blauditore

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by blauditore 4mo ago
Yes, this is essentially because mathematics is such an old science and goes very deep into branches. That's btw also why getting a certain degree is much harder there than in any other fields I've seen (did a bunch of courses at
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by blauditore 4mo ago
Sure, but obviously that sentence implies that wrong abstractions are fairly common.
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by blauditore 4mo ago
Only tangenially relevant, but the exagerrated differentiation of universities, and levels of education (e.g. PhD vs. not) has always been bothering me. I only have experience in a different field (CS), and yes, those things can be indicato
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by blauditore 4mo ago
> if you are on vacation, you are simply not available. You are dead to the world until you return. Emails do not get read, and devices get left at the office. It's funny because that's kind of the definition of a vacation in m
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by blauditore 4mo ago
1. What if the browser gets closed/killed? 2. Error messages around syncing issues are notoriously worse than those of a sync request to the backend that failed. So the UX in the end is worse. More generally: You can't circument t
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by blauditore 4mo ago
TL;DR: Background syncing instead of synchronous updates to the cloud. This is basically a thick client, and comes with according trade-offs. It's interesting and there are some best practices, but I can't help but feeling that ei
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by blauditore 4mo ago
Shit, that was 10 years ago already? Feels more recent, also in terms of technology.
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by blauditore 4mo ago
Huh, people use the mouse with vim? Or am I missing something?
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by blauditore 4mo ago
I was wondering if the author is joking, but after reading a bit more about the attribution drama, it seems rather a lack of reality check and reflection. If you plagiarize work, get called out on it, and then call this "harrassment&qu
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by blauditore 4mo ago
Do you have a link?
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by blauditore 4mo ago
Programming competitions are not the same as real-world engineering, plus these countries have way more people trying to use these competitions as a gateway to good jobs. Also, many good engineers emigrate to higher-income countries given t
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by blauditore 6mo ago
Many of the "teams" laws are BS, especially the ones about promotions and management. I've never been a manager or high-level executive, but it's not that all of them are either non-technical or bad managers. It's j
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by blauditore 7mo ago
That's... Normal. Technology has always been moving towards higher-level abstractions. In terms of software, many engineers nowadays know how to code in high-level languages like JS or Java, while maybe 30-40 years ago many folks proba
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by blauditore 7mo ago
It's the same in Europe. There are many car drivers who would never admit that, but they just don't want to leave their comfort zone and learn how to use public transport. But when asked they will say stuff like "well, we liv
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by blauditore 7mo ago
Not sure of it's a class thing, but rather the fact that software engineers often make good money, especially at places like Meta. It'st the same for me: If I lost my job tomorrow, I'd have enough savings to take some time be
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by blauditore 7mo ago
Software folks love over-engineering things. If you look at the web coding craze of a few years ago, people started piling up tooling on top of tooling (frameworks, build pipelines, linting, generators etc.) for something that could also be
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by blauditore 8mo ago
Translating this page to English is quite funny
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by blauditore 8mo ago
Ah yes, like no-code programming in the past, or what was it called again?
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by blauditore 8mo ago
The SO copy-pasting is actually quite accurate. The same folks are now just blindly generating code. That's why most software in the world is shit, and will continue to be in the future. There might just be more of it.
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by blauditore 8mo ago
Completely disagree. That's like saying that user manuals and driving assistances (e.g. alerts about approaching an object) in cars are only for bad drivers.
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by blauditore 8mo ago
I can't help but keep finding it ridiculous how everyone now discovers basic best practices (linting, documentation, small incremental changes) that have been known for ages. It's not needed because of AI, you should have been doi
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by blauditore 8mo ago
The Kessler syndrome is mentioned, satellites colliding, causing a cascade of follow-up collisions. This gets brought up a lot, but people have a poor intuition on how large the orbit space is. Think of it this way: It's obviously larg
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by blauditore 8mo ago
What hotkey-driven and fast-paced workflows are you referring to? I used to be an Office user, now G Docs, and I hardly miss anything. Hotkeys do exist, and more complex stuff can be automated quite well with AppsScript. Maybe I'm not
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by blauditore 8mo ago
Not sure if that's a serious question, but your driveway might lack a proper foundation, so the surface is moving and cracks. Also, it's likely not concrete, but tarmac (which is much softer).
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by blauditore 8mo ago
Note that your memories might not be accurate, as your brain may have skightly altered them over the years, over and over. There is generally no way for yourself to know (except for some external proof). This is not just the case for early
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by blauditore 8mo ago
I disagree with the stated examples and literally quit reading there.
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by blauditore 8mo ago
Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct posture? I can't.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Excuse me, I remember when DSL was the latest and greatest, it can't possibly be this old. :')
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by blauditore 9mo ago
The bright side of this is that there is at least some sort of competition, since they operate on very different infrastucture. This is the free market premise on how quality and price should improve. Reality is often different though, beca
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Seems okay on mobile, how does it look for you?

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