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by maccard 10mo ago
Obviously effort vs reward comes in here, but if you have 20 devs and you save 5 seconds per run, you save a context switch on every tool invocation possibly.
752.
by maccard 10mo ago
There is no situation where toolchain improvements or workflow improvements should be snuffed at.
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by maccard 10mo ago
> Ye,s but if your CI isn't terrible, you have the dependencies cached, so that subsequent runs are almost instant, and more importantly, you don't have a hard dependency on a third party service. I’d wager the majority of CI u
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by maccard 10mo ago
> Can I get a laptop to sleep after closing the lid yet? > on windows all of this just works Disagree on the sleep one - my work laptop doesn’t go to sleep properly. The only laptop I’ve ever used that behaves as expected with sleep i
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by maccard 10mo ago
In my band, we sell digital lossless albums on bandcamp for just that reason.
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by maccard 10mo ago
If everywhere you go stinks, look under your own shoe. If you move somewhere, and find the same circles why are you surprised that you’re still not happy? > also, no women Social groups aren’t just a place for unhappy people to meet a pa
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by maccard 10mo ago
A 7 minute drive for me is about a 10 minute walk. A 7 minute drive in America could be 5 miles!
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by maccard 10mo ago
My phone and TV can go to 120hz, and my PC can go to 240 with adaptive sync. There’s still plenty of room to improve.
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by maccard 10mo ago
> I guess if one is always able to construct default values of T then this is not a problem. this is how go handles it; func do_thing(val string) (string, error) is expected to return `"", errors.New("invalid state&
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by maccard 10mo ago
> E.g. if you have a list finding function that returns X?, then if you give it a list of MyObject?, you don't know if you found a null element or if you found nothing. This is a problem with the signature of the function in the fir
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by maccard 10mo ago
Im a bit confused why you’re surprised to see American terminology on a site with a predominantly American user base, or why it’s worth commenting on. That said, I’m Irish and live in the UK. You’ve never heard people say “I’ll hoover that”
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by maccard 10mo ago
At a previous job we put compilers and standard libraries in version control, with custom tooling to pull the right version for what you need. We used p4 rather than git though.
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by maccard 10mo ago
Apologies, “Netflix” has become like hoover, Google, or Kleenex - eponymous for the product.
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by maccard 10mo ago
Imagine if we said “hey your audio is only usable on iPhone if you use this specific adapter and high end earphones”. Somehow the music industry has managed to figure out a way to get stuff to sound good on high end hardware, and passable o
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by maccard 10mo ago
Don’t forget installing _and discovering_ those tools. > The article is as misguided as the snarky pushback. Let people work however they’re most comfortable and productive, why does it have to be a purity contest? Absolutely agree on it
766.
by maccard 10mo ago
Various sections of my screen (LG C series) are significantly thicker than 30mm. Also - this isn’t a speaker problem this is a content problem. I watched the princess bride last week on the TV, and didn’t require captions, but I’m watching
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by maccard 10mo ago
> I personally find them easy to ready anyway, with tools like delta[1] which make things super nice to read. Also if you use a text editor such as neovim you can integrate these things into your editor and get beautiful diffs right ther
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by maccard 10mo ago
I don’t expect them to be “good” but I expect to be able to make out the basics.
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by maccard 10mo ago
I failed one exam in my final year of uni (marginally), but passed the module because of excellent coursework. I put in an order of magnitude more work into the coursework for that class than I did any other class because I knew I was going
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by maccard 10mo ago
I also picked it up in my 30s - twice a week for a year with lessons along the way is enough to get you to sub 100, and it’s perfectly fun to play at that level. Going lower than that does take more effort though.
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by maccard 10mo ago
Doubling down here on the analogy - I used to row, and the progress is anything but smooth. There are absolute massive leaps that come from a years worth of training wit very little to show for it in the middle. I do like his point about ta
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by maccard 10mo ago
I feel like we’ve been hearing this for 4 years now. The improvements to programming (IME) haven’t come from improved models, they’ve come from agents, tooling, and environment integrations.
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by maccard 10mo ago
Using Grep or regex is textual refactoring. If you want to rename every reference to a type Foo, how do you is that without touching any variables named foo, or any classes named FooBar The answer is use tools that have semantic info to ren
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by maccard 10mo ago
The parent is comparing it to, e.g. jetbrains git integration.
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by maccard 10mo ago
You get a prompt on the terminal. I’ve never had a cashier suggest anything to me, and I don’t really want their input. The correct answer is always pay in local currency and let your bank handle it.
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by maccard 10mo ago
I’m not defending this behaviour with Ryanair, but this is not unique to them at all. It’s an industry “standard”. I’m Irish but live in the UK - when we make card transactions it asks what currency we want to pay in, and hides the exchange
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by maccard 10mo ago
Aurora serverless requires provisioned compute - it’s about $40/mo last time I checked.
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by maccard 10mo ago
Here’s the thing - an awful lot of it doesn’t even compile/run, never mind do the right thing. My most recent example was asking it to use terraform to run an azure container app with an environment variable in an existing app environm
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by maccard 10mo ago
Does it? I use AI as a smart auto complete - I’ve tried multiple tools on multiple models and I still _regularlt_ have it dump absolute nonsense into my editor - in thr best case it’s gone on a tangent, but in the most common case it’s assu
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by maccard 10mo ago
But that’s not what OP asked for. They asked for > As a hobbyist part of me wants the VM abstracted completely (which may not be realistic). I want to say “here’s my game server process, it needs this much cpu/mem/network per u

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