drdaeman

8 ms·

121.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
> The fact that it's extremely boring and conventional? I’d say it’s normal , not awesome. Just not being the new normal (aka enshittified) is not sufficient to qualify.
122.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
What’s awesome about it? It’s not too bad (at least it’s not lit like a Christmas tree), but I’m not sure it’s an awesome UI. Looks like an extremely boring conventional one. That G-force thing is a gimmick. You already know the ballpark wi
123.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Anyone who writes technical documentation about networking knows the key ranges, and at least TEST-NET-1 (192.0.2/24) is pretty easy to remember. You only gotta look it up a few times, instead of being sloppy and justifying so with “no
124.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Usual reminder that one of the hardest problems in software engineering is still naming things ;-)
125.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
It’s the opposite, non-creatives (if such roles even exist in those industries) should be worried. All those models offset technical skills, allowing to get from idea to implementation through a different route (which can be easier or harde
126.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Even without post-install script, a malicious payload could be hiding in some function and just wait until the developer invokes `cargo run`. Not that many people audit the crates they pull into their projects.
127.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Unironically, yes, this, Ifsuѧl Bacti1on|, and weird computer shape (extra-thick 3.5"-looking floppy and... what that slot is even supposed to be?) makes it look worse than it should. I get that the value is in other content, and this
128.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Can you now? I've tried to keep "AI" machine assist features on, but disable "Zed AI" provider, keeping only non-cloud LLMs as an option. Last time I checked (about half an year ago) it was hardcoded and uncondition
129.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Meshtastic is… okay, but I was seriously put off the fact that a node can’t work with multiple clients (like phone and desktop) cooperatively, even with TCP transports. And that’s a protocol design issue, it has single client in mind. Virtu
130.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Certainly not true. UUIDs have structure to them, and variants. Trace IDs are just 128-bit numbers, with any further semantics (almost) completely non-standardized (some systems encode timestamps, etc). They slapped a “last 56 bits are rand
131.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
And there’s a good reason for that, because UUIDs have additional properties. I don’t know if versioning, partial ordering, or stable references are useful for traces or not, but with UUIDs those could’ve been a possibility.
132.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
It sure does a little bit, but a) quality varies a lot - some courses can get you from zero to dos cervesas por favor, some are just poorly structured noise that has no chance of sticking in mind; b) doesn’t explain grammar (it’s an excepti
133.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
The missing bit is that compliance is for governments and business partners, not for any end-users. For the purposes of KYC/AML process, end-users are objects, not subjects. Your coins frozen with no reason given even internally except
134.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Maybe I won't have to be concerned about job security some years from now, when everything becomes FUBAR and companies will need a legacy systems expert/software necromancer to a) discover, spec and re-formalize what their machine
135.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
> so confusing why PMs/PMMs Because their goal metric is number of tasks closed/features delivered (and this counts as one), not customers satisfied. Plus, social parroting - a misconception that if it's popular and everyo
136.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
The way I see it, it’s purely a terminology/nomenclature problem. Consciousness is whatever speaker decides to call so. When listener has a different notion, communication hits a barrier. Language works only because most have somewhat
137.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
That’s not exactly clear as it may seem. At least I can trivially form counterpoints to both of those - not necessarily true but not obviously false. LLMs “live” in token “space”, and it’s “aware” of all its surroundings in form of input.
138.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
All true, but simultaneously, if you look at it not in the “how did we get here” but “what’s out there today” light, it’s an option that can run on a lot of platforms. Not by some particular merit but because history happened this way - but
139.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
Yep, it pulls stuff from at least npm, it’s not a secret - check the source code. Actually it pulls latest versions (checking registry then installing that exact version, not sure why they sidestep normal resolution algorithms) no matter wh
140.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
They have built an orchestrator, not Kubernetes. There is one key difference: they know this thing, end-to-end, down to every single bolt and piece of duct tape (with possible exception for Docker internals) And that's a very important
141.
by drdaeman 5mo ago
> This is a modern “oops, I ran DROP TABLE on the production database” story. It's not that story, though. It's a story "oops, my tool ran DROP TABLE on the production database" (blaming the tool). At least I haven&
142.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
> Clean layering. We’d all wish it’d be so, doctor. Sometimes it’s as clean as biological systems - touch something somewhere, a different seemingly completely unrelated thing elsewhere breaks. Even in the dawn of the era, where accumula
143.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
Indeed, but then not surprising. Russia haven’t ever had developed a mature democracy, it merely had a very brief chance at taking long road of becoming one, and everything went off the rails in just a decade or so. Kind of a handicap when
144.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
s/Russians/humans/. Absolutely nothing special about Russians here.
145.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
At least that produces tangible value for the rest of us this way. Current idea of sports is that athletes wreck themselves for mere performance value (and money to the people who set it up, with a bit trickling down to athletes for enablin
146.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
> and yet nobody does anything about it So dismissive of all the transhumanist efforts to eradicate death!
147.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
Nah, it's simpler. Microsoft just lost sense of UX and touch with the reality to their own internal management vibes. Look at the Windows start menu. It used to be trivial to switch users. Two clicks, one to open the user list, another
148.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
nix-darwin solves a lot of those pains. Not all of them, but it makes initial setup a lot simpler and faster.
149.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
> Today, meh, 10 megs or 20 megs doesn't matter. AFAIK, not in some embedded software, where this difference may substantially affect the BOM.
150.
by drdaeman 6mo ago
Ultimately it's still the same thing - problem solving in specific domains. Languages and frameworks and libraries and IDEs and agent systems are all - in the end - just some new tooling, they were always the lower-hanging fruit. Cool,

More ›