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I mainly use three different pans: 1) A carbon steel wok 2) A cast iron skillet 3) A dutch oven. The wok is very versatile. I use it for most things by default. The skillet is grea…

This is my favorite book! But I think it could be more straight forward if the first interpreter didn't use Java, but a modern main stream language that can avoid code generation a…

> You want to sell Javascript based solutions, go for it. But don’t push this nonsense like “No language like Javascript”. The only reason Javascript has a wider adoption than othe…

Thank you, GitHub, this is one of the best things! No, it cannot make me write code I couldn't write before. It does not autopilot and does all the coding by itself. But it still b…

> A simulation of a brain cannot produce consciousness any more than a simulation of the weather can produce rain. What's wrong with the rain though? A perfect simulation of rain i…

Me: dynamic -> static What did I feel during the transition: Feel like an insulted because of the under-expressiveness. Everyday I find some ideas that are natural to me and non-te…

The problem is there are no sane in-between options. On one end of the spectrum are either neat platforms like Heroku or Vercel or ssh and bear-metal with simple scripts. On the ot…

> Static Typing reduces bugs. This matches my experience. People say otherwise might need to put more effort on writing better tests. That said static typing usually catch minor pr…

It says that "Nintendo" or "任天堂" the brand name refers to an old Chinese saying "謀事在人，成事在天" which means "Man proposes, God disposes", or "do your best and leave it to the fate". Th…

This. I find open source projects written in Go or Rust are usually more pleasant to work with than Java, Django or Rails, etc. They have less clunky dependencies, are less resourc…

You can't. You trade a crypto coin on the market and you have a price. The price is hugely affected by how many people in the whole world believe it's a decent currency.

Anecdote: I live in Asia, and when I was in middle school, AFAIR there were only 3 people (out of 40-ish) don't wear glasses including me. Parents nowadays blame screens for short-…

I agree what you're saying, but they were talking about Python and TypeScript - it doesn't make sense to bring up type erasure in this context.

> It strips type info and runs it as Javascript, though. There's no native typescript runtime, AFAIK (it doesn't enforce types at runtime, only at build time) Java strips type info…

There are some discussions in this thread [0] that believe that cows and pigs are sentient. But my point is people seem to assume sentience is a byproduct of high level intelligenc…

I'm still struggling with the question "what is sentience". Are insects sentient? If so, could we build less intelligent but sentient AI, on par with insects? If so, is it unethica…

Why this can be great: - The dev experience is closer to the early days of PHP. - TypeScript, Preact out of the box. No need to configure build tools / deploys much faster. It's a …

> and then scatter that all over your markup This is not how you use Tailwind. Back then there was no such concept as component, so people need to write CSS classes to encapsulate …

It's hard to distribute content from your own platform. Most successful content creators are relying on many platforms, it's virtually impossible to fight them. But it's always to …

You're right. But I also said in the following paragraphs which means the same thing: > Most companies will stick to "if it ain't broke don't fix it" unless we offer them 10x solut…

I don't think it will stop unless 1) It's illegal. 2) It's ineffective 3) It's not economical for the company. To stop the trend you have to achieve one of the three. Similar to al…

I would say it would be great to merge with TypeScript. It would greatly reduce the need of those crazy building tools nowadays. Now we have HTTP2, if only we can write and serve a…

I'm very intrigued for the CRDT approach. I always want to try CRDT but always end up giving up local-first for simpler approaches, because I can't convince myself fully since ther…

Crusader Kings + Mount and Blade One is focused on strategic and the narration, and the other has better in-person tactic battle. Both of them are serious time-consumer, and I expe…

I'm a fan of "The Little X" series so I bought this one when it just came out. I believe the author did tried their best and a great job they did - which made me work through half …