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by pragma_x 7mo ago
I can't say that I've used gitflow in hate. That said, I always saw the full complexity of the approach to address tracking multiple concurrent releases of a product. It's extremely uncommon in our increasingly SaaS world,
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by pragma_x 7mo ago
My workaround here is/was: - Install browser that lets you run plugins - Change user-agent to a desktop browser - any will do - (optional) run social fixer while you're at it I completely understand that iOS probably won't le
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by pragma_x 7mo ago
What I think is truly amazing is how truly rare it is to see a home console move into an arcade platform, instead of the other way around. Almost always, the home system was derived from lessons learned from more expensive, rugged, and ela
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by pragma_x 8mo ago
I wrote as good an opposition as I could. Basically, I opposed it on multiple principles. From the top, I absolutely detest this kind of censorship. But the bill states that the implementation will be defined (or rendered infeasible - yeah
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by pragma_x 8mo ago
I've seen the ramifications of this "CV first" kind of engineering. Let's just say that it's a bad time when you're saddled with tech debt solely from a handful of influential people that really just wanted to
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by pragma_x 8mo ago
> Note: you are going to get well under a 50% success rate here. Accept that most people flake. It may always feel painful (and nerds like us often are rejection-sensitive). You have to feel your feelings, accept it, and move on. This is
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by pragma_x 9mo ago
It's kind of their whole thing, when you think about it. They didn't get to where they are by playing nice with others. If you're supporting anything in the Apple ecosystem, the fix is in.
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by pragma_x 9mo ago
That's kind of brilliant. I had no idea that kind of thing would actually work. I always assumed that bidirectional connections were needed to allow ETH frames to function, electrically. I further assumed this applied to optical netw
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by pragma_x 9mo ago
This is a good point. I wonder how much NES emulator code is in Claude's training set? Not to knock what the author has done here, but I wonder if this is more of a softball challenge than it looks.
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by pragma_x 9mo ago
I know what you mean. For me, the dividing line is how compact the language representation is, specifically if you can get the job done in one file or not. I have no doubt that there's a lot of Go jobs that will fit in a 500 line scrip
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
Yup. This is some of the stuff that gets missed when understanding Security. Ultimately, you're just buying time, generating tamper evidence in the moment, and putting a price-tag on what it takes to break in. There's no "pe
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
FWIW, you can make software that runs on Harvard architecture chips. They feature distinct address spaces for ROM and RAM. It's been a while, but it's how Atmel/Microchip AVR micros work. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
I've been observing this, off and on, for decades now. Is there an actual formal proof or law named after someone at this point?
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
That's the mother of all people-space problems in IT, right there. To solve this, one can be an instrument for change. Network, band people together, evangelize better ways forward, all while not angering management by operating trans
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
Everything about these big moves in the streaming space is basically to re-create the "good old days" of cable subscriptions and pay-per-view. I think we can expect HBO streaming to continue as a premium subscription for movies an
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
I must have misunderstood what "Servant Leadership" actually is. I identify as such, but I also do just about all of the "Transparent Leadership" things called out in the article. I may have to re-evaluate my orientatio
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
IIRC, that team are also (now) live-music-coding veterans, which in turn has informed how Strudel is built. It's not just a project that does stuff, it's a pretty well crafted instrument that is ideal for these performances. As a
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
I've been following this project with great interest. Quite possibly one of the most interesting things is just how competent the REPL is. It does some things that no other programming environment does in a prompt, all centered around
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
It's been a while, so I went to Wikipedia for a refresher. These things really are amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube#Storage Unlike a television CRT, the storage tube will "remember" e
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
From that first graph: Who was using WinNT in 2005?!
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
It _all_ ends at eurorack. Especially my bank account.
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
Yup. This is why I have a pretty hard set of rules about introducing code generation and DSL's into a team project: 0. Code generators are to be used hand-in-hand with the coding process. 1. Code generation must happen pre-build, usin
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by pragma_x 10mo ago
Same. It's a solid four-note ARP that sticks to a fixed set of musical keys. You literally can't make bad sounding music with this. A more grown-up version of this would be 16 notes, with variable length patterns (4-16?), and a
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by pragma_x 11mo ago
I used to not be on "team sticker". My wife, however, loves to customize her stuff. Fast-forward a few years of that and her laptop breaks down. We drop it off at a local repair place, only to have the business itself fold up wit
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by pragma_x 11mo ago
Agreed. Although it's also a bit worse than that for coding exclusively with macros. You have to add an extra degree of complexity for any additional code generator you add to your toolchain, when that path comes into play for debugg
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by pragma_x 11mo ago
> The conventional wisdom that local, on-premise models offer a security advantage is flawed. While they provide data privacy, our research shows their weaker reasoning and alignment capabilities make them easier targets for sabotage. Ye
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by pragma_x 1y ago
That's... no, servers sending HTML to the client was where we started with all this. That's why the H in HTTP and in HTML stand for "Hypertext." Any time a webserver replies with something other than markup, _that'
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> basically built for us old-skool types Glad I'm not the only one. Ever since the first HTMX article, I felt like I was kidding myself. I had/have this thought in my head that "no way that we were that close to having
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by pragma_x 1y ago
Yup. Another way to frame it is a "return to form" by moving app and business logic back to the server. Technology like HTMX and Datastar are optimizations that allow for surgical updates of portions of the client DOM, instead o
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by pragma_x 1y ago
> One of the amazing things from David Guillot’s talk is how his app updated the count of favored items even though that element was very far away from the component that changed the count. This might not seem like a big deal, but it loo

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