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by icedchai 1y ago
I let an agent upgrade some old C code that wouldn’t compile and had 100’s of warnings. It was running builds on its own, looking at new errors, etc. It even wrote some tests! I could’ve done this myself but it was a hobby project and tedio
902.
by icedchai 1y ago
I had good luck with Zed w/Claude. Did you try max mode?
903.
by icedchai 1y ago
Which Flicker Fixer? I couldn't find any for that cheap. (I checked some old Amiga magazines from the late 80's.) Fair enough on the Mac II. They were very expensive and a rip off! Also, early Mac OS sucked.
904.
by icedchai 1y ago
As I mentioned in a previous post, it cost a LOT more than $100. $500 for a Microway flicker fixer + another $400 for the monitor. They may cost $100 "today", but at the time, it was very expensive. Also remember the Amiga was com
905.
by icedchai 1y ago
Early Macs weren't even 2-bits, they were 1-bit: black or white! The Amiga was a bargain in comparison, but it was not without its flaws, like all early machines. I had an A500 with a 1084 monitor, and the flicker at high res was bothe
906.
by icedchai 1y ago
Not to mention any errant program could easily take down the OS because there was no memory protection. Amiga users quickly became familiar with the “guru meditation” screen, which was the system’s BSOD.
907.
by icedchai 1y ago
The Mac’s screen was flicker free. Almost nobody used any Amiga any higher than 640x200 (640x256 PAL) unless they had special hardware (“flicker fixer”.) That being said I preferred the Amiga.
908.
by icedchai 1y ago
Are you forgetting about interlace? You won’t want to use 640x400 for very long due to the low refresh rate.
909.
by icedchai 1y ago
I always felt the Amiga 3000 was Commodore's high point in terms of industrial design. Still, the keyboard garage in the 1000 was neat!
910.
by icedchai 1y ago
This is true, but generally speaking there should be more people "producing" than "ingesting." This is often not the case. Most meetings are useless, and this has become much worse in modern times. Example: agile "s
911.
by icedchai 1y ago
I worked at a small company with more PMs than developers. It was incredible how much bull it created.
912.
by icedchai 1y ago
Linux KVM/qemu VMs start pretty fast.
913.
by icedchai 1y ago
I've worked at smaller companies where half the people in the meetings were just there because they had nothing else to do. Lots of "I'm a fly on the wall" and "I'll be a note taker" types. Most of them co
914.
by icedchai 1y ago
What do you propose they do instead?
915.
by icedchai 1y ago
You don't even need a business class connection. You can do BGP over a tunnel to a VPS or colo.
916.
by icedchai 1y ago
It doesn't have to be that large. Many people have "personal" ASNs. Check out this blog (not me, I just remember it from years back): https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomou...
917.
by icedchai 1y ago
Unless you're heavily into networking and the ISP space, there's basically no need for you to know about routing protocols.
918.
by icedchai 1y ago
In over 25 years of working, I've never had a useful performance review. If more people pushed back on them, perhaps it would stop.
919.
by icedchai 1y ago
They don't "think" like a human, but on the other hand, they don't "think" like a calculator, either.
920.
by icedchai 1y ago
The sad truth is you can't.
921.
by icedchai 1y ago
Have you actually tried using AI to generate code? Try it with a hobby project. You might be surprised!
922.
by icedchai 1y ago
It depends on the team and company size. EM for a 4 person dev team? Probably useless. You need a tech lead with light, part-time management responsibilities.
923.
by icedchai 1y ago
It sounds like a management / supervision issue. Did anyone review the "plan"? Were they competent to do such a review? Trust but verify. If I wrote a DR plan, I'd expect someone else to review it and sign off.
924.
by icedchai 1y ago
The problem is finding other people to work in less mainstream languages. Probably not an issue right now, but during better times...
925.
by icedchai 1y ago
I’ve had AI generate code in a few hours that would take some juniors I’ve worked with weeks. Yes, the code was not the best (very long methods) and it took some iteration, but everything has trade offs.
926.
by icedchai 1y ago
I had AI do some tedious work, like migrating to new APIs, upgrading deprecated calls, fixing warnings in old C code. It worked great. Faster than I could do it myself.
927.
by icedchai 1y ago
Many companies never upgrade anything anyway. I once got a job at a startup only to discover they were running Ubuntu 16.04 and python 2.7, in 2022. The dependency situation was also bad. Basically, their stack was so old it had gone past
928.
by icedchai 1y ago
I find using Postgres and JSONB often gets me the best of both worlds.
929.
by icedchai 1y ago
I worked at a Scala shop about 15 years ago. It was terrible. Everyone had their own "dialect" of features they used (kinda like C++.). The tooling was the worst (Eclipse's Scala plugin was especially awful, IntelliJ's w
930.
by icedchai 1y ago
I also enjoyed these features! I used to have "downloads:" for all my BBS downloads, "docs:" for my papers, etc. The Amiga OS had some other interesting features, like the ability to attach comments to files as metadata

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