lpapez

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by lpapez 2y ago
Absolutely. Good luck explaining that to the A-Team.
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by lpapez 2y ago
> Not everything is a purely financial decision. A home is primarily a place to live, not an investment opportunity. I am always shocked at how many people simply don't understand this. For example: no matter how many index funds I
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by lpapez 2y ago
Sure, but the gosum database is a critical piece of worldwide software infrastructure, so you can count on it being accesible behind many firewalls and always up. And it's completely free and anonymus. Perfect for the purpose.
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by lpapez 2y ago
Nah, the other commenter had described the situation exactly right - after dropping the comments, the "A-Team" disappeared for a few months and never revisited our responses. It really feels like an archetype common at many compan
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by lpapez 2y ago
I kind of emphatize with the author raging at "just copy C++ bro" proposals because at $TWO_JOBS_AGO I had to deal with an "Architecture Team" full of Very Senior(tm) people who would show up uninvited and give advice li
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by lpapez 2y ago
I'm young but I had the misfortune of working with it once (when interacting with some Austrian VAT authority APIs, some of which were SOAP and XSLT still in 2022 lol) Indeed grateful I don't have to touch it again, but I suppose
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by lpapez 2y ago
Just pray you never have to develop in YAML like many of us...
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by lpapez 2y ago
> The hubris of suggesting that your single experience of vaguely seeing the northern lights one time in Seattle has now led to a deep understanding of their true "color" and that the other person (perhaps all other people?) mu
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by lpapez 2y ago
> In CQ2, there's no mess of unorganised comments — create threads inside threads so that each thread stays on topic and organised. Wish this could work, but my experience is that getting people to use even the first layer of thread
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by lpapez 2y ago
Masterful gambit sire.
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by lpapez 2y ago
> I no longer enjoy tinkering so I'm going to stick with what already works for me. Absolutely feel the same way, I don't wanna work on my tools, I wanna work on my work. I picked up Linux because I was an enthusiast. Now I us
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by lpapez 2y ago
This reminds me of the early Internet in the 90s and 2000s, you had falling snow and star animations everywhere. This is a Javascript library, but it couldn't have been JS back in those days. Anyone have an idea how people built stuff
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by lpapez 2y ago
> For example, the AWS C++ SDK uses virtual functions for everything. When you subclass their classes, marking your classes as final allows the compiler to devirtualize your own calls to your own functions (GCC does this reliably). I wan
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by lpapez 2y ago
> Only thing I care now is a paycheck with ridiculously high salary. ... and also about minimizing the amount of stress experienced. Mostly through simply doing the bare possible minimum, but sometimes also doing a bit more to prevent st
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by lpapez 2y ago
Pretty standard stuff I would say. Back in the day when I worked in this field malware writers regularly used things like Youtube as blob-storage and Instagram comments as C2 server mechanism. Hiding in plain sight can be very effective.
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by lpapez 3y ago
This is just an absurd statement, of course Python is easier to learn than either of those languages. I've taught Haskell at an university and almost none of the students ever found the model of computation natural. I think we humans s
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by lpapez 3y ago
> JetBrains inspections are great, but I wish there was a way to run them programmatically so they could be checked in CI. Which is literally what the post is about...
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by lpapez 3y ago
Anomaly, fraud, outlier detection... AI has been trying to solve that for several decades and in my experience in production these systems usually end up being a set of expert written rules saying "if X is greater than Y, notify someon
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by lpapez 3y ago
It's not representative. The models are capable of much much more, and they are being significantly nerfed over time by these ineffective attempts to introduce safeguards. Recently I've asked GPT4 to quote me some code to which it
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by lpapez 3y ago
Fire 8 out of 10 of your knowledge workers and have the other remaining 2 review and fix LLM output. Basically the same what we have now, except the grunt workers will be replaced by the machine.
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by lpapez 3y ago
So many security companies publishing daily generic blog posts about "serious supply chain compromises" in various distros on packages with 0 downloads, and yet it takes a developer debugging performance issues to find an actual c
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by lpapez 3y ago
Yet the compiler writers care only about the language spec, and you can bet that failing to optimize this as dead code would be considered a compiler bug. This goes not only for Java compiler, but many other languages as well.
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by lpapez 3y ago
> If the idea is bad or wrong, it will be debated and ultimately defeated in the marketplace of ideas. This implies the existence of a marketplace of ideas where people can freely trade thoughts. It was not the case in the past (i.e. you
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by lpapez 3y ago
Yeah I agree. The language lives in a weird niche where both intricate low-level details are visible, but also supports abstractions only visible from outer space. You always have some low-level detail which can be nitpicked about, even tho
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by lpapez 3y ago
> Now the guy that used to waste time in code review can waste time tweaking the formatter rules, and everyone else can move on with their life. Had worked with one such person before, unfortunately after introducing formatters he found
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by lpapez 3y ago
Thankfully we've moved on and no longer invent XML languages. We use YAML now which is obviously much better.
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by lpapez 3y ago
I don't agree with your opinion, but I see how it can be seen as being perfectly reasonable and there really is no need to flag you (unflagged).
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by lpapez 3y ago
Same. I've never worked in infrastructure teams because I simply don't care about this stuff, and I always find it funny how the infrastructure details tend to leak out to us application developers. Come on, I just want to deploy
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by lpapez 3y ago
You can instruct git to ignore specific commits for blame and diff commands. See "git blame ignore revs file". Intended use is exactly to ignore bulk changes like auto formatting.
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by lpapez 3y ago
Apps Script seems to be completely down all day long, disrupting one part of a client's workflow. The silver lining to this is that I've been able to convince said client that further extending their legacy workflow inside Google

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