Valerio Versace
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Founder @polaritydev. Platform Engineering activist. All infrastructure shall be automated. AWS Solutions Architect
Joined June 2019
@inthefade I'm not a fan of Elon but this thing is actually awesome. Anybody who says otherwise is high on copium.
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@xychelsea "Actually 1/144" how. How do people take that angle on this. I get approached by someone, one in twelve is going to share my zodiac sign. The question is not "what are the chances you pick 2 random people and they are both sagittarius".
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“The problem with switch statements and if/else chains” is none. They are perfectly fine. Don’t get gaslighted into buying books that will lead you to overcomplicate your code.
The problem with switch statements and if/else chains is that they replicate like gerbils. If you aren't careful to sequester them in the early stages of your project, you'll find them reproducing in every corner of your application.
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@business Good, but no, it’s still too easy. The Airbnb business needs to die completely before cities can start healing.
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@thdxr tbf no generic approach will get you this. This is beyond what any silver bullet can do.
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@AleResnik Thank you for visiting, hope the future of humanity has housing as a universal basic human right that is not monetized via VC-backed landlording apps driving profit to parasitic billionaires.
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A friend of mine makes cute little bead bracelets and sells them on the internet. She wants to get paid with Lightning Network. What tier data center and RAID architecture should I recommend her for her node?.
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@htmx_org I practice separation of concerns by separating from people who are concerned about concerns.
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Hell will fucking freeze over before I use SaaS by some goddamn startup made by American 20somethings for auth, which should be the first thing the dumbest motherfucker on Earth should be able to make with their eyes closed and a foot way up their ass if they ever want to be devs.
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@JustinBGalloway @JoshuaPHilll @McClellandShane It’s not, by a long shot. It’s not even close or comparable. And no country on Earth is or has ever been “over-woke”.
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For this year's Advent of Code I'm 100% doing OCaml. Reasoning: as a CTO I chose my technologies based on how happy its users appear to be. It's why for example I dropped webpack, or why I adopted @htmx_org. It was between Rust and OCaml but the OCaml people are happier.
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@Carnage4Life They would be. misguided, to say the least. "Being alive" is not a high bar for a company. If this company were still publicly traded, it would be easier to measure the amount of wealth that Musk destroyed. How happy would "any company"'s shareholders be about losing 80% value?.
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@realGeorgeHotz What is more probable? That “nothing got built” because of “SJWs”, or because increasingly oligopolistic tech giants are stifling innovation, killing emerging companies in the crib and funding stupid pet projects of their founders?.
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@musicpaladin @ZoeSchiffer Board has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder profit. Not forcing Elon Musk to go through with the deal would be in breach of their duty. That’s how capitalism works. Don’t like it? Fight it.
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@AdamRackis I think it’s kind of wholesome that in Europe (at least in Italy) you would get knifed for this.
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@n_fiction @Aella_Girl Why? He’s boring, he’s mid, he’s petty, he has nothing new, interesting or exciting to say, and he has a political agenda.
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@alexeyguzey 4 hours*. Company of 20 people, today we used it for thousands of conversations. We are aggressively trying to replace most work functions. Interestingly, coding appears to be by far the hardest thing to replace.
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@YounesOughla @joshuatopolsky @jack @elonmusk @Twitter You are not a very good judge of character, let me tell you that.
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@RichardGarriott not sure if this came with the original UO boxed set or with T2A. When UO came out I was in 4th grade and I made an elevator pitch to my parents about what the Internet was, what this game was and why I needed a subscription to both. My dad ended up playing too.
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@ostonox This is now my only source of news forever. I don't have to watch 8 hour @hasanthehun streams anymore, I can get the same amount of information in 1 minute.
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@wrumsby @kwuchu @jherr @bronifty @kentcdodds @rajeshdavidbabu About as much as integrating whatever third party auth provider you might want to use.
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@LolOverruled People will cheer for this but literally despise socialized medicine. That surgery is free where I’m from: I don’t know of a single person who doesn’t get that procedure because of the medical bill. It’s free for everybody who needs it.
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“The problem with switch statements and if/else chains” is none. They are perfectly fine. Don’t get gaslighted into buying books that will lead you to overcomplicate your code.
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Anything where you "Pay for idle" has no place being called Serverless, by AWS' own definition. Otherwise it's just marketing. You have multiple different infrastructure models being sold under the same umbrella term, it's confusing to customers and damaging to the industry.
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@ostonox Is this what Adin Ross meant by “I want to shave my head to become a better person”? Is this his “better person” arc?.
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@AdamRackis I've recently built a login for a Slack-like multi-tenant SaaS with magic-link login using @htmx_org.It's unbelievably smooth and it's taken a couple of days. I have no idea how much time it would have taken me with any frontend framework and how many more bugs it would have.
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I was about to suggest Hetzner but she fears they might shut down her node. Can anybody recommend a good litigator who has experience with infrastructure providers and Bitcoin in case she needs to sue them?.
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People should look at BTC to resist oppressive governments, funding militias to fight tyrannical regimes, evade unjust embargoes, help refugees. Instead all the hype goes to sad pathetic JPEGs. Literal digital junk. Tiny icons of consumerism. Peak dickless capitalistic behavior.
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@htmx_org I'm pretty sure if HTMX was advertised as "a new form of JSX syntax" designed to do "React Server Components in any language and fetching them from the frontend", the React crowd would eat it up like pbj toast. They are used to full API rewrites, they wouldn't suspect a thing.
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@QuinnyPig I feel like this is not the last announcement we’ll see about Sam Altman in the next few days.
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Randomly sending this to colleagues without context to see if they are feeling it
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@UKWellsy @jakeshieldsajj Then you'll be happy to know it doesn't, defamation is not based on opinions. Alex Jones demonstrably knew what he was saying was false. A lie is not an opinion.
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@timClicks The amount of cope by people who pretend reducing your infra costs by 50x is irrelevant.
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It’s all posturing, optics, aesthetics. The best way to “see is someone is serious about their work” is their work’s output. Unless the work has no output and it’s all just a circus.
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@realGeorgeHotz @ahmetb In retrospect, how do you feel about your statement regarding the total number of engineers that would be required to run Twitter?.
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@soychotic Staying silent until the first person finishes saying their piece and then going "That was okay, let's hear from the others now" to cement myself as the leader and assert dominance.
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@andrewedstrom It’s worse, not better. The thing is, people used to work at a company for 10+ years. So you had time to hire promising talent and nurture them over a lifetime, practical skills of immediate use were less of a concern. Now you hire knowing the guy will hop elsewhere in 2 yrs.
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Anybody who’s into making a little money on the side with artisanal jewelry can recommend how she can safely protect her channel backups from bit rot?.
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@rust_foundation This is beyond stupid. The success of your language depends upon two things: good developer experience (never rename packages) and not putting wrenches in the wheels of open source developers. This gives you zero benefits for a whole lot of hurt for you and your community.
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Nostr day 1: the educational value cannot be overstated. Great introduction to protocol development for everyone. Anybody can read the whole spec in a few hrs and write an implementation. The excitement is totally justified.
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@htmx_org @ThePrimeagen who's the accelerationist and who's the decelerationist in this dynamic? Who's for merging htmx into HTML6 right now and who's for slowing down?.
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@ESYudkowsky This shit has been out for 5 days and people are talking about “prompt engineers” with a straight face.
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@htmx_org Vercel acquisition incoming. htmx soon to ship "edge runtime only" features for true serverless server-side rendering. I'm gonna have to find a new thing to use.
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@tragic_maverick @otter_weekend @school Teachers are adults with agency. Kids are kids. How can you talk about education with any sort of credibility and put kids and adults on the same playing field like they are peers? They are not. Kids are second class citizens and they are punished for it constantly.
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@AdamRackis “Starting from scratch was inevitable”. It may be hubris but I’m 100% sure it was not.
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This is now my only source of news forever. I don't have to watch 8 hour Hasan streams anymore, I can get the same amount of information in 1 minute.
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@AdamRackis Arguing that one should use the right tool for the job is not the same as pushing for compromising ux. React is not the best tool for every job, same with htmx. Also the “by itself” does a lot of work, can’t be just ignored.
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@htmx_org “never had to build a website that works like that” never had to build a website that works like a website that works?.
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@techsavvytravvy I once got called “ableist af” for suggesting that, as a candidate, “preparing for a tech interview will give you a higher chance at securing an available position compared to a candidate that does no prep, whatever the interview may be”.
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Apparently I'm "2 old skool 2 b kool". @awscloud why is this? I just want to sell stuff and make 💰 for us both.
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Had to create 30 VPCs in different AWS regions, 4 CIDR ranges each, 4 subnets each, all VPC-peered w/ appropriate route tables. @PulumiCorp made it ridiculously easy compared to every other alternative. (Thx @thdxr for the suggestion).
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@Aella_Girl Not gonna chip in on the casual sex thing in particular because, as a man, my own strategy for optimizing the enjoyment of causal sex is completely different. Just wanted to say that it’s cool that I’m not the only person who tries to optimize any given human experience.
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@doctorworm42 @n_fiction @Aella_Girl And? Shorter tweets are better for the environment or something?.
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@__escapee__ Yea the idea is: if she has to go on holiday for 10 days she can ask a friend to do sysop tasks like swap a disk or recreate a RAID array like she would ask the friend to water the plants or feed the dogs.
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@VitalikButerin @interfluidity Are you for real? Sam deserves love from his family and friends, and a jail sentence from the state. Dunking session? Community values? He's a hardened criminal with no moral compass, he's not a kid who stole cookies.
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@techsavvytravvy @CFDevelop @mike_hasarms Candidate doing GH projects: 100 hours. Interviewer going through some: 2 hours if he’s incredible?. Doing a coding interview: 15-20 mins. Also I could pay some dude on Upwork to fill my GH or just yoink someone else’s code.
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@jherr @bronifty @kentcdodds @rajeshdavidbabu It's absolutely not "weeks of work" and it's definitely not "tech debt". Implementing auth(&auth) does take about as much time as integrating whatever third party auth service you might want to use.
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@maietta @CodeMentorUK HTMX user here. You do all your website with any server-side technology (Django, Laravel, Go+templ, whatever) and use HTMX for quick, easy and ergonomic client-side interactivity when needed, re-using your server-side HTML-rendering layer, skipping JSON.
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@somerandomblac @theshelfables @theRazbuten @MarrizzyRiviera “You lose nothing” is delusional. You lose immersion. Developers visually screaming at players absolutely breaks suspension of disbelief. I’m all for accessibility but pretending there’s no trade-off is disingenuous.
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@lopp Disregard, join Nostr. Everybody is having a ton of fun. It's a cool club with some exceptional people. That being said, don't use web clients, or treat any private key as throwaway. Also, clients will improve in time and right now it feels nostalgia trip to the days of mIRC.
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@ChShersh @techsavvytravvy 10 to 200ms is a hell of a lot of time. If it's actual compute time (like synchronous server-side rendering) it also means your compute costs go up 20x. You are going to recoup the three months of engineering costs in a few weeks at most.
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@tvaziri I’m the average consumer: why should I know / care? If it’s a frame from the movie, it looks like shit. If it’s for marketing, it’s bad marketing because it looks like shit. Who does this serve? The deadlines?.
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@AutismCapital @amasad I think it's the other way around: the human can do the busywork of setting up the company, or paying someone to do it. Same as taxes. The AI does the actual work. You can open a consultancy business where you just forward customer prompts to the AI, put the answers in a pdf, 💰.
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@housecor @GiladVent And repeat all the logic in both the API backend and the RSC backend? And maintain both? And cache both separately? Please.
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@NickThoughtRepo @Carnage4Life Nothing that is “being reported” is even remotely concerning. The way it’s being reported (no numbers, no data, no list of accounts, no serious audit by a proper institution) is amateurish and partisan.
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@DinaBelenkaya @MrBeast Getting mad at MrBeast is stupid. Getting mad at the US healthcare service is perfectly sane and reasonable.
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@doctorworm42 @n_fiction @Aella_Girl I'm sorry I attacked your celebrity crush and hurt your feelings.
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"Effective altruism" is silly. It's childish. It's a way for megalomaniac buffoons to feel good about their god complex. It's a coping mechanism for an underdeveloped mind. There's nothing to save about it. People should have dismissed it way before SBF.
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@dcblocher @Carnage4Life Yea I'm sure analysts would be thrilled at the fall of ad sales due to the uncertainty around the acquisition + zero brand safety & impersonation, and the prospect of zero growth and lawsuits due to capricious and haphazard layoffs.
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@Afinetheorem I'm playing with it now. Right off the bat: you could open a consultancy company (whatever vertical) with no employees, just forward all user questions to the thing, slap them together in a report and congratulations, you have a viable business now.
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@DinaBelenkaya Match was great, you and @itsandreabotez should be proud, your teams should be proud, @LudwigAhgren too. You guys put yourselves out there, gave it all and made an awesome show. That’s what matters at the end of the day.
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@DU09BTC @AutismCapital Well he’s not honest though. He’s a criminal, a fraudster. None of the people involved in this trial are honest.
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@a_markski You might end up reducing cost, increasing security, reducing complexity, owning more of your own product and learn something.
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