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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I'm not a fan of the "hidden global variable framework" sort of DI. If you like it, though, then yes, this path is available to React as well.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

React's biggest mistake was using classes as component types and instances of those classes (objects) as component instances. This ruined dependency injection in React forever. If they had used objects as component types instead, a lot would be improved.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Choose another issue at random, burn it, and be free!

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Cardinals who vote for "Peter the Roman" to be the next pope... what would they be thinking?

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

But, Studio Ghibli is suddenly far more famous than it used to be, with far more fans that appreciate its work and know where it comes from. Studio Ghibli will likely be getting a lot more work and commanding much higher prices. Some artists are hurt by AI, but this one doesn't make your case.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

How much machine do you have to use before it's no longer "by hand"?

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Employees who are dedicated to their work get more done from home, but in companies with a lot of non-dedicated workers and (therefore) an adversarial relationship with management, WFH makes management nearly impossible and productivity tanks when there's no cracking whip.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

MOND would seem a lot less silly if it was caused by the planar shape of the galaxy somehow "focusing" gravity into that plane. Just sayin'

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

OK, but "mother of 3 sons" doesn't support your opinion on this anymore than "father of 3 daughters" would support my opinion on the deep nature of girls.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Pluto has enough problems without you piling on. LEAVE PLUTO ALONE!

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm sure the vast majority of republicans know that he isn't the right one for the job.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You don't just need more homes. You need more *smaller, cheaper* homes. To get that, you just need to fix laws and regulations to make those profitable. I don't know how things are where you live, but around here, minor landlords run terrible risks, because it's impossible to evict bad tenants.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Wow, that's actually awesome. A breath of fresh air. Equality FTW.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I'm glad we have universal health care, but every time I need health care I find myself wishing that I could just pay for it instead of waiting for hours to prove that I want it enough. We need a better way to decide who gets what in the non-life-threatening regime.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

What we know as facts changes over time as we learn. Free (dissenting) speech is the mechanism by which that happens. Fact checking works against that by suppressing this dissenting speech, allowing only the reiteration of currently accepted facts.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

But a lot of what makes you awesome is the result of some rich guy's drive to succeed. You want more people like that, not less, and so you should not single them out for punishment. If they feel that your country is hostile to them, they will not stick around.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Agree, but that's what property taxes are for, and they don't discriminate based on income or non-real-estate wealth.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I guess it depends what we mean by a "whopping big tax". I don't think the eat-the-rich crowd would be happy if the super rich were still happy.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The super rich don't need to live in your country.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It's naive to think that 24 billion would be spent so much better than the > 600 billion in taxes that the UK already collects.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

You know all those people who took an oath to support, defend, bear true faith, and allegiance to the constitution? They changed their mind.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

We just cut off the unnecessary wires. Power supplies aren't forever.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I understand. I think you've been taken in by the cult of sacrifice.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

1) That marketing was one of the things he did, and it was key. 2) True that success required all those things. Also true that Elon made it happen. 3) The alternative to electric cars is gas-powered cars, which are worse all around. Public transit has limits.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Tesla would have gone nowhere without Elon. He was the one who made electric cars something people want instead of a virtue-signaling sacrifice, and that unlocked adoption. Widespread adoption of electric transportation will save species in the end.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

What we want determines what we buy. A free market solves all our collective problems, modulo the tragedy of the commons. That last is a difficult nut to crack - requires transparency, free flow of information, regulation, and enforcement. But these are things that our society at least aims for.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

By now you can surely anticipate that I think someone's work is worth the price it brings, and that the whole world doesn't have to be nice before we're allowed to have nice things, but that inequity should be limited by taxation. Re. billionaires: We would not have electric cars without Elon, e.g

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Actually yes. Capitalism can solve these problems to the extent that people put a value on solving them... and people are coming around.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

1+2) We have the democracy that we deserve. We need to collectively do better. 3) Billionaires should be rare. We're just gonna have to disagree on this one.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I don't think we can "reverse" the damage that has been done. But I think we can continue to make the world better, even if it's different from how we imagine it might have been.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I do believe in climate change, but I also believe in technology and the adaptability of human kind and nature.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

1) Revoke the personhood of corporations, instead holding individual actors responsible for their actions; 2) Solid laws against anti-competitive behavior; and 3) Appropriately progressive taxation.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

That is a good point... but I think I've already essentially conceded that we shouldn't let the corporations make the laws. Monopolistic behavior is a *specific* "crime" that should be published, whether you're rich or not. Achieving success is noble, though, in and of itself.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Regarding blaming people who profit... how is that different from blaming a lottery winner for other people's gambling problems?

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Inequity is out of control, but we have more equality now than ever. I'm a big fan of equality, so yes I think this is a net win. When you talk about "ecological collapse", I think you are talking about the worry, not the problem. We can fix it, and when we do we'll have some rich guys to thank.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I don't agree about impossibility, but that's OK. Just hate the game, not the player. Regarding "great"... Yes. In the West, this is very obviously the best time in history to be alive by almost any objective measure, and it's been getting better almost continuously for hundreds of years.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

If you had complained about insufficient controls on free market capitalism, then I wouldn't disagree. But my point still stands -- a lot of what's great about our society would never have happened without some guy who's now rich.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I'd like more interactions with software engineers on this platform, so maybe every now and then I'll post some of my favorite StackOverflow answers for all SDEs. Here is the magic best way to implement to implement token bucket rate limiting: stackoverflow.com/questions/78...

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I wonder how you think the world should work, such that blame for inflation should be assigned to corporations just because they benefit from it. It's like blaming a lottery winner for your loss.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If you don't think they're adding any value, then you can buy it from whoever they buy it from, or hire people to make it like they do. Oh, that's not so easy? Maybe they're adding value after all, then.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The rich are only rich because we buy a lot of what they sell. If you don't like it, then just stop doing that.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The fees are equivalent to a tariff. I don't think "per product" is the best way to price them. Various levels of bespoke, reframing as a manufacturing service, etc., make it cumbersome.

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"begs the question" -- right words, wrong meaning

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Matt Timmermans @matttimmermans.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

To all the authors on bsky discovering that audio books don't suck: Radio dramas are also awesome. We could really use a new medium that is somewhere in between. You could make this happen. Start a whole new thing.

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