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avisser commented on Please just try HTMX pleasejusttryhtmx.com/... · Posted by u/iNic

xnorswap · 13 days ago

That's possibly true, but I wonder why react as an abstraction fails to deliver that kind of independence.

In theory, react developers ought to be able to code against the react API in typescript, without seeing the "raw" HTML+JS that gets delivered to the browser.

So what's failing those developers? Is it the tooling, the abstraction itself, or something else?

avisser · 13 days ago

Off the top of my head, C# is both the language & the runtime. React only throws things over the fence to browsers.

Probably helps a lot to keep abstractions from leaking.

avisser commented on Please just try HTMX pleasejusttryhtmx.com/... · Posted by u/iNic

0x3f · 13 days ago

The thing is React is usually fine, and even if you don't have to build _this_ thing in React due to simplicity, why bother learning two paradigms when you can just use the heavier one for everything and most likely never encounter any real practical showstopping issue?

avisser · 13 days ago

> why bother learning two paradigms

Objection. Your React is ultimately turning into HTML so you DO have to learn HTML + CSS. You just have an abstraction over it.

avisser commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

krupan · a month ago

People outside the 4 U.S. Timezones exist?

avisser · a month ago

The Pacific ocean is big.

avisser commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

enopod_ · a month ago

That's exactly the thing. It's only about bookkeeping.

The big AI corps keep pushing depreciation for GPUs into the future, no matter how long the hardware is actually useful. Some of them are now at 6 years. But GPUs are advancing fast, and new hardware brings more flops per watt, so there's a strong incentive to switch to the latest chips. Also, they run 24/7 at 100% capacity, so after only 1.5 years, a fair share of the chips is already toast. How much hardware do they have in their books that's actually not useful anymore? Noone knows! Slower depreciation means more profit right now (for those companies that actually make profit, like MS or Meta), but it's just kicking the can down the road. Eventually, all these investments have to get out of the books, and that's where it will eat their profits. In 2024, the big AI corps invested about $1 trillion in AI hardware, next year is expected to be $2 trillion. Only the interest payments for that are crazy. And all of this comes on top of the fact that none of the these companies actually make any profit at all with AI. (Except Nvidia of course) There's just no way this will pan out.

avisser · a month ago

> Also, they run 24/7 at 100% capacity, so after only 1.5 years

How does OpenAI keep this load? I would expect the load at 2pm Eastern to be WAY bigger than the load after California goes to bed.

avisser commented on Next.js is infuriating blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

adamddev1 · 4 months ago

I talked to a computer science student who told me that React is old, no one is using that anymore. He said now NextJS is the thing to use. No matter how hard I tried to explain to him that NextJS is a framework that uses React, he would not listen or understand. Scary times ahead.

avisser · 4 months ago

NextJS is web-scale.

avisser commented on US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security npr.org/2025/08/23/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/hvb2

CoastalCoder · 4 months ago

I've noticed in that past few weeks that some massive crain ships, Bokalift 1 and 2, have sometimes loitered in Narragansett Bay.

I wonder if that's related to this.

avisser · 4 months ago

Washington bridge rebuild maybe? The demolition of the piles is all that's left.

avisser commented on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model github.com/KittenML/Kitte... · Posted by u/divamgupta

dvh · 5 months ago

I think he meant overacting typical for English dubs.

avisser · 5 months ago

I heard a little DVa from Overwatch.

avisser commented on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) overengineer.dev/blog/202... · Posted by u/pabs3

cyral · 5 months ago

I use one of these for two 4k monitors, sound, ethernet, mouse, webcam, AND charging. It's amazing having one cable to plug in when I work from my desk. Unfortunately requires one of those $400 docks though.

avisser · 5 months ago

Work bought me a VisionTek hub. I wanted the 1 cable life - unfortunately, it only does monitors via DisplayLink, aka compressed & streamed to & from my desk. It's noticeably fuzzy.

So now it's 2 cables: 1 from the hub, 1 from the monitor. Both USB-C.

WTF guys?

My Apple monitor from 2009 just worked with 1 cable (no power, but still).

avisser commented on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] twitter.com/soham_btw/sta... · Posted by u/sohzm

whilenot-dev · 6 months ago

I think that phrase was coined in an era when the tech sector moved so fast that the prevailing law couldn't keep up. It caught up somewhat, but obviously there's still much leeway for improvement. Break all the wrong habits, rigid conventions and old traditions you want, just play along with the governing laws.

avisser · 6 months ago

IMO that phrase came about when old tech companies (the IBMs of the world) had

  * waterfall
  * design up-front
  * source control systems that
    * defaulted all files to read-only
    * required you to "check-out" files, potentially locking other devs out from editing them [1]
  * probably didn't have unit tests so "deploying to prod" meant "doing a full QA pass, done by human beings"
  * there was no CI/CD (We had "Build Engineers")

In this context, pushing a change to SVN/git/hg, having tests run automatically, then having CI/CD push new code to production, all as a side-effect of one engineer push a button? That was moving fast, and occasionally, breaking the whole website. But we got better tests, better CI/CD, metrics, green/blue, ... We learned it was unequivocally better than the old way.

[1] Reserved Checkouts: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/clearcase/11.0.0?topic=ucm-check...

avisser commented on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/swyx

sidcool · 8 months ago

That's a oversimplified view. It doesn't matter if it's a fork. It has customers and paying ones. And it has a brand. That's more than enough. $3 billion would be peanuts for OpenAI

avisser · 8 months ago

> And it has a brand

Didn't they change names months ago? I know them as Codeium.