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by nobleach 1y ago
Looking at the landscape around me, no. Everyone is in crisis cost-cutting, "gotta show that same growth the C-suite saw during Covid" mode. So being multi-provider, and even in some cases, being multi-regional, is now off the tab
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by nobleach 1y ago
I'm on that same journey. 8 months ago, I was sitting at my desk and all of a sudden my left ear just went out. The ringing was there. I figured the same that it was wax. I've always had wax issues with that ear that require a doc
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by nobleach 1y ago
I had high hopes for Kylix back around the turn of the millennium. At that time my company was looking moving an organization with field agents to a full Linux-based system. Our options were: 1. Keep the existing CA Clipper accounts receiva
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by nobleach 1y ago
For reference, I did use Magit for my short stint with Emacs (and then Spacemacs/Doom Emacs). I've always been more into Vim. I tried the Atom editor several years ago with lots of Vim emulation and quite a bit of customization -
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by nobleach 1y ago
Even though I do not write Elixir on the job, I often cite their docs as a gold standard. They're succinct, easy to read, and most often show an example of how a method is used. What's better is that the language has documentation
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by nobleach 1y ago
I remember about 5 years ago, StackOverflow for OCaml was a nightmare. It was a mishmash of Core (from Jane Street) Batteries, and raw OCaml. New developers were confronted with the prospect of opening multiple libraries with the same funct
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by nobleach 1y ago
I think you're referring to OxCaml. I'd love to see this make a huge splash. Right now one of the biggest shortcomings of OCaml, is one is still stuck implementing so much stuff from scratch. Languages like Rust, Go and Java have
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by nobleach 1y ago
If I had to simply bind to a native toolkit, I think Lazrus can do that. Having loved Delphi back in the day, I think I'd prefer to write ObjectPascal for anything more than a very simple utility. C# would likely be my second choice.
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by nobleach 1y ago
Good luck debugging and fixing the multitude of errors introduced by your LLM. ESPECIALLY if you're outputting some low-level assembler or machine code. At least when we have our AI outputting Java/Typescript/Python/etc,
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by nobleach 1y ago
yeah.... always someone else's problem to solve. Just like a pyramid scheme.
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by nobleach 1y ago
This is what's making me laugh a bit about Ford's brazen "we're firing all the white-collar workers" nonsense. Ok, go for it. Who are you going to get to buy a $80,000 F-150?
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by nobleach 1y ago
To whom does one sell when they've deleted their workforce? Seeing company after company add to unemployed workers shows they have no forward-thinking ecomonomists advising them. Further, AI for all of its positive potential is NOT goi
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by nobleach 1y ago
Oracle is exactly who sprang to mind. Throughout my history as a software developer, even Microsoft has had a ton of interest in being involved in the community. Yes, they've wanted to extinguish much of it, when it didn't align w
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by nobleach 1y ago
As a Vim user, and a 65% keyboard user with my ESC key mapped to `~`, I found out early on that using ESC in Vim is better relegated to CTRL+[ or `jk` (when in insert mode). Fortunately, that stupid touchbar didn't slow me down as much
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by nobleach 1y ago
For a look at some of the amazing output from an "ancient" EOS, you can look at Magic Lantern's Discord. It's rather shocking how far this little camera could be pushed. It is definitely a fun hobby project to fool aroun
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by nobleach 1y ago
We do React Router 7 (previously Remix) with Fastify for a couple of our apps. Both external and internal. I'm really happy with the dev experience. We also have plenty of NextJS floating around here too. Most teams use it as a "b
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by nobleach 1y ago
I had a project slated to use this framework. The pilot went fairly well. Fresh has the right ideas on static vs dynamic islands. In the end, we deployed with Astro - which also has similar ideas. In the end, I just wasn't able to get
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by nobleach 1y ago
YAML with Go templating (like you'd find in Helm Charts) was enough to push me over the edge.
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by nobleach 1y ago
Obviously some will find this a silly opinion but the one thing that turned me off the most about the Nim programming language was its use of significant whitespace. The same is true with F# (and of course Python). Having had apps with YAML
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by nobleach 1y ago
Seeing tests written by Claude/Gemini really frustrate me sometimes. They'll go to great lengths to make tests pass. Somtimes even just testing console/stdout logging. On the other hand, when I've written failing tests a
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by nobleach 1y ago
I spent the last half of the 90's and the first part of the early 2000's building computers. Like the author, it started with a massively thick Computer Shopper catalog. Motherboard from TC Computers, 1.3GB Dirt Cheap Drives, 16MB
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by nobleach 1y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading the person to whom you're replying, but usefullness, while subjective, isn't typically based on one person's opinion. If enough people agree on the usefullness of something, we as a collective call
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by nobleach 1y ago
Well, every browser engine that is part of WHATWG. That's how working groups... work. The current crop of "not Chrome/Firefox/Webkit" aren't typically building their own browser engines though. They're re-
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by nobleach 1y ago
I think we could compare hardware AND software. Hardware: Apple announced an ARM based CPU and started shipping. It was _mostly_ a seemless experience thanks to Rosetta2. The performance on these well-built machines was outstanding. Even th
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by nobleach 1y ago
If that's what you "mostly" remember, your memory is awfully selective. It's totally fine for you to have a bias, but you're overlooking decades of massively successful products and services. Having owned plenty of
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by nobleach 1y ago
But I've yet to meet a person that said, "Oh, Rachel and Chandler from Friends... maybe Windows IS cool!". It wasn't cool, it wasn't anything. Apple was trendy with the designers and creative types, and Windows was
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by nobleach 1y ago
My dots are open to anyone who cares to view my GitHub. I do tend to keep employer specific aliases/stuff in an `.employer.zsh` file that is sourced by my main `.zshrc`. But my NeoVim config is completely open for inspection. I'm
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by nobleach 1y ago
I know that was the reasoning for the Records/Tuples proposal being shot down. I haven't dug too deeply into the pipeline operators other than to get a feel for both proposals. Most of the more interesting proposals tend to langui
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by nobleach 1y ago
In France, I always thought it was customary to leave the change from l'addition. (I'm not French though, so perhaps I was commiting a faux pas) I can confirm in Italy almost no one will even accept a tip. (Taxi drivers, wait-staf
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by nobleach 1y ago
Honestly, my only gripes with TMUX have been: 1. Having to zoom a window before copying multiple lines of text (Kovid brought this up in the interview that was mentioned in this article) 2. The weirdness of copying text from the scrollback

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