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by hinkley 2mo ago
> But migrating away from .env starts with reading it correctly. We had a system that mediated all access to the static config through an in-house library. Because nobody touched the environment-specific data directly, it was a convenien
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by hinkley 2mo ago
> To be sure, a punch in the mouth may be more effective. HAH! Not all of us are big enough to get away with it, but you're not wrong. Well, also there's been a lot of feedback on both sides. I wasn't the first one to sugg
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Sounds like they don’t have a fine enough lens on some particular class of problems. Been there before. The source of the meta problem is so old few people will learn the lesson that hadn’t known it already.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
This weekend I managed to get a test into some sort of infinite loop that didn’t overflow or time out, so I had to single-step in to figure out where the last line it broke on. Something to do with events propagating. Oh and someone misunde
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Someone did a study that suggested the network effect is logarithmic in nature, but if that’s true it means something with 95% market share is 3 times “better” for having everyone there. Not 20 or two orders of magnitude better but not noth
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by hinkley 2mo ago
I am not being condescending. I save that for folks who start it. You don’t want to see me being condescending. Well actually you do, as long as it’s not aimed at you and you get popcorn.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
You’re all here to clutch pearls. This has all turned into virtue signalling over a title. There are better things to be doing with your day. It doesn’t matter to you that they have no shame and it will roll off them like water off a duck
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by hinkley 2mo ago
I am well familiar with passive aggressive. This isn’t how you fight it, is the point. Getting worked up is exactly the goal. Go outside. All of you.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
What can I say, except you're welcome.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
We should probably be studying people who wear smart watches and collecting the activity levels to control for that. But if GLP-1 makes you more active, who am I to complain. There's the reason they approve stomach stapling surgeries o
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by hinkley 2mo ago
HP wrote a JIT to migrate old applications to their new hardware. So did Apple, twice. I don't know if IBM were the first but they've done it a few times as well for their mainframe hardware. In HP's case, they tried running
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Yeah it’s definitely passive aggressive and those people must be stopped. But I think it’s sometimes by management design. Scrum makes it pretty easy to keep devs permanently off balance so they can’t think about how wrong what we are build
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Well it’s about 40 years since the US started getting stupid about foreign trade and things are not going so well here now. Send help.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Yes, everyone is always telling me how great colonialism was for the locals.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Or outsourced their pollution to a foreign supplier.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
But you can also put generational GC on steroids by implementing escape analysis, which creates a separate category of allocations that don’t have to be marked and swept at all. Effectively they were marked the first time the code was run a
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by hinkley 2mo ago
And don’t ever save the user’s “no” for next time. We need to needle them to use the app EVERY SINGLE TIME the visitor the website. I wonder sometimes how the team doing the website feels about being treated as second class. Or if it’s the
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by hinkley 2mo ago
One hundred participants and two saw the same elf is just the birthday paradox isn’t it?
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by hinkley 2mo ago
You can get brain damage and seizures with a high fever and we knew that in the 90’s. We already had almost all of the fever controlling drugs we use today by the 90’s. What the hell was wrong with your parents? Do you still talk to them? T
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Sir, the orcas have declared war on California.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
No but it's the biggest one that's easy to forget. Feature factory work increases the surface area of every API you touch, and the proliferation of pre-written APIs expands the number of APIs you touch. The combination of the two
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Heartily disagree. It's the Frankenstein problem. As an engineer, if you can't even start a process with sobriety, rigor, and safety in mind, that cavalier attitude only amplifies as you go down the road from experimentation to de
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by hinkley 2mo ago
But we went from 1080p monitors to 5k monitors and so we are pushing 7x the number of pixels and at roughly twice the bits per pixel.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
What did you all think of the, "without triggering seizures" scene?
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Some wise person in the 90's looked at the 16-32 bit transition, and side-eyed the 64 bit machines that were already available. He noted how differently we write software on 32 bit hardware (flat memory addressing, virtual memory, etc)
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by hinkley 2mo ago
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
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by hinkley 2mo ago
People have been taking Knuth's 'premature optimization' in vain for almost as long as he had it written down, and only after 'performance is a feature' did I see any daylight at all at the end of the tunnel. I&#x27
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by hinkley 2mo ago
There was a second problem with that, Digital proved in court that Intel stole their architecture to put into the Pentium. Part of the settlement was that Intel had to fab for Digital for a long time and pay for a bunch of their patents. Th
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by hinkley 2mo ago
Digital, HP, and IBM had the foresight to supply NCSA with Windows NT machines with their respective not-Intel chips in them to make sure that they had a web browser on their platforms. I got the honor of using the Alpha machine, and so it
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by hinkley 2mo ago
BYTE magazine has been gone for almost 30 years now. Fuck. Dr Dobbs has been gone for 12, which is still a long time, but when I first read the intro my brain transposed the two and I had a proper freak out before I realized what I'd d

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