.

Wait a minute, this isn't an AI article...