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901.
by pmarreck 2y ago
xxHash (or xxh3 which I believe is even faster) is massively faster than SHA256 at the cost of security, which is unnecessary here. Of course, engineering being what it is, it's possible that only one of these has hardware support and
902.
by pmarreck 2y ago
The way they specify this has always confused me, because I actually care more about how old the app is than what age range it's aimed for
903.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Claude 3.7 just rewrote the whole thing (just based on reading the webpage description) as a commandline app for me, so there's that. And because it has no Internet access yet (and because I prompted it to use a workaround like this in
904.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Great answer! And the implicit-order-of-adjectives thing is something I was not even aware of, but makes sense now! Fascinating!
905.
by pmarreck 2y ago
> A 30+ year dev veteran who's seen it all, from OOP spaghetti nightmares to the promised land of functional programming, now balancing toddler-wrangling with running 70B parameter models on an M4 Mac. Your comments oscillate betwee
906.
by pmarreck 2y ago
> A lot of people work in government jobs for the stability and consistency of the work, as part of that they accept lower pay than the private sector. Speaking as a new dad currently looking for a "lower key" job due to the ex
907.
by pmarreck 2y ago
The "AI system" is not making the hiring and firing decisions. It is likely being used as a filter to identify possible candidates to look into further. > How would you feel if your startup got bought by a new PE firm and they
908.
by pmarreck 2y ago
It’s interesting to me that an email from the new management asking people to justify their jobs that wouldn’t even make the news if it happened in corporate America is somehow newsworthy when it happens in a government bureaucracy, and peo
909.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Looks like a very cool way to interop with Python from Elixir without maintaining a separate Python stack (which is a PITA)!
910.
by pmarreck 2y ago
The latest Pampers diaper tech for kiddos is a veritable marvel of human technology. It will expand to like 5+ times the size while feeling dry (more or less) to the touch on the inside. It's still gross to deal with, but not remotely
911.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Of course it still matters. What else would both teach programmers that nice languages exist, and that OOP leads to a nondeterministic spaghetticode hellscape? ;) (I once spent an entire month debugging a transient login issue (session loss
912.
by pmarreck 2y ago
So forgive the pedantry but what was your takeaway?
913.
by pmarreck 2y ago
My version of this was realizing at some point "What I can understand, I can control"
914.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Why do people care about this?
915.
by pmarreck 2y ago
FFS. I read it and learned something. Stop jousting windmills just because they seem like propellers on warplanes that are coming for you. Sometimes they are just windmills.
916.
by pmarreck 2y ago
fair enough, on it, was trying to be funny
917.
by pmarreck 2y ago
I filed a bug based on this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/issues/624
918.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Never said I didn't!
919.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Tell me you use AWS without telling me... ... I literally had a multi month ticket open to track down an expense for something I either never used or only used once which ended up being a load balancer or some crap
920.
by pmarreck 2y ago
That is a good point and I'd likely be good at that.
921.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Truth. I'd be happy to have a look at anyone's legacy code to at least write an analysis paper on it. (I'm currently seeking contract work, been doing code for a long time.)
922.
by pmarreck 2y ago
if you've built up respect at the company and speak your mind regarding the maintenance vulnerability, the new crew should pay attention. if they don't, then you're screwed anyway, but so is the company. source: endured this
923.
by pmarreck 2y ago
tell me you don't have ADHD without telling me you don't have ADHD
924.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Got some questions (sorry for necro, but I only discovered this thread by accident because I left it open in a tab and it turns out to be super-relevant to me): I have some out-of-print books that I want to convert into nice pdf's&#x2F
925.
by pmarreck 2y ago
hAIters gonna hAIte
926.
by pmarreck 2y ago
I have some out-of-print books that I want to convert into nice pdf's/epubs (like, reference-quality) 1) I don't mind destroying the binding to get the best quality. Any idea how I do so? 2) I have a multipage double-sided sc
927.
by pmarreck 2y ago
I have some out-of-print books that I want to convert into nice pdf's/epubs (like, reference-quality) 1) I don't mind destroying the binding to get the best quality. How do I do so? 2) I have a multipage double-sided scanner
928.
by pmarreck 2y ago
Wow, Surya looks legit! https://www.datalab.to/
929.
by pmarreck 2y ago
And Jobs, to his credit, convinced them to let go of the idea.
930.
by pmarreck 2y ago
OK. > "It's not racism, it's culture" is literally a white supremacist talking point I was not aware of this, and I always thought (independently, without consuming whatever white-supremacist propaganda might have men

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