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by pdimitar 5mo ago
That's a straw man at the root of which sits a conflation of at least two types of meetings: (A) Meetings where we discuss whether naming two users in an integration test `u1` and `u2` vs. `user1` and `user2` and whether whoever did th
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I've met programmers who severely outclassed me. It was extremely uncomfortable and it took me months to accept that reality and reshape my hurt ego into curiosity and desire to learn from someone clearly superior in the craft. That be
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Just as I was reading your comment I remembered that Samuel Jackson used "retort" in his speech in the "Pulp Fiction" movie and was wondering whether he was openly antagonistic there (I mean, he killed a bunch of guys wi
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Actually super helpful, thank you!
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I did spot the /s but it's not relevant: I use two normal dashes actually. :)
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I've seen this expressed as a concern even from one of my colleagues. My retort was: "English is not my native language and LLMs taught me quite a few very useful formalisms that do land well for people and they change their attit
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
I appreciate the craftiness of this but with the years I stopped being a fan of Frankenstein setups. The vendor should be honest; if the piece of tech is expected to heat up, just add a fan to it and manual toggle and a knob to control it o
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Who is "we", exactly? Neither me nor dozens of my acquaintances fell for it. 100% of us said "GitHub is toast, it's just a matter of time". And we and many others were right. Your "we" is misplaced.
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Whoever makes fun of you over it is exactly the people you want to avoid. Leaving any emotions aside, all the arguments you gave are technical and carry weight: we are not always in the mood for OSS work -- or even have the time and energy,
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
I know what you mean about Go vs. Rust here and I've seen it firsthand, though I believe the effect is overblown. I was able to modernize a fairly old project in literal 15 minutes by using Cargo Clippy's fix mode + a few small ha
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
What is RMS quote supposed to prove here? We can always find new work? Is that it? If so -- not so fast. When you have a family, your freedom is severely hampered. Most companies understand this and abuse it. And yes the free software ideol
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Nice. Does it have a special option for Americano? That's the main reason I'm leaning towards Delonghi Magnifica Start. It has a button for Americano. I tried moka pot coffee + diluting it with hot water. It's not the same. :
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Ah, I don't work with scripting languages though. I understand the difference in usages. Your use-case is quite valid.
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing your anecdote. Upvoted. I am openly admitting I don't care. Such libraries are in a huge demand and every programming language ecosystem gains them quite early. So to me the risk of malicious code in the
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
That's pretty interesting, thank you. To me Adderall is a bridge too far though. I don't want to truly medicate (though I guess we can always argue semantics i.e. is getting coffee everyday not like medication?). I just need somet
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Not gonna lie, this sounds like way too much work. What I am mostly looking for is some sort of an easy access to a diluted coffee like the Americano, really. I am OK with buying 1-2kg of beans because I am fairly sure that's going to
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
As written above, coffee from moka pot absolutely destroys me. :( It's too concentrated.
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
I have a moka pot but I guess I am doing it wrong -- maybe I should not fill its coffee compartment to the brim? is there other way of doing it? -- because the coffee that gets out destroys me: heart palpitations, slight arrhythmia, headach
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Different things. "Rust is safer" generally means memory safety i.e. no double-free, no use-after-free, no buffer-/under-flows, and the like. The safety you seem to have in mind is "minimal dependency count".
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
How does it handle better, exactly?
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
So you only use languages that have a built-in HTTP client, JSON / CSV / XML parsers, and such?
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
It's a sign that they learned from Python more than anything else. Better be conservative than have Python's situation of multiple versions of those common functionalities (in the stdlib) that almost nobody uses and goes for 3rd p
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
What stimulants have you landed on? And do you feel they're better for you? I'm pondering getting a coffee machine at home. 400 EUR is not a sizable investment and one I'd have forgotten about it 3 months but I'm getting
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
I'm close to finishing a fairly complex and laborious Elixir bridge to SQLite (through Rust) and I loved the journey. Maybe I should contact you and write an article. Hmm.
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
OK, I am worried. Now, what can I actually do?
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
Not really. We are both reporting our own anecdotal evidence. There are common threads though. LLMs do terribly in certain areas. They also do terribly when not supervised well.
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
I mostly agree but I had plenty of cases where the project / team was forced to reinvent a query engine over flat files and/or in-memory caches. From that POV I moved from the extreme of "you don't need a state at all (a
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
You do have a point but as the sibling comment pointed out, the negative eventuality you are describing also has not happened for many devs. I quite enjoy being much more of an architect than I could compared to 90% of my career so far (24
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
This: > I don’t really understand the, “more, better, faster,” cachet to be honest And this: > I’m working as a single solo developer ...I believe explain it all here. You likely are not beholden to PMs, CEOs and the like. Of cour
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by pdimitar 6mo ago
> If one of the three, {PM, QA, coder}, was replaced by AI, as a customer I'd prefer to pick the team missing the coder. I am curious: why? In all my years of career I've seen engineers take on extra responsibilities and doin

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