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They did just (re-)add a section on that in response to community request: https://react.dev/learn/build-a-react-app-from-scratch

That sounds like the market at work? Government doesn’t control what private companies stock, so it seems they’ve gotten some signal that the majority of their customers prefer ene…

While we’re at it, why not let manufacturers reintroduce lead into paint and toys and let consumers choose what they want there too? The problem is that “consumer choice” is freque…

I think there’s a difference in that this is about as good as LLM code is going to get in terms of code quality (as opposed to capability a la agentic functionality). LLM output ca…

I did not get the feeling that the author was against AI, but rather was bemoaning that students were using it to avoid learning. Philosophy is a good example of a subject where th…

You would have to grade every user on every knowledge axis though. Just because someone is an expert in software doesn’t mean you should believe their takes on medicine, no matter …

Users can be adversarial to the “truth” (to the extent it exists) without being adversarial in intent. Dinosaur bones are either 65 million year old remnants of ancient creatures o…

It’s all in the nuance. Currently the insurance companies have too much moral hazard, as they are able to extract profits during the “good” years (like AllState’s recent $3B stock …

Yeah, the solution isn’t divorcing risk (as communicated by cost) from reality. If the concern is usurious insurance rates, that’s where things like profit caps and other regulatio…

If I understand it?

Or coming to temporary clarity? Things like the “culture wars” are distractions pushed by the elites to keep the lower classes fighting amongst themselves and not their true enemy.…

> Sniff-test-wise… Penny-wise, pound-foolish isn’t a saying because it’s a total rarity. Plenty of people follow “common” practices that seem positive but are actually negative. Ca…

Are action or horror movies exploitation of the biological adrenaline drive? Every leisure activity is appealing to more than just hyper-rational thought.

The name football comes from the fact that it was played _on_ foot by the commoners, as opposed to the equestrian sports played by the nobility.

IMO that blog series misses the point. Knowledgeable motivated developers can make great experiences with any technology, and conversely there are bad experiences built with every …

Or it implies that society and technology have advanced in the meantime, expanding the scope of what the government is expected to do. For instance, at the end of WWII we did not h…

Isn’t anything a government does ostensibly classified as working to improve collective welfare? That’s the basis of the social contract.

That’s a pretty glib stance. Plenty of people have difficulty finding a friend group and not everyone can be an island until they do (see the loneliness epidemic). Perhaps consider…

You need app Foo on your phone for work (like Slack, maybe). Foo is in the App Store and worked great on your iPhone but decides they want to install via their own store so they ca…

I’d always thought “power users” toggled this type of stuff off by switching to Lineage or similar and having full control.

Given that GraphQL makes much more sense for big orgs, I wouldn’t be surprised if much of that code is locked up in private repos that LLMs can’t get to.

In my experience, nothing other than nullable DB fields should be nullable in the GQL schema. Everything else like inter-service problems, auth problems, etc, should be modeled as …

This is one of the reasons for the broad popularity of TypeScript, where “[specifying] in the contract of the function that it can return null” is foundational to the experience. M…