There’s another school of teaching, which bans all reading, writing, and speaking altogether in favor of exclusively native speaker verbal input for the first 6-12+ months of learning. Some YouTubers seem to like the idea of this, though sounds pretty extreme.
For what it’s worth as a long time learner of Japanese, none of these ambiguities has ever confused me nor hindered my ability to be perceived as natural to native speakers, so I think that this ambiguity is not such a big deal.
To me, Hepburn’s strength relative to the old government romanization is that it increases the likelihood that an English speaker will make approximately the right sound when reading some Romaji, and that people seem to prefer it in general.
This is the true big benefit, the others talking about over fetching are not wrong but overfocusing on a technical merit over the operational ones.
My frontend developers had their minds blown when they realized that because we’re using Hasura internally, the only backend work generally needed is to design the db schema and permissioning, and then once that’s done frontend developers aren’t ever blocked by anything (which is not a freedom that I would want to give to untrusted developers, hence emphasis on internal usage of GQL)
(Unfortunately Hasura has shifted entirely into this VC-induced DDN thing that seems to be a hard break from the original product, so I can’t recommend that anymore… postgraphile is probably the way)
I agree though worth noting that data loader patterns in most pre-RSC react meta frameworks + other frameworks also solve for most of these problems without the complexity of RSC. But RSC has many benefits beyond simplifying and optimizing data fetching that it’s too bad HN commenters hate it (and anything frontend related whatsoever) so much.
Agreed on fragment masking. Graphql-codegen added support for it but in a way that unfortunately is not composable with all the other plugins in their ecosystem (client preset or bust), to the point that to get it to work nicely in our codebase we had to write our own plugins that rip code from the client preset so that we could use them as standalone plugins.
I disagree. It’s easy to say this from your armchair, but when your kid is the one kid not on social media because you’re such an righteous parent, and that kid is getting bullied by all the other kids for not knowing what’s going on in TikTok or Insta, you start seeing this as a problem that requires the coordination of large numbers of people who you may or may not know, many of whom are kids who lack executive function.
If you just disdain children in general, you can go ahead and say that instead.
In fact the majority of the electorate in Australia supports this, so that is exactly where you’d go to be in a community that shares your values. Social media has an addictive and infectious nature, even people who hate it end up using it because of the crippling network effects.
>the majority of the electorate in Australia supports this
because they don't know the consequences and the question that was asked was literally "should kids be banned from social media?". You can bet the opinion will shift when more and more sites demand age verification and sending government IDs to random websites. It will also be widened to more than just the big social media sites, let's not kid ourselves.
Agreed. Individualists don't understand how people actually don't have much free will and decisions are mostly influenced by culture. Having an anything goes culture is a massive head wind.
And by prisoner's dilemma / double bind type phenomenon, such as being forced to choose between being a social outcast, or to be on social media. That double bind would not exist if you nuke the whole thing. The libertarian theory of the world does not have such phenomenon within its descriptive aperture.
Wondering where you think the extreme inefficiency is exactly - apparently Elon Musk fell on his face when he tried to root them out as part of DOGE.
If anything it seems inefficiencies tend to occur when people interfere with the government funding things, like CA high speed rail having their federal funding appear and disappear erratically depending on who's in power, throwing off all the construction plans.
What if cooldowns were implemented by a package manager somewhat randomized, so that it’s more of a gradual rollout instead of a fixed cooldown period?
My experience though is that every homeschooled kid I met in university over a decade ago was very socially awkward. Not necessarily a problem I guess, they performed fine at academics.
Did you make a point to interrogate all the non–socially awkward people you met at university to determine if they were homeschooled or not? Yeah, thought not.
When I was in university, there were several instances where people who’d known me for weeks or months found out for the first time that I’d been homeschooled, and expressed their surprise. (Surprise that I was “normal,” I guess, and not a social basket case, as the prevailing stereotype of homeschoolers seems to be.) They simply never thought to ask.
In fact there were even a couple of friends who surprised me by turning out to be homeschooled—when I should have known better than to assume one’s schooling background. But when society spends your entire childhood hammering you with untrue stereotypes about what you are (I heard well‐meaning “But what about socialization?” countless times growing up), some of it is bound to stick.
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