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by flukus 4y ago
They also won't give a second glance to those who would like to move down the stack, even in markets where these sorts of skills are practically non-existent.
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by flukus 4y ago
In practice for this particular question they're asking if you've memorized sort algorithms. I have not (or I've forgotten since) and I doubt even the brightest minds of the industry that did invent them did so within an hour
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by flukus 4y ago
Personally I like to rsync the logs locally so I can have the context of the errors and also historical data, the later can be useful for blame avoidance. I also prefer awk's pattern matching for the filtering, counting, etc. Especiall
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by flukus 4y ago
In the case the file was only intended to be there for a temporary step, I wanted that working before involving the database, which I believe also won't work because you can't do system calls at comptime. Ultimately if you go down
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by flukus 4y ago
I did some experimenting recently and was disappointed by how limited it is. It's a great solution for generics but things like file access don't work in const expressions and the errors are horribly opaque with no hint that it&#x
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by flukus 4y ago
When something has been around for a while but never caught on we're usually quite dismissive by default, usually on the assumption that it never caught on for a reason. Think of your own reaction the last time 3D TV's were hot. T
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by flukus 4y ago
The author must have smarter friends than me because I've definitely witnessed mine fall for this fallacy. I've even had them ague that's it's a good strategy away from the casino where there are no sunk costs. > They
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by flukus 5y ago
> When the demand for houses rises, Flatland metropolitan areas, which don't really have traditional downtowns, just sprawl some more. And this is the driving force behind those cities going bankrupt, they're easy to build but
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by flukus 5y ago
Assuming you live somewhere that's somewhat affordable and self driving is a couple of decades off then 95k/year to follow the FIRE model.
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by flukus 5y ago
It might be a bit circular, but I'd go a step further and say that the lack of self driving in long haul trucking is evidence that general self driving is at least a decade away.
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by flukus 5y ago
> ls, grep, find, ps, htop will always be what they are. SystemD screwed with a few that I'm still discovering one by one. "cron", "shutdown" is no longer in the default debian path, I think ulimit was another on
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by flukus 5y ago
> So basically the new GTK is iOS but without the professional designers behind it. Professional designers seem to be the ones creating these problems. Back when it was just programmers you could tell a button was a button, a tab was a t
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by flukus 5y ago
IMHO the two biggest problems I find with existing tools are that they assume the documentation is the source of truth and that the tangling will leave artifacts in code. Both of these make them poorly suited to the sort of projects that mo
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by flukus 5y ago
> Or they believe the costs are worth it. The costs are more than likely paid by others, which is why they're oblivious. Far easier than convincing them would be to stop subsidizing them, sprawling car dependent suburbs are a giant
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by flukus 5y ago
It also is/was free on audible if you've got a subscription.
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by flukus 5y ago
In practice it stopped working well long before windows 11 because so few apps were win32 based and/or because developers would explicitly override the theme. I gave it a go on Windows 7 and even apps like outlook and office wouldn&#x2
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by flukus 5y ago
> CLIs (that read input from stdin and spit out results to stdout/stderr) are useful in an automation/data processing pipeline. TUI's and GUI's can both be used in the middle of a pipe when things require some manual
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by flukus 5y ago
With a middle ground like a micro ORM those transparent queries are barely visible anyway, literally a line or two lines of embededed sql strings. Especially micro ORMs that can handle dynamic filters. They're generally write once and
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by flukus 5y ago
How universal is it? It had made it's way to Australia by at least the early 90's.
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by flukus 5y ago
And they had much higher humidity. From Australia I normally LOL at a northern hemisphere "heatwave", but that recent heat dome was crazy.
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by flukus 5y ago
It's bad enough Netflix algorithms try to shove things in my face whether I like them or not, I don't want the food equivalent doing it literally. > You need a way to filter what's good from what's great. Existing alg
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by flukus 5y ago
More and more I'm seeing "unit testing" becoming the generic term for what we used to just call plain old testing. A lot of companies had never had anything remotely close to unit testing but called all their automated tests
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by flukus 5y ago
How long do the batteries in those things last? If it makes it to 2 years then they're doing much better than any of my wired ear buds where the wire's or contacts usually break and are probably responsible for less waste.
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by flukus 5y ago
Plain text database: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ Replaced a lot of awk for me, along with places I might have been tempted to use sqlite. Unfortunately never had much luck with the bash or c integration
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by flukus 5y ago
I'd call it a forum more than social media, the focus is on a topic rather than individuals. But when it comes to outages nothing beats Twitter. I'm not really a Twitter user, but when I click a link from elsewhere there's a
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by flukus 5y ago
> why is it only appearing now? Maybe the clouds have to be just the right height/composition to see the effect. If the clouds were higher it might be too small and diffuse to see, maybe the lower clouds are partially blocking some
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by flukus 5y ago
> Companies don't pay you for being a "developer" or "labor", they pay for specific skills and the ability to apply them effectively and competently. Companies tend to be way too specific about the skills require
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by flukus 5y ago
> Michael Phelps was not slightly better at swimming. If you look at individual records he literally was just ~1% better than the previous record holder. His 200m freestyle record was 102.96, the previous record was 104.06. The whole fie
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by flukus 5y ago
> Yeah, the ethics would be tough What sort of ethical issues are you thinking? I would have thought higher grade meals than you'd find in a standard prison would entice all the volunteers you could want. There's probably other
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by flukus 5y ago
> Will fancy new offices with that perks that SV workers have long had convince you to return to the office? If "fancy" means open plan and "perks" means sitting next to a foosball table that will further entrench my

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