DanielHB

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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I did a project for a big telecom in Brazil where they kept everything in one massive Oracle database that ran out of 2 oracle refrigerators[1]. They kept freaking logs on the database, like normal application level logs. DBA would go aroun
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Well you have to somehow both indicate that you are not behind in the AI race but also that you are not hemorrhaging money. That means crapping all over your org in order to fund the data center spending. All in the all-mighty fiduciary dut
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
What I don't get is why these companies are in all the rush to replace people with AI tools. Stuff is changing so fast that capital investment right now will just need to be reworked on after a few years when things settle down a littl
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
How much do you rely on Steam hardware survey? I am doing my part reporting my Linux usage.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I think the steam machine is more important as a benchmark for 3rd parties developing their own Steam OS based systems. Although I am sure Valve would be happier if it was popular on its own merits too.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
In a previous job our unhinged devs decided that optionality was defined by golangs default value for primitives (empty string, 0, false, etc) simply because they didn't want to put pointers everywhere. So the JSON APIs would accept nu
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Only MY code is allowed to be clever.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Yeah I didn't have a 3dfx so I assumed the software renderer required a more powerful CPU
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Wait, did Quack run on Pentium-133? I had a Pentium MMX 233mhz and I always assumed it didn't ran well so I never bother to get it.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
In my previous job (working with electric vehicles) we had a AWS batch job that pulled all data from S3[1] into containers (one container per vehicle) and then push that data into duckdb then run some basic queries and data analysis. The ke
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where George tries to move a Frogger arcade machine without powering it off in order to not lose his high score leaderboard. https://youtu.be/5etwHVarNgI?t=256
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
It is the same thing with documentaries. Youtube killed them because it is just a faster delivery of knowledge and information. For super-specific questions chatbots are even faster.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
The limits are when companies and institutions start to default on their loans. Or, in the case of governments, trigger hyperinflation by printing money to pay off the debt. Of course it can collapse before that, but if it gets to that poin
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
If you modify or even just move fields around the struct that also changes the way they are serialized... You really need a serializer for this sort of thing because it can also include forwards compatibility of your data structures.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Applying the principles of keeping your identity small also makes you more open to ideas from other people. This kind of self-reflection about identity is also very important for your own internal communication with yourself.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
More stable than outright civil war.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I am surprised you haven't read it before, because when I read your comment I immediately remembered that essay haha. For conscious bias a good test is if being exposed to new facts prevent you from changing your opinion on something.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I don't agree with Paul Graham on everything but he nailed this argument: https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html > If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I talked to a Lebanese born person once and apparently they have a parlament with reserved seats for each major religious group. Apparently that was the only way they managed to keep the country stable. But it is baffling to have religion s
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I think the point is that automatically-generated documents by LLM is lower quality the manually-generated ones or at least guaranteed lower quality than automatically-generated + manually-reviewed. Therefor if you are not putting human eff
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
If you look into large fully-vibecoded projects getting styling changes to work is a nightmare. The problem with agents is using them on large projects without manual review for consistency, guidelines and taste. Doesn't really matter
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
WASM sandbox is miles better than the JVM WASI is a standard on where to poke holes on the sandbox for your specific use-case WASM+WASI as a compilation target allows any program written for modern operating systems to work on any WASM runt
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
PS5 supports keyboard and mouse, there is no reason why it can't be a browserbox...
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Raspberry Compute Module (basically a normal raspberry without built-in I/O) is widely used in the industry at large. What they are not meant to be is the lowest cost per CPU/GPU flops so they are mostly used in high-value-add &#x
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
The ABI stuff is huge, we might be heading (at least in the WASM world) to a place where non-C libraries are not locked to certain dev ecosystems. On top of not having to deal with C linking madness.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
sorry I meant "most excited about", WASI and components should be useful for the usecases I mentioned too. For example a SaaS services that accepts WASM plugins could provide a WASI that lets the plugin write to a object-store fil
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Use cases I am more excited about: 1) Replace webhooks in web apps with wasm binaries provided by the customer, but that run in the web app servers. 2) Safer plugin system for professional software (plugins for photoshop, plugins for IDEs,
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I was thinking mainly cases like this const nestedDependency = { a: { b: { c: 'c' } } } useMemo(() => nestedDependency.a.b.c, [nestedDependency]) vs useMemo(() => nestedDependency.a.b.c, [nestedDependency.a
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I work on a 10+ year old codebase, there are some weeks I barely change any code. Sometimes it takes hours of discussion and tracking down decision-makers just to figure out what the intended behavior is.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I haven't tried the compiler yet, but I been very skeptical of the automatic memoization features. Both in that sometimes the default strategy to decide when to memoize is not good enough but also the hidden flow to trigger the memoiza

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