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by honkycat 6y ago
I always say: We ( Software developers ) are ALREADY working as high a level as possible, and invest aggressively when we can see we can cut out work that does not add business value. Compare local data centers, to AWS, to Kubernetes. The r
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by honkycat 6y ago
The classic example is the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone: https://sites.tufts.edu/tuftsgetsgreen/2018/02/27/wolves-cha...
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by honkycat 6y ago
I always find the anti-environmentalist position that pops up on HN interesting. For a technical audience, they are amazingly unaware of "Systems Thinking". Saying "MEH, there are other pollinators" is lazy thinking. Our
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by honkycat 6y ago
> No one at this point - parents, players, fans - should have any illusions about the consequences of playing these games. I have a friend who is a high school football coach. In his words: "Only people playing at a really high leve
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by honkycat 6y ago
GPU Benchmark puts the 1660 Super at +35% benchmark speeds, and the 5500xt at 12%. I don't really see the point in upgrading for that level of improvement when I can spend a bit more and get a much more significant upgrade.
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by honkycat 6y ago
No, I misspoke. I was talking about the next-gen GPUs but I had a brain fart
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by honkycat 6y ago
What I am really hoping for out of the next-gen AMD offering is value. GPUs are so insanely expensive anymore, it is so frustrating to want to upgrade my 6 year old 970 GTX and be unable to do a meaningful upgrade without spending over $400
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by honkycat 6y ago
I cannot improve on this answer, totally nailed it. I would like to emphasize the fact that I can get a windows machine and run WSL on it, and not get a bunch of eye-rolls from my IT director. Additionally: Linux laptops are pretty OK, but
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by honkycat 6y ago
I've been using WSL2 for the last few months. I never thought I would see the day I prefer Windows to OSX AND Linux for a development environment, but that day has come. I am ASTOUNDED by how well WSL2 works, especially when integrated
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by honkycat 6y ago
This is my nightmare: going out of date. Never lose the fear!
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by honkycat 6y ago
Nice extension. For the love of GOD do not hijack my "new tab" page and focus on the page instead of the URL bar. That is SUPER ANNOYING. There should be a button to disable this behaviour very clearly on the page.
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by honkycat 6y ago
> “It looks like you are driving.” I lie to my phone. This is such a shitty, irresponsible thing to do. People die every day from car accidents and this author thinks it is funny.
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by honkycat 6y ago
I've used a KinesisGaming for years, bought out of desperation due to severe wrist and finger pain. Has done wonders. Being able to remap keys with the heardware is awesome. Mine recently broke due to a move, so I reached out. They off
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by honkycat 6y ago
Just to get my take out in the open: I do not have kids yet. People are going to have kids and I like kids. Raging against that is like whipping the ocean. Of course we should support families as much as we can as a society, they are our fu
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by honkycat 6y ago
It is funny because I have seen this reflected a lot with my older co-workers. They work OBSESSIVELY ( although don't seem to get more work done... ), and I independently identified exactly this sentiment: Work is kinda fun when you ha
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by honkycat 6y ago
> It's simply depressing how parent/kid-hostile society has become. This is such bullshit, akin to the "Christians" who feel like they are being persecuted, even though the majority of people in the US are christian.
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by honkycat 6y ago
Introverts vs extroverts. Humans are social animals. Socialization is a basic human need. It is much harder for some people to stay inside and not socialize than others. We are now on month 7 of being told to not socialize or see or do anyt
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by honkycat 6y ago
I would be super into a phone with a physical keyboard, but I am on Google Fi and I am hesitant to switch. I've given up on swipe typing. I have been using it for almost a decade and I still cannot type effectively with it. I am ready
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by honkycat 6y ago
I love django, have not used it in years though. I've been in JavaScript land. I'm consistently surprised that there are not awesome web frameworks in JavaScript similar to Django
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by honkycat 6y ago
Is every job like this? No. Are a TON of jobs like this? Absolutely. I was in a job exactly like this last year, and I quit. I regret it. I miss the money and it was good for my resume.
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by honkycat 6y ago
This is pathetic. How the hell did a comapny as rich as Twitter not have a break-glass around accessing this data. No one person should have had this level of access. No TWO people should have had this level of access. Unbelievable.
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by honkycat 6y ago
I suspect modern transportation infrastructure are going to be one of those things future generations mock us for. We spend an insane amount of our private money on purchasing and maintaining personal vehicles, our public money on our road
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by honkycat 6y ago
I've been coding professonally for around 10 years ( plus 4 year degree ), did the vim thing for the first 7, switched to emacs for the next 2, and I finally gave up the ghost and switched to vscode this year. I disagree completely wit
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by honkycat 6y ago
What a weak argument. "Some idiot said something somewhere, that means everyone believes it." If anything that thread illustrates how weak and stupid the "anti-identity politics" arguments are.
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by honkycat 6y ago
What a bad take. I would expect Paul Graham to be more educated on a topic before he says something so tired and uninsightful. It comes from BOTH SIDES. The right wing also cancels people with social media. A few well-placed articles by rig
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by honkycat 6y ago
I love GraphQL because it is a standard people can agree on, if nothing else. It is a very long list of decisions your team does not have to make. How to handle mutations and queries, how to represent your domain objects, all of this can be
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by honkycat 6y ago
This article addresses a very particular person who definitely does exist. Expert beginners are absolutely a thing and things have only gotten worse with the "HIRE EVERYBODY! NO TRAINING REQUIRED" approach to hiring a lot of shops
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by honkycat 6y ago
I agree with you about how everything blends together, and that you don't necessarily have to focus only on "improving as a developer", however, expert beginners are absolutely a thing and something I have had to deal with mu
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by honkycat 6y ago
I will second Accelerate. Phenomenal book. It breaks down what a modern, high performance software team in 2020 looks like. It has the best explanation of what burnout is and the causes of I have ever read. Accelerate takes a scientific app
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by honkycat 6y ago
Yes. Exactly. Precisely the same thing for me. I was reading at an absurdly young age. School for me was a special sort of hell where I was able to read at a 12th grade level in 3rd grade, and yet a decade later was in class with people who

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