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by pnathan 2y ago
Tried vs code recently, remembering old vs. Yeah not even in the same room of competence imo. Just a cranked up notepad++ in electron and with add-ons imo.
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by pnathan 2y ago
This is a good resource. A core of the matter here is that good software development is heavily involved with _wisdom_, and in some sense, wisdom can not be stated badly, but must be oblique.
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by pnathan 2y ago
The basic problem is you're wrong and also right: it all depends. That is widely understood as the senior+ swe mantra. The SWEBOK, on the contrary, asserts "it does not depend" and that in a sense is the core problem. For a
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by pnathan 2y ago
I'm more than happy to sign onto a reasonable certification. Many good reasons for it. I am, personally, fond of the idea that an ABET certified BSCS should be ground floor level. Other ideas have been floated... But this particular wo
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by pnathan 2y ago
The Master might say something like this, if translated crudely - Software engineering is programming professionally, with a dialogue on quality. Everything else is details. The IEEE has been riding this horse for a very long time, in the f
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by pnathan 2y ago
Swebok is an attempt to look at the whole ox Cook Ding was cutting up an ox for Lord Wenhui. As every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee — zip! zoop! He slithered the knife along
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by pnathan 2y ago
Being a music teacher is a well-established play that winds up being a reasonable money maker. It's not super lucrative but it is understood and legible.
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by pnathan 2y ago
I mean I don't disagree. But this is a bazaar problem and a rebundling problem. I have used Debanoids for decades and they just work. It's very nice. Gentol works very nice too. I usually whack systemD and enjoy. I do want to get
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by pnathan 2y ago
I've done that; I set it up so that the table was the record stream, then a materialized view with the current state would be refreshed asynchronously when an insert happened. Fast as lightning. Wouldn't do it by default for every
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by pnathan 2y ago
So, my hot take on this is that it's an advanced GUI for AWS with change management built in. 1. Is that a good summary? 2. Why would I pick this? I know you LOVE it, it's your baby. But why should I love it? :-)
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by pnathan 2y ago
> People write well about what they know. Its my long standing observation that people with a varied and interesting life history make the best fiction authors, rather than those who loved books and went straight into writing fiction. w
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by pnathan 2y ago
the seattle freeze is real. also a lot of people dipped out for other parts of the country.
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by pnathan 2y ago
let's rewrite to "no living human encountering the text" and we find that, e.g., we can delve deeply into early 1800s texts, worldviews, and experiences and produce something shocking and strange to encounter. there's a
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by pnathan 2y ago
I know what you mean. There's a huge retrojection problem going in a lot of fantasy right now. I really wish authors would write books that authentically described an alien society, rather than wish casting "vague liberal fantasy
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by pnathan 2y ago
Look up the Seattle Rust meetup. Its still around. The whole Seattle scene imploded in 2020.
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by pnathan 2y ago
> But, what's the alternative? Ban YouTube. Have only 1 movie/TV night. Mandate books as primary entertainment. Stock the home library with classic tales of heroism and adventure. Own an encyclopedia set. Reject the brainshinke
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by pnathan 2y ago
Curious, does rsyslog support metrics or traces? My impression has always been it's log lines.
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by pnathan 2y ago
Fwiw I run more than 'a' site. EBS is great for 'a' site. Last I checked, it had serious cost consequences past the one site. But yeah, if I only wanted a thing, Ebs works.
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by pnathan 2y ago
I have done mimir deployments. I am generally very happy with mimir. It's very cost efficient. It does require someone to know enough to admin it though. I didn't pick thanos because I really like the horizonal scaled blob store a
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by pnathan 2y ago
You can't separate tech from the rest of the world. Millennials grew up. And we found that it cost a crap ton of money to just survive, let along thrive. Student loans were the first bodyslam, then figuring out owning a place to live.
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by pnathan 2y ago
yeah, I know, that's the only reason I'm even thinking of using it. but tbqh I don't really install many things, as you can see...
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by pnathan 2y ago
if you take the time to understand k8s and have a straightforward k8s deployment, these things aren't really a problem - and you don't have to do the custom sysadmin timesinks that need to go into the "simple" suggesti
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by pnathan 2y ago
I don't see any peer reviews of quint's work on their site or GitHub. Am I missing them?
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by pnathan 2y ago
I was looking at TLA a few months ago to consider what it would take to prove multiregion fail over worked correctly. Considering I'd never looked at it before. I did not find it straight forwardly grokkable, which makes me sad. Maybe
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by pnathan 2y ago
Anthropic and other models are roughly par with OpenAI. I would value each of those companies' practical revenue potential as equal for now. The operating costs themselves are eye watering, and the hardware is deprecating. So that has
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by pnathan 2y ago
Interesting. I really invested heavily into the Alexa system. It is super cool and futureistic! I have dots, the wallplug, echo show, studio, etc. I just wish Amazon had invested in the usability of it more!
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by pnathan 2y ago
Yeah, I missed that bit. I use the Philips Hue system, and it works super reliably. But the Amazon integration is... getting iffier with that. No idea why. But yeah, voice controlled lights are nice.
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by pnathan 2y ago
I found that it only recognizes something like 30-50% of the bands/songs/composers I like. really aggravating. and last I checked, there was supported web ui or cli to play music from my other devices outside of the (horribly slow
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by pnathan 2y ago
Alexa is a wonderful idea in search of a serious use case. It does timers, tells the weather, and, uh, shouts at me from Ring when someone is at the door. Handy when cooking and I don't want to touch something. The voice recognition is
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by pnathan 2y ago
I relate to them really well too!

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