Unaccountable fools in power destroy entire civilizations...
Amusing/telling/sad how these self proclaimed anti-imperialist Islamists cargo culted western technohubris just the same
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timcobb commented on GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over johnjames.blog/posts/grap... · Posted by u/johnjames4214
> The main problem GraphQL tries to solve is overfetching.
this gets repeated over and over again, but if this your take on GraphQL you def shouldn't be using GraphQL, because overfetching is never such a big problem that would warrant using GraphQL.
In my mind, the main problem GraphQL tries to solve is the same "impedance mismatch" that ORMs try to solve. ORM's do this at the data level fetching level in the BE, while GraphQL does this in the client.
I also believe that using GraphQL without a compiler like Relay or some query/schema generation tooling is an anti-pattern. If you're not going to use a compiler/query generation tool, you probably won't get much out of GraphQL either.
In my opinion, GraphQL tooling never panned out enough to make GraphQL worthwhile. Hasura is very cool, but on the client side, there's not much going on... and now with AI programming you can just have your data layers generated bespoke for every application, so there's really no point to GraphQL anymore.
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Pretty sure many of Meta's tech workers are furious about these actions, as they were in the previous story where 404media published a number of employee comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651178 ("[flagged] Total Chaos at Meta: Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes (404media.co)")
https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-r... ( https://archive.is/R1c7S )
Pretty sure they'll keep collective paychecks and watching Netflix
timcobb commented on Why WinQuake exists and how it works fabiensanglard.net/winqua... · Posted by u/wicket
timcobb commented on Why WinQuake exists and how it works fabiensanglard.net/winqua... · Posted by u/wicket
>you can still run Windows 3.11 or 98SE as well under emulation as on contemporary original hardware
That's mostly how the backwards compatibility works anyway, just under the hood. The OS is using all sorts of compatibility layers to make the older software sit on top of and work on the newer OS versions. It just mostly works flawlessly, so you don't think about it unless it doesn't work automatically and forces you to go into the properties and tinker with which compatibility layer to manually apply.
I didn't know that, but I would have assumed that. And that being the case, the difference seems to be whether you want to run your old program in a Windows 11 chrome or a Windows 3.11 chrome :shrug:
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timcobb commented on Why WinQuake exists and how it works fabiensanglard.net/winqua... · Posted by u/wicket
You don't necessarily "need" it but what feature of Win11 or OSX is worth the making all existing software inoperable? Can't say I have seen one outside of gets security updates.
I don't know, you could do something totally wild like re-imagining the filesystem... I, for one, would love a flat blob store organized in some other way than folders or filenames. I think there's tons of interesting things that could and would be explored without backwards compatibility holding us back. That's how the original OS X came to be.
But what I really don't get, is why we need backwards compat when computers can run computers, and old operating systems hardly demand resources on a modern computer.
timcobb commented on Why WinQuake exists and how it works fabiensanglard.net/winqua... · Posted by u/wicket
Because it's not limited to games, forcing updates cuts of a lot of apps that can't invest enough in updating.
Also the barrier to use you're suggesting with alternative install/emulator is pretty high for an average user. It also breaks integration with everything else (e.g., a simple alt-tab will show the VM instead of 2 apps running inside)
Also because a lot of progress is regression, so having an old way to opt out into is nice
> forcing updates cuts of a lot of apps that can't invest enough in updating.
What about emulation?
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