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Re:Cartographers of North Korea on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:58PM (#50047752)
I love how the data is laid out. It's easy to read and shows real care. I expected to lose my current nav when I clicked on an individual response, so I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't.
Re:AI Is Slowing Down on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @06:23AM (#48459112)
The studies you are talking about are probably outdated, it's difficult to deny the actual productivity boost of coding agents.

I'm not talking about the quantity of code produced, but about actual user needs that are now resolved that would not have been before.

The main productivity gain will not come from existing software engineer, but from people that couldn't code at all before but are now able to do things by themselves. We are still very early.

Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:41PM (#48390522)
Some do, but the DX was bad last time I tried, I did not find a way to use it with my setup.
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:39PM (#48390500)
I meant that it doesn't get much love from the community, it's pretty clear it's not used much, that's why things like `dbg` gets added to the language.
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:05PM (#48389236)
Almost nobody uses it though, which is too bad, especially since multi-head functions sometimes make it difficult to follow the execution path.

I'd like to do step by step but I cannot plug the debugger to VScode from inside a docker container.

Re:Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:32PM (#47549254)
T'es perdu, chaton ?
Re:Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:04PM (#47343648)
Notion is nice
They all seem like great features.
I agree with them, the French translation is way too casual/aggressive compared to the English text.

I wouldn't trust this website.

It comes across as influencer speech targeted to edgy young people with a touch of "how do you do, fellow kids?".

Pretty sure a modern LLM would yield a better one.

Maybe consider renaming this since pgTAP [0] exists and has nothing to do with this.

[0]: https://pgtap.org/

Re:SQL Needed Structure on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:50AM (#45139249)
You are right, but note that the default isolation level is "Read committed" in postgres.
Re:SQL Needed Structure on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:48AM (#45139233)
Read committed (which is the default), doesn't guarantee that. See "Nonrepeatable Read" and "Phantom Read" which are both possible in your documentation page.
Re:SQL Needed Structure on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:55AM (#45137516)
I don't get the transaction bit. At least with postgres, a transaction doesn't guarantee that all statements in it see the data at the same point in time (actually, it's not even guaranteed for subqueries).

Also, often, the transactional database servers is more difficult to scale than application servers so from a technical standpoint, it makes sense to do this glue work in app code.

Re:Next.js 14 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:47PM (#38030811)
We migrated to Remix a few months ago, never going back.
Re:Next.js 14 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:11PM (#38030386)
Comments aren't bad per se, but they should explain Why vs. How.
You should play Obra Dinn.
Re:Python Coding Style Compliance on Stack Overflow on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:46AM (#28729517)
> Given how much programming now consists of "copy, paste, and modify," enforcing style conventions on Stack Overflow might do more to improve general coding standards than anything else we could try.

I'm guessing most of developers use a formatter like black [0] nowadays so that will have less and less impact.

[0]: https://github.com/psf/black