Alex Sullivan

@Noahpinion @sailaunderscore Why do you engage with this? Like, why spread this? You're just spreading the muck.

@sailaunderscore That's fantasy. No they didn't.

Thousands of young sensitive young men injected with mRNA attacks cardiovascular system creates out-sized immune response producing myocarditis in males with healthy immune responses. This is not “stupid online politics meme”. The “best and fittest” of my generation died.

@raamcosta Did a very quick and lazy google - do you have a link to their reasoning for not having union types? We kinda already have them with some extra boilerplate (wrapping them in a sealed class or interface)

@alexsullivan444 Just errors. I honestly think it’s the best option. Not just because of the reasons they gave for not having union types (which I recommend checking out) but also because I think it’s taking the type system too far. Errors is the case where something was really missing.

This is really big. Especially for libraries and SDKs. Having a standard way to declare that a given API can fail and with type safe errors, is truly awesome. By far the most excited I’ve ever been for a new Kotlin feature, and that is saying something 😜

@donnfelker I'm finding that I use an agent, it gets me 80% of the way there, then the amount of time I spent to get the last 20% leaves me taking longer than I would've on my own. I also find I'm much less familiar with the code then fi I wrote it myself. How do you work around that?

AI assisted coding often feels like you're wasting your time, until it doesn't ... Huh? What do I mean? Check it out ... AI coding agents make us more efficient, but its not an obvious process for many ... Typically, especially for Senior developers, the flow goes like this: 1. Denial 2. Experimentation 3. Epiphany 4. Acceptance Problem is, between steps 1 and 3 is where some choose to abandon AI assisted coding altogether. Why? "Its just easier to do this myself, its doing stuff wrong." "This is stupid, this is taking too long." "I'm wasting all this time writing prompts and the result sucks." The trick is to stick with it, and try to completely STOP coding for a bit. I recommend creating an app (web preferably to see the full capabilities of AI assistance) 100% with prompts. I've done this a couple of times and the first time I did it, it changed the game for me and thats when I realized things have forever changed in development. That was about 3 months ago. Now, everything I do is AI assisted. I still have moments where I feel like I'm not productive and I feel like I'm wasting time. Then I'll get the prompt right, with the right model (it takes some experimentation) and then BOOM ... 2-3 days of work instantly done and I'm able to focus on actual business issues, human discussions, strategy and more. It often feels one step forward, 4 backward, 10 steps forward. Rinse wash repeat.

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@Zhuinden @codinginflow Good to see that they've dropped that bit of censorship. Censoring the word cisgender is wild. They do still censor links to to other platforms. They manually slow down some links as well which is wild. I still maintain that its fundamentally more limited now than before.

@alexsullivan444 @codinginflow I did a quick search and did find recent posts using the term.

Is "I am on 🦋" the new "I am vegan"?

@Zhuinden @codinginflow I don't know about less filtered. Can you say "c1sg3nd3r" (actually spelt out) or is that still blocked site wide?

@codinginflow People are mad because he turned a highly moderated fully left-wing site to be less filtered & right-leaning. On the other hand, the same people want to change people's minds by... leaving, and not talking to the people whose minds they wanna change? Wonder why it didn't work.

@PhilWalkable @Noahpinion We have a decent number of bus only lanes in Boston. It's....something, but I don't think it's all that close to a properly functioning subway.

@alexsullivan444 @Noahpinion Express bus only lanes. Can be automated and self driving easier than a car - it’s on a route. Expensive batteries? Just add overhead power lines as 🚎 trollies 🚋 Texas and Arizona just throw them down on the ground

Tokyo and Seoul achieve high density much much further from the urban core, thanks to upzoning and good trains. This "extended density" allows the whole city to feel less crowded, even as it fits more people into the metro area. noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-fiv…

@PattyFromTexas @Gi_Saudi Just like... obviously a planted positive sentiment bot. It's interesting that they're always verified.

@Gi_Saudi King Salman is a visionary and has many more projects in the works. I look forward to seeing his goal of turning Saudi Arabia into a garden come to fruition. This is an extraordinary achievement.

Our afforestation project will not just deliver environmental impact; it will catalyze job creation and economic growth. At #SGIForum today, the efforts of the Kingdom's ambition to grow 10B trees were further unpacked.

@madona_wambua @Zhuinden But if this is a top level composable what do you break it down into? Like, do you just _not_ hoist the state up to this level? You can have a million sub composables but if the idea is to keep them pure and hoist the state up...

@Zhuinden Break it down to small composables that's a long one for sure.

Just #JetpackCompose things

@softwarejameson Primarily because it's a lot of boilerplate to write for each component if you have dozens of components that can come in and out at any given time. For a mobile app you just need one view model for each page so it fits the UX a bit more.

@softwarejameson I think mobile apps are much more "page" focused. Like an Activity and a ViewController are very discrete chunks, whereas in a SPA there's pages but there's much more component focus with individual things coming and going. View models lend themselves better to pages IMO.

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@Noahpinion For the last graph, why is only the US separated by race? Doesn't that feel disingenuous?

Here are some fun charts from this week's roundup. 1. Saudi GDP per capita hasn't grown for 30 years 2. Anger about inflation will mostly fade by late 2024 3. EV sales are way up in the U.S. 4. U.S. test performance is actually pretty decent

This roundup was a very fun one. - Saudi Arabia is screwed - Wait 1yr for Americans to be optimistic - The "EV revolution stalls" story is fake - American schools are good except in math - India is industrializing - China's urban quirks noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-fiv…

@nsthorat Do you specifically like critique or the combination of critique, the mono repo (easy to go to previous CL), and the presubmit system? I think its the combination that's so powerful

6 months post-Google, the tech I miss most: - Critique (code review tool). Nothing I’ve used externally touches it. Someone please solve this 🙏 - Blaze. Python build & packaging outside Google is unfortunately painful. Won’t use Bazel because reasons. - Being able to ping the person who wrote whatever tool I’m using and get a response very quickly. Lots of stuff I don’t miss, for another day.

@_cartick @nsthorat I think to recreate what's so amazing about blaze you need the monorepo and the unified approach to supporting a set number if frameworks. So I imagine it's hard to externalize that

@nsthorat Oh man, I miss blaze the most :( ability to just run any code with your changes is unthinkable outside of Google. I hope someone brings these tools to public users. The main issue I see is that these are super opinionated tools and people might not prefer it.

@ChadMoran @softwarejameson That does make sense. I'm very wary of any effort to force developers away from luxury units (not saying you're pushing for that) because it seems like it usually just stops them from building all together.

@alexsullivan444 @softwarejameson You’re not wrong. It does however require more time to build luxury homes due to size and quality. This also drives up cost.

@softwarejameson The fact that Sam Francisco, the tech capitol of the world, isn't the same density as like Singapore is crazy. A huge policy failure.

@ChadMoran @softwarejameson I don't think it really matters - I think all that really matters is quantity of housing units. If all developers want to build is luxury housing fine; an extra 50k units of housing will impact prices even if they're all luxury.

@softwarejameson And there is no incentive for builders to build lower and middle tier homes. And with a lot of the supply in that range now locked up with lower interest rates… unlikely to change and only get worse.