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by seer 3y ago
Ha, in Kerela, India my backpack fell off my bike, with cash, passport and laptop inside. 2 hours later when I started searching for it, a couple of ex-military dudes found me on the road - they were looking for me all around on their scoot
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by seer 3y ago
I’ve though I’ve seen all of the xkcd comics and from time to time stumble again at something like this and marvel at how prophetic his work is. Totally off topic, but I just think that the producers of shows like black mirror should just h
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by seer 3y ago
I used to agree 100% with this sentiment, as dissatisfaction with available ORMs at the time (early days of doctrine in PHP) drove me to actually write my own. Turned out an amazing exercise in why orms are hard. Anyway a few years later I
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by seer 3y ago
To be honest Figma gives plenty of tools to solve this problem. With various reusable components, font/color/sizing templates etc. Its reasonably easy to be extremely consistent with your measurements in figma, as long as designer
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Why is university the only place people get educated? I finished a high school that incorporated a few years of the “higher” uni education into our curriculum - like maths and physics and such. Honestly it was quite nice as by that point mo
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by seer 3y ago
Wow that’s such an amazing comment. And explains very well what kafka does and why it’s valuable from a technical perspective, but I wanted to add why it’s valuable from “corporate political” perspective. This is how I usually “sell” kafka
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by seer 3y ago
Hah, I’m too old. Still remember the time when basic http auth was a big thing, and you read articles like “how to do password authentication “dynamically”… I guess its a good thing that people have gone through hype and now are in search f
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by seer 3y ago
Isn’t the ubiquitousness of services like this an actual “cure”? If its easy to make those deep fake nudes and everybody has one, then it will not be as scary and shameful, And we can finally get on with our lives with one less thing to str
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by seer 3y ago
The main (and only) criticism I’ve ever heard about graphql in the companies I worked for was that it is very js-oriented all the best libs/frameworks for it are for react frontend / node server mostly . Backend scala / php
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by seer 3y ago
thing is - with this setup the spec is the code you iterate it as you would your implementation - it just makes sure that the its guaranteed to be correct. What I’ve seen so often (and why I implemented this) was that the spec will be wri
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by seer 3y ago
The most weird thing for me is that there _are_ places in the world where that’s not the case, places where shelter / food / medicine / security are if not solved, at least close to stress free, and why others are not studyin
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by seer 3y ago
Thing is, the marginal cost of kids has shot through the roof. It’s no longer a sensible thing to do - in the horrible times you mention, children were investments - you spend ~ 10years raising them, and after that they worked for you, almo
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by seer 3y ago
Thank you for articulating it, I’ve felt the exact same thing, in both run of the mill flow when coding / gaming / sparring, and the “other flow” you describe in real life threatening situations. For me too, normal flow time speed
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by seer 3y ago
> A side effect of giving names to requests and responses is that it makes the predictions from AIs like GitHub Copilot significantly more effective. Hmm first time I see an api try to cator to AI tools rather than the other way around,
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by seer 3y ago
I think that’s what most people are using it for, but having a single expressive (debatable) language to describe the contract an api offers has soo much potential. GraphQL promised us apis that we can trust - since both the client and th
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by seer 3y ago
I’ve also been using the 5 minute journal on and off for 8? years. Its my tool to get on track if I ever feel emotionally vulnerable / unstable. The act of sitting down and ruminating on what went well during the day, as well as planni
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by seer 3y ago
> Money spent now is worth more than money spent later in more ways than one. This is so true, thank you for expressing this thought so concisely. In my language (Bulgarian) there's a saying "whatever you eat and drink now, nob
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by seer 3y ago
The trade off here assumes a “barely working prototype” is undesirable and only the bug free end result is the goal. Most projects I’ve worked on though, especially in their first few 100k lines of code didn’t really know exactly what pro
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by seer 3y ago
One trick I’ve learned is to strive to never be at the limits of the current architecture. Clear requirements are well understood until they aren’t, most projects I’ve been involved in strongly resembled a factorio game - you build a system
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by seer 3y ago
I remember thinking why didn’t they just use “boat left” or something, but then at the sailing coarse I took, I remember there was a boat heading toward us and I was skippering, had to communicate exactly how I wanted to pass the other ship
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by seer 4y ago
Hah yeah, until you open your mouth - then its usually _painfully_ obvious you’re from Russia. The accent is very distinctive and inescapable. I have the luck to have learned english when I was a kid, alongside another foreign language, so
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by seer 4y ago
Migrating to Schengen is indeed hard (bordering on imposing) to a lot of Russians, but that’s not the only nice place in the world. For example India right now is quite accepting of Russian immigrants - the place is full of them. There are
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by seer 4y ago
I’ve been watching https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html and they seem amazing so far, literally go to gpt from basic math and programming - he first codes the libs from scratch to show you how the internals work, and only
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by seer 4y ago
As someone who recently experienced hanoi traffic as both pedestrian and motorcyclist - I can attest that it can be scary, but after a certain learning period not that bad. The big problem there was the lack of sidewalks for pedestrians so
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by seer 4y ago
Hah I just quit my job a few days ago, for other reasons - mostly wanted to have a sabbatical, but looking at what ML does and its future, its clear to me I need to at least understand how all of those pieces work so I can employ the libs
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by seer 4y ago
Modern banks like Revolut have this as literary part of their UI. They use some simple ML to figure out which are you recurring payments, place them in a separate folder for you to keep tabs on and allow you to unilaterally stop any “future
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by seer 4y ago
Funny, this feels like the plot from Don’t look up. On the less humorous side it would probably be pretty hard to impart enough delta-v to capture it.
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by seer 4y ago
I feel like frontend work has some unique characteristics as opposed to hardcore backend one, at least for me. I feel like the parts of the brain that deal with visual and the analytical are not overlapping much so if I alternate between t
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by seer 4y ago
A bit off topic I know, but as a night owl till my mid 30s I actually managed to flip to an early bird. Maybe it was just a fluke or something and this is totally anecdotal but what I think happened is for about 3-4 months I was doing a phy
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by seer 4y ago
Yeah sure, tell that to all the obsolete nation states living on the border of Russia. Who is gonna protect you if the next village town or city decides your individual property is somehow theirs and they have the means and will to enforce

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