janosdebugs

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by janosdebugs 4y ago
That is some rare foresight. Typically, this is not how it goes. Usually, the pressure to keep adding new features is too high, the codebase too large, and the desired functionality too amorphous for any sort of refactoring or rewrite.
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
Step 4: 2 years down the line the code touched by dozens of freelancers becomes so brittle that you can't launch a feature without breaking two others. Greenfield projects are easy, long-term maintenance is hard. Edit: during my career
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
ContainerSSH is always happy to have contributors, but it's a bit of a hard project to get into. :) https//containerssh.io
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
Here's the kicker: your modified code snippet may still not be copyrightable if it's generic enough that everyone would do it in a similar manner. Just as much as a hero riding off into the sunset is not copyrightable in a movie s
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
That's cute. Too bad it won't work for use cases where the end product needs 100+ GB RAM to be run in its entirety and MUST be integration tested e2e.
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
That assumes the code snippets being copyrightable and nor fair use.
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
The hard part about writing code isn't "how to write a for loop" and similar trivial things. Copilot make this process faster, but the hard part is still organizing your code so that it doesn't become a steaming pile of
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
There's one thing I'm missing from all these discussions and posts: is the generated code even copyrightable? IANAL, but code snippets often fall under the "scènes à faire" doctrine (everybody would do it in a similar wa
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
It'd be nice to see some proof here. Copyright is not absolute and does not extend, for example, to things that have no creativity in them. There are only so many ways to write a for loop or an if condition. Training an ML model from a
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
Just because crypto doesn't offer chargebacks doesn't mean that the customer is not legally entitled to a refund. Depending on the jurisdiction of the merchant and the customer there are a number of scenarios where the merchant is
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
Good intention, but possibly flawed execution. Quite a few open source projects finance themselves by selling binaries.
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
This could partially work, but not for everything. For example, think of the userdata script that provisions the inside of a VM. Often, that needs to be generated based on something, for example certificates that are dynamically created. I
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
Not every provider supports tags, or they don't support it for all resources. Sure, if you only use AWS this may be a solution, but not for everyone. Regarding the state, it took me a very long time to come up with good organization fo
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
I think there is a misunderstanding: when I'm talking about "name" I mean the "name" stored by the cloud provider, which is typically (arbitrarily) chosen as the idempotency key by stateless implementations. When yo
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. If TF was stateless, you'd have to manage situations by hand that involve changing the idempotency key, such as the name of a VM. You'd also have to manage situations by hand where a resource is removed fr
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
I wish there was a successor to Freelancer. I played Elite: Dangerous, Everspace, Everspace 2, and many others, but nowhere did I find a universe that felt actually alive, where it seemed like NPCs had a purpose and did things by themselves
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by janosdebugs 4y ago
This may not exactly be the answer you are looking for, but Red Hat (my employer) has 4wd employees, even in my current team. Depending on the team, you may be able to negotiate a 4 day workweek without problems. However, you'd have to
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by janosdebugs 5y ago
My wife and I use an e-mail pattern of someprefix-(.*)@ourdomain.com and give each site a different "alias". It keeps out the trash, but lets us filter nicely, and also catch data leaks. So far we caught one.