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by l0b0 3y ago
> Don’t consume. Create. Ask questions. Stay curious. Like everything else, it's a balance. Nobody can build a modern system in finite time that will be maintainable, secure, fast, etc. without relying on their own and other
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by l0b0 3y ago
But does it spy on you? I investigated solar installs for a bit where I live, and out of the two main bids, both of them required an Internet connection at install time, and one of them required a persistent connection. This is horrendous.
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by l0b0 3y ago
How did we get here? - The barrier to entry for shell scripting is tiny. You basically start with `ls` in an interactive shell and end up writing a frickin' 500-line monstrosity within a month. - POSIX has fossilised scripting language
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by l0b0 3y ago
You must be a fan of Subversion then. On a more serious note, I'm sure I've seen this (any unique shortenings standing in for the whole word) in an actual language at some point, and it was infuriating.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Pretty sure I've seen spacing used as precedence indicators in a scientific setting. It does feel like it would be useful, except it would be a nightmare with more than one level of overrides.
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by l0b0 3y ago
I don't get Master Foo Discourses on the Two Paths. "Three pounds of VAX!" Anyone?
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by l0b0 3y ago
Maybe we'd finally be able to tell which consulting companies actually output decent software, if any.
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by l0b0 3y ago
> Microsoft needs to get their brand straight and decide, once and for all, what they stand for. Money. How would it be possible for an absolutely gigantic company to stand for anything else?
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by l0b0 3y ago
Same, so much that I've been a paying supporter[1] (hint, hint) for a good while now. [1] https://www.patreon.com/keepassxc/posts
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by l0b0 4y ago
Moving away from Debian packages would probably be better. Packaging a .deb is an absolute chore, with a bunch of tools and configuration files, while packaging for Arch or NixOS is almost trivial by comparison.
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by l0b0 4y ago
Relevance changes by which time scale you're looking at. If you're looking at the last month, the day is most important. If you're looking at last year, month is probably most important. And for anything beyond a year, year i
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Bisect(gitlab.com)
3 points by l0b0 4y ago|0 comments
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Adventures in Time: Debugging a Daylight Saving Bug(alextaylor.ca)
3 points by l0b0 4y ago|0 comments
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by l0b0 4y ago
Another way to look at is is two people doing two jobs at the same time - programming and code review. Or even three jobs, if you include the (IME incredibly useful) design review which seems to happen almost inevitably as part of the imp
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by l0b0 4y ago
> > You can't trust the AI's code! > Yeah, but you can't trust your own code! Those are two different types of trust. The only overlap they have is that they probably both have bugs. Maybe I'd trust AI code aft
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by l0b0 4y ago
The ping in x.sh makes it non-reproducible. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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by l0b0 4y ago
Agreed, but this is presumably also an absolutely massive project hardly anyone here has even used before. So it's not surprising that there are no big tech insights on the day of the release. An `scc` printout might be interesting, bu
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by l0b0 4y ago
Even an MSc in CS won't get you very far. There's only so much time in the day, and only so much new stuff you can cram into people's heads in one go. Uni gave me a broad base, but the knowledge is ultimately extremely shallo
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by l0b0 4y ago
> I can't imagine someone actually accepting "washed" dishes with food stains on them. A charitable reading of my comment would find no such assertion. "Clean" is not binary. A restaurant might get in trouble if
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by l0b0 4y ago
There are market opportunities at all axes: - Some people genuinely need a faster dishwasher, because having clean dishes in a timely fashion is important. - Some people need cleaner dishes than others. Cleanliness isn't binary. - So
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by l0b0 4y ago
We need a third option in the malice/incompetence spectrum: active neglect. It's the safest way for big organisations to push users off of platforms they don't like. A combination of one or more of the following is going to
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by l0b0 4y ago
Having only barely touched VBA in a single spreadsheet for a few weeks at a $B company I can relate. And don't remind me of the poor colleague tasked with re-implementing a simple searchable HTML table in SharePoint, who spent at lea
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Contempt Culture(blog.aurynn.com)
1 points by l0b0 4y ago|0 comments
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by l0b0 4y ago
Trust is absolutely core to an agile workplace. If everyone's busy covering their own ass nothing impactful really gets done, and "feedback" is just everybody saying nothing because they don't dare disagree.
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by l0b0 4y ago
It's not a myth, but I don't think there's any easy way to tell whether you'll be working with someone who actually knows it within the interview cycle. I got my first real taste of both TDD and Agile from a tiny startup
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by l0b0 4y ago
> As a rule of thumb, if you don’t want the function to consume the data (to free it), don’t ask for ownership. As a Rust beginner, that's a handy thing to remember! Thinking of variable passing in terms of least privilege seems muc
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by l0b0 4y ago
> This is incorrect on all levels. Electronic payments between bank accounts have existed for decades. Banks in many countries now support instant payments using email/phone numbers. There are QR based payment methods which do the s
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by l0b0 4y ago
This comes with a huge caveat: You must explain it in enough detail for anyone encountering it to understand why it's dangerous and what they should be doing instead, if at all possible. The documentation must at the very least be wh
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People can read their manager's mind (2015)(yosefk.com)
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by l0b0 4y ago
I can see how it would be, since they utterly broke their main search. I tried searching for something simple in a single org yesterday, and I kept getting different numbers of results when refreshing, anything from 8 to 50+.

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