ezekiel68

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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   Glad you mentioned these resources. I was soft-pedaling it to avoid the "Look, a gatekeeper!" brigade.
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely think about it.
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   You're exactly right (original commenter here). I began my career in professional software engineering in 1998. I've despaired that trained monkeys could probably wreck this part of the economy for over 25 years. But we're st
4. 64.▲
   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   Yes - as the original commenter, this was certainly my meaning (though I didn't spell it out).
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   Original commenter here. I don't disagree with your larger point. However, it turns out that the default settings for PostgreSQL have been super conservative for years; as a stable piece of infrastructure they seem to prefer defaulting
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   > Both postgres and redis are used with the out of the box settings Ugh. I know this gives the illusion of fairness, but it's not how any self-respecting software engineer should approach benchmarks. You have hardware. Perhaps you
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   > How do you justify... It's easy. I just remind myself that, in about 5 billion years, the Sun will have sufficiently run out of fuel to begin its transition to a Red Giant. At that point, all remnants of biologic life that ever
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age." -Albert Einstein
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   by ezekiel68 1y ago

   Same.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    Greetings, fellow Buddha.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I'm conflicted about this post. On the one hand, it's encouraging and cheerful. On the other hand, it pretends to evaluate HTMX by insisting on conventions which... have nothing to do with HTMX. Spoiler: HTMX does not deliver un
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    They would not. I love Kimmel, but it turns out the story of the gunman is now much more layered and nuanced than "the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    Everyone voted them down, but there's a kernel of truth here. We were all in favor of it when Judicial Activism gave us approved Liberal outcomes starting in the latter half of the 20th Century. We didn't realize that the only th
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    Those who watch the Watchers.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I guess the value of this is to encapsulate away various other command-line tools which could perform the same in a script. Lowers the barrier to entry. To my mind, though, this tries hard to tackle a solved problem. On the other hand --
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I've lived through the recessions of 1990-91 (in my 20s, not tech), the Dotcom bust and the Great Financial Crisis. I can tell you that it's always been this way when its' a "buyer's market" and the employers
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I will start with a basic markdown outline and then use a prompt describing more of the system in just flowing (yet coherent) thought and, crucially, I'll ask the model to "Organize the spec in such a way that an LLM can best unde
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    In any interesting tech position, "your job" is a myriad of things. And if everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. They ask us to automate our work so that "someone else on the team could do it during an outage at 3
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I fell in love with them a long time ago when reading Nietzsche aphorisms.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    [Just before I added this comment I realized it was more or less a direct message to the author, whom I noticed was replying here] As someone born very near the start of the Unix epoch, this isn't cringe at all - though I guess it is a
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    You know what's even easier than doing that? Neglecting to do it or meaning to do it then getting pulled in to some meeting (or other important distraction) and then imagining you did it.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I had never seen a rope use a robot dog before so I clicked immediately. It wasn't what I expected from the headline, but very cool nonetheless.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I'm not sure why this isn't recognized as a great success. Once a large enough portion of the population were no longer smokers, it was inevitable that many lung cancers would be in smokers. What is important in all of this is no
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    This is what happens when "Minimum Viable Product" meets modern threat environments. 'Move fast and break things' indeed.
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    I read the title. Immediate reaction: "Jeepers - they're on to me!"
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    "How is our 'Strategic Use of LLM Technology' initiative going, Harris?" "Sir, I'm delighted to report that the productivity and insights gained outclass anything available from four years ago. We are clearly w
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    There's another side to that coin: supply. Since Gemini CLI was recently released, many people on the "free" tier noticed that their sessions immediately devolved from Gemini 2.5 Pro to Flash "due to high utilization&quo
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    TBH this is why I've never messed with SQLite. If I want to bother with a SQL database, I at least want the benefit of the physical layer compressing data to the declared types and PostgreSQL scales down surprisingly well to lower-reso
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    Thanks! Since commenting, I've discovered sst/opencode on GitHub as well (and Gemini CLI came out as an aspiring competitor to Claude Code too).
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    by ezekiel68 1y ago

    For sure. Neither the OP nor my anecdote are about doing things the most effective way. I appreciate your advice.