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wlll commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA   jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
wlll · 5 months ago
It's time for sending HTML rendered on server with CSS, and JS for enhancement only to kill the SPA.

I'm not talking about this from a technical standpoint, though there are many reasons that in most cases this is the best technological fit.

I'm talking about this from the position of "what I want to use". I'm sick of loading and navigting overly JS heavy, overly styled, fragile "apps". When I encounter a "proper" website that loads fast, and I can understand easily it's like a breath of fresh air.

wlll commented on Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)   datagubbe.se/afb/... · Posted by u/blakespot
zozbot234 · 6 months ago
The Amiga platform was originally built on game-console hardware. Incidentally, so was the Raspberry Pi, which is why the first Raspberry Pi models were comparatively very cheap.
wlll · 6 months ago
Were they? I had an Amiga 1200, a friend a 500, both of which were around long before games consoles became mainstream.
wlll commented on Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170    · Posted by u/_gtuv
wlll · 6 months ago
If I earned ~50 million dollars per year then I think I'd just pay for Internet.

Maybe .1% was a bad choice, should we only post articles that are relevant to people on a global average yearly wage of ~$12,000? How are we defining relevant? People earning $2000/year might be /interested/ in a thing, but not able to afford it (eg. a Mac computer or a large hadron collider), where do we draw the line?

wlll commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
wlll · 9 months ago

  Location: UK (though have worked for US companies remotely coast to coast since 2008)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but will travel
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Aurora, Go, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux Sysadmin, heroku, Nginx.
  Résumé/CV: https://willj.net/about/hire-me/march-2025-ahx4i/
  Email: will@willj.net
Hi, I'm Will Jessop, currently the now part time CTO of Impactive looking for new opportunities in Rails application scaling and performance or technical leadership. Technically I have a huge amount of experience in scaling and optimising Ruby on Rails applications, Postgres database performance and scalable application architecture. I also have a lot of experience managing a team of 19 people, mostly engineers. I'm product focussed, and among other successes re-orged the product pipeline at Impactive to improve delivery reliability and quality outcomes, while drastically improving staff morale.

wlll commented on 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire   tenochtitlan.thomaskole.n... · Posted by u/simonpure
wlll · 10 months ago
There's a podcast I really enjoy that has an episode on the rise and fall of the aztecs, highly recommended:

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/12/16/episode-9-...

wlll commented on Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease   github.com/bitfield/scrip... · Posted by u/begoon
Thaxll · a year ago
dependency management in Go is best in class what are you talking about? go mod is that good.
wlll · a year ago
I use Go a lot and I completely disagree. I have also used Ruby a lot and even though I prefer writing Go most of the time (it depends on the task) bundler is far better.

go mod is the second best I've used for sure, but if someone releaed bundler-but-for-go I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.

wlll commented on OpenAI O3-Mini   openai.com/index/openai-o... · Posted by u/johnneville
nullpoint420 · a year ago
Can't wait for the eventual rename to GPT Core, GPT Plus, GPT Pro, and GPT Pro Max models!

I can see it now:

> Unlock our industry leading reasoning features by upgrading to the GPT 4 Pro Max plan.

wlll · a year ago
I think I'll wait for the GTI model myself.

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wlll commented on Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?   bbc.com/news/articles/c0m... · Posted by u/vinni2
ricardobeat · a year ago
This airport is basically already complying with the highest possible standard [1]; so in your analogy the crash barrier already exists, the equivalent argument would be for the track to have a 200m run-off area all around.

It's not feasible to plan for every possible freak occurrence, an accident like this is only possible after a long list of other safety procedures have failed (as is often the case for aviation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_safety_area

wlll · a year ago
Standards are the minimum, not the maximum.

Planes sometimes overshoot the runway, building an unecessary wall at the end of it might comply with a standard, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

wlll commented on Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce   arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536... · Posted by u/rev13013
Aloisius · a year ago
How do you stir long pasta in minimal water before it has softened?

While small pasta shapes are relatively easy to stir such that they break contact with anything nearby right from the beginning, long pasta tends to move together when stirring until they’ve softened - at which point they’ve already started sticking together.

You can try to stir it so that the pasta isn’t all running parallel before it softens, but then you get ends start sticking out of the water until it softens more, leading to uneven cooking.

For long pastas, I’ve found using more water and just adding a little flour while cooking to be a lot easier.

wlll · a year ago
I use kitchen tongs to pick up and jostle the noods as another commentator mentions. It starts out parallel as you say. Flour would add a flavour I didn't want and I don't have an issue with uneven cooking or clumping so I don't need to.

u/wlll

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