crdrost

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   by crdrost 3y ago

   Ah OK, I think I am getting it now. So 3-way-merge just takes three inputs, "base, left, right", it says diff(base, left), diff(base, right), merge those two diffs together into one bigger diff. If you were to actually ask, "
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   So I understand, but I don't classify it quite that way. Note that I'm talking about "we onboarded right as the pandemic hit" -- like we chose to road-trip to California to bring our animals along and on that road trip t
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   Note also that three-way merge is not an associative operation which can sometimes lead to some surprising behaviors, https://winddy.buzz/manual/why_pijul.html
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   I must be misunderstanding... If you are in the situation B -- X1 -- X2 -- X3 -- Head \ Y1 -- Y2 -- Cherry then Y2 can't be a merge-base for the difference between Head and Cherry, the merge-base is B, that's a
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   Yeah, "different cultures and experiences" is absolutely right, it's huge, unfathomably huge. To complete the picture I had a kind of "mediocre" story at Google, negative but not the worst possible. I was hired as t
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   Just to be clear, someone in that situation does not get a 20% pay cut unless their employer is breaking the law. What actually happens is that the $20 in tips per night is deducted from the minimum wage that your employer has to pay you. S
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   This advice is subtly no longer correct in delivery apps, as they have creative ways of calculating tip. The correct advice is probably to double the tax. So it used to be, you would order something for delivery, they would charge you the
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   Yes but that is a cultural thing. And this is a big theme at Google, and I can say from my limited personal experience working there that it probably stems from the perf process. Look at it this way: Let Π be $PERFCOIN, the currency that is
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   by crdrost 3y ago

   I liked these interviews but I do find the result kind of... apathetic? I feel like you can read these and just come to a sense that nothing is engineering because everything is amorphous, which is not (I think) Hillel’s thesis but he doesn
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    This speaks to one of my secret desires, I've worked at a bunch of small companies now where the workflows were all ad-hoc and I feel like even at bigger companies there are persistent failures to "understand Git"... one of t
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    Wow! You got a lot of responses! For me I think it's just the sheer time investment, personally. Spreadsheets give a very easy programming language, no compiler, via Google sheets my phone can run it and my browser can run at and I can
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    Just take the downvotes with pride. You have a valid point, which is that we are not even being rigorous enough about the meaning of the word “rigor” in this context. - One poster praises how programming needs to be boiled down into executa
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    Note that this is about large tech service providers “taking this into their own hands.” The basic problem is that a lot of these companies deal with people who store their card information and then use an insecure password or so, or reuse
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    Otis is the name of one of the Fat Bear Week audience favorites so that was where my first thoughts went but I was very surprised to imagine an “Acapulco, Alaska” near where he lives.
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    No you've got it, all of those are correct. Just means that for any A,B and C,D in the space A ∩ B = C ∩ D. And we generally don't care about the size of the intersection or anything like that, we just care about how many sets the
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    One of the easiest tools in this regard is just a “test” that blocks merging if the request is n commits behind master—just enforcing a rebase whenever you update a pull request. Combine with forbidding fast forward merges for pull reques
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    So since I was the one who brought it up there's like three parts to this in my mind. Main caveat is that “prod” is a handful of central places. So how does code review fit in? - The first thing is that your main branch needs to be abl
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    I go back and forth on this. On the one hand, I really like constant deep feedback. I really like the consistency benefits of having another person say “that’s too much, I find that unreadable.” On the other, I have now been at a lot of pla
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    You will be more effective if you deploy your words more carefully. Loose coupling vs tight coupling has an established meaning ≈ “if a change to module X causes a failure in module Y, then we say X and Y are tightly coupled.” This has some
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    I think you are objecting to a poorly chosen example and that is okay. It _is_ a poorly chosen example. The exact pedantry that you are making is kind of poorly chosen, in double-entry bookkeeping you would say that you record the transacti
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    So in the great scheme of programming languages, you had imperative languages like Fortran, eventually there was a paper “GOTO considered harmful” which ushered in a scaling-back of complexity to “structured programming” where you had named
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    It's really not a bad idea, but the problem is structuring. It's odd but I come back to Cantrill's "Fork Yeah" talk here. So the basic problem is one of resources: forked wikis still have hosting costs, so they need
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    Assuming that they don't dox themselves some examples that would trigger a filter: - Phillip K. Dick, etc., So like a body part or cuss word, or even an ethnic slur, for instance in Papua New Guinea a hundred or so people have the surn
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    Give you a woodworking example where it matters, see if it reaonates.. You’ve got a box 10" high, 15" wide, you want to decorate the side with a few raised panels with borders, whatever. You decide that they're going to be i
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    For the first question, according to [1] gasoline uses 9000L air per liter of gas and a liter of gas runs a chainsaw for an hour ish, something like 150 L/minute. This is an order of magnitude higher than humans or so, so a scuba tank
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    The Chinese room argument is just missing kinda one basic premise and people don't realize it and argue around the premise without actually addressing it. “Can we agree that of the many different things folks mean when they say your co
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    FWIW, when I was doing tutoring, which was not “remedial,” I found that my expectations of what was needed of me were kind of completely backwards, and what students actually needed could be better likened to athletic coaching. They needed
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, at least in its strongest form (the idea that your thoughts are necessarily always expressed in concrete words of the host language you have grown), has always been crap. Advocates for it have constantly had this
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    That's quite the nerd snipe. I mean, it's definitely not a Diophantine equation and solving it is definitely not challenging -- (2, 1, 1) happens to be an easy solution -- but I want to say it probably doesn't have any othe
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    by crdrost 3y ago

    This is one of those topics that Searle wants folks to think straight about. He'd say: You are conscious. You are also a computer. You are not, as far as we can tell, conscious by virtue of being a computer. They're just two thi