Every company mid sized onwards has dedicated FP&A teams that do rolling forecasts at least 2 quarters into the future and also have an operating plan (budget) decided before the FY begins. Projections go out to Wall Street. Executives look at top line summaries, upcoming revenue streams, profitability ratios and so on. Decisions are made on those numbers
> only 5 lines of javascript in the whole infernal thing. No thanks, I won't be having any of that in my program
I feel exactly the same way. HTMX is a godsend. That and a Tailwind UI purchase can make anybody very dangerous at frontend. I'm curious for other viewpoints though: what exactly about js gives that icky feeling. For me it's just the inconsistent syntax. With TS, on the other hand just seeing a node modules folder makes me nauseous. The whole thing gives me a feeling of a lack of control over what's happening and has thrown me off front end for many years until now
Sure the language is a little iffy, but as someone who enjoys shell scripting I have used worse. I think what I don't like is managing the logic two steps removed from where it is used.
I tend to write my web apps in what is referred to today as server side rendered(Which sounds stupid to me, I am not rendering anything, I am outputting html for the html terminal to render) as such, all my logic is on one end, and mixing in logic, in a different language, for the other end feels really ugly.
I have recently tried to be a better person and get more comfortable with javascript. What I have found that works is to completely invert the logic dynamics, give the browser a single static page that has nothing in it. only a single script tag that includes a javascript file. Then generate the whole page from that. Now all your logic is still in one language[1] and really javascript is a lot of fun to write, the language is still sort of crap, but now the dynamic stuff is really simple.
1. as a footnote, the great tragedy of the web is that (script language=) only works for javascript. wasm is an attempt to rectify this, but I think that while they are doing the best they can with the shitshow they have to work with. wasm is solving the problem at entirely the wrong layer.
> I tend to write my web apps in what is referred to today as server side rendered(Which sounds stupid to me, I am not rendering anything, I am outputting html for the html terminal to render) as such, all my logic is on one end, and mixing in logic, in a different language, for the other end feels really ugly.
And you often end up with server side rendering as well (hopefully provided by your framework) to make initial page loads faster.
Using SvelteKit, Drizzle (with drizzle-zod) and tRPC, the process of building a full-stack, highly interactive web app in a single, statically-typed language is quite painless these days.
Thank you so much for Appwrite! The community on Discord is very helpful and the self hosting guide is great. Very unlike my terrible experience with Supabase who seem to do their best to cripple the self hosted option
I was hoping someone here would compare the two. I might have to give Appwrite a try after all. Supabase's self-hosted option was wack when I tried it a few months ago.
My honest two cents, which is biased, so take liberal amounts of salt.
I think Supabase is verbose. You get to dig around the PostgreSQL instance, write SQL, etc. I know people that live and die by SQL, so if that sounds like you, Supabase is great.
Appwrite is more about simplicity. Our SDKs are simple, our UI is simple, our Documentation is simple, heck we even have a 1 line deploy:
docker run -it --rm \
--volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
--volume "$(pwd)"/appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw \
--entrypoint="install" \
appwrite/appwrite:latest
Use a part of Appwrite, or all of it. Heck, go dig in our code or checkout our open sourced Functions runtime. We don't care, we just want you to do more while writing less code.
Both have their audience, both are great, see which one suits your needs better :)
It might be just me, but I think reading hard sci-fi is much more educational and memorable, not to mention entertaining, than non fiction
Spoilers for Three Body Problem:
For instance, I can never forget the way the Alcubierre drive is explained in the final book, or the benefits of particle accelerator with the circumference of the asteroid belt
> It might be just me, but I think reading hard sci-fi is much more educational and memorable, not to mention entertaining, than non fiction.
Memorable and entertaining seem very likely, but I think one has to be extremely careful with one's sci-fi that what one remembers is real science rather than just what makes for good fiction—there's often a tension, and even a very scientifically literate author can, and probably should, opt for the one that makes for good fiction.
even hard sci-fi is going to make concessions for the sake of the story. I really don't understand how something that has no obligation to be factual can be more educational..
I’m sure you’re not alone in that, but I recommend giving non-fiction a chance too! There’s some great stuff out there, sometimes as entertaining and memorable as fiction.
Carlo Rovelli (whose new book is reviewed here) is well worth a try; his writing is really poetic and striking.
Another really interesting kind of semi-fictionalised history I recommend is Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty.
The CEO plainly says he has time to work on other important things. Jesus, even creating the video in the first place, requires you to say Hey First Name
That is so cringe. It's shit like this that will really make the masses hate tech companies. Years and years of education, tons and tons of computational resources, engineer months, years, cloud storage, MASSIVE SCALE, billion-dollar valuations (!?) and it's a crummy Ovaltine commercial with a clumsily edited in "Hey Ralphie!"
Actually, it kind of reminds me of those silly commercials you hear on the radio for some real estate seminar... "The Bay Area is a perfect place for our system," or something like that. The cadence is off just enough to notice and kick it over into uncanny valley territory.
I don't find it that scary. It's a gimmick. It will maybe work once or twice, but how many of these "hey firstname" videos do you think people will watch before catching on?
Sure, it's going to improve a lot, but since the first iteration of automated, personalized video messaging is so low-effort, I actually think people will just be inoculated against the whole idea. As in, don't watch the videos at all.
Apologies for commenting before reading the article. But I'm curious what the sales process is for spyware. I understand the underground groups do all their stuff anonymously, but what sales ops do legitimate companies like NSO Group practice? Do they have sales targets/quotas? Do they vet their clients? What channels do they sell through?
Similar channels as any other arms manufacturer or defense contractor, as far as Israel goes they are regulated in the same manner by the same agency DECA.
They likely do not sell to anyone or for any reason that does not contribute to Israel’s foreign policy in some way or another.
Hey, I'd give anything for more people to be interested in space! If saying something like it rains diamonds on a planet to make people at least mildly interested in this kind of thing, I'm all for it, even though such a thing is banal at the cosmic scale
Please, humans are overrated. They lie, they cheat, they conceal and they are certainly biased. In my city an unmarried couple or people of certain religions are not allowed to rent some places
On the other hand, technology is full of bugs and idiotic assumptions, from which it can't recover - it's also strongly biased towards the one controlling it. And it can also lie, cheat and conceal things, and there's exactly shit you can do about it.
The older I get, the more I prefer dealing with flesh-and-blood people rather than self-service solutions. Life is too short for dealing with systems that go out of your way to railroad you into a bad deal.
