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by tetha 1y ago
I dislike "everyone can learn to program" because it conflates many, many levels of skills and expertise. I very much think many people could learn the more advanced Excel Formulas, Power Automate and even simple Bash/PowerSh
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by tetha 1y ago
Yeh, I've been tinkering around a year with a Bevy-competitor, Amethyst until that project shut down. By now, I just don't think Rust is good for client-side or desktop game development. In my book, Rust is good at moving runtime-
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by tetha 1y ago
Hmm, PEP-787 has some interesting discussions around it. I'll have to sort my thoughts on these aspects a bit.
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by tetha 1y ago
I would say python in it's entirety is one of, if not the deepest and potentially most complex language I know. C++ is the other contender. The things you could do with metaclasses, multiple inheritance and operator overloading are qui
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by tetha 1y ago
Or you could use this in a library like sh with sh(t"stat {some_file}") With t-strings you could run proper escaping over the contents of `some_file` before passing it to a shell. I'd have to take a look at the order
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by tetha 1y ago
I think those indicate how far off that guess was. I have a dartboard when I guessed the year exactly right, numbers 1 and 3 matching these years off, and a blind man for >10 years off or around there.
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by tetha 1y ago
Mh. Like, I'm deeply impressed what these AI assistants can do by now. But, the list in the parent comment there is very similar to my mental check-list of pair-programming / pair-admin'ing with less experienced people. I gue
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by tetha 1y ago
At the end of the day, we were worried about exactly these issues - if an application has to reload certs once every 2 years, it will always end up a mess. And the conventional wisdom for application management and deployments is - if it&#x
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by tetha 1y ago
I will. We've been betting Postgres connectivity for a few hundred applications on this over the past three years. If this fucks up, it'll be known without me.
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by tetha 1y ago
Our internally provided certs of various CAs have a TTL of 72 hours and should be renewed every 48 hours. It's been a huge pain as we have encountered a ton of bugs and missing features in libraries and applications to reload certs lik
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by tetha 1y ago
Mh, since I just commented about ansible, you just made XML-based ansible flash in front of my eyes. I think I'm in a bit of pain now. <tasks> <ansible.builtin.copy notify="restart minio">
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by tetha 1y ago
I don't recall encountering the norway problem in the wild. Ansible has a pretty common issue with file permissions, because pretty much every numeric representation of a file mode is a valid number in YAML - and most of them are not w
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by tetha 1y ago
> The problem is not that incontrovertible proof cannot be provided real time. Yielding evidence from complex, esoteric systems is always difficult and time-consuming. This is why we've started to write down larger decisions, the re
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by tetha 1y ago
From being in a company with places across all of Europe, I've also found that "heated" means very different things in different places. Like, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but the calm discussion where to get dinner in
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by tetha 1y ago
This is a fairly common technique in compiler construction and programming language research: Don't try to emit some machine code, instead emit C or an IR for clang or GCC. And suddenly your little research language (not that rust is o
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by tetha 2y ago
> You think the sliders ought to be a wider range? With this presentation, I'd think so. Like, your presentation says this is an "order of magnitude estimation". However, the slider of "85 - 125 people on a plane&quot
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by tetha 2y ago
At work, we've also delayed the rollout of bug fixes by a month or three at times. If the customers are in a big Christmas / end of year / event rush, a known bug - that takes a minute to work around - is sometimes preferable
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by tetha 2y ago
In my experience, a big reason why people reach to excel is the simple visualization you can get once the data is in there, more or less validly. This would make either Matlab, or Jupyter Notebooks the bigger competitor. Except another reas
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by tetha 2y ago
This is how I treat it as well by now. I'm not even certain if it's object oriented, or not or hybrid, or not, or whatever. But in a small project at work that's mostly about orchestrating infrastructure components around a
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by tetha 2y ago
We totally have on-call, but we're also weaponizing German labor laws to force the company to have their shit together. There are a few interesting parts in there that cause quite the discomfort for employers: The way contracts are wor
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by tetha 2y ago
Mh. Though, if you have deterministic builds for GCC, imagine how much of a problem some nerd in Northern Washington or Scandinavia with their own strange C build chain would be to inject something strange into these compilers into the buil
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by tetha 2y ago
I've heard the statement "Let's just see if starting with 0 or 1 makes the equations and explanations prettier" quite a few times. For example, a sequence <x, f(x), f(f(x)), ...> is easier to look at if a_0 has f a
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by tetha 2y ago
In most cases I've seen scales similar to this - body cams in security, scanners at postal services and such, the physical part is offloaded to the individuals working with the thing: at the end of the day, you put your thing into a ch
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by tetha 2y ago
Not at a laptop to try this right now, but shouldn't this be possible with the shebang? Something along the lines of: #!/home/tetha/Tools/uv run
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by tetha 2y ago
IMO it's about the question: Does it add utility and value, and does it take away functionality for silly reasons like profitability for someone else? Like, one or two things really make me consider getting into the whole smart home st
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by tetha 2y ago
> There's still rules in TASing, just a different set of rules! Specifically, you have to submit a file containing a sequence of controller inputs that completes the game when played back in an accurate emulator (or a replay device
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by tetha 2y ago
On the other hand, I've grown to like these tools being separate, since it allows the check-tool to move faster. Updating the thing all of your production requests go through always has a bit of aprehension. Updating a config linter wi
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by tetha 2y ago
Yeah, I've also achieved a degree of Zen about things like these. Like, I'm current on-boarding some guys onto linux workstations and linux administration, and honestly, there are many ways of holding the duck and in a lot of situ
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by tetha 2y ago
Hence why I like going by train tbh. A long-distance train (well, long-distance for German standards. Probably grocery-distances in terms of the US standards) reaches the main company office in 5 hours or so, while a flight (including all o
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by tetha 2y ago
Wine runs Civ 2 very nicely these days. It's just a desktop shortcut away for me. All in all it's pretty funny to me how a lot of games from the Win98ish era are now easier to run on Linux than on Windows.

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