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by flossly 4mo ago
I found PRQL[1] to be good fix for nearly everything I dont like about SQL. But then it's only a query lang (DDL you still do in SQL then I guess). Bottom line for me now is that I dont write much of my SQL by hand. AI does a much bett
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by flossly 4mo ago
That's generous! In many cases they pay really well I heard, so I'm not too bothered by it. If you are a high paid specialist and you do not like how you are treated, you can go and find another, friendlier, job. For low paid work
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by flossly 4mo ago
For that price, I'd get an old, second hand, Thinkpad X1 carbon with a new battery.
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by flossly 4mo ago
You both like different types of tinkering. Some people put a generator on a tesla cybertruck and call that garage tinkering. Some people make a go-cart out of a lawnmower and call that garage tinkering. The first is the "batteries inc
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by flossly 4mo ago
thanks for pointing that out. makes sense.
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by flossly 4mo ago
Written in Pascal. That's been a while since I've seen Pascal in the wild!
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by flossly 4mo ago
To me "deleting a failing test" is not always bad. I've also deleted many failing tests without sabotaging: the test was no longer needed. I think the "no longer needed" and when that applies is where I simply diffe
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by flossly 4mo ago
> nefarious Chinese copycats LLMs are themselves copy cats. I say thanks for open sourcing and thereby promoting affordable innovation, instead of "nefarious". :)
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by flossly 4mo ago
> Many of those "lots of FP features where it makes sense". were already present in Smalltalk. Good point. And both Java and Ruby borrowed from Smalltalk (according to Wikipedia Kotlin does not, but that is: not directly. Sadly
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by flossly 4mo ago
Nice to see Ruby vs Java. Must say that in this context Kotlin deserves a mention: my Kotlin code basically looks+feels like Ruby-with-types. Both Ruby and Kotlin are essentially OO, but with "lots of FP features where it makes sense&q
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by flossly 4mo ago
It may be that the energy drain of bugs simply eclipses the compile/run overhead of all these languages in nearly all use cases.
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by flossly 4mo ago
When I read this I can help but feel the energy inefficiency of the self-admitted [1] "billion dollar mistake" that was adding implicit nulls to the C language (and thereafter many other languages). A bit broader: I wonder how str
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by flossly 5mo ago
Oh, and if you out-source it, then I do not thing you should have a say in whom the contract. Either keep it in house, or out-source. They contracted the market and now they want to control it as if it's in house.
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by flossly 5mo ago
> Vital digital supplier. They make the login-screen. And now for businesses there are like 5 providers of the login screen (that you HAVE to use in order to use govt websites): you have to choose one and pay like 40EUR/y in order t
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by flossly 5mo ago
That's exactly how i feel about it. And the code I'm looking at now with Kotlin is so similar to code i liked reading when I was in a committed relationship with Ruby.
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by flossly 5mo ago
Have you tried Kotlin? It's a less clunky Java. The syntax is IMHO Ruby-level charming (for an OO-first lang), but with types that are quite a bit stronger than Java. Java interop is quite smooth.
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by flossly 5mo ago
There's a subreddit dedicated to this. https://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/top/?t=all
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by flossly 5mo ago
While certainly true, it does not fix the problem (but makes it worse): if the govt does not allow you to self govern and/or break-off, and therefor people that do not like the govt "vote with their feet" and leave, there wil
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by flossly 5mo ago
As an outsider I like this idea of being able to vote yourself out. This is the ultimate test of a democracy, imho, that you can leave it democratically (by vote and not by force). We've seen some interesting cases of this, in Spain an
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by flossly 5mo ago
Have you looked at Kotlin? I looooved Ruby. But now I've come to a conclusion that a stronger type system is worth it: in teams, for LLMs, for my own sanity. Kotlin is basically a Ruby (OO first with lots of FP goodness) with a serious
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by flossly 5mo ago
Why would one not use TDD when coding with Claude? It's so cheap! Yes you need to help it with the types of tests: you still need to know what you want from it. But once you have all types of tests (unit, db, fake-services, e2e, etc.)
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by flossly 5mo ago
Ask AI to find the weakest tests. :) No joke: it works for me. I have a 45kLOC prod code (just code, no comments, no blanks), tested by a 30kLOC test code containing 1600 tests (that run in 30secs). I helped with the test infrastructure&#x2
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by flossly 5mo ago
I use BitWarden because I'd never trust a password manager with close source clients. Before BitWarden I used a local manager: BitWarden made my life easier. The web interface I'd never use: I have no guarantee that my passphrase
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by flossly 5mo ago
I think that DeepSeek may be important to that. They have a really good model that's open source, raising the bar for all other players: how good your model needs to be so you can make meaningful money on it (better than DeepSeek). Sam
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by flossly 5mo ago
And no signatures in common. Also: how many films are still produced in line with Dogma 95?
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by flossly 5mo ago
I feel this should be a mode on ripgrep. a disk search-lib in python? really? Burntsushi (author of ripgrep), please chime in!
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by flossly 5mo ago
Hence I used FP-inspired (to point at languages like Rust, Kotlin, Ruby, Swift)
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by flossly 5mo ago
Rust is just another language. Sure it's cooler than some langs, to some ppl. Sure. The author made the choice. Open sourced it (thanks!). So now we all enjoy more options. Saying author did so because "cool" does not sit wel
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by flossly 5mo ago
I use GraalVM and Native Image now and while the project --a small CLI tool-- is tiny (2kLOC with mainly AWS-SDK deps) the compile times are huge (~3 minutes), the OS-dependencies many (so much I use a build container to ease the burden of
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by flossly 5mo ago
Go only provides one concurrency paradigm. Rust support many (if not all). The type system of Go is very weak. I'd say that'd be my main reason to pass on Go, even when the concurrency paradigm fits the project perfectly.

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