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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I've been paying for NextDNS for at least 4 years now and use their DoH clients on mobile, and its the upstream for AdGuard at home + cloudflared for laptops on the go. It's a great service.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> VCS + Nuget: half the things are in the VCS, you checkout the project and then you have to hunt down a bunch of packages from a separate thing Oh, and there's things like x509/proxy/whatever errors when on a corpo machin
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Interesting. Seems antithetical to the 'git centered' view of being for source code only (mostly) I think I read somewhere that game dev teams would also check in the actual compiler binary and things of that nature into version c
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> One more thing: I've been on the hiring side a few times and I have observed that candidates with very long gigs (5+ years in the same job) are often seen negatively (Why did they stay in the same job for 6 years? Do they lack amb
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> That job turned out to be shoddy, ancient, flaky tech all the way down, with comfortable, long-tenured staff who didn’t know (and did NOT want to hear) how out of date their tech had become. Yeah, yet their job listed a bunch of shiny
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I've heard this about game dev before. My (probably only somewhat correct) understanding is it's more than just source code--are they checking in assets/textures etc? Is perforce more appropriate for this than, say, git lfs?
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I think there's two 'poles' here--'good' in terms of feature rich, sure, there's loads of it. 'good' as in performant--an area that game dev types (rightly, IMO) criticize and harp on? There's fa
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
It's really top-shelf. Haven't enjoyed a book of this kind since 'Crafting Interpreters.' There's added bonuses too--the author evidently is quite a skilled C++ programmer, so there's all sorts of little modern
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
The irony is how transferable these actual skills are, and often how intangible they are (difficult to measure, in a sense). A few really good programmers/IT types I've worked with over the years were also very handy at auto rep
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> At a previous company, we were forbidden from using translucency (with a few exceptions) because of the performance cost of blending. There are debugging tools we'd use fairly often to confirm that all layers were opaque. I feel l
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> You touched on the significant thing that separates most of the AI code discourse in the two extremes: some people just don't like programming and see it as a simple means to an end, while others love the process of actually craft
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
The one place it really shines for me personally is bash scripts. I've probably written 50 over the last two years for relatively routine stuff that I'd either not do (wasn't that important) or done via other means (schelpp
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Was on a few of these as a consultant, all major F500 companies. Most recent was a few months ago. Every instance was some variation of RAG chat/langgraph thing. On multiple occasions, I heard "I don't see what value this has
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Basically every study I have ever read making some claim about programming (efficacy of IDEs, TDD, static typing, pair programming, formal CS education, ai assistants, etc...) has been a house of cards that falls apart with even modest
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I have to be cynical and believe those shouting about LLMs taking over technical skill must have lots of stock in the AI companies. I'm far from being a "vibe" LLM supporter/advocate (if anything I'm the opposi
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Good call--I do have a logitech ergo something or other I used for a bit. Maybe I'll go back to that.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
It's not even much gaming at all (a few hours a week at most). Mostly just "mousing around" for work stuff. Dunno, I think my hand is just busted.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Apparently many "gaming" mice, as I can't find something that doesn't bother my hand after a few hours.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> LLM providers should be more aggressive in educating users about their fallability since hallucinations can't ever be fully fixed, even if it means adding friction But they can't be as the whole premise of the boom is repla
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I wonder this too--if there will actually be more work created from LLM generations from a whole new genre of customer support that now not only has to know the "material" but has to know provide secondary support in resolving i
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Yep exactly. I mean "maintaining a basic material standard of living that even non 'high-earners' had twenty years ago" The erosion of the standard of living in the US (and the West more broadly) is not something to be i
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Does anyone else think the fact that companies hire superfluous employees (i.e. bullshit jobs) is actually fantastic? I do. It's much more important that people live a dignified life and be able to feed their families than "i
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Correct, I mean in the sense of "living a standard of life that my parents and friends parents (all of very, very modest means) had 20 years ago when I was a teenager." I mean a real wage associated with standards of living that o
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
The irony now is that 120k is basically minimum wage for major metros (and in most cases that excludes home ownership). Of course, that growth in wages in this sector was a contributing factor to home/rental price increases as the &quo
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I'm an autodidact. I've found leaked copies of university degree plans, pirated and read textbooks on all kinds of subjects, talk to experts for fun when I can etc. The last decade+ has been a goldmine for this, especially in
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Are you automating this in some fashion? Is there another extension you've authored or similar to invoke SingleFile functionality on a new page load or similar?
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
In software specifically, we're now at year two+ where the entirety of investment and innovation is in literally replacing people. We have CEOs and prominent figureheads making openly hostile statements about replacing their software w
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> "The right won't shut up about deporting "illegals" but has created even more opportunities for H1B's to flood in and no disincentive for corporates to outsource. Canada already has laws that act as "tari
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> the age of tech we are living in now is not the one any of us thought we were working to create The emergence of the smartphone and The Internet (as a cultural phenomenon) was such an exciting time. I came of age during the dawn of the
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> In the UK at least I suspect it's at least partially a generational thing. When I was in school back in the 90's it was deeply uncool to be in to anything academic. It's also not a surprise it was the height of lads mags

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