ZaoLahma

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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Love it. Also needs to simulate getting responsibility without authority, with weekly meetings to follow up on your progress.
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Was thinking the exact same thing - build real world real experience, and learn how to deal with other humans, perhaps with different goals than yours, at the same time. Tech and the stuff around it is just one small dimension of the softwa
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
> What are they even counting as a 'computer' to get to 70? When I worked in the industry, we had four different CPUs of different architectures on one small (fit in your hand) circuit board, each running its own software and c
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
And when that macro controller computer eventually (inevitably?) dies, it will hurt the wallet immensely.
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
It's about defining and solving small problems all the way, and avoiding trying to solve big problems. If you manage to restrict yourself to only solving small problems (THIS is the true challenge with software engineering, in my humbl
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written Nah. I (16+ years developer) prefer to iteratively go between coding and designing. It happens way too often that when you're coding, you stumble across
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
That's a fantastic way to get the attention of and end up getting the stick from the US, so I think (hope) the EU would have mechanisms in place to quickly shut down tariff evasion strategies that would involve just relabeling goods.
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
What irks me is how LLMs won't just say "no, it won't work" or "it's beyond my capabilities" and instead just give you "solutions" that are wrong. Codeium for example will absolutely bend over ba
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Indeed. It's a shame that Sentry Studios never transitioned into a "proper" game development studio. They were at least 10 years ahead of the curve. But it's good that the games industry caught up so the infiltration-itc
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
The base game was fantastic. Never could say no to a game on dm-morpheus. But what really made it great for me were the total conversion mods. I spent probably thousands of hours playing Infiltration back in the day. I can't imagine ho
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
On ice skates I (left handed and left footed) find it easier to come to a prompt stop with the left foot forward, and I naturally slide across ice and such with my left foot forward so, naturally, I thought I'd have the left foot forwa
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Yes, but up until now it's been (very) rare. At least for games. I fear that companies will view a change like this as a door opening wider to remove digital content as they please. Or perhaps worse, only offer strictly time-limited ac
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Mentally it's not too difficult to throw $60 at a digital "Buy" button, but it's much harder to throw those $60 at a "Get access" button. I wholly welcome a change like this, even if it's just wording on t
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
> Also, imagine all the dollars wasted. Dollars wasted on generating the stuff, dollars wasted to accommodate the traffic, there has got to be some incentive to stop the slop. This is what I'm curious about. Someone, a rather large
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
The "general purpose" / digital junk food platforms were absolutely ruined 4-5 years ago. Facebook as a prime example of this started having a large amount of non-user garbage content, which drove the users away, which made t
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
> ... to tinker with these promising technologies that were going to change the world for the better and now it's 2024 and we've screwed it all up. Perhaps I'm overly optimistic but considering what we do have, I'd ha
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I really like the avoidance (elimination) of one-way-door decisions by turning them into several small(er) two-way-door decisions. I guess the software development interpretation of it is clearly defined boundaries of responsibility, and av
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I once interviewed (and got the job) for a java dev position with a mostly C/C++ background. One of the issues to solve during the tech interview was fixing a bug in a fairly involved web app with a java backend. Long story short, it b
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
It seems this is a common problem with larger organizations, that everything turns (corrupts) into a process. I've even seen processes for following processes. To make the problem worse, nobody dares to remove from a process as that wo
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
It's scary headlines like this that make me push more of my money into index funds (can't be bothered to deal in stocks with the increased effort required). But... the problem with being on lower incomes / net worth is that t
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I guess some solo dev engineers hope to implement a novel idea, curate the implementation into a somewhat successful business (have a firm grip on the market) and then sell it all off to a bigger fish and make bank. I don't think many
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
This is all sadly too true, which is why I think we should do our best to declutter as we age. Ideally when our time comes, we should only have things of immediate use and value to us left, and pretty much none of "might be good to hav
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
How do you figure?
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I guess if money wasn't such a limiting factor, more of us would be productive in different ways later in life. Instead of implementing already invented ideas, we could invent now that we are at the peak of our knowledge and mental cap
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I doubt any of the famous three letter US agencies would need (or want!) such a wide open door as a "specific URL" and logging in with an administrator account acquired from the firmware itself. I would think that they would want
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
> I think that posting at least one commit per day is an incredible low goal. A commit can be anything, from a major refactoring to fixing a typo. This is an easy goal in some companies / projects, while in others (usually bigger co
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
What I hinted at was more granularity in how we treat different types of data, or other accesses, in response to the idea of being forced to turn on "Advanced Data Protection on iCloud". Rather than putting all of our personal dat
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
As someone who has to help my father with his personal tech as his mental health deteriorates (several brain tumors), I'm thrilled every time I find something that ISN'T locked down behind pin codes, passwords or other authenticat
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
Ah yes, that old reliable determinism will save the day.
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by ZaoLahma 2y ago
I doubt trust fund babies would spend their days hacking an old NES game. No idea of who would do it though. My best guess is young-ish brilliant engineers in the beginning of their careers, before they've taken on too much responsibil

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