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by mrkeen 9mo ago
> For example, in Swift, if you declare a function to throw an exception, then by God every call to that function, all the way up the stack, must be adorned with a do-try block, or a try!, or a try?. Funnily enough, Uncle Bob himself eva
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Adam Jacob It’s not slop. It’s not forgetting first principles. It’s a shift in how the craft work, and it’s already happened. This post just doubled down without presenting any kind of argument. Bruce Perens Do not underes
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Oh yeah I mean if you're a webdev and you haven't built several data centres already you're basically asking to be homeless.
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Daniel Stenberg has been vocal the last few months on Mastodon about being overwhelmed by false security issues submitted to the curl project. So much so that he had to eventually close the bug bounty program. https://daniel.haxx
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Is "high-capability" a stronger or weaker claim than "team of phd-level experts"? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-releases-chatg...
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Needs a catchier title. How about "The Mangione March for Billionaires"
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> We realized 1 million context window is not enough to explain all facets of Klarna > Every new thread of AI is the same employee starting from scratch again. First day at the job. Agents are limited. With you so far. > This week
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> The solution here is simple: Be intentional about what you want to achieve in your developer career. Set goals and quantify them. Add a deadline, write it down, and make a plan to achieve it. Oh, I'm glad that's all it takes.
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No. At the beginning of time, all your accounts will have their starting value. When the first transaction (from,to,value) happens, you will do one overdraft check, and if it's good, you will do 1 addition and 1 subtraction, and two of
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> how can you efficiently check for overdrafts in this model? You already laid the groundwork for this to be done efficiently: "actual payment systems work in an append-only fashion" If you can't alter the past, it's
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I have no problem with ACID the concept. It's a great ideal to strive towards. I'm sure your favourite RDBMS does a fine job of it. If you send it a single SQL string, it will probably behave well no matter how many other calle
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And then they take that toy transaction model and think that they're on ACID when they're not. Are you stepping out of SQL to write application logic? You probably broke ACID. Begin a transaction, read a value (n), do a calculat
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I don't think we did security 20 years ago, even if there were lessons. Maybe the path was: * Build it * Build it right * Build it fast * Build it secure It felt like we made it somewhere into the 'built it fast'
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> Mike sent me a 1600 line pull-request with no tests, entirely written by AI, and expected me to approve it immediately as to not to block him on his deployment schedule. Both Mike and the manager are cargo-culting the PR process too.
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I work in a typical web app company which does accounting/banking etc. A couple of days ago I was sitting in a meeting of 10-15 devs, discussing our AI agents. People were raising issues and brainstorming ways around the problems with
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Not a hypothetical https://lavialibera.it/en-schede-2447-francesca_albanese_und...
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Thanks. 4 sibling comments and this was the only one that tried to answer "is pressing charges actually a thing"
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Anthropic provides an LLM service. Anthropic banned the author for doing nothing wrong, and called him an organisation for some reason. In this case, all he lost was access to a service which develops a split personality and starts shouting
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> food Can you sell or share farm-saved seed? "It is illegal to sell, buy, barter or share farm-saved seed," warns Sam. [1] Can feed grain be sown? No – it is against the law to use any bought-in grain to establish a
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Slightly tangential: > He initially wanted to press charges because Granger’s act “violates the sanctity of the gallery,” but changed his mind > Left: Graham Granger after his arraignment outside the court building I was beginning to
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I've never quite found the right cross-platform phone dev setup before, so this piqued my interest a little. Skip requires a macOS 15+ development machine with Xcode 16.4 or later installed. So not really the cross-platform I wa
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Yikes, sounds like hell. Corporate never seems to get that git is the kind of interface you want between your computer and their servers. Then when you trash your computer you can just get it back to the state of being able to git.
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It just happens. I was happy on netbeans, then I was forced over to eclipse, which I got used to. Then I got forced over to intellij. I'm still pissed about that (even though it's rider for me these days). I don't mind VSC
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Stop Overusing Interfaces (2017)(blog.hovland.xyz)
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Yeah I can't figure out if this is something the author stands by or if it's just a project to mess around with goroutines or something. And it's unfair to criticise if it isn't meant to be good. > The server reads a
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No comment from the professor on modifications though?
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Bloody down-voters. Yeah you looked at a different model. But it's still $8,799.00 and does indeed only do 60Hz. https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/monitors/proart/pr...
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DIP is easily my favourite design principle. Couple of notes on the article: * Don't try to interface between various SQLs. It's not the right place to make 'the cut'. Instead, interface via what the caller wants to ac
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> The US doesn't need oil > Since the US military strikes on Venezuela and seizure of its president Nicolás Maduro this month, Trump has said he plans to tap into the country's huge oil reserves. [ https://www.bbc.
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> The US Geological Survey estimates that onshore northeast Greenland (including ice-covered areas) contains around 31 billion barrels of oil-equivalent in hydrocarbons https://theconversation.com/greenland-is-rich-in-nat

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