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by dzonga 1y ago
please write a book. such a simple explanation.
902.
by dzonga 1y ago
beautiful work. clojure is very nice. one of the most impactful talks I have ever seen was from Rich Hickey - simple made easy. however my only gripe with clojure while it's easy to write and comprehend at first - it's difficult t
903.
by dzonga 1y ago
a used lexus. but there's a premium for used lexuses. but they still go on forever with little maintenance i.e just oil change. e.g https://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listing/JTHAA1D2X...
904.
by dzonga 1y ago
BP ?
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by dzonga 1y ago
the worse thing about 'AI' is seeing 'competent' people such as Software Engineers putting their brains to the side and believing AI is the all and be all. without understanding how LLMs work on a first principle level t
906.
by dzonga 1y ago
isn't google closure sunset ?
907.
by dzonga 1y ago
for now - we can identify AI slop. in the future - yeah interaction will be at a premium and that includes all textual content - since you can't trust whether it was generated by AI or not. which means books / content pre-AI gonna
908.
by dzonga 1y ago
this is deal that didn't need to be brokered by americans. but people are idiots. the art of diplomacy is lost. & yeah africans have an inferiority complex.
909.
by dzonga 1y ago
what most people assume: myth (a) - software engineers mostly work on software for consumers reality (a) - software engineers mostly work on software for enterprises myth (a) - it's just crud reality (a) - it's crud but with a bu
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by dzonga 1y ago
monster is like trump. you would have to be horrible at operations to fail at running a casino. usually playbook for these things - company makes a lot of money, the owners get enticed by PE - PE guts out operations like gutting out fish. t
911.
by dzonga 1y ago
paying for the physical paper made sense specially for local papers - since relevant local ads/ opportunities were in those papers. now the major papers just run propaganda under the veneer of news - looking at you NYT. now why would y
912.
by dzonga 1y ago
Tesla has no advantage over BYD and even electric cars from BMW. the iRange from BMW look better than any tesla - feel more premium too. with BYD - they make cheaper cars, are more experienced in making batteries than tesla. so what advanta
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by dzonga 1y ago
wow, shenzhen is beautiful the amount of greenery is amazing. and everything is orderly.
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by dzonga 1y ago
thanks for this write up. some of us are happy rails users so more rails content is always welcome
915.
by dzonga 1y ago
i still use a first gen SE. got updates up to ios15. given that it's almost 10 years old the battery lasted more than my pixel 6a. I hate iOS but in terms of hardware quality and software updates its unmatched.
916.
by dzonga 1y ago
I thought this would be written along the lines of an lllm going through your code - spinning up a railway file. then say have tf for few of the manual dependencies etc that can't be easily inferred. & get automatic scaling out of
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by dzonga 1y ago
the TSMC founder was once a Ti employee. Yet due to cism he got denied the opportunity to steer the org. Now it's time to play to trump's whims and earn a quick payout.
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by dzonga 1y ago
for the app I don't even think they need all that chicanery. but i'm not an architecture astronaut.
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by dzonga 1y ago
this is nice, hopefully DHH and the folks working on Kamal adopt this. the whole reason I didn't end up using kamal was the 'need' a docker registry thing. when I can easily push a dockerfile / compose to my vps build an
920.
by dzonga 1y ago
I met these folks one time in NYC, you could tell they were onto something big & bigger.
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by dzonga 1y ago
in a lot of countries not called America / Western Europe SMS costs are high. Hence why Whatsapp took off. Even phone calls there's nothing called unlimited mins / unlimted sms everything is metered - off-net / on-net
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by dzonga 1y ago
I worry about the adverse effects of LLM on already disfranchised populations - you know the poor etc - that usually would have to pull themselves up using hard work etc studying n reading hard. now if you don't have a mentor to tell y
923.
by dzonga 1y ago
and yet people wanna shit at frameworks.!! by choosing something like Rails or another major popular web framework -- you have already mitigated a lot of security vulnerabilities that affect the industry. & no next.js is not a proper we
924.
by dzonga 1y ago
this is dope, made by an all female team. hopefully the games industry gets more female led, minority led studios
925.
by dzonga 1y ago
I would rather work with "old" engineers rather than 25/30 year old "senior" engineers. Places with older engineers means: 1. things are done properly 2. less to break 3. no need to be on call 4. excellent WLB (no g
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by dzonga 1y ago
we've come a long way from the days of software that does one thing well. back in the days of desktop apps craftsmanship was high VLC, different mac os apps etc. once the web took over - people took quality for granted since you can ea
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by dzonga 1y ago
this looks dope. but has anyone done a price comparison of edge-computing vs say your boring hetzner vps ?
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by dzonga 1y ago
pixel devices are nice when they work. but damn hardware quality is shoddy in terms of aging. my pixel 6a battery got swollen with less than 3 years. I have a first gen iphone se still in use. I also had a pixel 3a that I couldn't find
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by dzonga 1y ago
or embracing complexity as C++. It used to be very simple and pragmatic language. that stopped with Swift 3. Remember Protocol based Swift - better than OOP - but now it seems a bastard child of C++. Swift at one point could've been Go
930.
by dzonga 1y ago
people don't talk about set designers, but they bring a film to live. whether real sets like on andor on fake ones like the man in the high castle.

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