aev_software @ aev_software @programming.dev

Grumpy old software architect and engineer. Usability and accessibility adv

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The main lie about these principles is that they would lead to less maintenance work.

But go ahead and change your database model. Add a field. Then add support for it to your program's code base. Let's see how many parts you need to change of your well-architected enterprise-grade software solution.

In my experience, when applying functional programming to a language like java, one winds up creating more interfaces and their necessary boilerplate - not less.

Yes, but that's a really bad situation from a security perspective. ideally you want two separate accounts: the admin who can do everything, and the daily driver whose activities cannot harm the system.

OK but it also imports half the world's code base in NPM packages alone.

Wait... you asked your AI to create a git branch instead of creating the git branch?

Why?

Try a rubber duck next time. Also, diagrams. Save a forest.

I love documentation if it's written well and if it's helpful.

I can't say I find vim's documentation meeting either of those criteria.

So I reach out to other sources who figured things out and regurgitate their experiences in ways that fit how my brain likes to consume them.

My app went from a single code base that handles a million different actions to a million code bases that each handle a single action, but they still all depend on each other and still are tightly coupled, but now they're spread out across 50 disparate cloud services so maintenance effort only got worse.

Lmao

But LinkSheet isn't a browser, is it? Isn't it just a helper app that lets us decide which browser to use ad hoc?

But still based on Chromium? Is that project in itself trustworthy?

DNS over HTTP will solve all our problems!

/s

In a world run by the rich who need to get more rich every second, normal people's well-being succumbed to pollution and labor exploitation. Decades after the total collapse of the economy, grandparents scare children with bed-time stories about wastelands made inhabitable by factories dumping toxic refuse into main water sources. The government didn't care as long as they continued to make bank.

Old grumpy dev here.

Of course you don't want the API built for data retrieval also generate the HTML structure for display in a single location. But chances are your application is the only consumer of that data, and adding a server-side or middleware component that retrieves the data and generates the display structure for your application is still easier and faster than using whatever framework or vanilla JS to turn raw data into a display structure.

You may be tempted to argue that downloading a few bits of data is better than downloading an entire display structure. This is countered by the additional time spent by the web browser attempting to render things on screen.

You could argue that creating a display structure in a service causes a dependency between that service and the data, that needs updating with any change requirement, so now instead of having to update the data service and the web page, you also have to update the display service. This is countered by pointing out that it wouldn't make any difference: it also needs updating if the display is generated in JavaScript on the web page that shows it.

If you depend on the JS or CSS framework of the month to display your raw data, you don't have decent control over things like accessibility and usability - you're subjected to the whim of its vendor.

Good luck.

Yes, those parts of those particular platforms are troublesome and should be avoided. But all that has to do with the word Social Media is the fact that they are one. That doesn't mean Lemmy isn't one. It merely means Lemmy doesn't yet stoop to such practices. Let's not run up strawman arguments, shall we?

Clearly you seem to conflate the word Facebook with Social Media. The bridge is all yours, pal.

Surely nobody could make an LLM-based a.i. do bad things.

The same Senator Warren who falsely claimed to be Native American to usurp an education chair, and never paid back the money stolen from people who should have been in that position? That Senator Warren? How quaint.

AWS user here. They offer a separate plan and infrastructure for governments and companies that handle government data. One assumes they employ trustworthy people, and pay them well: as we know a data leak is just a single disgruntled or underpaid employee.

Yes, it is likely secondary copies exist of the database. My clients create those all the time for a variety of purposes. And those copies should be handled with the same strictness and diligence as the original.

What I wonder is where these senators were when Musk let a team of hackers hack the central government...

Will that end subtooting?