philm

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[–] philm 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But how do you find a website and the relevant content then?

I agree, that you should have a good search on a platform, specifically optimized on the scope of that platform, but it's just an unfortunate truth, that google is often better than these individual searches.

SEO could also just mean that all the stuff is actually server side rendered, so that google is able to find the content (which is not the case yet for lemmy-ui, but there is lemmy-ui-leptos in development, which should support that at someday)

[–] philm 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah works well, as long as the code is rather simple and it occurred rather often in the training set. But I seldom use it currently (got a little bit more complex stuff going on). It's good though to find new stuff (as it often introduces a new library I haven't known yet). But actual code... I'm writing myself (tried it often, and the quality just isn't there... and I think it even got worse over the last couple of months as also studies suggest)

[–] philm 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah the whole situation is a little bit fucked, Google has too much power (over Mozilla) and browser engines in general. But I'm optimistic about the open source community, e.g. brave integrates their own ublock compatible rewrite (in Rust ^^) into chromium. So I think sooner or later there are patched/forked chromiums and if Mozilla indeed makes the move towards WebDRM then also Firefox forks.

I really hope servo under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation proves to be a viable alternative in the future, that's a little bit more independent than Firefox.

[–] philm 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah as nice as it is what you can achieve with trait-bounds there are definitely trade-offs, being compile time and error messages, and sometimes mental complexity, understanding what the trait-bounds exactly mean... I really hope, that this area gets improvement on at least the error-messages and compile time (incremental cached type-checking via something like salsa)

[–] philm 4 points 1 year ago

Or deeply cascaded generic code with a lot of trait-bounds...

[–] philm 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well at least C++ definitely is far away from cool, you can imagine the rest...

[–] philm 26 points 1 year ago

Yep use a little bit more deeply cascaded generic rust code with a lot of fancy trait-bounds and error messages will explode and be similar as C++ (though to be fair they are still likely way more helpful than C++ template based error messages). Really hope that the compiler/error devs will improve in this area

[–] philm 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fortunately, there are other good browsers that don't follow this bullshit. I'm lucky that I haven't seen ads in ages (and I absolutely don't miss them). Websites/Services should just find different ways to monetize their work, ads are the worst way IMHO (collecting data, promoting often useless consumption in a world where we need to reduce consumption, annoying etc.).

[–] philm 2 points 1 year ago

I have the feeling, that this age will come back in one way or the other (and I have the feeling Rust and Webassembly will be involved ;))

[–] philm 5 points 1 year ago

Yet it still feels sloppy (and I couldn't find why to the defense of Jerboa, I skimmed through the relevant code but couldn't find immediate issues and there's an open issue: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/445)

I don't get why, with so much hardware power we still have these issues...

[–] philm 3 points 1 year ago

Is there really no native (SwiftUI) iOS app?

[–] philm 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is most software getting worse?

Fixed for ya.

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