No. Why the hell would I use Angular 1.x style directives in 2026? For the simple contact form and todo apps, why would I even use client side scripting? Go away.
Readit Newsctvo commented on Please just try HTMX pleasejusttryhtmx.com/... · Posted by u/iNic
Agentic browsers raise a lot of questions that were hanging there even before LLMs.
Can I ask my partner to buy a product on Amazon? Can I ask my personal assistant to buy a product on Amazon? Can I hire a contractor to buy products on Amazon? Can I communicate with a contractor via API to direct them what products to buy? What if there is no human on the other end and its an LLM?
Same issue with LinkedIn. I know execs who have assistants running their socials. Is this legal?
You've been spamming this in a few threads.
A private business can 100% refuse service to you. Examples with regards to "delegation":
- If you come in using a form of non-cash payment that doesn't belong to you.
- If you're purchasing a car, and are filling out paperwork under someone else's name. FYI, you can buy cars on Amazon.com.
- If you attempt to pick-up a pre-order or an item earmarked for someone else.
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Of course some businesses are more or less restrictive base on fraud chance, yada yada, but you get the idea. You're not being oppressed. Go shop elsewhere.
ctvo commented on Code Mode: the better way to use MCP blog.cloudflare.com/code-... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
Having the LLM generate code on top of a regular API instead of calling external functions one by one seems like common sense. Was MCP invented because LLMs were not capable of writing robust code at the time? Was it because of security considerations? What I am missing?
> top of a regular API
What is the regular API? How do you express all the integrations needed in this API? Who provides the integrations? Answering these questions lead you back to something like an MCP, which is an API contract that can be as generic or as specific as needed. Wasting context window to understand and re-implement each integration is why MCPs exist.
All the security issues are orthogonal, and occur regardless if invoking this API occurs via code or natural language.
You don't get it.
... maybe you don't get it?
_Telling the browser how you want the DOM manipulated_ isn't the expensive part. You can do this just fine with Javascript. The browser _actually redrawing after applying the DOM changes_ is the expensive part and won't be any cheaper if the signal originated from WASM.
ctvo commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell
It's winning by default because _there is nothing materially better_. React was _materially_ better than Ember, Angular, plain JQuery, etc. at the time.
Front-end engineers have no issues adopting new frameworks. See the common complaints about the speed front-end stacks change vs. say Spring MVC or Rails.
A more interesting examination is what is the impact of agentic AI tools being able to write better, more idiomatic code in React vs. Svelte because there's more of it. The human side is less of a barrier here.
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony).
Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had them refund the bill (as in how am I going to pay it?) but to this day I've hated Amazon with a passion and if I ever had to use cloud computing I'd use anyone else for that very reason. The entire service with it's horrifically complicated click through dashboard (but you can get a certification! It's so complicated they invented a fake degree for it!) just to confuse the customer into losing money.
I still blame them for missing an opportunity to be good corporate citizens and fight bot spam by using credit cards as auth. But if I go to the grocery store I can use a credit card to swipe, insert, chip or palm read (this is now in fact a thing) to buy a cookie. As opposed to using financial technology for anything useful.
I took a workshop class and was told to setup a track saw. The course didn't bother explaining how to utilize it properly or protect yourself. I ended up losing a finger. I truly hate Stanley Tools with a passion and if I ever need to use another track saw, I'll use someone else.
ctvo commented on Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions davidgomes.com/async-queu... · Posted by u/davidgomes
As a general comment, I wish hiring managers found some other outlets for their enormous ego and insecurities than the process of hiring of software engineers.
I understand their argument that they have 1,000,000,000 applicants for every job so it's absolutely totally super required to be like. But companies still paying 2019 wages and are CRUD shops really need to bring it down a notch. You're getting a billion applicants because people are desperate and there are tons of CS grads, not because you're the greatest company on earth
> You're getting a billion applicants because people are desperate and there are tons of CS grads, not because you're the greatest company on earth
How does this change the point? They would still like the best candidate out of that pool, not any warm body, since they have limited positions.
What is your approach to hiring and evaluating talent knowing the large number of applicants and how easy it is to _talk about software development_ vs. _actually developing software_, and how expensive and difficult it is to deal with a bad hire, even in America.
The same reason I’d be uninterested in reading that the Daily Mail wants to investigate something but interested if NYT wanted to.
I have faith in one to deliver useful investigations and not the other.
> After NVIDIA's huge breach of trust that we covered, we are officially opening an investigation and deep-dive into more of NVIDIA's shady business tactics
Is mostly waffling that could have applied to anything that nvidia did in the last 5 years
> The same reason I’d be uninterested in reading that the Daily Mail wants to investigate something but interested if NYT wanted to.
Has Gamer Nexus produced shoddy work in the past? The comparison feels lazy.
I’m more than happy to read a short sellers investigative piece, for example. You don’t need to be journalists to produce good work backed by facts.
Yet empirically, the biggest funders of basic research have historically been monopolies. The US government was, at least up until the last few months, the largest funder of basic research globally and it obviously maintains multiple different monopolies, a monopoly on legal use of force, a functional monopoly on financial transactions as the global reserve currency, and I'm sure others. Excluding national governments, Bell Labs and IBM were both probably the biggest funders of basic research in the last century during their respective heydays. Bell was obviously a monopoly and while IBM might never have faced anti-trust penalties, they did at one point control 70% of the mainframe market and the DoJ did bring a case against them (that was eventually dismissed by the Reagan administration.)
I think there are many good reasons to pursue anti-trust action against companies that are in a dominant market position, but we should be honest about the tradeoffs. Businesses that have to aggressively compete to maintain market share don't have the slack to fund basic research.
The biggest funders of basic research are those with the most resources. This is your insight? I don't think anyone disagrees. Then you conflate correlation with causation and move it to _monopolies_ fund basic research. Bravo.