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by LaGrange 1y ago
It's the very same payment processors stifling that "innovation," though. You can't invisible hand yourself out of this one.
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by LaGrange 1y ago
This ain't a defense of Steam Workshop - it has a lot of issues and sucks quite bad- just a remark for anyone struggling with using Workshop next to anything else. You don't actually need a steam account or the client - with Ste
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by LaGrange 1y ago
It built tension by itself. Time skips reinforce the idea that things are _moving fast_. If we didn't have them, it would turn it into a drag. A dramatic year looks much more impressive when you compare it to what was a year before, th
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> I think unions need to work on their marketing. I resonate with all of these problems, but the "fixes" sound like a politician saying, "elect me and I'll solve your problems." That would track if you were asked
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by LaGrange 2y ago
I mean this is generally repulsive, but please I beg of you, run this exclusively against a read only replica. I mean, you should have one for exploratory queries _anyway_, but nobody ever does that. "Validating the query to ensure it&
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Pretty much everyone I know abandoned everything else, with the exception of a few Mastodon users. If it's at 30M still, that's probably the limit to how many people still care at all.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Actually it's just too short. To be complete, it would have to be like "security through obsurity _OF THE MECHANISM_." Which basically means it was always a shit saying, like most fancy quips were.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> 1) Wouldn't want to go back I went back. It sucks pretty bad, actually.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
One for the Dark Lord on his Dark Throne, In the damp bedroom where the doges lie, One Prompt to rule them all, One prompt to find them, One Prompt to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the damp bedroom where the black molds l
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by LaGrange 2y ago
"One of the things we can do, however, is change the nature of the interviews themselves. Coding interviews today are quite basic, anywhere from FizzBuzz, to building a calculator. With AI assistants, we could expand this 10x and have
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by LaGrange 2y ago
This is true, but there's one fly in the ointment I noticed: a lot of people _hate_ using time zones that refer to a real life location. They ain't gonna bother finding out whether "Europe/Paris" is like a wide slic
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by LaGrange 2y ago
There’s a massive difference between using limited funds to buy your daily driver, and buying a product specifically for the purposes of a review.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
I so wish that "our 1234 trusted partners" was an exaggeration.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
I mean not the OP's point, but: - Rent seeking is not behavior I care for, and so much of the subscription service stuff is exactly that. - I'm more than happy to pay for quite a few patreon/similar things. - But _ultimately_
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> To me, being anti-ads is being anti-poor, plain and simple. That's silly. > The advertising model makes the rich subsidize services for the poor, [Citation needed]. > On that note, I'm somewhat annoyed that we're c
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> if anything the velocity of the entire landscape seems to be steadily increasing. It is, gods make it stop. "Oh no complicated specification" do you think you're getting paid 100k/year because it's _easy_? Gods
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> “this is noisy data that sometimes gives you important insights.” This is called "broken clock shows the right time twice a day." Also c'mon, fooling commit metrics is silly easy, just _also_ one of the most burn-out and
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Inflating the engineering department head-count, a very important metric for c-level resumes.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> Unfortunately for the consensus view here and in the article, you get a 100% hit rate on who you think poor performers are and the lowest coding contributors. This is circular logic. If you measure that "coding contribution"
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by LaGrange 2y ago
I mean, what is “useful” in the sense of “paying the bills” is quite different from “useful” in the sense of social utility - and what you _perceive_ as social utility is a whole other thing on top of that, that’s only _hopefully_ somewhat
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by LaGrange 2y ago
That's fair enough, though again, interactive debugging can really help with understanding what's going on by just stepping through the call as it happens - just click "debug" on the test and play around with it. But I&#
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Such a simple thing, but so many organizations love to set up their projects in ways that make attaching a debugger surprisingly tricky. Even the most basic text editor and pretty much every language support interactive debugging - but if y
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by LaGrange 2y ago
I mean, _yeah_, for anything important you should move as carefully as possible. Just, "not upgrading" ain't that.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> The entire field of maintenance engineering would like a word. Over longer periods of time it's vastly cheaper to regularly fix things even before they break, and software is no exception. I mean I think it's because maintena
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by LaGrange 2y ago
One of the first laws of universe that an experienced engineer learns is that "do not fix what is not broken" never actually applies, and is only brought up by people invulnerable to consequences. That doesn't mean "upgr
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by LaGrange 2y ago
They did survive SpaceX, after all. You'd expect a few scars.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Easy, put it on a starship instead, and fire it off like a ballistic missile at the target warehouse.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
> Maybe I'm giving executives too much credit but I believe that, for the most part, they believe they're better managers when their employees are in the office. I don't know, I'd say a usual expectation of a worker i
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Studies by the department of Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Head About It and the University of Imadeitup.
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by LaGrange 2y ago
Their business model being bad is not my concern. They're not a broke kid whose bad decisions I'm exploiting. Edit: OTOH reporting on this as if it's a grand surprise is a bit funny. Like come on, this was obvious from the st

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