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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
They probably mean that they installed the app, used it for a little while, and then, forgot about it.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
Here's a neat trick: Section 174 US tax code changes make purchasing a SaaS license a better deal than building in house. So do the R&D in a jurisdiction like India where the you can still deduct 100% of R&D under section 35. A
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
Those types of card numbers are detectable though.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
Getopt and its brethren in other languages are starting to get long in the tooth. Modern CLI tools need more flexible parsing.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
This makes me so glad I quit FAANG to run my little lifestyle business. It's so much less stressful.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
As opposed to the way SpaceX does it? Let huge rockets blow up over active airspace? This looks like a bunch of college kids building small little rockets. I'm probably taking a much bigger risk walking on the street, where I live in I
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
From the blog post: "Pro tip: just take your time and design the O-ring system properly. Trust us — you don’t want to gamble with hot gases and bad seals." I think NASA may have learnt that lesson in '86.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
True. I'm not so sure about this. But the pure imported hardware cost is probably just a few 10s of millions, maybe 100 million or so. For office alone. It's the cost of setting up and running the data centre that costs money. Thi
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
The cost of laptops etc. is not even a rounding error in the cost of making Microsoft Office. The biggest two costs are labor and nowadays, compute for AI.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
True. But I'm not measuring their performance relative to their estimates. I'm measuring performance relative to their peers and their previous performance. So giving me a padded estimate won't make much of a difference. Obvi
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I'm the 'pointy-haired' boss and I usually don't take my engineering teams estimates at face value. I've learned to multiply the estimates to know when I can reasonably expect something to be completed. The multipl
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I'm 52. I absolutely love building software find customers for it and building businesses on serving them. It's the most intellectually challenging and financially rewarding thing I can think of for myself. And programming is one
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I think they also fingerprint the browser. So changing user agent alone won't help.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
The way I look at it is that if I am an expert in a field that the LLM is not likely to know much about, then I have a competitive advantage.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Very interesting! I was on another thread where the user stated that they preferred the git CLI to using a git GUI, because the GUI imposed another layer of conceptual complexity on top of an already complex tool. May I ask what git GUI you
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Huh. That's exactly my experience. I suspect that its a combination of three things: first, they are not frequently used, second, their CLI is very complex, third, their design violates normal CLI conventions in weird ways. I don'
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
It was my first computer. We lived in India, and importing it into the country was a huge deal in the 80s. Programming on it felt magical. Even taught my self Z80A assembly language to wring the maximum out of the machine. It determined the
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I'm usually contractually obligated to destroy all client IP that I may posses at the end of an engagement. My contracts usually specify that I will retain engagement specific information for a period of six months beyond the end of th
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
This is exactly the problem I face with many tools, Makefiles, KVM setups, docker configurations, CI/CD pipelines. My solution so far has been to create a separate repository with all my notes, shell script example programs etc, for th
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I have 3 machines at my desk (with 3 monitors) one running Ubuntu, (and a bunch VMs) one with Windows 11, and a Mac. They use the same keyboard and mouse, and I can move my mouse cursor and keyboard focus across the three OSes easily (I use
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Thank you for this. C++ should NOT try to be Rust. I find modern C++ really nice to program in, for the work I'm doing - 3D graphics. The combination of very powerful abstractions and excellent performance is what I'm looking for.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I commit often. But I stay away from IDE/Editor implementations of git (vcs commands) in general. It is not always obvious from the UI what is going to happen. And I'm very familar with git and it's internals. While I think
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Thank you. That actually was helpful. In print it might have been legible, but on a blackboard that would been difficult to read.
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I agree. It's not big deal. The Russian team can just fork the kernel, and manage it under their own legal structures. It's really not that hard. Indeed CentOS was maintained by just one person for many years. It's not a big
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
This is a bit of a misconception. The US need never formally default on its dollar obligations, as it can simply print dollars. It will never be in formal default, although, it would effectively have defaulted by inflating its debt away. T
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Delivering Safe C++ (2023)(youtube.com)
3 points by sumanthvepa 2y ago|0 comments
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
Of all the languages I use C/C++ have the least need for paid tools. I use emacs(and vim), make and Boost's b2 build system for most of my programming. Although on Windows, Visual Studio is a joy to use. On Linux I use gdb. Works
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
To a first approximation, avoid using raw pointers. They should almost never be needed in application code. Use C++'s standard library facilities for smart pointers and containers instead. They are masterpieces of engineering, and work
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
I program in C++ and am very happy to do so. Modern C++ is very safe and actually fun to program in. It gives me enormous expressivity, extraordinary performance and safety when I need it. I'm not building space shuttles, I'm buil
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by sumanthvepa 2y ago
My mom is a developmental economist. She exclusively uses Stata, inspite of a decade of efforts on my part to introduce her to R and R studio. My conclusion is that she views the tools as equivalent, and merely incidental to her work, and d

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