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by ljm 2y ago
Redid + Sidekiq was a default for a long time in the Rails world as well, but it’s an unnecessary complication (and expense) for most use cases. Just use your existing DB until you need to seriously scale up, and then look at a message queu
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by ljm 2y ago
It’s the classic politician’s syllogism: we must do something, this [the anxiety, stress, victimisation, activated fear response, overthinking, catastrophising, etc.] is something, therefore we must do it. The worst thing about it is how it
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by ljm 2y ago
Technically Edge as well, after they nuked their internal effort and switched to slapping Bing ads on a Chrome fork.
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by ljm 2y ago
A sibling thread talks about language zealotry and this is a textbook example. I didn’t realise that the only requirement for well-written code is to have an expressive type system and memory safety.
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There’s also the practicality of hiring or maintenance as well as what you get from the ecosystem, as well as understanding the wider business context. I might personally love to kick off a greenfield project with Elixir, and it might tick
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by ljm 2y ago
Really does feel sometimes that Microsoft's tech is held hostage by growth KPIs. Nothing they build is left untouched by the invisible hand of ad-driven enshittification. Shows how skewed the market is when you can actively fuck up you
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by ljm 2y ago
K8S is at a point now where I'd probably try to configure whatever I can inside the cluster as an operator or controller. There are going to be situations where that isn't practical, but the ability to describe all the pieces of y
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by ljm 2y ago
I've always toyed with the idea of studying Computer Science since I taught myself how to code. Hell of a lot more difficult now when I need to work and don't really have the same amount of time to dedicate to studying. Hell of a
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by ljm 2y ago
Didn't know it was a blunder until afterwards though right? Hence, innovation. Now you just get risk-averse updates that offer little reason to upgrade from previous models.
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by ljm 2y ago
They don't always hit the mark but I sort of miss the times when Apple would innovate more boldly with their devices. Apple Intelligence isn't it - it's just playing catch-up with a market that tries to slap AI onto everythin
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by ljm 2y ago
To say that Russia is destabilising the US basically takes the agency of the US out of the equation. Makes the US (the so-called greatest country in the world, so-called leaders of the free world) unaccountable for its own actions. The US i
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by ljm 2y ago
The most frustrating thing with PowerToys is trying to remap keys (like caps lock to Ctrl). It feels like it's done by intercepting the keypress at runtime in the app rather than being configured at the system level, so if you happen t
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by ljm 2y ago
And the auto complete on proper nouns. I'm typing someone's name and it'll often get corrected and will take more than one attempt for what you actually intended to stick. No, Ellie isn't a typo and I didn't actuall
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by ljm 2y ago
Sometimes it's a skill issue too, and it becomes not-difficult when you as a manager gain the necessary experience.
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by ljm 2y ago
As soon as I read this comment I knew the article would be some r/LinkedinLunatics style listicle about employee 'archetypes', and I was not disappointed. So let me provide my own: The Dirty Dancer : Nobody puts this baby
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by ljm 2y ago
The production of such tests presumably requires an element of human reasoning. The requirements have to come from somewhere, after all.
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by ljm 2y ago
The concept of perfect competition describes what capitalism in its purest, most ideal form should be, and everything after that is a description of what happens when humans get involved.
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by ljm 2y ago
I feel like political discourse would not be in the state it currently is if it wasn’t boiled down to a facile comparison between good (the party you support) and evil (the party you don’t support) and that, ultimately, neither of them succ
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by ljm 2y ago
> Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisti
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by ljm 2y ago
What makes this such a viable conspiracy theory is just how unoriginal it is. Like feudalism never existed before, like the US never had company towns with people paid in an analog of crypto that could only be traded with that company… Whic
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by ljm 2y ago
I once asked Perplexity (using Claude underneath) about some library functionality, which it totally fabricated. First, I asked it to show me a link to where it got that suggestion, and it scolded me saying that asking for a source is probl
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by ljm 2y ago
I think auth in the way that b2b services require it is, at the bare minimum, awkward, and made more difficult when you step out of a language ecosystem where that problem has been solved extensively. As you say though it’s not technically
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by ljm 2y ago
I like to think that different things have a ‘substance’ to them, not unlike the nebulous concept of quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In this sense, the appeal is not just in the tangible record but also in the ritual o
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by ljm 2y ago
It makes me sad that some engineers would legitimately consider a lack of curly braces to be a criticism of a language or a reason not to use it, especially when you look at the absolute atrocities that can be committed with the syntax of m
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by ljm 2y ago
It’s not really about ‘leet code engineers’ getting into management but the perverse incentives involved in climbing up the corporate ladder. It’s as if it doesn’t matter what project you pitch and what the fallout is as long as some KPI
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by ljm 2y ago
I was using Arc as my main browser until they added the mandatory account requirement. It came around the same time they moved iCloud syncing to their own backend. Now I just use Safari because all I do really is read stuff.
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by ljm 2y ago
The author's last post was about terminal frustrations[0] This is easily one of the most annoying ones, especially when shells will have several different locations to read config from depending on how you start the shell, or what a de
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Never mind that a lot of the jobs that ask you to do this will mostly involve the conversion of database data to JSON or HTML with a few steps of business logic in between. And the harder computational challenges you’d likely learn as you n
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by ljm 2y ago
Fundamentally it’s just infra reselling as well, with some additional lock-in for that sweet retention. Back in the day every man and his dog would set up a small scale shared hosting service to put your PHP or cgi-bins on and the interface
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It’s actually worth stepping back a bit because everyone has a cause and everyone has a solution. Short term lets, landlords, corporate investors, foreign investors, property speculators, immigrants… are all soaking up the supply of hou

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