angra_mainyu

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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Curly braces have taken over the world (let's ignore Python for now...).
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Agreed! There is actually a nice C library (libdill: https://libdill.org ). Would still like it as a first-class language construct.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Popcorn time seems like the safer bet
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
When I say "Rust alternative" it's precisely because it competes in the same space: very low-level, no GC, extremely high performance constraints, safety guarantees. Re: safety guarantees, much digital ink has been spilled on
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
>In this case, it's the sheer disconnect between RIIR askers, and the sheer number of people painting Rust devs with a continent wide brush. I have no idea how you can accuse me of this when I made a big disclaimer in my original co
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Zig is fantastic, however there are a few issues (mostly related to its immature/wip status): - the build system is constantly changing in a breaking way (between releases some of the repos I have on GH no longer build and need their b
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
FWIW, Go used to have that issue of "I'm a 10x dev writing type-safe compiled microservices in Go (not golang) wowzers". But that subset of devs has largely disappeared/moved on to other langs.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
.....and you got triggered. Somehow in the past 3-4 years it's only been that subset of Rust devs that have been wailing about: "WHY NOT REWRITE IT IN RUST?". Often they're mostly the same type: anime pfp, walls of text
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
I find Zig to be a saner Rust alternative, with the caveat that it is still a immature (but getting there). Give it a few years and it will be a very strong contender. The true C successor.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
The Rust community is unfortunately plagued by this subset of devs who are zealous (and downright toxic) in their shilling for their favorite language. Before anyone gets triggered and starts typing up a reply: "SUBSET" is the wor
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Half and half, for non-political stuff, I still lean on search engines and topic-specific sites. For political stuff, I avoid wikipedia and just search engines in general and ask Grok/ChatGPT, specifying the specific biases I want it t
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
The usual heuristic is if you're repeating a noun in several variables, move those to a separate package with that noun. Example: WeatherConfig, WeatherService, WeatherPollInterval => weather.*
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Take home projects >>>>> live coding sessions, unless you're interviewing for some kind of twitch streamer position. Just have a 1 hour or 2 hour call with candidate where you guys go through the project.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Can agree that right now the market is tough. Some years ago there were job posts left and right, salaries were high and hiring was smooth - now there are comparatively fewer jobs posted, salaries are almost half of what it was before, and
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
It makes much more sense to bundle a binary + web extension (w/ native messaging) to handle bridging the browser isolation in a sensible manner. It's a minimal amount of extra work and would mean you cross browser isolation in a v
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
nix mentioned let's go In all seriousness, it is a bit tiresome when you come back to the python world and see a completely fragmented ecosystem (poetry, pdm, pip-tools, uv, and the older ways).
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Exactly! Neovim really changed my workflow.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Before I learned the holy ways of g->d, that was essentially what I did (grep -nr).
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Not to mention: type Thing = string | boolean; const arr: string[] = []; function add(item: Thing, dst: Thing[]): void { dst.push(item); } add(false, arr); Is valid typescript.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
I can't imagine doing proofs like Cauchy's integral theorem without touching a paper.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
What exactly do you do? Discrete approximations like trapezoidal rule or finite differences? Or do you reach for a symbolic math tool like Maxima?
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
I disagree. >Its type checker and build toolchain are so abysmally bad and bug-riddled that I run into new bugs and limitations on the daily. This seems like a setup issue. Mine catches everything just fine. Both in-editor (I use neovim)
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
For me, the reason bitwarden is excellent is sharing account login data with my family (I have an org account w a few members) for next to no money / year. Also, I regularly hop between 3 machines + a personal phone and a work phone, a
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
An unfortunate issue. Vue is far better, as is Svelte.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
sqlite can scale to thousands of concurrent users. Personally for me the issue with all these new project management platforms is that the target demographic is either: - they're so small they can't afford to self-host - they&#
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
As someone transitioning into contracting (Senior dev), do you have any advice? Was thinking of hitting up recruiters with my rates.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
> https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/1242977d11bebe56... This seems to be a scenario where switch/case blocks could make the elif-trees a bit easier to read. Also, the code could use some care
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
....and that's fine. We're not talking about the XNU kernel but the end-product OS that reaches users. A distro is the appropriate comparison in this scenario, and Pop_OS! or Ubuntu are about as easy as can be. EDIT: /facepal
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
Like having to install skhd for things that are simple and built-in on Linux? I had to install it to have it run a command on ctrl + alt + t.
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by angra_mainyu 2y ago
I've been on the fence w.r.t giving it a try. How does it compare to Ocaml and haskell?

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