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dmitriid
·3 года назад·discuss
> All of the advice in that article isn't going to bring your server latency for an API call down from 1000ms to 30ms, but rather from 30ms to 25ms.

Of course it will.

If your backend service is already suboptimal, and running at 10x worse performance, optimizing that will give you, well, a 10x performance boost.

Imagine replacing poor in-memory reimplementation of database queries that most graphql servers do with actual opttimised database queries. And a better code on top.

Boom. You're operating close to the speed of light.
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
Ah yes, this mandate will immediately make all APIs across all OSes the same
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
> Only recently did something as basic as lyrics return.

Unfortunately, something as basic as lyrics is rife with legal challenges, and you can't just slap it onto an app.
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
There are many, many, many issues raised on their support forum with regards to their new version. All of them are ignored.

The most glaring one: search. Which is verifiably worse UX now.
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
> They are both well known gaps that make integrations a pain in the ass.

Funny how you keep not saying what you mean across two threads. While accusing others of being ignorant, partisan, or never using something, it looks like you're just describing yourself.
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
> You seem kind of confused about what people are referring to here and I don’t know if it’s out of ignorance or partisanship

Ah yes. Go directly for ad hominem attacks without ever telling what exactly you mean. That will definitely help you win an argument.

> I mean using options that don’t have to reimplement entire core parts of the web platform that already exist

Again: what the hell are you talking about.
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
> It’s lack of proper support for both the DOM and native browser events

What
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
Literally everything that runs in the browser is "aligned with the platform" since there's nothing but the platform that is running in the browser.

Meanwhile, "the aligned with platform" lit.dev is busy reinventing React, but poorly:

- uses non-standard syntax like `<div ?hidden=xxx .value=yyy .@click=zzz`

- special functions of the form "this particular function call even though it looks like a regular function call will actually throw an exception if used outside a very specific place inside a string". See "built-in directives"

- as a part of the mess that is Web Components in general is now busy reinventing React Context

and so on and so forth.

But yeah, sure, "more aligned something something"
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
> It is on a bad path in terms of integrating with the web platform

This is some unsubstantiated claim
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
Why not Solid/Marko which seem to be tailor-made for these kinds of things (mostly static, with interactivity spliced in)
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
Well it's fun until logistics goes on strike and demands changes: https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/foxhole-players-launch-...
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
> If you model it you’ll find interesting results.

No, we won't. The results are entirely predictable. Without medical insurance people die and/or go bankrupt.

The main problem is that most Americans for some reason cannot imagine a system other than the US system, and equate all medical insurance with that.
dmitriid
·4 года назад·discuss
Because it's really hard to design an interface with high information density. So the "designers" hide everything behind a menu and call it a day
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
> Unfortunately, Microsoft can’t use the code

I commented on a separate issue re: refterm

--- start quote ---

Something tells me that the half-a-dozen to a dozen of Microsoft developers working on Windows terminal:

- could go ahead an do the same "doctoral research" that Casey Muratori did and retrace his steps

- could pool together their not insignificant salaries and hire Casey as a consultant

- ask their managers and let Microsoft spend some of those 15.5 billion dollars of net income on hiring someone like Casey who knows what they are doing

--- end quote ---
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
> might not be fully applicable to the development of mainstream commercial software that has to try to be all things to all people, including considerations like internationalization, accessibility, and backward compatibility.

Windows Terminal has none of that. And his refterm already has more features implemented correctly (such as proper handling of Arabic etc.) than Windows Terminal. See feature support: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm#feature-support

Also see FAQ: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm/blob/main/faq.md
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
Probably depends on the person, too.

I do take significantly more pictures than I would with a film camera, but this also affords me the freedom to take the pictures right there and then, and not agonise over whether "a shot is worth it".

And yet, I don't end up with thousands or even hundreds of pictures. Almost a full year of 365 challenge somehow taught me to look out for actual good shots, and not obsessively hold the shutter button to everything.
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
So this basically brings us into agreement :)

This is a commercial for-profit company, GitHub, taking some code and storing it in cold storage of some other commercial for-profit company, with no one, except these two parties have access to this code. And it doesn't look like GitHub even has the right to do it because it stores it for some purpose other than whatever is stated in their ToS.

I wonder if the whole kerfuffle around Copilot will end up spilling some light on this, too.
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
> but the Arctic World Archive specifically...

...provides prime-rate marketing bullshit in its marketing materials

> Thus I think it's actually a Github's generic usage grant in the ToS

If you refer to Section D.4, then:

- Arctic Vault is not "for future generations", but for GitHub only, since that section doesn't permit GitHum to just make copies willy-nilly for anything other than "as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time" and "make backups"

- This specifically makes GitHub "the owner" of that data, and not "some third-party" as you originally suggested
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
> Github does not own the Arctic Vault, there is an independent company behind it

Github are the ones doing all the archiving. So, in essence, they do own that. Piql are just the ones providing the storage: it's a commercial for-profit entity employed for backup by another commercial for-profit entity.
dmitriid
·5 лет назад·discuss
> What's wrong with the Arctic Code Vault

It's nothing more than a publicity stunt whose one and only purpose is to advertise GitHub.