indymike

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by indymike 1y ago
>> Software rots > No it does not. I'm thankful that it does, or I would have been out of work long ago. It's not that the files change (literal rot), it is that hardware, OSes, libraries, and everything else changes. I&#
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by indymike 1y ago
> I wanna pick your brain a lil. Are you saying agentic AI has helped you replace devs that you would otherwise need for your startup? I need fewer devs to get more work done... but interestingly it has put a premium on experience becaus
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by indymike 1y ago
> This is the hubris of youth talking. Maybe. Or maybe Every example you give, there are 1000s and 10000s of workers to every designer... and the road to a real engineering job is something that frankly, most people going to college coul
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by indymike 1y ago
They are pretty good at most white collar jobs. Blue collar not so much. > Colleges need to pivot fast. The problem is the same everywhere - the management (administration) has grown like a mushroom. We need more profs and instructors be
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by indymike 1y ago
Agincourt was interesting because mud (a combination of rain and fresh plowed fields) reduced infantry and cavalry mobility. The opening cavalry charge made the muddy battlefield worse, and the combination of mud and stakes on the ground in
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by indymike 1y ago
No one is saying they don't need a solid foundation of knowledge. The knowledge needed is different. What we're seeing now is lot like teaching people to care for a horse even though the automobile is now the dominant form of tran
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by indymike 1y ago
The bow has a slow rate of fire, you can't hold a longbow in firing position for long (150+lbs of force required hold the drawn back bow), and you are only accurate from 300-800 feet (add 15% if in a high tower). That means charging ca
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by indymike 1y ago
> Students who know least of all and don't understand the purpose of writing or problem solving or the limitations of LLMs are currently wasting years of their lives letting LLMs pull them along as they cheat themselves out of an ed
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by indymike 1y ago
> Using an LLM to do schoolwork is like taking a forklift to the gym. I'm sure the time has come for college students to master using LLMs. It's just as important as grammar or basic math now. The software I build (and the ent
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by indymike 1y ago
> this is pretty cool but ultimately it won't be enough to debug real bugs that are nested deep within business logic I'm looking at this as a better way to get the humans pointed in the right direction. Ariana.dev looks intere
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by indymike 1y ago
I'd love to have this kind of transparency on mandated fees and taxes on everything.
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by indymike 1y ago
We just put a header for version in our app, and when we deploy new code the client checks against the version header and upgrades if the version is mismatched. No extra get requests required. Bonus: we just use the last git commit hash as
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by indymike 1y ago
>You surely could have put "You must license your project the same as the one you forked from" and they still would have ignored it, No, they would have found something else that wasn't a pain to steal.
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by indymike 1y ago
I'm not sure this model works as it just forbids lists of any kind. Algorithmic is an extremely poor choice of words as any method of selecting posts/messages for a list is an algorithm.
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by indymike 2y ago
> since then we pivoted away from it. we've roughly pivoted almost every month to something new. there is no longer any vision or clear problem we're trying to solve. each month is our team simply fishing for ideas in different
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by indymike 2y ago
I'm pretty sure I can't program without coding, and likewise, I'm pretty sure I can't code without programming. This is a lot like guitarists arguing about "playing" vs "noodling".
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by indymike 2y ago
You have to pay to go to court to get child support lowered, resulting in really unjust outcomes for homeless people. I'm not sure that someone who spent a year on the streets is in a position where they can pay this month's child
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by indymike 2y ago
> we allowed the elite to run things I'm pretty sure that being elite is a symptom of running things, not the cause of running things.
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by indymike 2y ago
> I grew up believing that our officials should strive to be role models. This is what we tell our children until they get old enough to process the adult world. Reality is... "it's complicated, ____ (son/daughter name her
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by indymike 2y ago
I've been using LG Gram laptops running linux. They are fantastic. My current daily drive is 3lbs, 17" display, 32GB RAM i7 CPU, and I bumped the SSD to 2TB. It is lighter than my 13" Macbook air and cost $1200 at Costco. Oh,
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by indymike 2y ago
As I recall, those ports ran a version behind.
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by indymike 2y ago
> Does anyone here know why the pay-to-browse model never really took off? 1. Free competition and lots of it. 2. No widely adopted standard for micropayment 3. Transaction processing fees often left very little for the site.
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by indymike 2y ago
> I am curious what the world would be like now if Silicon Graphics had made a model that was less than $2,000, but still ran Irix and had some amount of the 3D processing stuff with it. I'm not sure it would have made much of a dif
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by indymike 2y ago
There is no fredom of information if the public is not allowed to know what data the government has.
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by indymike 2y ago
Like a lot of people here, I learned to program on a 99/4A before moving to a PC. The 99/4A was actually great, but looking back very primitive. TI-Basic -> Extended Basic -> Assembly. When I got to the PC, I missed hardwar
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by indymike 2y ago
"Thinking Machines" evokes some deep AI history.
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by indymike 2y ago
> I don’t see how anyone can «sell» this information when it’s literally available for free already. I think this has been repeated thousands of times in history.
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by indymike 2y ago
> And many fail to discern between "disparage" and "critique" or even "Question in order to learn" I think I’ve had the conversation with new to my organization devs a few hundred times: “Look... saying code
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by indymike 2y ago
This is 100% true. Those problems you are solving probably don’t look all that important, but, in reality, they have been blocking sales, renewals, account expansions, or even access to markets for a long time. The business side of the hous
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by indymike 2y ago
> Haven’t you also often made a moat between yourself and doing literally anything else more interesting at the company Nope, assuming that code works and handles UTF8 (sorry, but there is a point where it is too far gone to save). You’v

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