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by sgarland 2y ago
> Double quotes in particular are a ridiculously overloaded piece of punctuation. Pythonistas everywhere: how dare you.
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by sgarland 2y ago
> Personally, I can’t deny that seeing someone doing work with their own two hands feels more authentic and true to me. I find the idea of others in my field who have never experienced physical labor very strange to consider. I fully agr
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by sgarland 2y ago
1000% to all of this, but especially this: > I've had a very successful career considering my origins, and I attribute a lot of that success to that fact I hold myself strongly accountable in a way that is rare, both in my generatio
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by sgarland 2y ago
I had not heard of Captain Schratz until now, but what I did find of him [0] makes me think that he may have had it out for Rickover: > During [the 1960s], Schratz believed, he lost his opportunity for major command because he published
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by sgarland 2y ago
You and I are fully aligned with your example bugbear, fellow Bubblehead.
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by sgarland 2y ago
I'm a former USN Submariner, Nuclear Electronics Technician, and served from 2006 - 2016. Boy do I have some thoughts. Not all quotes here are from TFA, some are from various speeches he gave. > Free discussion requires an atmospher
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by sgarland 2y ago
To this day, I write tar options with no dash, simply because I can. `tar cvzf foo.tar.gz ./foo` I would never write a new program with this option, but I do find it a delightful historical oddity.
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by sgarland 2y ago
Oh, that may be entirely possible. Yeah, I don't use the reader at all. For one, I hate reading books on a computer. For two, agreed, its UI isn't great. I'm entirely referring to its use as a library manager / ebook con
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by sgarland 2y ago
> Permanent deletions use a "recycle" symbol So does Windows. > while download cover and input options share a downward chevron icon This may be version-specific to be fair; I checked 7.8 and the latest, 8.0.1, and the two i
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by sgarland 2y ago
> icons are beyond meaningless What? How? “Add Books” is a book icon with a plus sign. “View” is a magnifying glass. “Remove Books” is a recycling symbol. “Preferences” is the usual settings-esque gear icon. “Device” is an e-reader. “Sen
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by sgarland 2y ago
Because it’s never going away, and it’s always going to be there. It is the lowest common denominator. Also, a shell script generally doesn’t have any other dependencies (modulo writing one that calls jq or something). No risk of solver h
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by sgarland 2y ago
The odds that that person will also understand or care about normalization, let alone the performance characteristics of their RDBMS and how their schema decisions affect it, are close to zero. I’ve spent enough time watching devs have acce
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by sgarland 2y ago
I’ve also been guilty of insisting on this, even when, as you point out, most tooling doesn’t strictly follow it anyway. I think it’s an overreaction from being irritated at seeing app after app fall to “now including AI,” or just pivoting
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by sgarland 2y ago
Because if you haven’t auto-formatted, lined, etc. then it’s a very easy way to do that so you don’t waste time watching CI fail for something stupid like trailing comma placement. I don’t want to think about formatting, I just want everyth
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by sgarland 2y ago
My favorite is when they post an absolutely massive error message, most of which is utterly unrelated, but also the answer to their problem is contained within it.
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by sgarland 2y ago
Shell is a very real language, and it has a debugger; it’s called set -x and/or strace.
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by sgarland 2y ago
Maybe people should get better at shell, instead. Read the bash / zsh manual. Use ShellCheck.
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by sgarland 2y ago
> I'm kinda used to it now, but I'm not convinced it's any better. It’s demonstrably worse. > The base knowledge of POSIX/Linux/whatever was almost completely useless. Guarantee you, 99% of the engineering tea
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by sgarland 2y ago
Fair point, but random write IOPS is still usually around 500K.
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by sgarland 2y ago
If you're careful and you know what you're doing, sure. A much more impressive speed boost is to not use Aurora. "Let us separate storage and compute with a minimum latency of 1 msec," said no sane person ever. Go spin u
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by sgarland 2y ago
With nearly all DBaaS, and _especially_ Aurora, as TFA mentions, the storage is also on the network, so it's moot.
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by sgarland 2y ago
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted; those are legitimate complaints if you’re coming from Windows. I felt the same way years ago, when I switched (2014-ish). What about Finder do you not like? It’s pretty customizable. Also, I use Spotli
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by sgarland 2y ago
It would also cut into MBP sales, I’d think. They’re always going to want to maintain product differentiation.
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by sgarland 2y ago
If you’re buddies with higher-ups, they absolutely can and will look upon your projects with a softer eye. There’s a limit, of course, and that heavily depends on the company culture, but it’s unreasonable to expect favoritism to not factor
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by sgarland 2y ago
> the bytes object returned by mitmproxy's API (`body: bytearray = bytearray(flow.response.get_content(strict=False) or b"")`) is immutable Byte objects are immutable, but bytearray objects are not.
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by sgarland 2y ago
I made the mistake at a job once of getting a 16”. They offered both, and I figured why not go big? Except most of the time, it’s docked, so not like I need the screen, and when I have to travel, it’s difficult. Learned my lesson; never aga
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by sgarland 2y ago
That is impressive, but I’m also extremely sold on ARM viz. Apple Silicon. I haven’t touched a Windows laptop in years. The only thing that feels as snappy is my gaming desktop, and I would wager that my M4 Pro could probably beat it in pur
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by sgarland 2y ago
Those people are also dead weight. I despise the fact that I have to play politics at work. Work should be based on results, period. Spending time politicking is not producing results; at best, it’s eventually producing via cajoling what co
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by sgarland 2y ago
Imagine refuting the idea that people are incapable of self-management.
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by sgarland 2y ago
…is 14”. It is the perfect balance between portability, weight, and screen real estate. I’ve tried 13”, 14”, 15”, and 16”. 14” is where it’s at.

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