QuercusMax

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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Exactly. I don't want a "smart" washer / dryer / fridge / toaster. I want a standard interface I can build my own system around, or use someone else's that they've already built.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Many keyboard players will play stacked keyboards today - I've got a big Nord plus a bunch of little Reface keyboards, and they often each have their own pedals attached to control sustain, rotary speaker, etc. This is basically the sa
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I've seen pretty much every model including Claude bypass commit hooks constantly if there's even a tiny bit of friction, instead of pausing and asking me to help fix why it can't run the hooks (usually something that needs t
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
"I love building software, I just don't like the data entry parts", to paraphrase a guy I worked with once who explained how he loved writing design docs for junior engineers to implement.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Did he also say you should cover everything the tackiest gaudiest faux-gold crap everywhere? Anyone who takes business advice from Trump is a moron.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Blackbox software testing has been a thing for a very long time. Running manual tests doesn't require reading the source code. For personal side projects I spend orders of magnitude more time testing than I do reading the code.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
The most insane thing is 9-12 months to design and construct a curb ramp. There MUST be a standard template they can just stamp out as often as needed. This sounds like some kind of corruption going on, where they're probably paying co
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I got caught in a big layoff last year that caught me off guard, in part because I was fully remote when I had been in person before. All the random hallway and kitchen conversations where you catch the vibe of what's really happening
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Doesn't even need to be a CPAP. I had a sleep study done and it said I basically only had sleep apnea when lying on my back, and my doctor suggested a dental appliance to pull my lower jaw forward. I got one from my dentist for way too
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I think the only solution is to actually look at the code and ensure that it's not just duplicating logic all over the place and is actually maintainable. Coding models love taking shortcuts to break encapsulation or duplicating things
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
which one of those is a hyphen?
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
As a pianist, typing a word kinda feels like playing a phrase on piano, which isn't that different from writing a word by hand. I suspect this is highly dependent on your experience.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
You think a balcony solar panel is going to die after 4 years? Why? What makes it different from any other solar panel? They have lives in decades. You're spouting tired anti-solar talking points. Again, why?
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
If you have a product intended for humans, you're gonna need humans to do acceptance testing, just like now. All the software engineering principles you learned (did you learn them? now's as good a time as any!) are still just as
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Probably was seen as too modal. Modal UI was very unfashionable for a while.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Part of the value of LLMs and humans is nondeterminism. Pair nondeterministic output with strictly verified results (proper tests) and you can create a useful working system. Humans can't build a system perfectly, and agents definitely
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
There are plenty of processes that have this property, though. For example: setting up a home, workspace, kitchen, factory, office, etc. to fit a particular purpose. As you discover what works well in a particular space, you will refactor y
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
That's why I say the definition is "project" is key to this. And what about investigating and fixing bugs? Bug reports don't come in on a schedule, and they're necessarily interrupt-driven unless you just don't
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
How did you manage to go to school and handle multiple subjects at the same time? It's exactly the same thing. I'm not talking about multitasking on a moment by moment basis. I'm talking about over the course of a day or week
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Building high-quality test infrastructure often requires more skill than building the software it supports. Some of the most impactful work I've done in staff/principal roles has been test infra.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Building software isn't the same as building cars. Some ideas needs months or years to be realized, and there's only so fast you can realistically move.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
One project at a time? How on earth can that possibly work? I always ask to have multiple projects to work on, because getting blocked is a real thing, and having other work you can still pursue will ensure you keep things moving! Perhaps m
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Really depends on what you're having QA folks do . Writing automated end-to-end tests? Those are very often best done by those writing the software, with assistance from experts who know how to effectively build test infrastructure. I
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I'd be impressed if those microbes or butterflies visited the moon and came back to tell about it.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
I pay for Youtube premium, which gives me unlimited Youtube Music usage with no ads. Yet I've built myself a yt-dlp-based system to pipe audio into my multiroom audio system (built on Snapcast). It will cache things locally so they pla
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
Your naps are too long. Think of it as a reboot, not a full power-down cycle. I set a 25 minute timer and usually wake up a few minutes before it goes off. You don't want to go all the way into deep sleep which really requires 2-3 hour
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
That certainly would have aided my understanding!
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
This article is incomprehensible. I picked up from context that "linear" is some kind of bugtracker, but aside from that I don't know what the author is trying to say.
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
In one of the repos I work on we have a very particular set of things we refer to as "quality gates", and only in that repo Claude likes to misuse that term in a general sense. It's very much a "fellow kids" type
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by QuercusMax 3mo ago
One problem with PWAs, at least on Android, is that if you save one to your home screen, it may get borked or deleted the next time there's an OS or app update. Chrome has eaten my home screen shortcuts too many times!

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