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by fsloth 2y ago
” nothing I personally dislike more than apps that don't use the platform's native UI” I’m not sure if this is universally applicable dogma. Games generally apply their own UI regardless of platform. Web apps generally do as well.
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by fsloth 2y ago
My advice? Focus on the business value, not the next ticket. Understand what the actual added value of your work is to your employer. It won’t help in the day-to-day tasks but it will help you navigate your career with confidence. Personall
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by fsloth 2y ago
Not sure if this is for or against, but this is a good opportunity to argument why concepts developed “in humanities” are valuable (in case if it’s not obvious :D ) Maslows hierarchy of needs, while possibly inaccurate, is a very usefull mo
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by fsloth 2y ago
As a trained STEM professional the argumentation why STEM over humanities for the society of NZ would be better feels arbitrary and shallow. This looks like a combination of boorish managerialism and politically motivated budgeting - but ma
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by fsloth 2y ago
"It may sound reassuring that someone watches your back and won't allow mistakes or would help clean up a mess, but you should not keep relying on this anyway." This assessment totally devalues the experience of having an mor
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by fsloth 2y ago
” killed C++ as an attractive modern language” I’m not sure were you got this perception that it’s dead. C++ remains the only game in town in many domains. That said, _unless you work in those domains_ there is no good reason to use C++ IMH
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by fsloth 2y ago
” you will be looking so scary that you wouldn’t have to actually use the plane.” I’d say this is the main intent. But not only because of the political aspects. AFAIK the plane is intended to be used like an ultra-mobile target aquisition
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by fsloth 2y ago
No, the use of lying in Russian dialogue is quite next level. It’s way beyond what is expected in western international policy. It’s the ”i know they are lying, they know i know, and yet they lie”. One of the points is not to convince but t
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by fsloth 2y ago
Bravo sir, this is Alexander cutting the knot of muddled relativism. It may be strange to modern western minds but Russians still consider their imperial project as wholesome, good and nearly sacred. To get into the correct mindstate, you c
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by fsloth 2y ago
Russian propaganda is all about claiming nobody has any values, and using hand picked historical errors and misattribution evidence of this. The intent is to sow doubt. I see you are repeating the favourite tropes while avoiding the point -
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by fsloth 2y ago
That’s bullshit. I’m sorry, but I’m tired of apologists falling to Russian state lies. Falling over to Russian lies is not independent thinking. The first rule of kremnology is that Russia always lies without a shame, as lies are usefull an
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by fsloth 2y ago
It’s a message and hybrid warfare. Hybrid warfare - the infrastructure is offline, and the repair resources are consumed. And you gather intel what the resource impact and offline time is. Message - we can do this. Now think what else we ca
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by fsloth 2y ago
If you look at all the oceans as a whole, sure. Baltic? A tiiny tiny area of water. Critical infrastructure? It’s sabotage.
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by fsloth 2y ago
”Pex doesn't work on windows” Oh that’s such a weird limitation. In the early 2000’s open source hubris, next year was always the year of the Linux desktop. Since then consumer windows matured into a totally ok OS and one with the best
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by fsloth 2y ago
This! As win/mac user Visual Studio is my preferred tool, but in MacOS Clion (with vscode for few random workflow things not supported in Clion) is an adequate replacement (but Visual Studio remains king). VSCode can be used as an in
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by fsloth 2y ago
” If you feel this is an issue then why don't you move it to an independent submodule that can be compiled independently?” If it’s a header, you necessarily can’t. Header gets included every time you want to compile code that depends o
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by fsloth 2y ago
I get tremendous value. But only when using API:s that have ’always’ been more or less stable. I agree, systems with rapidly evolving featureset are painful. Successes: Git, any bash script, misc linear algebra recipes. Random debug tools i
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by fsloth 2y ago
I did not know mini fog machines were a thing until now - and now I want one! Do you have any references? I think apart from the see-through portion and some fan the windtunnel would be quite 3d-printable.
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by fsloth 2y ago
"Remember when being a “Senior Software Engineer” actually meant something? " As a counterpoint I would argue it has never meant anything specific. The term "engineer" is not at all well defined in software industry. M
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by fsloth 2y ago
Thanks! Looks very interesting and usefull.
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by fsloth 2y ago
I guess the main problem was nobody had a budget for those plans. ”Technically speaking we can do it but we can’t afford it” unfortunately still means ”we can’t do it”. Now only if Project Orion had not been canceled due to international tr
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by fsloth 2y ago
“ The aliasing is quite extreme ” One interesting thing in becoming a graphics expert and discussing graphics with non-graphicsprogrammers, is that many don’t care about aliasing. Aliasing in sound is usually painfully untolerable. It does
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by fsloth 2y ago
Exactly this. The menial tasks become less of a burden and you can just power through them with LLM generated scripts. If someone expects the LLM to be the senior contributor in novel algorithm development, they will be disappointed for sur
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by fsloth 2y ago
This. There are tasks where implementing something might take up to one hour yourself, that you can validate with high enough confidence in a few seconds to minutes. Of course not all tasks are like that.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Sure. But the added value of SWE is not ”spitting code”. Let’s see if I need to calibrate my optimism once I take the new model to a spin.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Agree, SWE as a profession is not going anywhere, unless we AGI, and that would mean all the rules change anyway. Actually now is really good time to get to SWE. The craft contains lots of pointless cruft that LLM:s cut through like knife t
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by fsloth 2y ago
I'm not sure what type of code you develop but it sure ain't the entirety of the real world. In my corner of the real world we are quite concerned about the difference between stack and heap and profile our applications to pinpoin
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by fsloth 2y ago
Apple pay over the watch is killer app IMO. You can pay everything with it. In civilized cities like london you can use it to pay the public transit. While it may sound gimmicky, this is actually an improvement (if only slight) to daily cho
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by fsloth 2y ago
It sort of can. For example you can load spotify playlists to it, podcasts over podcast app etc. The interface to achieve this is quite cumbersome, though.
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by fsloth 2y ago
No, and they shouldn’t probably. Most internal libraries don’t have and don’t need to implement novel complex template based specialization - not in their API at least. And stuff that’s internal to library needs to only implement the things

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