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by maccard 9mo ago
I live in a fairly expensive city in the UK. Working minimum wage for 2 weeks will pay for a room in a flat share, plus my households food and required bills. It’s not much of a life but the same still stands in many cities.
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by maccard 9mo ago
To back up the other commenter - it's not the same. https://godbolt.org/z/r6e443x1c shows that if you write imperfect C++ clang is perfectly capable of optimizing it.
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by maccard 9mo ago
Hot reloading for development loops is _the_ canonical use case for this.
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by maccard 9mo ago
My point is that coming up with the business requirements was always the hard part (unless you’re writing a scheduler)
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by maccard 9mo ago
I never said it’s not a net positive - I said that writing more code won’t solve the problem. > under my watch it writes code that is more correct than anything that anyone else on the team contributed in past year or more This I don’t b
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by maccard 9mo ago
My experience is very different. A junior should be spending >90% of their time coding, a mid level about 75% and a senior about the same. It only really splits after that point. But the senior spending 25% more time on the wrong thing i
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by maccard 9mo ago
If people are realistically a baseline of 10x more productive where are all the features, games, applications, SAAS’s that are suddenly possible that weren’t before?
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by maccard 9mo ago
For a very small number of people the hard part is writing the code. For most of us, it’s writing the correct code. AI generates lots of code but for 90% of my career writing more code hasn’t helped. > you do end up taking on more than y
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by maccard 9mo ago
I mean, Anthropic now own it
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by maccard 9mo ago
I’m no bash lover, but I’ve used git bash as my primary driver on windows for I don’t know many years. It has its quirks (like any tool) but I don’t think I’d say it’s less dependable. Anecdotally I’ve had way more issues with node on windo
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by maccard 9mo ago
> Stuffing agents somewhere they don't belong rather than making the system work better with the agents people already use. I'm not bullish on LLM based agentic coding, but if there was ever a place to put an agent it would be
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by maccard 9mo ago
> if you make your build scripts bash, they’re Linux only Git bash exists on windows and is perfectly usable.
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by maccard 9mo ago
For day to day use, my base spec M1 MacBook Pro is snappier than my i9 desktop with 128GB of ram and a 4090.
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by maccard 9mo ago
My work laptop decided probably once a week to not go to sleep and just run its battery to 0. My work PC will decide to not idle and will spin up fans arbitrarily in the evenings so I shut it down when I’m not using it.
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by maccard 9mo ago
My Mac - couldn’t tell you, I just close the lid. My work laptop? Probably every day, as it makes its own mind up what it does when you close the lid. Even the “shut down” button in the start menu often restarts the machine in win 11. My wo
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by maccard 9mo ago
Unless it decides to update your search results to search for “Display” with bing in Edge, despite edge not being my browser.
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by maccard 9mo ago
> You don't need a full prod db, you need a facsimile mirroring the real thing but 1/50th the size. My experience has been that the problems in CI systems come from exactly these differences “works on my machine” followed by “o
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by maccard 9mo ago
At that point it’s not worth it any more and we would just switch to hetzner or something instead.
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by maccard 9mo ago
Also game dev here - I disagree with your take. Our _build tools_ need to be hyper aware but our CI systems absolutely do not and would be better served as general purpose. What good is Horde when you need to deploy your already packaged ga
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by maccard 9mo ago
We have two on site servers that we use. For various reasons (power cuts, internet outages, cleaners unplugging them) I’d say we have to intervene with them physically about once a month. It’s a total pain in the ass, especially when you do
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by maccard 9mo ago
Sure. Now imagine your car’s GPS knows you have 60 miles in the tank, and your journey is 300 miles. It can query the APO and figure out what the best petrol station to refuel on your journey is. More information is always good.
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by maccard 9mo ago
> If you see something of extreme value it is not your job to allocate time and resources to it? Have you ever had the situation where a kid is good at something, and the parent latches onto it and stifles whatever good was coming out of
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by maccard 9mo ago
Re-reading, you're right. I meant to suggest that the comment I replied to should look inwards.
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by maccard 9mo ago
The point of saying respectfully was, just like my reply on how I’d handle the scenario you posed, to be gentle about it. > and then what You’re missing the point. My job as a manager isn’t to tell this person “wow, good job, let me go o
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by maccard 9mo ago
No need to be like that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good fai
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by maccard 9mo ago
I’ve had the pleasure of managing a wolf. Respectfully, if that’s your mindset then I think the problem lies with you and not with the manager. > good work does not speak for itself, it needs a shitload of people to speak for it The abso
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by maccard 9mo ago
I’ve only done 20-200-2k, but I agree with you fully. At 2k, there’s a weird middle ground (IMO) where you actually need a handful of wolves to keep things nimble. They cause an awful lot of strife particularly to the people who are trying
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by maccard 9mo ago
Totally agree - I was just trying to give a perspective for the user scale figures
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by maccard 9mo ago
You and another person made this point _but_ I’d encourage you to look at what $50/mo gets you on AWS all in. In reality it will get you a t4g.small plus 200GB of (very slow) storage. Honestly they start to chug at 500 or so users in m
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by maccard 9mo ago
Totally feasible but a bit like all these situations - it’s not happening in practice.

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