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by pico303 1y ago
It's so bad with my work laptop that I find myself doing work on my personal laptop and git patching it on my work laptop. Also doesn't help that because I don't feel comfortable with all the monitoring software on my work la
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by pico303 2y ago
Literally paid more so I didn’t need the app. Cost of doing business in 2025.
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by pico303 2y ago
As someone forced to use a Windows laptop for work with the new job, I've stopped complaining about my Mac. It's so much worse on the other side of the fence... Working on Windows makes me appreciate the Mac ecosystem so, so, so
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by pico303 2y ago
A grandiose statement like, “…to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can’t believe what we’re achieving in engineering” needs to be followed by, “Ignore the man behind the curtain.”
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by pico303 2y ago
I always tell people to take control of the situation and stay calm. If “Google” or someone contacts you about a problem, simply hang up or ignore the email, look up the company’s info online, and contact the company directly.
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by pico303 2y ago
Another plus for your landing page. It’s amazing how many landing pages vomit features the developer is excited about but never explain why I need their product.
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by pico303 2y ago
I’m feeling like next year I want to try advent of code in either Apple II, Atari, or C64 BASIC…
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by pico303 2y ago
It’s a truly amazing, beautiful, stunning piece of tech. The ability to seamlessly blend the pieces of your build together in such an elegant way can’t be appreciated enough. What these devs have accomplished is truly stunning. I always thi
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by pico303 2y ago
I first learned to program in CBASIC on an Eagle II (Z80), then later TI-BASIC, and finally MSBASIC. Thank you, Mr. Kurtz, for introducing me to a wonderful career and fond memories of hacking “BASIC Computer Games” by David Ahl into my ear
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by pico303 2y ago
Taco is my zsh prompt, but I’m now tempted to switch to elephant.
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by pico303 2y ago
The $7500 jumped out at me, but for a different reason. This seems awfully high for a site with 2 million registered users. I feel like some backend optimization could get than number way down ($1000/mo?). What is all this computing po
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by pico303 2y ago
Immutability isn’t a new idea, and you don’t need “gobs of memory.” Erlang was developed in the 80’s.
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by pico303 2y ago
Apple gave schools steep discounts, with the idea being that young people learning on Apple computers would have parents purchasing computers their kids were familiar with. Later, those kids would become adults purchasing the computers the
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by pico303 2y ago
Was he ever successful? I’m pretty sure he never succeeded in a single attempt at anything, but I could be wrong.
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by pico303 2y ago
How about invalidate the user’s refresh token and the public signing key, which forces everyone to refresh and then logs out the hacked account. If it’s really serious, lock the account before doing this so the user can’t login again. But y
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by pico303 2y ago
Sorry, should have been clearer. I was thinking in the context of every online discussion I’ve run across around “Rust vs. any other language,” where the diehard Rustaceans insist that we should just rewrite everything in Rust. Totally agre
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by pico303 2y ago
My problem with Rust is that it’s a hammer, and every nail is memory safety. If I’m writing a TLS library or kernel module, yes, memory safety is paramount. But if I’m writing pretty much anything else, Rust isn’t worth the slog.
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by pico303 2y ago
Holy cow. Trying to read an article on Vice is atrocious. I’m ok with you needing to publish ads, but when it makes the site bounce around like dog chasing squirrels, I give up.
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by pico303 2y ago
I took a glance at that “Nature of Predators” book, but couldn’t get past the first sentence. Did the author really mean “sapience,” or “sentience?”
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by pico303 3y ago
This is 100% the way to do it. It just came so naturally because I’ve used Macs for years. But I’ve noticed on Linux and Windows laptops (even Windows on an Intel MacBook) this approach doesn’t work. I find it so frustrating when I have to
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by pico303 3y ago
I feel like this is an understandable trend. With inflation and job markets and various conflicts around the world, combined with the near constant flood of near-realtime data online, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This “anti-expert,” Qan
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by pico303 3y ago
That’s a great quote. I’ve always said when it works, it’s to our team members’ credit; when it doesn’t, it’s my fault. But don’t rely on just that as a gauge of a good leader. I don’t know that I’m that effective a leader, since I’m not c
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by pico303 3y ago
JetBrains “won” because of code inspection tools and code completion that was light years ahead of Eclipse and Netbeans. I remember in my Java days I used to be able to do in a keystroke what my Eclipse friends did in a dozen dialogs.
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by pico303 3y ago
I hope not. I still subscribe to several print magazines, and the quality of the content is leaps and bounds better than any of the junk available to read online.
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by pico303 3y ago
I still subscribe to Juiced. It’s a great magazine. Maybe I’m getting old and curmudgeonly, but there’s nothing fun in computing anymore. If you check out IA and read old copies of Byte or CC, we were all looking forward to the next tech i
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by pico303 3y ago
I agree. Started subscribing to magazines again because trying to read articles online is such a nightmare.
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by pico303 3y ago
You don’t. The original suggestion isn’t a good one for a constrained system like bank balances.
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by pico303 3y ago
As an engineering manager, my team doesn’t know half the crap I keep off their shoulders. But that’s the part I play these days if we want to get things done.
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by pico303 3y ago
Agreed. I feel like in the next year or so my travel bag is going to boil down to a MacBook Air and a paperback book.
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by pico303 3y ago
I don’t understand the complaints about this switch. Aren’t these companies doing this to protect themselves from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google cloud services reselling their services and competing with them, not stop the rest

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