alexjurkiewicz

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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
That's eaten with icecream in Dr Karl's home country!
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
> ‘Isn’t learning fun? Oh, and here’s another one.’ > DO NOT FEED THE ELEPHANT. > ‘Now that,’ said Susan, ‘is good. You can’t obey it…’ > ‘… because there’s no elephant,’ said Lobsang. ‘I think I’m getting the hang of this…’ &gt
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
I feel that often people start projects like this with the best of intentions, life gets in the way, and then the "time" is never "right". It would be better to share incomplete things early to reduce this risk.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
But how will poor people own enough computation to ensure rich people can't mount a 51% attack? If the database relies on trusted nodes run by eg, the government, why can't the government use MySQL and periodically publish a dump?
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
Lots of people are saying the fediverse is more friendly. Of course it is, it has only 0.001% the userbase, and all those people are super enthusiastic early adopters! Just as Twitter's tone changed over time, so will the Fediverse. If
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
Sounds like the basilisk collection: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
What you describe is a problem with your thinking. Speak to a clinical psychologist and ask them for help. This sort of issue is their bread and butter.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
Developers said they would leave GitHub when Microsoft acquired it. Did GitLab get a valuation boost? Maybe a minor one at most. Adobe aren't buying Figma to kill it. It's their future.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
I agree with the gist of this tale. But often languages are used as a proxy for domain experience. If you ask for someone with 10 years Ada experience, my 10 years of React (or PHP, OCaml, Lisp, whatever) is a clear sign I lack domain exper
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
10.10 has been eol for five years without security updates. How long should downstream tools support an eol OS?
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
Most people use kernel to mean "operating system kernel" only. Your definition is a superset of that, so it fits the general definition but then expands it in a way that doesn't have broad consensus. That's why people di
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
The "major problems" this talk seems to address are essentially that Signal doesn't support third party clients. Really? Supporting SailfishOS won't move the needle on Signal adoption. Just say the truth: you want the ab
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
They are already onboard. And the number of loyalists reduces every year so it's a dying market.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
Is there any proof this was even created by Coinbase employees? It seems completely anonymous.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
Good thing nobody is suggesting we *checks notes* jail silica miners for building the Deepfake Offensive Toolkit.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
> the author seems to be firmly anchored in a coastal elite bubble > These are code words Jargon for me, code words for thee.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
If you ask enough people the same question, it's easy to identify and drop outlier answers.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
There's a certain level of tech schaudenfreude when it comes to Microsoft failing. It's hard to say that Azure has more issues than AWS based on gut feel of recent white hat blog post volume.
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
You can find most iconic xkcd comics easily with Google. This one shows up with "xkcd new things" or "xkcd first time".
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by alexjurkiewicz 4y ago
There's so much accidental complexity in the CI workflow purely to enable a tiny amount of caching. I hope the next generation of CI tools can improve this situation.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
The result of musl's attitude is build systems assuming "__linux__ && !__glibc__ means musl". I pity the compatibility nightmares any new libc pushing for mass adoption will have to deal with. Musl's approach add
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
Plans change, but planning is essential. In the same way, due dates change, but deadlines are essential.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
And the thing is, lots of games have tried this. But it turns out not to be very fun. See Rust, Wyrm Online, One Hour One Life.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
Using Bash examples was a bad idea. Bash scripts are by-and-large hacky things written to solve a simple problem expediently. OpenAI's output code reflects this reality. Expecting OpenAI to write Bash code defensively is like expecting
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
Absolutely. This is a response to the other co-founder's similarly one-sided post a few weeks ago. I don't think either of them come out looking good here.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
You can use a managed version of the database in production, and an "unmanaged" local Docker image during development.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
Sure, COBOL works for this example too. I was originally going to be a little spicy and use C++, which was once also the "everything" language but now exists only in a few (shrinking) areas.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
Yep. Just like Fortran runs my bank. Both critical services, and both rumps of employment for a once-widespread speciality.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
There will always be sysadmins in the same way there will always be Fortran programmers. There are benefits to the old way of doing things, but those benefits are of shrinking relevance.
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by alexjurkiewicz 5y ago
> The article fails to address when the firing is actually wrong and incorrect. > > I work at anduril and I know of a new manager who 6 months into the job fired 2 people and had one person quit because he couldn't handle dea

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