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by rednafi 2y ago
Firefox sucks and doesn’t work for me. Maybe I will give Brave with ublock a try.
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by rednafi 2y ago
This could be extrapolated to “does Cursor rot the mind?” Maybe. But programmers’ obsession with minutiae is a massive waste of time. People try to dress it up as “attention to detail” or “caring about the craft” when it’s just unnecessary
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by rednafi 2y ago
> and what are you really gaining from super readable code, really? Maybe a few minutes? Wat?? Try a few billion dollars. No one wants to work in a high performance unreadable mess of a service. Otherwise, high-level languages wouldn’t b
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Ulysses Contract: What It Is, How It Is Used, and Examples(psychologyfor.com)
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
I never said editing is bad. In fact, writing is all about writing, reading, and editing. English is the third language I learned, and editing is indeed one of the ways I improved my writing. What I meant to say is that there’s too much foc
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by rednafi 2y ago
Meta blogs—aka blogs about blogging—are a common theme on the Hacker News front page. So are blogs about making blogs. I’m not denigrating anyone’s effort here, but the greatest trick behind blogging consistently is simply picking up the ke
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by rednafi 2y ago
I agree. It’s kind of like how we always try to explain brain function in terms of whatever tech is trending at the time. In the same way, we’re biased to think the biggest hype lab today is gonna be the next Bell Labs. But that doesn’t mea
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by rednafi 2y ago
Modern STEM workforce churn is actively causing damage. The “switch or stagnate” mindset makes it hard to hold on to a problem when you’re constantly thinking about switching jobs just to get a promotion or avoid a layoff. Also, companies w
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by rednafi 2y ago
I feel like 30 years from now, many of today’s AI labs will be regarded with the same reverence as Bell Labs or Xerox PARC. They have a lot of the same ingredients—backing from massive monopolies, virtually unlimited funding, and a wave of
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Ugly Code and Dumb Things(lucumr.pocoo.org)
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|2 comments
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I Use LLMs [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
Will the real Aleph Null please stand up?
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by rednafi 2y ago
Thermal insulation is usually better in concrete apartments. Also, when I was working in the US, the places I lived were mostly "cardboard" houses by default. In Germany, I don't have much choice. So in my case, it's not
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by rednafi 2y ago
It’s much better with uv, but nothing beats the ergonomics of running go mod tidy && go run script.go. I wish Python had a native way to build self-contained executables like Go. The binary would be larger since it’s a dynamically i
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by rednafi 2y ago
It’s easier to do in some languages than in others. I write all my scripts in Python for Python projects and in Go for Go projects. Then, the scripts are called from Make targets. But doing it in Kotlin is pushing it too far in my book. Kot
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by rednafi 2y ago
This is all good, but will it be able to penetrate the 12-inch German walls in my apartment effortlessly? WiFi reception was pretty good when I used to live in cardboard houses. But now 5GHz struggles a lot with the thick concrete walls at
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Dotfile Stewardship for the Indolent(rednafi.com)
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|1 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
Funny indeed. I recently needed to set up GNU stow to manage my dotfiles on a new machine. So I searched google and lo and behold, my own stuff was among the top 10 results. https://rednafi.com/misc/dotfile_stewardship_
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by rednafi 2y ago
I love reading meta-writings at times, as long as there’s a real human behind the keyboard. This was a fun, quick read.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Thank you. One reason I wrote it was to demonstrate how easy it is to spin up a blog where everything is automated and you never have to worry about the infra.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Blogging pushes me to explore things I probably wouldn’t otherwise. That’s been the main reason I’ve stuck with it pretty consistently[1] for the past five years. Getting attention was never the goal, so the rise of LLMs has mostly been bac
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The Scandalous Story of the Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
It was in alpha stage and changing rapidly when they were considering it. But it’s similar to Python’s type hints and isn’t enforced by the compiler. However, that’s better than nothing.
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by rednafi 2y ago
It’s probably geared toward someone like me. JVM and parens are one angle. Another is that I get paid to work with distributed systems and databases, and Clojure isn’t even part of the discussion in that sphere. Go, Rust, and the usual Pyth
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by rednafi 2y ago
It’s great, and I learned a ton from Rich Hickey, despite not fully grokking Clojure or FP in general. I briefly worked at a small Clojure shop with an extremely talented crew. People were excited about FP and writing real business logic wi
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Go Quirks(blog.sbstp.ca)
5 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
And didn’t appear on the front page of the orange site.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Yo, this shit could be a tight JavaScript app with a reactive frontend. Y’all geezers still fuckin’ with them shell commands? /s
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by rednafi 2y ago
One reason to abandon analytics scripts and obsess over the stats. Fell into this trap when a few of my posts surfaced on the front page here.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I also maintain a rough list of people I follow on my own blog. But I’ll be honest: I came to the game way later than most of the veterans here (circa 2018). I don’t understand how webrings work, what problem they solve, or how to add one t

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