scubbo

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by scubbo 3y ago
:s/CloudFormation/CDK/, but yes :)
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I don't see any value in trying to quibble about whether it's a bug in the caller or the callee. Right, neither do I - like I said, "that's an issue for the _overall system_ of a cache which stores T.". The bug
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by scubbo 3y ago
> That a new hire has to be better than 50% of the interviewers Not sure if a typo, but if this is what you actually meant, this is a _gross_ misunderstanding of the situation. The benchmark is that a new hire should _have capability to_
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by scubbo 3y ago
> If you are using union types and you put the results of your expensive computation into your cache, you will not be able to tell when you've done an expensive computation for some key and got a None result, or when you haven'
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by scubbo 3y ago
But there _is_ no "breaking" change in the behaviour, because none of the previously-possible behaviours _can_ break. For every way-of-calling the function that previously existed, those ways-of-calling will continue to operate as
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Was it given a T that happened to be None, or was it not given a T? Hmm. It _feels_ like a function shouldn't ever need to differentiate between "what the caller thinks it has" (that is - being passed a "T-which-is-
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by scubbo 3y ago
Let me just drop in to recommend the Kinesis Advantage 2, a keyboard I bought about 6 years ago after first noticing wrist pain. It's probably my only purchase that beats Factorio in "benefit-per-dollar". I absolutely love it
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I can grant a function app access to a SQL database by simply using the literal name of the function app (qualified by the object's identifier if aliased). No passwords, certificates, etc. involved anymore. It literally just works
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by scubbo 3y ago
> commits that are fifty times as long as the commit message One of my proudest commits had a 1:30 commit:message length ratio. The change may have only been ~3 lines, but boy was there a lot of knowledge represented there!
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by scubbo 3y ago
I see your "wait for a file to finish downloading", and raise you a "wait before responding because, for one of our clients, if the latency is below a certain threshold, it will assume that the response was a failure and will
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by scubbo 3y ago
This is a statement which is technically-true (so long as your language of choice has no length on names), but unhelpful since it does not apply in most practical cases.
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by scubbo 3y ago
You may enjoy https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
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by scubbo 3y ago
I'm 99% sure they're kidding.
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by scubbo 3y ago
These two are _pretty_ similar (though not the same) - neither has inherent judgement in them, they're just flavours of "eh - it's not for me". Much more important to avoid conflating "I don't understand people
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I don't understand couples that keep separate finances > You can have a "for the bills" join account, and then each person has their own separate account. If you keep your own separate account, in any way, shape, or f
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Transfer $X on date Y for Z bill, repeat for both partners x each bill. Good grief! This takes me approximately 10 minutes a month to total up and send over as a Zelle request. Hardly arduous. > How do vacations and other shared thi
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by scubbo 3y ago
I don't think this conversation is going to go anywhere productive. You're responding to practical advice ("because the world is in one particular configuration, you can accrue benefit to yourself by acting in a particular wa
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by scubbo 3y ago
To control the purse strings, which is why reminding them of your value is worthwhile to you. It is perhaps not fair, just, or efficient for them to be in that position - but they _are_, and acting holier-than-thou because _you_ can see tha
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I am not talking my book Today I learned a phrase, thank you! > [Autonomous taxis are] too vital to the revitalization of SF As an expat from London - Jesus Christ, what a fucking bleak situation. To be clear, I'm not disagreei
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by scubbo 3y ago
You accidentally only read the first ~1/5 of the comment.
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by scubbo 3y ago
I don't think I've encountered anyone who thinks Facebook is going to do "a job that is good for customers". I do believe they're going to a pretty _effective_ job of serving their own interests.
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by scubbo 3y ago
Fair point well made!
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by scubbo 3y ago
Life doesn't care how I feel, but _I_ do; and I want to live life in a way that makes me (and the people I care about) feel good. Empathy, imagination, and innovation are important for that - and fiction helps feed those.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> The conclusion was self-evident before they ran the experiment, so another criticism that could be leveled at the experiment was that it was redundant. "It's just common sense" is not a solid scientific proof. Testing so
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by scubbo 3y ago
Eh, I can squint and see that as a special-case of moving your head to another ref - the `-b` merely flagging "if this branch doesn't exist, create it instead of erroring".
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by scubbo 3y ago
> it was kind of rude to send a text to people while they are probably sleeping Not the point of the article, but this is a personal bugbear of mine - no it wasn't. Text-based communication is asynchronous. It's rude to _expect
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by scubbo 3y ago
Conversely, Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds awesome if you don't know what either of those things are.
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by scubbo 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
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by scubbo 3y ago
I'm a native English speaker and I have no idea what this is supposed to mean (other than a reference to performing fellatio on a homosexual)?
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by scubbo 3y ago
Granted - but the original claim was that "it feels weird that so many tools get hidden inside libraries", and I'm asking for an example of more than one of these "so many".

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