Hacker News: jabradoodle

New comment by jabradoodle in "Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture"

jabradoodle — Sat, 04 May 2024 18:52:55 +0000

Avoiding single use items that pollute the environment for hundreds or thousands of years is rational whether you want children or not.

Of course using a plastic straw isn't what got us into this mess and small individual choices like that won't save us.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure"

jabradoodle — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:06:56 +0000

N=1, I work with many pragmatic clojure devs who just want to ship working software.

New comment by jabradoodle in "David Frankel is a man on a mission against robocalls"

jabradoodle — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:43:32 +0000

What can you do if you don't want to block unknown numbers, e.g. you get a call from a hospital about your injured relative, but you have blocked all unknown numbers

New comment by jabradoodle in "Mental health in software engineering"

jabradoodle — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:44:16 +0000

Excluding this one sentence in the article

> Software Engineers and Tech co-founders, like us, are more prone to hitting the lows.

I don't see where anyone was comparing software engineering/engineers to another profession. I certainly don't see where it was proclaimed a crisis.

I don't think it's productive to tell people others have it worse when they are promoting a discussion around mental health. I also don't think being well paid and having what appear to be great working conditions preclude you from having mental health issues.

New comment by jabradoodle in "New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip"

jabradoodle — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:51:39 +0000

What do you mean by mainline consumer machine? MacBook market share is less than 20%

New comment by jabradoodle in "KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp"

jabradoodle — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 19:46:21 +0000

While I use emacs and I'm not too familiar with other editors I'd question how true this is today, clojure in particular is often written with vscode, intelij and vim, all seem to have good repl support.

New comment by jabradoodle in "K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due"

jabradoodle — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:06:13 +0000

In this case your accidentally upgrading your dependencies only when rebuilt. Especially with micro services some things can be ran for years without being rebuilt.

New comment by jabradoodle in "K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due"

jabradoodle — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:02:54 +0000

It's not just a specific actor targeting a specific entity though; it's any malicious dependency being ran in a privileged environment.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Google Gemini try to generate image of Caucasians"

jabradoodle — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:52:41 +0000

Everything is political if you view it through this lense.

This is about the characteristics of a newly released algorithm.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

jabradoodle — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:19:41 +0000

I don't think that's the important distinction, lots of ongoing costs are outsourced.

Amazon may have their own shipping fleet, most retailers of smaller scale pay someone else to do it for profit.

New comment by jabradoodle in "You Shouldn't Start with an SPA"

jabradoodle — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:15:07 +0000

It isn't entirely independent if a change in your backend can completely break your frontend.

Your using coupling as if it is a dirty word that means you've failed.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

jabradoodle — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:31:13 +0000

That's how nearly every aspect of every business works; would you you start a bakery by learning construction and building it yourself?

New comment by jabradoodle in "You Shouldn't Start with an SPA"

jabradoodle — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:21:06 +0000

But your front end is still coupled to the structure of that JSON, which is often fine, but it is coupling

New comment by jabradoodle in "You Shouldn't Start with an SPA"

jabradoodle — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:57:44 +0000

How can it operate completely independently if the front end requires data in a format it understands to perform logic on.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

jabradoodle — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:35:53 +0000

Usually handled by the framework, you may have to write some code, I'd expect my saas provider to write code so that I know whether their service is available or not.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

jabradoodle — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:20:44 +0000

If your service is returning 5xx, that is the the definition of a server error, of course that is degraded service. Instead we have pointless dashboards that are green an hour after everything is broken.

Returning 4xx on a client error isn't hard and is usually handled largely by your framework of choice.

Your argument is a strawman

New comment by jabradoodle in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

jabradoodle — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:50:29 +0000

You need to validate your inputs and return 4xx

New comment by jabradoodle in "Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?"

jabradoodle — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:18:49 +0000

There are simple things it would be nice to do without either 1. A server + framework, 2. A full on SPA, 3. Hand writing tedious js.

There is a nice sweet spot for htmx here; whether it can build the required network effect is another story, and not always reflective of the quality of the idea.

New comment by jabradoodle in "Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?"

jabradoodle — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:15:02 +0000

For one thing I may have very simple requirements that I don't want to buy into maybe a day long setup for, nor hand write js when html could support it.

New comment by jabradoodle in "How is AI impacting science?"

jabradoodle — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:01:59 +0000

Nowhere did OP suggest limiting tech, they suggested we are not ready to handle the powers we are gaining responsibily.

Your point seems in agreement with this to a degree.

More importantly, you claim it to be a mental health/education issue; yet you can't show me a period of human history without wars and power struggles.