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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Eh, tearing down a straw man is not an impressive argument from you either. As a counter-point, LLMs still do embarrassing amounts of hallucinations, some of which are quite hilarious. When that is gone and it starts doing web searches -- o
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Sorry if my question is misguided: did you try SQLite3's native online backup API? I would not use raw file access knowing they have that.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Yes, sadly are quite right. I want off this toxic train. Are any aliens in your vicinity hiring? Tell them I am interested.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I so wish I would agree with you, if my career has not been a string of them _never_ compromising on anything and only pulling the blanket to their side of the bed. Your balanced take is nice and I wish I inhabited that reality. So far I ha
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I can't understand it either. To me it seems people are excessively risk-averse. I can understand that but I don't understand the leadership not trying to stimulate a little bit of risk and growth there. It's getting to absur
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Absolutely not, barely anyone is okay with it -- only the most naive and fresh of young workforce, and then not even half of them by my observations chatting with many people 20+ years younger than me. It's just that people have too mu
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I take it you have a good reputation and a network then. It is getting increasingly difficult to get hired lately, even as a senior. At least in the EU.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Highly irrelevant. Not my role as an individual contributor to hone and fine-tune their job description. Fact on the ground is that they usually optimize the entirely wrong indicators and never ever optimize for avoiding future problems. In
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Of course every manager would want that. Who wants responsibility and taking care of their reports anyway.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
> you just need to get together as a team "Just". Come on, man, you know better than that. I too like my sci-fi to be over the top unrealistic. Truth is, nobody ever thinks about their rights before it's too late. The pa
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
When was the last time you had to look for a job?
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
How about we transition from “managers are unaccountable for failure” to “managers are accountable for every failure by default and are sued and have houses confiscated within two months of a case being open”? That must include CEOs as well
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
While I too doubt that unions would be a net negative and I might even suspect interference by paid malicious actors to discourage people to unionize and thus never have power, I can't agree with your skepticism that PMs cannot be repl
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Very interesting, I want to learn more. How do you diagnose contention on atomic counters? And how do you diagnose cache line contention? And how do you rewrite that code away from Arc-s?
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I stand corrected. :D You are quite right! They have never stopped. And I am ashamed on their behalf. We have amazing tech talent in the EU but we are beholden to old and ultra-risk-averse rich aristocracy. What a damned shame.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Is EU suffering from FOMO? As an EU citizen, this is shameful and even kind of pathetic to read. Will we start outsourcing all our IT needs to USA again?
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Yeah true, I don't deny it. My bigger point was that it was basically negligence. And it was in a very high-profile product making likely hundreds of millions (the shark cards). Meanwhile I got fired because I could not keep up with im
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I completely agree. But IMO Rust would have not gained traction if it was as strict. It would be branded as an academic toy language. But now after we are past that and it has a lot of mind share, I'd say it's time to start tighte
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Well I gave up trying to understand C and C++ ages ago; they always felt like they sabotaged me for trying to get better at them. Moved on to many other programming languages. In this case I believe they should have just vendored a small JS
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
We don't disagree, my main point was a bit broader and admittedly hijacked the original topic a bit, namely: `unwrap` and `expect` make many Rust devs too comfortable and these two are very tempting mistresses. Using those should be do
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Well, you can request Clippy to tell you about them. I do that in my hobby projects.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I agree the failure is in testing but what you can and should do is raise in alert in your APM system before the runtime panic, in the code path that is deemed impossible to hit. I am not trashing on them, I've made such mistakes in th
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
While I heavily frown upon using `unwrap` and `expect` in Rust code and make sure to have Clippy tell me about every single usage of them, I also understand that without them Rust might have been seen as an academic curiosity language. The
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
There are even lints for this but people get impatient and just override them or fight for them to no longer be the default. As usual: people problem, not a tech problem. In the last years a lot of strides have been made. But people will be
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Also oof, I have no idea why I included bash here. I meant Python and Ruby. Thanks for calling me out.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Feast your eyes: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times... There were HN discussions at the time as well.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Okay. Not contesting that. Use what you like. My point here was that one does not have to choose between "easy to use and iterate with" and "future-proof". These days you can have both. Elixir, Golang and Rust seem to of
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Well, almost exactly the same goes for Elixir. You have to declare a supervisor first but from then on it's trivial, almost on the level of `go doThisThing()`. That's why I made Elixir my main language. A lot of the tech sphere st
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
You might be proving my point here because Elixir is amazing for exploration. You literally generate a project and then can immediately fiddle with it to your heart's content in a REPL. As said though, I don't judge people who go
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
@jerf beat me to it but indeed Golang is one of the very slowest compiled languages out there. I have an okay idea why but I wish someone there made a more serious effort to accelerate it at least by a factor of 2x. I hate having to mull ov

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