atomicnumber3

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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
I've written my own DNS server and my own "I can't believe it's not docker compose and kind of ansible", among other more and less esoteric but consistently dubiously motivated enterprises They all inevitably ended
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
"It’s easy for long-term strategic, high-impact work to sink to the bottom of everyone’s todo list." "[...] But one where the tasks to accomplish the project are not anyone’s full-time job." Sounds like the organization&
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
I agree, the hate against vaccines makes me sad.
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
Meanwhile the worst codebase I've had to work in by far is golang where someone clearly took the language's limitations as a challenge and not as an intentional constraint on writing clever code. And it's an impressive feat b
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
On the contrary, I find "The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages. Fuck, I said it. Fight me." is exactly my sentiment too, with a caveat. I really like gradual typing, like python has. And not like ruby has (where
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
Critical issue is that it expects leaders to actually lead. Common yet fatal flaw in many plans.
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
Ah yes just go start a company. Let me just ask my father for a small business loan of a million dollars.
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
Definitely a strong contender for favorite 3-atom molecule
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
There's almost no point in arguing about this anymore. Neither you nor the other person are going to be convinced. We just have to wait and see if a new crop of 100x productivity AI believer companies come along and unseat all the incu
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
I'm deeply convinced that there's 2 reasons we don't see real takes like this: 1) is because these people are quietly appreciating the 2-50% uplift you get from sanely using LLMs instead of constantly posting sycophantic or d
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
I think we'll get there. We need to get at least some AI bust going first though. It's impossible to talk sense into people who think AI is about to completely replace engineers, or even those who think that, while it might not re
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
A lot of draft laws haven't been touched in a long time and aren't updated for modern gender politics. Though I do wonder if they'll actually get updated ever - no politician wants to touch it and it's not like anyone is
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
I meant 10% faster btw, typo
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
Programming is a necessary but not sufficient condition for software products to exist. So while the programming has to be good, so too do many other things, like product vision, product management, project management, and of course there s
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by atomicnumber3 6mo ago
I don't think it's all that bad. There's definitely vibe coding that is "copy paste / throw away" programming on ultra steroids. But after vibe coding two products and then finding them essentially impossible t
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
This is great and - something about programming has always felt adjacent to esotericism and the occult to me. Serial Experiments Lain is kind of in this vein too.
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
Luckily electromagnetism is the great equalizer. I'm imagining guerrilla warfare involving giant (in terms of GWh stored) Jerry-rigged capacitors driving electromagnets that are lobbed into places that would be extremely unappreciative
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
The point of wayland, though, is that back then 13-year-old you would get an application that "works" but to support myriad things (like HiDPI) you'd have to DIY it. Whereas now, sure a 13 year old perhaps won't write di
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
You don't even need fedora - clean arch install, install vim gnome and Firefox, and boom your computer now just works.
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
A commodity yes, but could be wrapped in to work very nicely with the latest and greatest in python tooling. Remember, the only 2 ways to make money are by bundling and unbundling. This seems like a pretty easy bundling story.
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
Juggalos, bronies, 9th doctor fans, billionaires, royals (baseball team), and royals (landed nobility)?
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
This is absurdly misanthropic and dehumanizing. I firmly believe that every single person on this entire planet has a depth to them that far, far exceeds anything an LLM could even begin to approximate. I'm sorry you're in a posit
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
Yes, somehow. I have been dealing with an awful lot of people who basically have what are theoretically logic degrees who suddenly just take LLMs at face value, or quote them to me like that actually means anything. People I formerly though
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
So, do we just need to nationalize housing construction? If the free market apparently just can't handle it?
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
I still think everyone is trying to run away from the copyright problems with AI, and suspect it's going to come back to bite them. Eventually. (No I'm not willing to bet on exactly when because I'm sure it'll be a lot l
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
It's weird. I was born with the internet being largely a business or academic tool, with normal people barely having a reason to have an email address. When I was in high school, flip phones could let you text friends, as long as you d
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
Can you link to one launched product with users for us?
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
The one person who understands HFT yeah. "True" HFT is FPGA now and also those trades are basically dead because nobody has such stupid order execution anymore, either via getting better themselves or by using former HFTs (Virtu)
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by atomicnumber3 7mo ago
Because for 99% of cases python is fast enough and it's fast as fuck to code. And for the 1% that aren't, you have 50 different flavors of making it faster. And the final of which is "slap pybind on a c module to do the hot p

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