pdntspa

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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Maybe you want TLS but getting a proper subdomain for your project requires talking to a bunch of people who move slowly?
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Three grand! For a cocktail night? I mean I've spent a couple hundo at Costco buying booze and food and paper supplies for a party I hosted and THAT was flabbergasting. How the fuck do spend three grand on cocktails? Is it like all top
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Because they still suck at real-world software engineering
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
"Noise problem solved" from the "Rational Optimist Society" Sorry can't help but chuckle at this....
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Why not? They have to implement the systems that power this. Also, water-cooler gossip
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Never had issues activating the Windows keys nor the Office keys I've bought from them. And I always get the installers straight from Microsoft.
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Every time I've tried to get native-image working with anything more than a basic Swing app it has been absolute hell.
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by pdntspa 9mo ago
Who is actually shelling out $200 for Windows specifically? It's perceptually free if you bought it with your PC. And it's actually free if you took advantage of the free upgrade offer. I've picked up a few licenses off MacHe
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
How silly that you assume pirates are always doing it for financial gain, as opposed to cred or the lulz
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
Then why bother with commerce.txt?
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
Then you don't know how to work with it. Just like a real programmer first-pass code is meh. But then you circle back and have it refine.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
If it delivers accurate data then I can hit that instead of scraping the full HTML. Everybody wins. What I have found, however, with existing standardization of this kind of data (yours is not the first!), is that shopping sites (big ones)
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
I second this. It's like having a second brain with domain expertise in pretty much anything I could want to ask questions of. And while factual assertions may still be problematic (hallucinations), I can very quickly run code and see
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
This would have been great if it was adopted while I was still working on shopping site scrapers
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
You don't have to follow. I'm still punching way above my weight. Not sure why both things can't be true at once.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
I did, and that is very much not the case here. I don't know how a "good" programmer opens the same gig+ file for writing in multiple threads (dozens sometimes) without any kind of concurrency management. A "good" p
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
I feel this too. And it seems like the very worst code always seems to come from the people that seem the smartest, otherwise. I've worked for a couple of people that are either ACM alum and/or have their own wikipedia page, multi
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
Why can't both things be true? You can care about the code even if you don't write it. You can continue learning things by reading said code. And you can very rigidly enforce code quality guidelines and require the AI adhere to th
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
And all that take rote mechanical work. Which can quickly lead to fractured focus and now suddenly I'm pulled out of my flow. Or I can farm that stuff to an LLM, stay in my flow, and iterate at a speed that feels good.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
If the client is happy, the code is well-formed, and it solves their problem is a cost-effective manner, what is not to like?
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
I just ask it to do a code review. It spits out a perfectly cromulent critique. Oftentimes it highlights stuff I would have missed.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
When the POS system goes down at a restaurant they'll revert to pen and paper. Can't imagine its much different in that case.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
You are hitting the nail on the head. We are not being hired to write code. We are being hired to solve problems. Code is simply the medium.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
> AWS, Splunk/Cisco It's an entirely different world in small businesses that aren't primarily tech.
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
There are many roads to Rome...
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
Dude have you even written any hardcore SQL? plpgSQL is very much a turing-complete language
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
I have mentored and worked with a junior dev. And the only way to get her to do anything useful and productive was to spell things out. Otherwise she got wrapped around the axle trying to figure out the complex things and was constantly ask
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
My last job there was effectively a gun held to the back of my head, ordering me to use this stuff. And this started about a year ago, when the tooling for agentic dev was absolutely atrocious, because we had a CTO who had the biggest most
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
If you run to the point where you can execute each idea and examine its outputs, problems like that surface pretty quickly
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by pdntspa 10mo ago
Oh my sweet summer child...

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