askonomm

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by askonomm 2y ago
I mean the rot goes much deeper than Donald Trump. Most of the US cabinet and top leaders are actively hostile towards what used to be ally states. Spreading lies, propaganda, insults and threatening to invade and take away our land. Meanwh
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by askonomm 2y ago
How often do you start a new project? In most companies you work on the same project for years, and even in consultancies it is multiple months at least, so it's not like in a professional setting this issue would come up a lot. I also
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by askonomm 2y ago
The interesting part here is how it differs for you and me. I work on quite complex systems most of the time, and I write things much faster myself. AI needs so much hand holding that it's equivalent to trying to sprint while carrying
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by askonomm 2y ago
I have found that unless your job is making simple CRUD apps and you really don't care about quality at all, yes, you will be less productive. The amount of tiny problems slipping through is immense, and it is known that code reviews a
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by askonomm 2y ago
I stopped using any sort of AI once I started feeling my overall problem solving ability disappear (as in, from memory, intuitively, the one thing that makes me valuable in the job market), and I don't want to end up as some glorified
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by askonomm 2y ago
His last name means "star" in Estonian. I was curious if his roots were from Estonia, but could not find any info. In any case, rest in peace Dave.
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by askonomm 2y ago
In my mind not niche means having jobs, and Rust has no jobs, not in any meaningful amount at least, and none at all in most countries. That puts it deep in the niche category for me.
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by askonomm 2y ago
Just thinking about this infinite recursion gives me the mental equivalent of a stack overflow.
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by askonomm 2y ago
It was my understanding that if two black holes collide, they just form a bigger black hole, but we know there's a black hole in our universe, which then would mean that there's a black hole inside of a black hole that did not mer
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by askonomm 2y ago
Ah yeah, didn't remember that constraint in Python. I thought I read something about a future version fixing that when it comes to just type hints, but I suppose that wouldn't work here, since it's not really a type hint, rig
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by askonomm 2y ago
Is it weird that if I do not have an account on X, I also have no idea what X actually is? If I go to the home page, it just says "Happening now". No idea what that means though. If I then navigate to the tiny "About" li
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by askonomm 2y ago
First thing that I don't like is the settings being strings that reference classes. Usually that means that go-to definition does not work (I've seen similar things in Symfony with YAML use). If the config needs to reference a cla
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by askonomm 2y ago
Must be a place with a pretty bad education system if people can't answer 6 * 7 off the top of their head.
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by askonomm 2y ago
The conclusion is correct, I would say. I know plenty of Americans who are not the archetype I portrayed, but this is HN, and that’s the HN American I see here a lot. Not all, but a lot. And we seem to be fundamentally incompatible. It’s re
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by askonomm 2y ago
And yet, by all accounts we have a higher life quality than Americans. Only Americans care about money, because in USA you don't get anything without paying for it all yourself. Here we have minimum mandatory vacations for 4 weeks per
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by askonomm 2y ago
PIE ( https://github.com/php/pie ) has made PHP extensions also very simple. Still relatively new, but by the PHP foundation and definitely the way forward.
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by askonomm 2y ago
So, if I liked being a manager more than a developer, I'd use Cursor, and lean in entirely on AI?
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by askonomm 2y ago
It may not be perfect, but the alternatives I've tried have so far been even worse. I have a Windows 11 gaming PC, and oh boy that is an OS that deliberately tries to give you a bad day, and Linux ... well, if you don't want confi
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by askonomm 2y ago
And then in Estonia you can drop your wallet or phone, and someone will take it to the police, and you get it all back without even a cent missing. We have robots on the streets, we can leave things like bicycles outside, every store is 80%
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by askonomm 2y ago
I suppose I could manually copy paste things, but it's not a great user experience. I'm fine with using beta software, but pre-alpha even is a bit too hard for me to swallow.
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by askonomm 2y ago
I did mean median yes, my bad. Alright, that makes sense indeed.
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by askonomm 2y ago
It's fairly easy to compile and give it a spin to try stuff out. It'll log to terminal everything it does/doesn't do, including things it does not support. You can also then go to https://html5test.co/ t
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by askonomm 2y ago
I don't think they'd use Swift for GUI building. Ladybird's GUI's are platform-dependent (Qt on Linux, AppKit on Mac, etc). From what I understand they want to use Swift as a replacement for C++. I haven't done a lo
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by askonomm 2y ago
That's why I always think that the _mean_ life expectancy is a much more useful metric than _average_. Not sure why everybody reports the average everywhere. I have the same exact thought when it comes to salaries. Governments and the
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by askonomm 2y ago
Can't wait for Ladybird to become usable. To be fair, it already is fairly usable, but I'd need history syncing / Keychain sync to make it a daily driver.
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by askonomm 2y ago
And yet from some of the HN comments I've seen on this topic it seems that quite a few of the Americans are stockholm syndromed to the point that if you do not want to benefit the ultra rich at the expense of regular people by removing
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by askonomm 2y ago
I for one am also happy to live in one of the few places left on earth that focuses more on the betterment of people than the few ultra rich, and tries to prevent the ultra rich from abusing the people.
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by askonomm 2y ago
I'm sitting at my home office, able to play with my dog during breaks, while simultaneously having a lot of autonomy at my job. I love it, and would not trade it for anything. People seem to really get used to their way of living and l
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by askonomm 2y ago
To be fair I figure it was only because I applied for a Clojure job, which is a pretty niche thing, and so perhaps that attracts people who are actually interested in you as a human being and not just a number in a spreadsheet. Since then I
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by askonomm 2y ago
Here's me hoping that hiring managers / HR will finally start actually calling references and/or checking open source contributions. I have plenty of both, and in my 14 year career have had only 2 companies call my references

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