mixmastamyk

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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Lol, Python has had incredible improvements over the last decade plus, while uv fixed packaging. It's the best/comprehensive glue language ever made, even with a few remaining warts.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Indeed, I speak from experience. Generalists like myself are unfavored as well, it seems.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
What effect did the tech layoffs have at the end of your stay?
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
It’s small for a truck.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
https://github.com/opencloud-eu Opencloud is a nextcloud analog rewritten in golang.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
The only limit… is yourself.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
That may have worked at the time, but no companies are interested in learning projects today. If you didn’t do the reqs list for the last 5-10 years with the same title, forget about it. Because there are dozens of folks who have, lined u
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Ok, though we were discussing scene length, as measured by the stopwatch, not specific content.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Was the norm in the 70s, and into the early 80s. My memory is that the turning point to quick cuts was after MTV and music videos became popular (1982+). I remember old folks complaining about the “attention span” of young people. Watchin
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Interesting. A few weeks ago we were running out of food and ended up with a can of tuna with olive oil over spaghetti and sauce. Despite my initial misgivings it was surprisingly good.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
I could see that, thanks. However OP mentioned the mid-nineties and I was working then. No one was printing out logs or saying "glass teletype" at that time. Twenty years earlier, sure, or maybe some elderly curmudgeons worki
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Yes, OAI is losing tens of billions, Anthro is losing billions, and MS is cashflow positive and rewarded for that by Wall St, according to recent earnings reports.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Or likely workers on the ground know exactly what’s wrong—management is poor, uncommunicative, or perhaps filled with unqualified nepo hires. This isn’t able to be stated out loud by folks whose jobs would be at risk. So MCs can come in,
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
If running finger causes a paper printout, the issue appears to be with the latter.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
UEFI is it’s own OS, but Apple went back to minimal firmware.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Electricity was several times more expensive than in the US when we were there, and houses not insulated well. Sock hats and fingerless wool gloves it is.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Yes, but it's more because I haven't had substantial work in a long time and less about AI/ML specifically. Despite limitless info at our fingertips, tech interviewers have doubled-down on asking one to recite memorized fact
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Why should a malicious third party have our financial records? Why would a third party know filing reqs better than the IRS? They already know the data anyway. Other countries have done this for decades already, cheaply.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Oh, shell does interpolated strings with double quotes “age: {age}”, with $ but it is redundant. Single quotes are simple strings: ‘Hello world!’
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Neat, looks more like Rust than Java or Python on the surface though. That’s good in general. Also am slightly dismayed that new langs are copying the f-string, which was chosen only because Python had no more Ascii punctuation chars left
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Wait till the school, wife, neighbors, and friends, all undermine that.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
It’s best for SPAs. A pile of docs and comments does not require nor gain much from it. i.e. a poor tradeoff, at first glance anyway.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Most of the team was laid off a few years ago.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Why would a “doc system” use React?
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Up-to-date here and still out-of-work.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
How I operate as well. But noticed most people can not do this anymore. They will not pay attention to the details and (try to) call at the last minute to find the location.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Would like to hear more about your setup. Have a blog or photos? Also re: your sovereign tech mention below, makes me think you might appreciate the trustworthy tech group on zulip: https://trustworthy.technology/
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Internet was the new frontier in the 90s, and future so bright, “you gotta wear shades.”
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Agreed, now tell me again how “exciting” that is.
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by mixmastamyk 2mo ago
Toy examples aren’t the use case, rather multiple variables or expressions, perhaps with formatting (padding) as well. f-string is shorter, less err prone, and faster for medium complexity or above.

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