munchbunny

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by munchbunny 3y ago
> It also paradigms shifts from imperative to (more) functional. So if you are not comfortable with closures and side effects (like the author), you will get lost. I don’t think it’s that simple. I write in a functional language for my d
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by munchbunny 3y ago
It also has useful automation for dealing with things like OAuth which would be annoying to handle manually (or to script) with curl. In general I like Postman because of the ergonomics, not because it does something that more primordial to
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by munchbunny 3y ago
Programming is much, much easier to learn to a professional level than biochemistry, and open source is much, much cheaper and easier to enter and navigate than medical academia/pharma industry, and adding a software feature is (genera
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by munchbunny 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual story underneath was that they got to a "works well enough" implementation and then forgot about the inefficiencies until someone looked at costs, connected the dots, and went "ok ye
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by munchbunny 3y ago
Maybe? It’s like blooming coffee, it makes a difference, but how much does that matter to the specific drinker? The same goes for water temp. I found that I could tell the difference but for tea I regularly drink I couldn’t be bothered to b
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by munchbunny 3y ago
Interesting that Yubico is choosing to go public via SPAC. It’s lower scrutiny, it became more popular over the last few years, and then lost some popularity because of high profile duds. Why go with a SPAC in that environment if the busine
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Google is a bit notorious for taking extremely long from the candidate's perspective, even among the tech giants.
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by munchbunny 4y ago
I’ve encountered both, significantly more of the “build a mini project for us” variety. I also dislike those because I’ve already got a full time engineering job and a family and don’t have time to put 4-5 hours each into every 3-hour proj
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by munchbunny 4y ago
How so? By “hard problem” do you mean defining what consciousness is?
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by munchbunny 4y ago
That saying is often used in the context of non-practitioners throwing ideas at practitioners. The flip side of the coin is practitioners who are too focused on what’s immediately in front of them to the exclusion of creativity.
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by munchbunny 4y ago
For trained programmers it might be more harm than help, but, for many laypeople, it absolutely is an advantage because it means Excel is automatically allowing them to handle date-like text as actual dates. Most of the time that's hel
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by munchbunny 4y ago
> When I press button on yubikey, it pastes some jibberish - way more than 6 chars, but can't THAT token be re-used? Just to be clear, that's not related to FIDO which I was originally talking about. That's one of the extr
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by munchbunny 4y ago
> How? I mean how can keylogger get the secret from which TOTPs are being generated? Since it’s time based with a 30 second window, you don’t need to know the secret, you just need to be able to repeat the code as it is typed. It takes m
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Yes, with a keylogger watching you you’re typically pretty f-ed. Though that’s also one of the reasons using a physical FIDO token as a second factor is a good idea, since the keylogger isn’t going to be able to steal your private key off t
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by munchbunny 4y ago
These statements can definitely be simultaneously true: * ChatGPT is revolutionary - honestly, it's genuinely impressive how much of a leap ChatGPT is compared to the attempts that came before it. * Programmers write a lot of simple co
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Indeed, we’ve seen this movie before. If the CEO really wants some AI product to exist, an AI or even normal ethics team will end up getting steamrolled by any number of product teams in order to make an AI product happen sooner, actual eth
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Perhaps so, but I’ve seen from the inside what people looking for their next promotion try to build when there isn’t the specter of the evil mad scientist label (why is it always a panopticon or an easily abused tool?) and it makes me grate
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Through self improvement literature! The problem is there’s a lot of bad self improvement literature out there. You are also right that a lot of it can only be approximately taught, because the process of internalizing the skills has a lot
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by munchbunny 4y ago
This was more explicit when implementing class based components than functional components because the class based API had explicit overridable methods for those aspects of the component lifecycle. That issue probably wouldn’t exist except
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Do you mean that you don’t agree with the criticism, or that you don’t understand why someone would dislike the story? I feel like the former is the more understandable sentiment, since the latter is just a matter of personal taste. After a
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Soft skills are also teachable to a coachable person. I've seen it in action. However, far fewer people are receptive to coaching on soft skills because fewer people understand what "soft skills" are and why they matter. I&#x
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by munchbunny 4y ago
What “octernship” means: https://education.github.com/students/octernships Basically a GitHub built a platform for students to get paid to do contract projects with mentorship attached. I think it’s interesting. I read
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Chinese doesn’t have a writing system that mixes different sets of pictographs. It has traditional and simplified versions of the writing system but they’re not intermixed the way Japanese does it.
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by munchbunny 4y ago
> How does this work for ideographic scripts like Japanese Kanji or Chinese? For Chinese, it’s usually not difficult. If a stroke or two is off, or if it’s the wrong radical, you can usually figure out pretty quickly with a similar effor
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by munchbunny 4y ago
It’s legible, but it takes a bit of active effort which makes it tiring to read more than a few sentences in a single sitting.
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Not sure he was trying to start a dialogue or make some broader commentary, so much as a classic hacker’s report of “here’s what I’ve discovered” with a helping of snark added. I personally enjoyed the quick read.
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by munchbunny 4y ago
> Wouldn't a fresh look at things, essentially a "clean room" implementation offer the possibility of a novel approach to a thing or two, as opposed to making the same tool, just different? Yes, sometimes, but if that’s wh
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by munchbunny 4y ago
> I would prefer to read someone's mental model of how the code works than the code itself. I find this is often true for me. If there's a bunch of code that I'm having a particularly hard time understanding, it's usu
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by munchbunny 4y ago
I've definitely been on the receiving end of experienced (10+ years) and competent (or, at least, clearly not incompetent) developers solo-developing inscrutable code that their colleagues had to pick up later. In contexts where they
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by munchbunny 4y ago
Also video game AI’s. I like to use that as a quick test of a definition of “AI” because video game AI’s span a very wide range of levels of sophistication as well as algorithms, many of which look like deterministic decision trees, most of

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