Scubabear68

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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
What Beck misses over and over again is there are many domains where there are “table stakes” that simply have to be done. I think a huge amount of technical debt goes straight to YAGNI - devs pretending they are not going to need something
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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
This sounds great until your counterparties, banks, the government, customers and others complain bitterly that your monetary amounts are off. Your expectations of course are not unusual because so many developers work on systems where user
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by Scubabear68 4mo ago
My personal take is a pre-requisite of true human-like AI is physical feedback and a concept of emotions or something like it. Without physical feedback you can rapidly devolve into unstable positive feedback loops. And emotions are what he
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by Scubabear68 4mo ago
Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.
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by Scubabear68 4mo ago
I am not surprised, but disappointed, to see something like the CHIPS Act be used for something which is still in ultra-super-unbelievably-early-research-phase. Put more candidly, something not currently useful like Quantum computing. Looks
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
I have been using an 8GB Macbook Air M1 for non-development work, and it has been fantastic. Macos really excels at managing memory very well.
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
I went to Holmdel High and my girlfriend's dad was an engineer at the Bell Labs Holmdel location. As it turns out he invented a little something called Adaptive Delta Modulation (aka Abate Delta Modulation) for his Doctorate Thesis in
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
> What happens at your job if there's suddenly 14 times as much load? You mean like every startup ever that has been successful? And for a service that is heavily text bound? A 14x increase would not be a big deal.
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
Maybe I am really dense, but a single issue getting 2 vs 25 PRs seems to be no practical difference.
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
"AI coders submitting 25 PRs within an hour of an issue being filed, GitHub bears the brunt of that....". What "brunt"? These are not large numbers.
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
Precisely. If Microsoft can't scale something like Git 14x, then the problem is with Microsoft.
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by Scubabear68 5mo ago
I really don't understand people saying that this is due to AI commits and it is all the volume's fault. A volume increase that is a single order of magnitude (which 14x is) should not result in this level of failures. When I comp
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by Scubabear68 7mo ago
My roommate circa 1989 had a bunch of Apple II’s with multiple modem cards per machine to run a bulletin board. Not sure why an Apple II could support multiple users logging into the BBS via multiple modems but DOS based machines could not
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by Scubabear68 7mo ago
A function call is not necessarily an indirection. Basic premise of the blog is wrong on its face.
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by Scubabear68 7mo ago
The signature check is actually not uncommon, particularly if the vote is contested or a recount done. We had a vote thrown out of an election several years ago, the woman died right after the election, the signature on the card looked noth
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by Scubabear68 7mo ago
Many years ago I was doing due diligence on a point of sale hardware company, I had to head up to an acquisition they had done. People bitched and moaned about the level of physical security added, and when I asked them why they were so ups
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by Scubabear68 8mo ago
The worst I ever saw was an engineer misunderstood microservices, and made a service per endpoint. He started complaining to management that 50 CI/CD setups was his limit he could support. He was absolutely amazed when I showed him he
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by Scubabear68 8mo ago
You got it. Scala had a shot being an early mover in the JVM functional programming space, but they really shot themselves in the foot with their version transition problems and tooling issues you allude to. Java is probably "good enou
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by Scubabear68 8mo ago
> They protect the team from unnecessary stress and pressure, but don’t hide reality from them. I was going to highlight this as well, but it is also one of the trickiest parts of the equation, because by definition this inevitably invol
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by Scubabear68 8mo ago
I get the sentiment, but at least for me at home, iOS iMessage still works fine with Wifi. So it's not impacted, and in fact I had to relogin to a client machine with a very persnickety 2FA and it had no issues.
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by Scubabear68 8mo ago
Same here, except that when here (central-western NJ) when someone "recovers" here we go from SOS to a few bars but no LTE or 5G indicator. Yikes.
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
Our Comcast DNS keeps going in and out too, not clear if it is related or knock on effect or something else entirely.
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Verizon outages reported across U.S.(firstcoastnews.com)
227 points by Scubabear68 9mo ago|183 comments
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
In my experience, local reporting has stagnated so badly that they now survive by kissing up to whoever is in power. The majority of pieces are puff pieces commissioned by the subject or friend of the subject, be it a school superintendent
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
> The reason for this is that it's hard to hire native UI developers, but easy to hire web devs Funny. Back in the 90s Microsoft just hired kind of random kids from college to write their OS in C.
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
My record is about 9 weeks to get onboarded enough to do work, where "onboarded" was getting my Laptop to work and login and access to a few critical systems. These kinds of costs are baked into every level of the company. This is
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
> 1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems. The author lost me right here. Not because he’s wrong about this in general - he is not. But it seems to not be any kind of differentiator at Google. Maybe the opposite is
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
You’re right. And it was bad. This is bad too.
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
Yep. Except when it’s not I/O.
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by Scubabear68 9mo ago
I’ll bet FIFA feels pretty silly now about their peace award.

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