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by sshine 2y ago
The thing about Perl developers is they tend to stick around. At the last Perl shop I worked for, the average employment time must have exceeded 10 years. I could say the same of Prolog and 25 year average employments.
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by sshine 2y ago
Not just NixOS. Ubuntu with ZFS creates a snapshot of the system on every `apt install` command. But yeah, it’s pretty great to know that if your system fails, just `git restore --staged` and redeploy.
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by sshine 2y ago
> Rust has stellar tooling I came for the job opportunities. I stayed for the tooling. > Haskell and OCaml are great but after I spent half an afternoon trying to bring in a dependency in a little-more-than-hello-world Haskell prog
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by sshine 2y ago
> make is still needed You mean: I still need make For example, build.rs replaces some uses of a makefile. > build everything that's not just code Have you heard of: Just, Nix, Bazel, Helm, Terraform? Depending on the situati
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by sshine 2y ago
> Rust is much more likely to follow Java's trajectory than OCaml's I'd rather compare Rust to Haskell and Kubernetes. Haskell: - Dozens of handfuls of experts open to remote work. - Lots of aspiring juniors who
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by sshine 2y ago
> the web is dead [posted 3 hours ago on the web] m-hm.
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by sshine 2y ago
> There are two dialects of Rust. One can be written immediately by beginners, the other is for experts. I believe it's more like a spectrum. I'm 3 years into my Rust career. I started with .clone() everywhere. Then I moved o
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by sshine 2y ago
Reposted: 2024-02-20 (3 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446699 2024-02-04 (0 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39251131
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by sshine 2y ago
Thank you for bringing clarity to the conversation. As a fellow anarchist, I tend to forget to ask simple questions like: Who stands to benefit? Probably not poor, misogynist men.
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by sshine 2y ago
That's a fair point. What I meant is that the runtime is arbitrarily extensible at runtime. But I don't assume that people actually do what you describe.
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by sshine 2y ago
I'm going to do something anti-woke and assume that Celeste with the blog Matriarchal Blessing whose profile picture is this: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... -- is a woman.
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by sshine 2y ago
Marketplaces work best when they’re not tied directly to the products, and when they’re not run by Lord of the Flies.
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by sshine 2y ago
> The core should be in rust, verfied in lean, and the runtime should be in guile. Literate programming in org-mode should be a hard requirement. Package management should require patch algebra. Since I agreed with all of these, I’ll a
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by sshine 2y ago
While Emacs is recognisable for its shortcuts, it is hardly a defining feature. Example: Doom Emacs adds Vim shortcuts, and it is still distinctly Emacs. I think of VSCode as “Emacs, but JavaScript instead of Elisp.” That’s one thing I woul
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by sshine 2y ago
Places I’ve switched from LaTeX to Typst: My resume, research papers. Markdown was never a serious contender for my resume, since I want to control the rendering and the layout. Places I’ve switched from Markdown to Typst: Slides. There are
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by sshine 2y ago
In Copenhagen, taxis have taxi-only EV chargers provided by the taxi companies. The police have not yet ventured towards EVs, but as part of doing that, they must build the charger infrastructure to guarantee reliable charging of their flee
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by sshine 2y ago
> about as good as a teenager a suicidal teenager
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by sshine 2y ago
When you feed the engine regexes supplied by users, you don’t want arbitrary code execution or exponential or infinite running times caused by obscure features.
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by sshine 2y ago
My favorite obscure line of TCL: https://github.com/athas/EggsML/blob/master/concieggs/hooks/... A line that contains a regex pattern for matching regex patterns. TCL was chosen here because it
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by sshine 2y ago
Why bother when N=1 is sufficient to solve P=NP?
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by sshine 2y ago
> anyone that goes to such lengths to have kids intends to raise them well By that logic, Jeffrey Epstein would have been the perfect father. Mr. Epstein's goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his ranch. This is argu
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by sshine 2y ago
Yeah, equally disappointed. I know vendors secret stores are better. But what do I do that isn’t vendor-locked and is remotely as simple as environment variables?
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by sshine 2y ago
> people who use Cursor What's Cursor?
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by sshine 2y ago
> As soon as you start writing large enough programs ...or small enough programs! I fought a lot with the borrow checker when I started learning Rust, and then I learned to embrace it. The borrow checker only occasionally bugs me! As I
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by sshine 2y ago
Best book: Snow Crash Best short stories: Borges
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by sshine 2y ago
> <Critical take on Scrum> That’s not real Scrum!
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by sshine 2y ago
His SLAs are probably fine. The hidden cost is the time he spends. However, if running computers are your business, spending time on getting money is called having a job.
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by sshine 2y ago
> someone didn't want to pay what it costs to do redundancy in AWS Seems a little pointless to pay a premium on everything else then.
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by sshine 2y ago
uBlock Origin Lite has 600k downloads on Chrome, a 4.4/5.0 review score, and it was released quite recently. It is, essentially, uBlock Origin for ManifestV3, so if the author confused it for uBO, it wouldn’t be very wrong. tl;dr: It i
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by sshine 2y ago
I know someone my age (mid-late 30s) who is a COBOL programmer for a bank. He's been that for ~5 years. I don't think it's going away any time soon.

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