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by ljm 5mo ago
It's entitled to what is a reasonable usage of disk space, which you generally know by the size of the installer. Some install mechanisms bypass that because they give you a minimal installer that then downloads the full package. It&#x
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by ljm 5mo ago
In principle I agree, but chrome has an auto-update setup and using that mechanism to download several GBs of data that is not critical to the app itself is cause for question. Chrome is not entitled to my disk space just because I installe
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by ljm 5mo ago
You can also yell "hey Alexa add an open crotch G-string to my basket" and it'll be funny for the first couple of times but once it becomes a meme it's just annoying and is filtered out. You could just as well say "
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by ljm 6mo ago
You do realise that writing Tangled records for issues, pulls, whatever constitutes both a spec and API. The fact that you use a protocol to define it is beside the point. You still have to define what a Tangled record is, and the interface
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by ljm 6mo ago
I would love if it coding agents didn't default to GitHub for their deep VCS integration. If I could get the same bells and whistles by wiring up another forge, so long as it offered a decent API and/or sent events over a webhook,
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by ljm 6mo ago
I would really just like the quirkier internet of old. Flamewars these days are just created by shit-stirrers in another country who are just pumping out rage bait from an massive array of smartphones. It's not even an impassioned flam
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by ljm 6mo ago
I know the 4 player version from the Yakuza games. I only knew about the solitaire version until then from a demo version on Net Yaroze on the PlayStation, where you basically got some weird games along side the demos on a new demo disc eve
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by ljm 6mo ago
This basically sounds like the start of Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Are we going to learn that physics no longer exists?
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by ljm 6mo ago
This is how I try to approach it. I don't think it's a new thing for a new hire to come in hot and try to figure things out themselves rather than spending time with the team. Or getting lost down rabbit holes.
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by ljm 6mo ago
I don't disagree that a practical spike is a good way to grasp a novel problem (or work with a lack of internal knowledge because it's legacy code) but there is still something to be said for attempting to work things out in the a
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by ljm 6mo ago
Usually by the time a PR has been submitted it's too late to dig into aspects of the change that come from a poor understanding of the task at hand without throwing out the PR and creating rework. So it's helpful to shift left on
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by ljm 6mo ago
Reactionary changes are never going to go away but the entire thrust of technological progress is "you don't need to learn." Amusing Ourselves to Death and Superbloom both describe the same thing: methods of communiation beco
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by ljm 6mo ago
I feel for this a lot, but it's because I don't want to actually write code or build something if there is something workable already out there. Maybe I lack imagination or curiosity, but it makes it difficult to come up with an i
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by ljm 6mo ago
Security by obscurity. If another language became as ubiquitous as JS then it'd be the same. In the context of TFA, don't rely on third party github actions that you haven't vetted. Most of them aren't needed and you can
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by ljm 6mo ago
The WWeWork model of being in real estate and not tech, I guess. Given the unironic use of 'woke mind virus' by certain billionaires, there's something to be said about the sudden obsession of building data centres, no expens
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by ljm 6mo ago
Tangerines (or satsumas) over Christmas were a treat in the north of England when I was a kid. Granny Smith and Pink Lady were also considered treats when it came to apples, compared to the usual golden delicious or braeburn.
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by ljm 6mo ago
Google doesn't need to give a shit, because so much of the internet is infested with with google ad trackers and adwords, and everybody uses Chrome, that they will continue to make billions even without AI. Facebook did the same with t
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by ljm 6mo ago
Why are you thinking more about the people that piss you off than the ones that you consider hard working and caring? You have a massive chip on your shoulder, dare I say that's why you've had many caring managers and now you&#x
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by ljm 6mo ago
A smalltalk or Erlang for AI agents is an interesting thought. Smalltalk for the design in terms of message passing and object-oriented holding of state (agents are stateful and are reached via their public interfaces), Erlang for the elega
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by ljm 6mo ago
UK has the state pension which comes from NI (National Insurance) contributions which in a way acts like a Defined Benefit pension in that you work for X number of years and get state pension of Y in return(currently adjusted for inflation,
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by ljm 6mo ago
If you can't hold something down for more than a year then it looks rough to anybody. 18-24 months generally seems to have been the sweet spot in terms of improving your income. Especially because the promise of equity after 4 years of
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by ljm 6mo ago
I'm not really sure how that's exclusive to software engineers either. But OP was drunk at the time of writing so I guess they were feeling a bit lovey-dovey.
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by ljm 6mo ago
I think the real underrated skill to learn as an engineer is how to test . Documentation can take many forms: ADRs, system diagrams, specs, JIRA tickets, commit messages and descriptions, PR descriptions, code comments, idiomatic/intu
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by ljm 6mo ago
What company can't pay 36 euro and legislate it after? Are hetzner in the wrong for denying service to clients in a deficit?
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by ljm 6mo ago
Not so much atrophy as apathy. I've worked with people who will look at code they don't understand, say "llm says this", and express zero intention of learning something. Might even push back. Be proud of their ignorance
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by ljm 6mo ago
Mermaid has been great for a similar reason. For example, you can render a mermaid diagram inside a PR description on GitHub. Comes in handy when describing a state machine or the flow of data.
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by ljm 6mo ago
I've also observed the third direction, which is the message storm. That's when someone breaks down their point into multiple separate messages, one sentence at a time, when a single coherent paragraph or two would have worked. Wh
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by ljm 6mo ago
There was a screenshot of Valve's front page back when Half Life 2 was released in the early 00s[0]. It was well laid out, straight to the point, and had design flourishes that would have been painful to put together at a time where CS
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by ljm 6mo ago
I do similar, but I dislike writing CSS because it's practically impossible to keep up with the standards. And because I dislike writing CSS I don't feel like writing HTML that much either. Web Components were a bit too slow to ta
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by ljm 6mo ago
They're also getting into cloud compute given you can use the desktop app to work in a temporary sandbox that they provision for you. I was about to call it reselling but so many startups with their fingers in the tech startup pie offe

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