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by decasia 2y ago
Yeah, the original script I rewrote was doing about 15 different operations depending on the user input/arguments, so I guess it indeed reached the point you're describing where there were a lot of common patterns. It's just
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by decasia 2y ago
This is a good idea, will add this to my cli tool :)
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by decasia 2y ago
I just rewrote a tangled 500 line shell script in go. It was my first time writing a golang project at work, so I'm sure it could have been better. But writing it the naive way, with all the required golang error handling, it ended up
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by decasia 2y ago
It's a cool idea that the end users can chat easily with the teams who build the product. (If I got that right, I think that's part of what is offered here.) Where I work, we have several layers in between engineering and the end
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by decasia 2y ago
I always like writing the first verse on paper, then typing it up and maybe writing the other verses/the chorus while trying to figure out the music at the same time... I usually just write lyrics in a very simple text editor. I like R
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by decasia 2y ago
I was in academia - I got a PhD, did a postdoc, got a lifetime faculty job. And I'm so much happier now working in professional software engineering than I was in academia.
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by decasia 2y ago
Inside my team, we generally review quite promptly (same day, or the next morning). Across teams — it's more variable and depends a lot on context (or lack of context). If I'm chasing down reviews, I'll usually tag people to
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by decasia 2y ago
I'm confused by the comments saying "Just don't use iTerm2." The same class of issue can occur for any other project, and switching is not a very effective defense against it. If anything, having an embarrassing issue li
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by decasia 2y ago
Given how bad most human drivers are in my neighborhood - and I see vast amounts of them on their phones and not looking at the road - I'm thinking that this is not very surprising.
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by decasia 2y ago
I think the proof that this is a good article is that people's reactions to it are taking them in so many different directions. It might or might not be very actionable this year (I for one... would like to see a lower level of halluci
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by decasia 2y ago
OK I have to say I have never thought about what should happen if you try to select a sequence of text that mixes rtl and ltr languages. It's deeply in my mental zone of "undefined behavior, I don't even have an intuition a
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by decasia 2y ago
A point that I would retain from this: That sometimes your teachers have very different tastes from you, and sometimes you have to fight your impulse to please them by absorbing their tastes and giving up your own. Like Sivers, I've tr
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by decasia 2y ago
I'm not sure I'm totally convinced by the overall political analysis either. It can be both, though, right? There's a material-interests part of politics and there can also be an epistemic culture or worldview part of politic
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by decasia 2y ago
For me there were two key parts of this post: 1. On prediction: If you had a maximally detailed model of someone's worldview, you would be able to predict their views accurately at a given time. I'm sympathetic to this in principl
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by decasia 2y ago
Yeah, I think TFA gets a lot right about doing software engineering in large orgs. We call this role something like "lead developer" and it's as much about people, relationships, logistics, and documentation as it is about te
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by decasia 2y ago
I'm surprised there are people here who are skeptical that long covid is real, as I know plenty of people in my community and social network who have been dealing with it. There is national-level health guidance about long covid — I do
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by decasia 2y ago
I would love to pay for social software on a coop model (like a food coop, etc) — we would be "members" and, theoretically, we pay a small monthly fee that covers the costs of hosting and platform development. I've tried to t
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by decasia 2y ago
I still write paper letters — about at the same rate as I write long epistolary emails, which is to say, more than monthly, but less than weekly. People (in my friend circle anyway) really love to get paper letters. Precisely because they a
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by decasia 2y ago
I like to print the k8s context and current namespace in the shell prompt. It's still possible I could mess something up with kubectl, but it provides constant reminders of what I'm working with.
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by decasia 2y ago
I think it's really interesting that wastewater is a source of so much sheer information. I never knew before Covid that you could do public health surveillance against wastewater contents. I wonder how local you can make it — like doe
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A Confusing Issue to Debug(decasia.org)
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by decasia 2y ago
> there are few people who still so concisely understand the intersection of engineering leadership and those table-stakes capabilities we normally associate with SRE / DevOps. I'm curious what else is good to read about this t
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by decasia 2y ago
Finishing things (esp. personal projects) feels really good. Leaving them unfinished starts to feel really bothersome. I think the author describes a lot of this really eloquently (while I would also note the irony of writing a meta blog po
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by decasia 2y ago
I will say though - in some ways, the ruby DSL expresses intention more clearly than a midi sequence. Sometimes you really do think in terms of "now it's a C minor arpeggio, and now it's an F major arpeggio". And I lik
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by decasia 2y ago
Speaking as a Ruby developer, this is very cool. I could see using this for algorithmically generated music and that would be neat. (Speaking of which, I was meaning to make our noisy git repository events into some kind of algorithmic musi
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by decasia 2y ago
I asked some classical music people once if there was a history of harmony. Someone retorted that the modern concept of harmony was an inadequate way of understanding counterpoint, and that the primary concept should be voice leading, not v
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by decasia 2y ago
I'm curious if this is demonstrably an optimal strategy for individual investment too... I haven't had much success getting any clear data about whether active management demonstrably produces better results.
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by decasia 2y ago
I think it kind of goes both ways. There are times when you absolutely want lambda functions instead of cgi-bin scripts. But conversely - there are times when you absolutely want cgi-bin instead of lambda. (For interfacing with other linux
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by decasia 2y ago
I think the spirit of this article is correct, although some of the digs at modern web tech and SPAs seem to be beside the point. I used to have a "mildly dynamic website." It was a $5 digital ocean box. It ran nginx with php-fpm,
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by decasia 3y ago
As always, it's really impressive to see how much technical detail they release publicly in their RCAs. It sets a good example for the industry. Also — quite impressive to make major infrastructure and architecture changes in a few mon

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