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by skydhash 3mo ago
I would say: Never solve problems for people you don’t know. First solve for yourself. Then solve for people in your community. Someone reaching out with a suggestion is more valuable than bazillion of analytics.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> I can now have a fully scalable SAAS with clients for iOS, Android, mac, linux, windows and web-based, user documentation in several languages and a suite of unit tests. Which you won’t be brave enough to put on the internet.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> I’m able to spin up test harnesses, write throw away glue code, test against large datasets, eTc It seems that I don’t like coding when I read these kinds of statements. If I’m doing an experimentation, it would be a few lines at most.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Work as long as you’re the only one (or the few) in town. Nad giving it for free (or nearly free). I have Cursor and when I use it, I keep it to auto, never caring about which model I use.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> The reason I say this is because for music, the criterium should be whether the music is good or bad, not who made it The first thing I do when I find a nice track is to lookup the album and the artist. I may not like all the tracks on
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> However, I do have an issue with his focus on applying science in the definition, even though it doesn't come across in his final conclusions I don’t think it’s about science. It’s about the scientific method. From wikipedia T
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by skydhash 3mo ago
I think engineering is about norms and regulations. Creating solutions for problems can be done in a very wide spectrum, but the restricted window where you try to respect books of rules is what people call engineering.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Most tasks we use computers for are deterministic and was coded for that specific quality. Introducing nom deterministic behavior is lowering the value of the app, especially for power users.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
I use Emacs and ripgrep with the deadgrep plugin[0]. Emacs does have the `rgrep` command but the plugin presents a nicer interface. With no Emacs, I use `ripgrep` (sometimes with fd for the file candidates) and `less`. I only bother with LS
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by skydhash 3mo ago
You can easily implement dark mode in a toolkit, you just add the new colors and switch based on the user preferences. The issue is that a lot of apps hard coded colors against the light background of the widgets. If you can find a solution
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by skydhash 3mo ago
The web was for hyperlinked documents (and forms?). And it’s still does the job beautifully. It was never an UI toolkit.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
This behavior is how you get: > user X reported an issue on the trial balance page, they encountered a blank page when using the inception to date filter. It’s whack-a-mole with bugs.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
If you have ever endured the pain of bad code and cumbersome architecture when trying to fix a bug or implementing a feature, you start to be adverse to anything that increase the likelihood of it happening. Most people that happily use the
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> A trained runner on a bike is faster than a trained runner. Not true if they kept going the wrong direction.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> Why don't you switch to CDs then? Something is telling me this isn't quite the full story I don’t have a CD player. I do have a local library (decently sized) which contains the album I truly like. I play that from my home th
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by skydhash 3mo ago
I separate my learning into “understanding/” and “skill”, the latter being the applied form of the former. I don’t really buy books for the latter, and the former may not be always in book form. IE6 hacks are skills. The real understan
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by skydhash 3mo ago
The middle path is people that know that to scout around, you hack quick paths. Then you document your new learning, plan the best road, and then build enough for the actual journey. Every now and then, you go back and adjust everything to
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by skydhash 3mo ago
The risk of hiring a hunan is easy enough to manage. Ensure that the process is documented and new hires are trained. Any disturbance by someone leavingg is then smoothed out in the long term. Can you show us how it’s better to use an AI to
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Most people are not against AI getting better per se. They’re about AI boosters not able to prove their outlandish claims. We’ve seen a lot of claims over the years substituting one metric (amount of code written) for another (useful code p
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it. But does your world stop when the phone is out of power? And does every task require a roundtrip to
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by skydhash 3mo ago
I’m fine with old books. Just bought a bunch including “The TCP/IP Guide” and “The Linux Programming Interface”, which are more than a decade old. The oldest is “ The Design and Implementation of the 4.4Bsd Operating System” (30 years)
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> Anybody have a good coding model (it's whatever language Atmel Arduino uses, by default) that runs on a 5070Ti, best? Atmel Arduino is mostly assembly (rarely used and assembly is generic to everything) and C. But you can’t use th
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by skydhash 3mo ago
With hardware, there’s a physical element that the management can appreciate, even when they don’t understand every constraint. With code, it’s that nebulous thing where the only thing visible are pictures on the screen. Trusting engineers
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Mostly constraints. You put yourself in a situation where you lack something and then you try to solve that problem. The whole “receiving fish” and “having to learn how to fish”. Also putting yourself in a room where you’re the ignorant one
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Currently, I’m trying to learn more about the technology I use (Computer organization, OS, codebase of various software), some advanced topics that I really like (distributed systems, compilers, control of dynamic systems), and refreshing m
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Because engineering is where ideas get materialized in reality. And reality has a surprising amount of constraints, unlike imagination. It’s “draw the rest of the horse” turned to eleven.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> In reality, everything—networking, databases, browsers—has become so much harder than in the old days. When I first learned computers, it was opening Notepad, creating an HTML file, and loading it. These days, people start with Python.
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by skydhash 3mo ago
Not GP. But a decade ago, my brother’s car didn’t have bluetooth. We burned down a few mixes on CD and that was ok for long trek during town. He replaced that unit but we still used those CD from time to time. It was simpler than deciding w
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> the radio turns on instantly and start playing music, no things that have to boot Currently my bane with the smart TV I have. Takes so long to boot and to wake from sleep that I’d press the power button, go to make my coffee and then g
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by skydhash 4mo ago
> If code reviews are important, where does testing sit? Testing is for general boundaries. If you have a formalized specs, investing in an harness and writing a lot of tests is worth it. But more likely in a corporate system, fully docu

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