LAC-Tech

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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
I think I could probably live on them. I am actually seeking a more restricted computer system these days... I really don't need DRM or slop apps or games.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
That's the wonderful thing about the Agile Manifesto - it says so little you can use it to justify anything. Specs? The agile manifesto never said to stop writing specs! Standups? Checmkate waterfallists, the agile manifesto never ment
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Reject Agility, Embrace Specification(lewiscampbell.tech)
2 points by LAC-Tech 2mo ago|2 comments
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
The places where I've seen unequivocal wins with AI are repetitive tech debt tasks that apply the same transformation across a large amount of code or refactor under a pre-existing test suite with good coverage. I agree with this, bu
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Looks like an incredibly dull way to waste hours of my finite life for microscopic benefit.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
I could say the same for reading Tony Hoare.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
lmao. fish, water, etc.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
I still don't know it very well, and it's been well over a decade. I think it's a combination of a few things: - I find it uninteresting. My version control needs are very simple. - Most teams I have been in use a small subse
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
yeah I would really love to see a subset of git with a sane cli. would switch in a heartbeat.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Correct on both counts.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
See? I can't even mention it without scare quotes and downvotes :)
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
If I talked about how I needed to recover from being raised in a progressive environment, it would not be so well received in well-respected tech circles. There's an assymetry here no one wants to acknowledge.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
I think the truth is whether people want to admit it or not is that coding has not been solved, and producing good software is really not any easier. Making legacy code however is now very fast. So fast you can practically ship it straight
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Hmmm - I guess all the "chatbot" web interfaces for LLMs have an option to upload images. And they're really good at this now you say? That's a really useful tip; thanks.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Anecdotally I find I connect more with what I write by pen as well. Ultimately I want things to in text documents though (typst for me these days). If there was a non-slopware solution to ocr scanning to a typst doc, I would do it a lot mor
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
lewiscampbell.tech Good suggestion, I will :)
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Has all of this drama turned anyone else a bit sour on bun? I have a long running side project I migrated to bun, and I'm starting to regret it. I don't want to build on top of this much churn.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Though I don't brand my site as indie web, my own website is a bit like this - I have a link to my consulting site and a headshot on there. Why is that so bad? My professional life is a part of who I am. One could call me an IndieWorke
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Right, there's a lot of schadenfreude about SA not being so popular and serves them right for being mean when I asked them a question... but it was also no doubt a gold mine of AI training data. Stands to reason this may be an agentic
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
Counter Argument - with Zig it's perfectly viable to make programs using just the standard library. You have json serde, zon (zig object notation) serde, system functions (ie libc/rustix equivalent), random number generators... al
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Code Ownership and Software Quality: A Replication Study (2015)(microsoft.com)
2 points by LAC-Tech 2mo ago|1 comments
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
10 years ago we had a series of studies suggesting that code ownership was beneficial. And in 10 years I feel very little has changed, and IME we still still lack even a weak code ownership model in teams. What has been your experience?
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
> I enjoy Rust, I've taught a course on it, and I happily use it daily for my work at Zed. Despite what Internet comments might have us believe, it's extremely normal for one language to be the best fit for one project, while a
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A Guide to Agile for English Speakers(lewiscampbell.tech)
3 points by LAC-Tech 2mo ago|0 comments
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
There's a few runtimes for IO bound work loads; monoio from bytedance comes to mind.
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
I've been thinking similar thoughts recently, in that I am not sure that a function call is the best way to model asynchronicity. Io-uring in particular feels much more suited to a req/res type model, which has the benefit that yo
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The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency(pmbanugo.me)
94 points by LAC-Tech 2mo ago|61 comments
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
But on the same page > On iOS 16.4 and later, PWAs can be installed from the Share menu in Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Orion. So you can't have an install prompt, but it's still pretty easy. If people can learn hamburger
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
My PWA skills are rusty, but IIRC it's one click on Android to install web page as an "app" (ie it appears on the home screen like anything else), and it was about 3 in Safari - perhaps a onerous for B2C, but surely not for i
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by LAC-Tech 3mo ago
Agreed. The outrage around what Andrew said was performative and melodramatic. I remember the "no work-life balance if you work here" thing, and then I remember Bun's CEO last year complaining he might not be able to get H1Bs

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