evantbyrne

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by evantbyrne 1mo ago
If only they taught N+1 > N in Business Math class
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
I definitely recall the days when it was not uncommon to see members of the Go community speak out against the idea of generics and other type improvements for allegedly taking away from the language's simplicity. Thankfully that facti
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
Ecosystem is my primary concern when it comes to language choice and I'm not worried about speed differences between Go and Rust. Unfortunately, Python is probably still the most practical choice for backend/pipeline engineering a
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
Generic methods are a huge win for the language. I've been waiting on these kinds of improvements to the type system before resuming work on my database toolkit.
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
It is how I hear people using the term idk what to tell you
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
"lifestyle business" is sometimes used as a derogatory term to describe setting up a corporation for a hobby that is not really meant to be profitable.
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
I've been pursuing the public good my entire career, including making major career moves to improve the developing world. You've crafted a delusion to justify your clearly antisocial behavior. You have no right dictating to people
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by evantbyrne 2mo ago
From their recent announcements it seems Codeberg is operating as a club that just so happens to have a git UI. Perhaps that is amusing if you're playing along, but I can't imagine why I should want to actually host anything at an
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by evantbyrne 3mo ago
Everything I've used from Automattic has felt that way. If you ever want to torture an engineer, just make them change the layout of WooCommerce checkout.
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by evantbyrne 3mo ago
Not everyone is looking to save a buck at anyone's expense. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking we're the same.
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by evantbyrne 3mo ago
Some guy floated the idea of putting in a small datacenter in the nearby city and asked for public comment. The next town hall had a huge turnout and multiple people got kicked out for rushing the podium. Meanwhile, people are also protesti
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by evantbyrne 3mo ago
Philosophy of science went hard and was hands down the most valuable course in my education. It's very strange that they don't force everyone to take at least some philosophy in university. Can you imagine living in a world where
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by evantbyrne 4mo ago
Thank you. Was beginning to feel like I was taking crazy pills seeing people claim that 300ms is fast when 30ms has been the target TTFB for as long as I can remember. Maybe Linear takes more time on the backend for totally valid reasons an
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by evantbyrne 5mo ago
I would hope that when engineers speak of LLM determinism they just mean it as shorthand for close to 1 under expected conditions
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by evantbyrne 6mo ago
The going rate for 1099 work tends to be higher than this to account for risk, unbillable work, and increased tax rate. Agencies that lend out their developers to clients charge 2-3x this. Remember that engineers can work remotely now which
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by evantbyrne 6mo ago
I was going to say it seems potentially useful, but engagement stats for this on Github and X seem unnatural and the anon crypto author makes it a hard no for me
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by evantbyrne 6mo ago
Getting up to speed on the business logic was arguably the easiest part of my last job where the product was a liquid biopsy. Regardless of industry, you have to learn how to communicate with stakeholders and collect requirements. The exist
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by evantbyrne 6mo ago
There are certain non-software industries that seem to have strong hiring preferences for workers who started in the industry over computer science chops, and a lot of those tend to use Java. For example, biotechs.
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by evantbyrne 7mo ago
Totally. 8GB is probably enough for most users. I wouldn't recommend anything less than 32GB for a development machine in 2026 that's all
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by evantbyrne 7mo ago
I used to be able to get by with just 8GB on a mac. But these days I have to run entire clusters locally
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by evantbyrne 8mo ago
Culture flows from the top down
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by evantbyrne 9mo ago
I experimented a lot with bootstrapping React projects this past fall, and Astro was by far the least painful to use. Notably, it was the least goofy of all of the React starter kits to use for server API development.
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by evantbyrne 9mo ago
It never stopped being possible to order a bare bones F-150 with a 8ft bed. Might not have the tradeoffs that many people are looking for, but difficult to argue something like that has less utility than a mini truck that can't drive o
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by evantbyrne 9mo ago
> Hacker News, probably noticeably since 2016 or so, has been a negative, curmudgeonly place. It has become political (toward the left), sclerotic, and bitterly nostalgic. It's bad and no longer represents the future. I notice it ev
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by evantbyrne 9mo ago
I would expect Windows to have better battery life than Linux, just because Linux is so much worse than MacOS on power consumption, but I also haven't run Windows on a laptop in over a decade so I really don't know.
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by evantbyrne 9mo ago
It would be newsworthy if Linux laptops could compete with MacBooks on performance and quality. Maybe reconsider Windows if you feel the need to switch?
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by evantbyrne 10mo ago
Ah yeah of course, there is a zero case as well. I was thinking you just restart as to not bias the result. That's an interesting alternative though
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by evantbyrne 10mo ago
If you have a coin: Heads and tails represent bits. Flip a coin three times and add up the result to emulate a six-sided dice roll. e.g., heads, heads, tails = 3. If you get 7, then try again.
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by evantbyrne 10mo ago
You might be right, and I think tech professionals should be expected to use industry terminology correctly.
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by evantbyrne 10mo ago
How am I supposed to know what specific niche of AI the author is talking about when they don't elaborate? For all I know they woke up one day in 2023 and that was the first time they realized machine learning existed. Consider my comm

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