jbeninger

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by jbeninger 1y ago
I think there's a bit of an "everybody knows that" [1] phenomenon when it comes to knowledge like this. Devs come from different backgrounds and work on different types of projects. There are 10000 things you expected to know
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I'd say I write the majority of my code in areas I'm familiar with, but spend the majority of my _time_ on sections I'm not familiar with, and ai helps a lot more with the latter than the former. I've always felt my codi
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by jbeninger 1y ago
Is it, though?
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by jbeninger 1y ago
One of my favourite web-things of all time. Incredible creativity in an unexpected place.
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by jbeninger 1y ago
What I mean is it would involve cryptographic signing to keep your data in "your network". Your friends can always download and share an image you've posted, of course, but it wouldn't be just stored out in the open some
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I've often thought that what we need is a social network. You only see your friends, and your friends' friends, and so on. With tools for blocking branches of the graph and restricting views to those friends. All controlled by si
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I think the analogy is that vibe coding is bad for you but feels good. Like a donut. But I'd say the real situation is more akin to "if you eat this donut quickly, you might get diabetes, but if you eat it slowly, it's fine&q
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by jbeninger 1y ago
As an experienced coder, I find ai invaluable for a ton of stuff, nearly none of it writing production code. * Variable naming * Summarizing unfamiliar code * Producing boilerplate code when I have examples * Producing one-liners when I&#x2
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by jbeninger 1y ago
Juniors blame. Seniors silently judge.
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by jbeninger 1y ago
Cults will surprise you. When like-minded people are willing to put everything they have into a project, 18 hours a day with no breaks, they can accomplish a lot.
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by jbeninger 1y ago
Agreed. My point is that the orgs paying for all these updates were mostly motivated by the vague claims of experts rather than concrete examples
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by jbeninger 1y ago
I read a tongue-in-check short story about an elf walking through a human museum. "We think this urn was once used in agricultural ceremonies" "Bitch, that's my coffee pot!" Reading comments from older devs sometime
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by jbeninger 1y ago
Demonstrate? Or just scaremonger? Y2K showed that you don't need details beyond vague threats of "medication administered at the wrong time" and "planes falling out of the air" to get organizations and the public to
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by jbeninger 2y ago
Neither is said sporting event
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by jbeninger 2y ago
Money for advertising is already a super sized network effect, making it difficult to challenge incumbents unless you're already rich, Look, it's a radical idea and on its face, all at once, is impractical at the moment. So I sug
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by jbeninger 2y ago
I have definitely been guilty of naming functions foo_thenBarSometimes. I wince whenever I write them, but I've never really regretted seeing them later on, even after years. So sometimes it really is a perfectly good name. Sometime
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by jbeninger 2y ago
I always considered my education to be a "Table of Contents" listing for what I'd actually learn later
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by jbeninger 2y ago
Having caught a few episodes since it ended, I think the real tragedy of LOST is how good each individual episode was in comparison to how terrible the overall planning was. It was engrossing during the episode, but any time spent outside t
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by jbeninger 2y ago
Nah, when you move that fast, further acceleration stops increasing speed and starts squishing time instead, so you asymptotically approach C. So I guess what I'm saying is I see absolutely no problem with the flat earth arguments?
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by jbeninger 2y ago
For my last few projects I've resorted to *,*:before,*:after { min-width: 0} I haven't had a single problem with it. I honestly feel this part of the spec was a mistake, given all the confusion I see. Online discussions suggest &
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by jbeninger 2y ago
If you're using a bespoke editor anyway, why are you restricting yourself to a texty format? XSV formats inhabit this weird space halfway between data exchange and human readable. They're a compromise. If you go full data exchange
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by jbeninger 2y ago
That's a huge technical obstacle for most people though. The whole point of XSV formats is to be human editable. There are better formats for computer-to computer records. If you can't the core delimiters on a keyboard, your form
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by jbeninger 2y ago
Start small and you might see the value. I find ai useless to produce code for me. But if I'm stuck on naming a variable or a complex object it's a great brainstorming tool. Almost like a very complex thesaurus. And if I need to w
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by jbeninger 2y ago
But if you were asked to spell the words, you'd produce something close to what was expected, rather than drawing a blank. The question "how do you spell wiedersehen" contains in itself a lot of clues. This feels more like &q
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by jbeninger 2y ago
I suspect those were custom UI elements and not native. They remembered to onclick the label (or it's a native <label> element) but forgot to onclick the checkbox itself
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by jbeninger 2y ago
"Miss" should be capitalized. I thought for half the article that it referred to an emotion and not a salutation.
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by jbeninger 2y ago
I wish I could remember where I saw this quote - maybe a random comment on Slashdot back in its heyday? Paraphrasing: "When we finally get a tool that will allow people to write code in plain English, it will be discovered that most p
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by jbeninger 2y ago
I made it so close to finishing without a guide, but I never thought to Close the Door, and wasted hours trying to find the next thing before finally giving up.
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by jbeninger 3y ago
Unreliable? Non-deterministic? Hidden variables? Undocumented behaviour? C'mon fellow programmers who got their start in the Win-95 era! It's our time to shine!
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by jbeninger 3y ago
Wait, you have a conscious experience?

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