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by dgfitz 1y ago
This seems… quite reasonable.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
You’re comparing 27 countries with 27 governments and a combined population of 450m with 1 country, population 340m.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> I want plug and play, but consoles have their own problems and limitations. How so? A console is literally a gaming PC. I can see the point of “need multiple consoles because game X isn’t on console Y” or “I’d like to play an RTS/
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Goalposts moved. I’ll never drive a car that in any way takes control of the steering or brakes. Full stop. If I need to modify the car to disable that feature, I will. At least I’m honest about it. Pass all the laws in the name of good ide
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by dgfitz 1y ago
If you’d meet me halfway on this, it’s not some bizarro-world scenario. It really isn’t.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
It’s so funny to me that people think just because a law is passed, that fixes problems. “This wasn’t illegal and now we made it illegal, we fixed the problem!” How’s that been working out?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
You can take a blind curve at 15 miles an hour and not have time to avoid debris in the road. Use some critical thinking.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
To be fair I do not know, never driven one. Seems like the slippery slope has already been paved with good intentions though.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I don’t think the dead guy will be in the courtroom. Clever try though.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I will buy used cars that don’t auto-anything for me until I literally cannot find one anymore. Then I’ll buy a tune to remove the feature.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I’ll be sure to tell that to the poor person on a bicycle in the middle of the road in front of me when I come around a blind curve and can’t jump lanes so as not to hit them. “So sorry I squished you, my lane assist wouldn’t let me move ou
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Nailed it. Mostly the selfishness part. The whole idea of being courteous with other people on the road just doesn’t exist. Sadly, this also extends to bicyclists. Entitled instead of courteous.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I’m re-reading hitchhikers, this made me chuckle.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> working in legacy parts of the codebase This is why most of us get paid what we do, I’m sure you realize that. There is immense value in having engineers on a team/at a company that can do this. > anything that requires boilerp
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by dgfitz 1y ago
s/confidently// Because “ai” is fallible, right now it is at best a very powerful search engine that can also muck around in (mostly JavaScript) codebases. It also makes mistakes in code, adds cruft, and gives incorrect respo
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by dgfitz 1y ago
One of my only stipulations when buying a SFH for just myself at the time, 15 years ago, was no HOA. Sure I also wanted 1 full bath, a driveway, and a not-awful commute. HOAs were an instant “nope” for any listing I came across.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
As a sw engineer, I’m going to tell our customer that the thing they claim they want they do not need. Because I’ve done this enough times, they’ll listen to me and we won’t waste time on it. You should try it, instead of designing soggy ic
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> Engineer, knowing how you're supposed to use the ice cream cone, objects. PM, knowing what the customer needs, insists. That’s the kicker. They know what the customer _wants_ not what they _need_ The number of times a Jr engineer
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> These integrate into a larger pieces of software, both of which directly generate revenue from these features. Were these larger pieces of software _already_ generating revenue, before your features? First dollar is the hardest one to
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by dgfitz 1y ago
What risk was there in creating facebook? I don't see it. Dude makes a website in his dorm room and I guess eventually accepts free money he is not obligated to pay back. What risk?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
We have been kicking the can down the road since 2008, and made it worse with all those covid checks. The irrational/solvent saying has never been more true, and it has been irrational for almost 20 years because we never paid the pipe
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by dgfitz 1y ago
First search result: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Cross_compiling_for_Windows_unde...
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised at all, make is great! My contention is that a build script should ideally be: sha-bang clone && cd $cloned_folder ${generate_makefile_with_tool} make $1 Anything much longer than that can (and usually w
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by dgfitz 1y ago
You invoke CMake/qmake/configure/whatever from the bash script. I hate committing makefiles directly if it can be helped. You can still call make in the script after generating the makefile, and even pass the make target as a
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by dgfitz 1y ago
+1 for Jenkins. At $dayjob they recently set up git runners. The effort I’m currently working on has the OS dictated to us, long story don’t ask. The OS is centos 7. The runners do not support this. There is an effort to move to Ubuntu 22.0
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I’ve used it to run autonomous land vehicles. ~60 written binaries and ~20 written libraries, in additional to your bog-standard Linux distro binaries/libraries (core/more utils, ip, user management, etc) It doesn’t need to be pid
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by dgfitz 1y ago
For sure. Yocto is like playing whack-a-mole where the club is your head and the mole is your keyboard. Very powerful, incredible capabilities. Extremely frustrating 90% of the time.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> China is also building a huge war chest of IP patents. My understanding is that China doesn’t care about abusing patents they don’t own. Is this incorrect? Do they value patents only when they hold them and enforce them? Asking sincere
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by dgfitz 1y ago
And magic tricks look like magic. Turns out they’re not magical. I am so floored that at least half of this community, usually skeptical to a fault, evangelizes LLMs so ardently. Truly blows my mind. I’m open to them becoming more than a st
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by dgfitz 1y ago
When my grandmother-in-law passes away, my father-in-law will be about 500k+ “in the hole” because he will receive nothing, and has housed them for the past 25 years, in addition to paying for care, GIL has dementia.

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