TehPers

I see no reason someone shouldn’t be allowed to ask for donations. If you want to accept donations, go for it. There doesn’t need to be a special reason to do so.

Donations should come without obligations though. If someone donates, yay, but donations should never be in exchange for something (that would be a payment).

Storing UI assets in a database is unusual because assets aren’t data, they are part of your UI. This is of course assuming a website - an application may choose to save assets in a local sqlite database or similar for convenience.

It’s the same reason I wouldn’t store static images in a database though - there’s no reason to do so. Databases provide no additional value over just storing the images next to the code, and same with localizations.

User-generated content changes things because that data is now dynamically generated, not static assets for a frontend.

I know I probably sound like an ass but it really is that bad

Nah I work in shitty codebases on a regular basis, and the less I need to touch them, the happier I am.

With regards to other localization changes, it’s not important to localize everything perfectly, but it’s good to be aware of what you can improve and what might cause some users to be less comfortable with the interface. That way you’re informed and can properly justify a sacrifice (like “it’d cost us a lot of time to support RTL interfaces but only 0.1% of users would use them”) rather than be surprised that there even is one being made.

Also, user-generated content explains why these are in a DB, and now it makes a lot more sense to me. User-generated translations used as-is makes more sense than trying to force Project Fluent (or other similar tools) into it.

Localization is a hard problem, but storing your translations in the DB is a bit unusual unless you’re trying to translate user data or something.

I’d recommend looking into tools like Project Fluent or similar that are designed around translating.

As for the schema you have, if you’re sticking with it, I would change the language into an IETF language tag or similar instead. The important part is that it separates language variants. For example, US English and British (or international) English have differences, Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese have differences, Mexican Spanish and Spain Spanish have differences, etc.

Using an ID instead of the text content itself as part of the PK should be a no-brainer. Languages evolve over time, and translations change. PKs should not. Your choice of PK = (TextContentId, Language) is the most reasonable to me, though I still think that translations should live as assets to your application instead to better integrate with existing localization tools.

One last thing: people tend to believe that translating is enough to localize. It is not. For example, RTL languages often swap the entire UI direction to RTL, not just the text direction. Also, different cultures sometimes use different colors and icons than each other.

it is the same code as you produce manually.

LLMs do not create the same code that I would, nor do they produce code at the same level that I would. Additionally, LLMs are not deterministic (normally - there are ways to manually seed some but it’s rare). Determinism has a very specific meaning. Compilers supporting reproducible builds are deterministic. LLMs producing a different output each time are not.

it is a task of a programmer to review it before publishing it.

Tell that to my coworkers. It’s honestly insulting the code I have to review and contribute to. Having used these tools myself, I’m better off writing the code myself.

They lost me on LLMs getting good.

I don’t work for Comcast and I never will, so let me say this for all of the affected workers:

Fuck him. I will not mourn him. He registers as nothing more than a statistic to me. I’d much rather spend my time mourning children getting mowed down at school than him.

Anyway, hope that gives the workers some relief.

Currently everything on the Internet is assumed to be free.

This isn’t true at all. Content on websites is protected by copyright laws as well.

You can get something like a NexDock that has all of that built in. Just 1 cable.

Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this more convenient than a laptop? It has the form factor of one, so you’re already stuck carrying around what is basically a laptop. Wouldn’t a super cheap Chromebook or similar be more convenient since it’s a full desktop experience with all you’d expect from a desktop environment?

Anyway, working entirely on mobile is a thing these days, so if that works for you, keep doing what you’re doing. If all you need is a bigger browser, I’d also recommend a tablet with a detachable keyboard. If you want to keep the experience consistent between devices, honestly I’d suggest an iPhone and iPad (as much as I avoid Apple myself).

In all, the poll found that 70% of Democrats, 60% of independents, and 51% of Republicans opposed redrawing congressional maps in the middle of the decade, and that “large majorities” support the US Congress banning mid-decade redistricting.

Want to know a good way to undo gerrymandering? Vote for someone who isn’t doing the gerrymandering. If enough people do it, it kinda fucks up their plan.

Anyway, having lived in MO, this isn’t going to happen. A huge number of people vote R like it’s some kind of religious cult. I guess that’s not far off from what it actually is, though.

Friend lives further than Bainbridge, but works in Seattle. Ask me why I know the ferry commute lol. He got his home for pretty cheap due to the distance.

There are some maps online of the connector routes, and what you said seems to align with them. Based on those maps, seems like lots of focus on Seattle and surrounding communities, with some extension north and south from Redmond.

For what it’s worth, there are a lot of people across the sound who either work remotely or commute everyday (mostly to Seattle). The ferry, in travel time alone, is ~45m (from start of boarding to end of getting off, assuming you take the car you’ll need with this commute). This is of course assuming you make the ferry and don’t end up waiting for the next ferry or two due to traffic (each ferry carries only so many cars), and assuming no issues with their schedule (they are behind all the time).

Brinnon is a weird example, but an example involving the ferry isn’t too far fetched. I have a friend at a big company who lives on that side, and I considered it myself (and would have, had I been able to afford the home I wanted anyway).

Without traffic, Bainbridge Island to Redmond is ~1.5h. With traffic? Not happening.

Good news about MS specifically is that it does have the connector (their commute busses). It doesn’t go everywhere, and definitely not across the sound, but does help with some commutes if you happen to be close to a stop.

Anyway, RTO has historically been a terrible policy designed to shrink the workforce without layoffs and has resulted consistently in worse outcomes for companies.

The biggest of these is the billionaire-funded Fix the City PAC, which received an $8.3 million donation from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and as of late August had dropped more than $15 million to keep Cuomo afloat.

Michael Bloomberg is sponsoring him? That’d be enough to make me vote for almost literally anyone else.

MMOs? You’re a lost cause, sorry.

(Unless she also likes MMOs, then you’re meant for each other)

(Also, /s ofc, but remember to take breaks to spend time together)

Been using Kagi. It does everything I want, so as long as it continues to not serve ads and doesn’t force me to use AI overviews or anything, I’ve got no major complaints. I hear there’s a lot of other great options too though.

Can someone TL;DR on what “AI mode” is? Haven’t used Google in a while, but it sounds like a chatbot to me.

The models themselves are nondeterministic. Also, they tend to include a hidden (or sometimes visible) random seed that gets input into the models as well.

It’s not open source? The repository doesn’t seem to include the Rust source code.

Being closed source, I have no reason to believe it isn’t malicious. Open source means auditable. Closed source means “trust me bro”.

Edit: nevermind, I think I found the right repo. The package links to another one. Might want to fix that. Also, your profile on GH says it’s still closed source.

Mentioned this to the other commenter, but this doesn’t use the type system to enforce the mutual exclusivity constraint. In Rust, the main way to do that via the type system is through enums.

This doesn’t represent the mutual exclusivity through the type system (which is what the article is all about).

I love clap and I use it a lot, but the only way to represent the exclusivity through the type system in Rust is through an enum.