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Posted by
furstenheim on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:52AM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
furstenheim on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:24AM
from the furstenheim.substack.com dept.
The tasks that AI cannot do are vanishingly few. Yet, they are still incapable of generating a decent SVG. But there's a workaround
Posted by
furstenheim on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:18PM
from the furstenheim.substack.com dept.
> But if you want an existence proof: Maven. The Java library ecosystem has been going strong for 20 years, and during that time not once have we needed a lockfile. And we are pulling hundreds of libraries just to log two lines of text, so it is actively used at scale.
Maven and Java is simply broken when dealing with transitive dependencies.
I've been hit so many times with running time exception "MethodNotFound" cause two libraries have the same transitive dependency and one version gets picked over the other one.
Sumertime! Great naming choice!!
It ends up with AIs chatting between them over the phone in like 1 year top
Not the discussion, but SPAs are fundamentally safer against XSS, in the sense that data and code have different paths.
Posted by
furstenheim on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:03PM
from the medium.com dept.
I find it useful to find esoteric APIs, like reflection, which normally has 100 methods and hard to find the right one
ACID is good and it has an implementation cost (vacuum for example). When doing analytics you do not care for ACID
It "can" be done. Some photons leaving the earth a thousand years ago. Bouncing off a mirror in some distant planet and allowing us to see two thousand years into the past
Yeah, I want a phone like that. There's definitely a market
Posted by
furstenheim on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @12:42PM
from the francis.naukas.com dept.
Wasn't there this case of a security issue coming from abusing different parsers, in different places? Server, client, or different browsers
There's another one that works 100% of the time.
Do client server rendering. Send HTML, then query backend for content. Something like p.textContent = ... It's safe.
It's pretty much the same as what a prepared statement does in SQL, send data and code in different channels
Curious, does that affect the complexity of string concatenation? As far as I remember V8 "uses" ropes, so string concatenation was linear. Not O(n) like java. Which saves a lot of headaches
100%, maybe intelligence is not as mysterious and extraordinary as we thought
that could be replaced with an AI...
I actually wondered how many packages they harassed until they got access to one such
So annoying, it detects where I'm connecting from and redirects changing the language
This node got it just right. You only get this issue for big stateful libraries, like frameworks
> has been exponentially increasing since the beginning of the new millennium
A part of me suffers everytime someone uses that expression
What works best for me. Leaving phone at home when I meet people. It's not always possible, obviously, but if I know the address, I might take a db phone for emergencies. Or even, just a paper with the phone number.
I blatantly lie. Then when they tell me what I should like, tell them it was a lie and say a different one, also fake.
And not vegetation either