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3 mesi fadiscuss

That's interesting, what makes you think that? Not long ago, I was working on my degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering), and we were heavily drilled on this principle. Even then, I found it amusing how all the professors were huge fanboys of SOLID. It was very dogmatic.

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4 mesi fadiscuss

Apologies, the nodejs comment above therefore is wrong. I don't seem to be able to edit it anymore.

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4 mesi fadiscuss

> it's a text based env yet sometimes feel like running windows 95 on 386dx

They use nodejs and React. Yes, for real.

https://xcancel.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427

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4 mesi fadiscuss

Yes!

> With the llms these days, any linux issue is fixable within minutes. I think this point is really it. What in the past needed a 40min google search to fix something, llms now fix it in seconds.

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4 mesi fadiscuss

I liked it. It has a similar feel to an Andy Weir "The martian" type of novel.

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7 mesi fadiscuss

I completed a CS degree just a year ago, and they absolutely wrecked us with UML. I’m still recovering mentally.

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9 mesi fadiscuss

I can't say I relate at all (5 years of experience). They'll have to pry my 1000-line .zshrc from my cold, dead hands. For example, zsh-autosuggestions improves my quality of life so ridiculously much it's not even funny.

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9 mesi fadiscuss

A better analogy: imagine if someone built a public water fountain, then chess.com set up next to it selling the exact same water for $100/year while limiting the public fountain to 1 cup per day through lobbying. Then they sponsored all the popular hydration influencers to only drink their bottled water on camera.

> Cause you can just go to a bar and get it for free.

Not at the same convenience, can you ;) So they are selling convenience. Chess.com isn't selling convenience - both platforms are websites you access identically. They're not offering portability or solving a distribution problem. They're artificially limiting a digital service that costs them essentially nothing to provide unlimited access to.

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9 mesi fadiscuss

Chess.com is fundamentally a scam operation masquerading as a premium service. They've built an empire by paywalking features that should be free - and ARE free elsewhere. Lichess proves every single day that unlimited puzzles, deep analysis, opening exploration, and even advanced features like studies and cloud analysis don't need to cost a dime. They're open-source, ad-free, and completely transparent about their finances.

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10 mesi fadiscuss

Yeah, it’s textbook USdefaultism.

"Look how global we are… as long as you have a U.S. address, the correct passport, a bank account in a supported country, a smartphone with the correct OS."

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11 mesi fadiscuss

> I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS

No wonder the site is being hugged to death. 128MB is not a lot. Maybe it's worth to upgrade if you post to hacker news. Just a thought.

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This is what happens when an engineer tries to apply mathematical models to entirely different fields where they have no applicability. Reducing human personality to machine learning concepts like 'gradient updates' misses the fundamental complexity of human psychology and consciousness.

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3 anni fadiscuss

I like the helix comparision. It indicates progress. Reading this sentence I fully expected the word "circle" be used.

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3 anni fadiscuss

I too, would be very interestd in this.

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