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by arkh 2y ago
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team? Right the fuck now. That's what happen when you get saddled with whatever monstrosity the last coder(s) who quit commited or ha
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by arkh 2y ago
> PHP has no way to install deps that actually are written in asm/fortran or c. https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ffi.php is not enough for your needs?
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by arkh 2y ago
> There are literally companies stuck on PHP 7 because going to 8 is too painful. Usually due to frameworks. Those tend to do play fast and loose with language constructs so small changes can make them not work anymore. And as those same
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by arkh 2y ago
> Helm charts are a horrible example of text based templating. Every time I see " | nindent whatever" I'm asking why the fuck the tool cannot manage indentation.
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by arkh 2y ago
Tried Pulumi thinking "it's gonna abstract all the k8s specifics". Welp no, still need to know and understand K8s so I still don't see the value from those kind of tools. In which case why not use something like Pkl to g
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by arkh 2y ago
> receive uninvited conversations with men bent on signaling their expertise all the goddamn time My father was a mechanic. He learnt fast to stop trying to correct know-it-alls about cars. "Let 'em do stupid shit, it gives us
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by arkh 2y ago
> Paste in my actual code. > Prompt: Write unit tests TDD in shambles. What you'd like is: > Give your specs to some AI > Get a test suite generated with all edge cases accounted for > Code
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by arkh 2y ago
I don't like the use of hallucinate. It implies that LLM have some kind of model of reality and some times get confused. They don't have any kind of model of anything, they cannot "hallucinate", they can only output wron
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by arkh 2y ago
> your laptop I kinda like my desktops.
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by arkh 2y ago
I feel like there are not good quality hardware company nowadays. Dell: the land of motherboard dying and dog shit trackpads. Asus: dead soldered RAM. Most BIOS: too long to boot, it's fucking 2024 what is your BIOS doing it needs more
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by arkh 2y ago
> Knowing when two things are one thing or one thing is two things is most of our job, right? Yes, but often we don't know the domain enough but "this feature must be available yesterday". So add tests, copy, release. And
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by arkh 2y ago
Maybe the root problems are HTML and its browsers. Or more exactly: the fact HTML is about documents. Everything done to make apps from it are hacks. What would be really needed is an open application format standard and a protocol to share
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by arkh 2y ago
> encourage simple duplication A rule I like to follow: - first time: write it - second time: copy it - third time: maybe refactor it
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by arkh 2y ago
> Can you imagine if JetBrains worked their magic on Emacs?! No need for a mouse and on-the-fly macro recording and replaying? How many first-born do they want?
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by arkh 2y ago
Most professional developers in Western countries should have the means to pay for their own license if really needed.
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by arkh 2y ago
> This is not about ChatGPT. I agree. But now some people can point to ChatGPT or other tools and use it as an excuse. So for them, the "bugs" are a feature. They don't care about false positives, they care about the fact
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by arkh 2y ago
> trusting others to vet and find the correct information, is the problem To be honest, we do for most things: I have not checked the speed of light. And I surely would not be able to implement a way to measure it from only my observatio
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by arkh 2y ago
It is not a bug, it is a feature. That's how you can mold society as you like at your level: this student's older sibling was a menace? Let's fuck them over, being shitty must run in the family. You don't like the race &
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by arkh 2y ago
We don't learn directions now: we use GPS. We don't do calculations: computers do it for us. We don't accumulate knowledge: we trust Google to give us the information when needed. Everything in a small package everyone can we
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by arkh 2y ago
Having to tinker with pg_hba.conf files on the server so manage how users can connect.
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by arkh 2y ago
> * custom datatypes Good in theory. But last time I checked the main libs to connect to pgsql, everything you get back from the database are strings. So you need something in your app to convert those strings to the equivalent data stru
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by arkh 2y ago
I wish people with your worldview could try some drug enhancing appetite for like a month. See how easy it is to get their fingers out of their arse and keep eating healthy when their body is craving food all day long. Would you also tell p
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by arkh 2y ago
> How is this "feature" not a privacy/security issue? Like every third party script this feature has been a privacy issue from day-1. Same as the "like / share on whatever social networks" buttons. Same as t
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by arkh 2y ago
> customer_id It's hard to fight for those when surrounded by ORM first people. "Why call it customer_id in the customer table, call it id". Because I like using using. "But we don't care we rarely do SQL queries
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by arkh 2y ago
Launch from car while stuck in some random traffic jam: learn the cause of the jam and how long it is.
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by arkh 2y ago
Invite only networks were you're responsible for the people you invite à la what.cd : your invitee does something against the rules? They get banned and you get banned.
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by arkh 2y ago
> I have a difficult time seeing this becoming anything other than a cesspool of ads, 4chan-style joke links, and general inanity. IMO this is the kind of content which made early 2000 internet fun. Not the bland, moderated to hell and
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by arkh 2y ago
> Just make sure the subqueries return at most one row. The JSON functions most RDBMS offer are awesome for that. One subquery to get a JSON if you have multiple results for the field then you only have to decode it on the app side.
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by arkh 2y ago
Let's say I want to setup some blog, portfolio or fun experimental site but my internet connection is not perfect. I'm not alone on this kind of problems: we should be able to pool our resources and have those websites be delivere
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by arkh 2y ago
I was thinking more of a cooperative operation. So people could totally join and quit on a whim and I think k8s would help with automatically moving your app were there is available resources.

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