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by halfcat 2y ago
This whole comment has strong C language “we don’t need a package manager, we write everything ourselves” vibes. The benefit of something like Django is it provides strong convention, loosely enforced. Everyone on your team needs to know
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by halfcat 2y ago
> “stream processing" might sound intimidating… we believe this isn't true > Getting started: Install Kafka… I know this is all relative, but running Kafka isn’t realistic for a small team. Until a business reaches an en
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Here’s some good food for thought on the engineer/manager decision, [0] and [1]. Good luck! [0] https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum... [1] https://charity.wtf/201
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> So you want them to come to work and do their job, then go home and waste their nights and weekends doing a variation of your job? No. This would be a person who already happens to spend their nights and weekends coding. There are pl
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by halfcat 2y ago
> no mechanism by which consciousness could affect the world Where would the placebo effect fit in this thought experiment? > a grid of rocks that have two sides, a dark and light side and he has a small book Where did the book co
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by halfcat 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. I’m curious, would pandas, polars, or similar work here (read_sql/to_parquet)? Or is there a challenge around larger than memory data sets (or some other issue I’m not thinking of)?
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by halfcat 2y ago
> this really turns into a headache fast as soon as you have ~4-5 in-house packages What’s a typical or better way of handling in-house packages?
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by halfcat 2y ago
iPhone has this as the “Reachability” feature https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...
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by halfcat 2y ago
In fairness, creating a universe is pretty useful.
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If it’s good, there’s nothing to smell.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Coincidentally, few democracies last much longer than 250 years. Monarchies and oligarchies tend to last longer. Some argue that all organizations, including governments, eventually become oligarchies. See The Iron Law of Oligarchy (1911)
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by halfcat 2y ago
Yeah but then you need an oscilloscope to really know whether the NIC firmware is phoning home. Joking of course (but also not).
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by halfcat 2y ago
Not if you’re applying to hundreds, or thousands of jobs. Unless you know someone, it’s a quantity game.
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by halfcat 2y ago
C# is solid. It’s not necessarily the best at anything (is it?), but its floor is like a 3 out of 4 across the board. I remember making a big spreadsheet of languages and a bunch of potential areas of use. Building desktop apps, mobile apps
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by halfcat 2y ago
It’s the year 2000. We have the internet, a technology that will change the world. Yahoo is the most valuable company on earth. Among the coolest things people do is go to CompUSA and pay money for a web browser, Netscape Navigator, because
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by halfcat 2y ago
The problem with any privately run, or centrally controlled blockchain, is that it’s difficult as the operator of the blockchain to demonstrate to a third party that the blockchain hasn’t been tampered with. If I run a blockchain that I, or
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by halfcat 2y ago
> It’s purely about perception of value All money has always been about perception, whether we used paper, shiny rocks, or sea shells as money, it’s always been about perception. Is it real or counterfeit, do you trust the person you’r
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by halfcat 2y ago
Backward compatibility is great. Your team needs to learn one thing, and it will work with minor modifications and get security updates until after you’ve retired. SQLModel uses SQLAlchemy, which is database-agnostic. Not sure why this is a
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by halfcat 2y ago
Time may correlate with increase in entropy in general. But also consider assembly theory. Once certain assemblies dominate an environment, they constrain future possibilities. Environments and the life it supports evolve together.
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by halfcat 2y ago
So you’re living out the trope of reinventing Django but lower quality :-) Maybe ask around about SQLModel. It sounds like the perfect solution, but I’ve never encountered someone that used it and didn’t have the opinion that it isn’t read
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by halfcat 2y ago
> I don't want to pickle and re-instantiate a cloud client every time I download some bytes for instance Have you tried multiprocessing.shared_memory to address this?
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by halfcat 2y ago
> ”T430…no better keyboard” This is so true. I wish MacBook didn’t have such shallow keyboards or I’d be all in. Maybe it’s improved recently but at one point it was like typing on a table. Always loved the travel of the ThinkPad keybo
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by halfcat 2y ago
Yes, but it also wasn’t going to get fixed without in-house tech expertise. Or flip it around. Your marketing is using Mailgun, and they just ran an expensive marketing campaign, but none of the emails are going out. Or the marketing person
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by halfcat 2y ago
You mean floppies, right? Yeah, like a stack of 26 floppies that you can own and use forever.
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Become a plumber
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Email notifications from your CRM stop getting delivered to your employee’s inboxes (which means your business is losing revenue). CRM vendor says ”problem isn’t on our end” . Hopefully someone at your company understands DNS and MX record
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Are there any tools that enable capturing traffic from outside the OS you’re monitoring, that still allow for process-level monitoring? Meaning, between the big vendors making the OS, and state-level actors making hardware, I wouldn’t neces
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Yes. I always thought this captured it well: ”I used to think I was introverted because I really liked being alone but it turns out I just like being at peace and I am very extroverted when I’m around people who bring me peace.”
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I suspect part of the challenge is we’re dealing with a graph (of execution paths) but all we have to work with is a tree (file system). Every person will prefer a different grouping the execution paths that lowers their cognitive load. But
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I recall not being very effective with C++ for years, and then someone recommended the book Large Scale C++ Software Design, and that was a big unlock. I didn’t use 80% of what’s in the book, but just having a comprehensive way of structuri

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