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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Now run that loop 1000 times. What does the code /system look like. It is going to be more like evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose). It will be fascinating to watch nonetheless.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Yes, spot on! Both things can be true. Paul Graham (bless the maker and his passing) declared MSFT dead, but it came back strong. The copilot fiasco is classic Microsoft Bob territory. They have so much entrenched tech in govt and big corps
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by pragmatic 9mo ago
But "AI" already does drive the tractor/combine/sprayer etc. Look up precision ag.
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
I had to add some “shim” code to an older app to bridge authentication to a new rest endpoint I added to an aging monolith. It actually didn’t too bad after some back and forth and this too was off the beaten path (hard to find a stack over
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
The guy who write the typescript/bun cli and probably maintains that? It would be helpful if people also included what kind of code they are writing (language, domain, module, purpose, etc) The hallucinations are still there, sometimes
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
Yes, my first thought here was how to build a database that locks you into the cloud vs "for ssds".
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
What are the likely outcomes? 1) current admins working hand in glove with current AI hypemen safely bring old nuke plants online. 2) they bring it online but cause a meltdown or two in the process. Investor pressure lead to cut corners lea
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
I haven't been paying attention to this, glad it's still going. Reminds me I need to check on rebol/red and a few others.
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
This is why the US housing market is deadlocked (live locked?). Sellers arent willing to lower prices AND lose a low rate and buyers aren't willing to pay those prices and expect a buyer's market. Nothing is moving and realtors ar
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
If they had, they would have killed it. Google should be stomping everyone else but it's ad addiction in search will hold it back. Innovators dilemma...
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by pragmatic 10mo ago
Big payday soon for zig too? Might was well vertically integrate the entire stack with that much cash.
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
So we just reinvented web pages from first principles? I think I have to be missing what is huge here?
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
I had to build a custom middle ware sso thingy that ran on six and worked with ssl certs. I fought cpan for two days trying to get anything to work. Switched to java, had it done and in production in an afternoon. Not a fan of Perl.
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
Perl was write only. I worked at a company that had a 50k bash/perl install script maintained by the 3 person QA team. Dear lord that was a mess.
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
Yes, where is a link to a job page? Just one. The description, the location and the salary. Again just one link. Anyone seen one? Can you post it here?
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
Doesn't matter I and almost everyone in my circle won't touch a Tesla. The cybertruck was a huge boondoggle and only doctors and true beleivers bought them but over time I don't see them in the parking lot when I see the doct
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
Am I the only one who cringes now when I see "smart" attached to a device? Long term support for these internet connected data miners is my first thought. Gimmick is my second thought.
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
Hacker News just recreated startups from first principles! /s But seriously folks, this is why there will always be room for startups. Megacorps are slow lumbering beats that suffer from entropy and signal loss at every edge on the gr
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
Did HN just reinvent Smalltalk from first principles?
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
So fast forward five years and 50% of our war materials are produced in foreign countries? I can't help but believe this is going to weaken our war footing because the dumbest people in the room are behind it. Thirsty Pete does not ins
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by pragmatic 11mo ago
In this economy? Maybe a few years ago sure.
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by pragmatic 1y ago
Highly recommend this blig, kits of great stories.
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by pragmatic 1y ago
Of course it's flagged, lol hacker news.
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by pragmatic 1y ago
https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-async-io-text-version.h... Text version. The desynced video makes the video a bit painful to watch.
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by pragmatic 1y ago
TUIs sucked and they still suck. Programmers are trying to bring them back bc nostalgia I guess? I floated the idea of TUIs to our data engineering team and got very negative responses. (My nostalgia for undergrad turbo pascal TUI I guess l
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by pragmatic 1y ago
You can't put coal in a pipeline. You have to physically handle every piece of coal. Extract, load ship, unload. Natural gas is shooting out of the ground in North Dakota. You can compare to wind and solar also. The economics aren&#x2
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by pragmatic 1y ago
Yes we've come full circle. Sending chunks of html from the backend and updating only parts of the page is what webforms did 20ish years ago. I'm trying to figure out what the appeal is here?
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by pragmatic 1y ago
Are we back to asp.net webforms? Manage all state in the server?
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by pragmatic 1y ago
Insurers (payers in the industry lingo) simply don’t pay or underpay. Proving this sucks bc smaller practices have horrible staff turnover, the EMRs are dog shit and the contracts are who knows where and in what format. Recovery is beyond t
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by pragmatic 1y ago
Its a terrible business. The data is a disaster. Turnover is high, errs everywhere. Disputing is the easy part. Hard part is finding the contracts lol.

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