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by tombert 6mo ago
Back in 2015 I worked for a startup. I turned down a job at a more stable company because this startup had me doing Erlang and I really wanted to work with that. The job worked fine for about six months, and then one week my paycheck (whic
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by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, it's something I think about a lot. I have a smartwatch, I like it just fine, but I kind of think that smartwatches are actually pretty bad at being a watch. I had a Casio G-Shock for about a decade that I wore nearly every day
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by tombert 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure that will be true with AI as well. No accounting for taste, but part of makes code hard for me to reason about is when it has lots of combinatorial complexity, where the amount of states that can happen makes it difficu
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by tombert 6mo ago
I suspect if people saw the handwritten code of many, many, many products that they used every day they would be shocked. I've worked at BigCos and startups, and a lot of the terrible code that makes it to production was shocking whe
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by tombert 6mo ago
Given that two separate people didn't understand the joke, clearly bad communication on my end. I do not accept your "my bad!", and instead insist on it being my bad.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Not as small as The Last Ninja, but when I was a teenager first getting into emulation, I genuinely thought there was a mistake or my download got interrupted when I downloaded Super Mario Bros. 3, because it was only like 500kb [1], and I
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by tombert 6mo ago
I don't know anything about Thom, but I've kind of grown to prefer the pissy opinionated tones of blog posts. I think impartiality is difficult or impossible for a lot of tasks, and I'd rather people lay out their opinions p
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by tombert 6mo ago
It is genuinely hard for me to say anything completely seriously and without an abundance of sarcasm. My therapist says it might be an avoidance mechanism that I devised as a kid in order to avoid confronting serious topics. There probably
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by tombert 6mo ago
Many (the majority?) companies are not public, so even if I agreed with your point about publicly traded companies that doesn't really change my point, since we could very easily (without it being contrived) limit ourself purely to the
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by tombert 6mo ago
Even if that were the case, then it shouldn’t be in Git. It’s a build artifact. You of course don’t have to do CI to generate on every push. You could just emit it manually and push the code to S3 or something. I feel like the semantics of
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by tombert 6mo ago
Clearly poor communication on my end; I was joking about the billion dollars. My bad. I was just saying that I am too much of a coward to actually even attempt to make my own business.
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by tombert 6mo ago
I was being a bit joking and hyperbolic about the billion dollars, though obviously that wasn’t communicated clearly. I don’t really need a billion dollars. I don’t think anything I have right now is very monetizable; most of the fun stuff
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Stop Pushing AI Generated Code to Git(blog.tombert.com)
5 points by tombert 6mo ago|2 comments
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by tombert 6mo ago
When I've applied for jobs and done salary negotiations, I try pretty hard to find out the max I can get using as many variables that I think are relevant (e.g. years of experience, previous companies I've worked for, projects I&#
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by tombert 6mo ago
I think that's why they had 'free' in scare quotes.
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by tombert 6mo ago
I've considered it myself; I don't want to make a business doing contract work again, because I did not enjoy that. If I were to start my own business it would have to be a product. I have plenty of interesting projects that I wo
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by tombert 6mo ago
That's why I changed as well. I got really irritated how Altman tried to get the social credit by having principles, only to change them the moment it was convenient.
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by tombert 6mo ago
It's clearly because they didn't hire me after I applied :) In all seriousness, I use Codex for work and Claude at home, and I feel like nowadays they're actually pretty competitive with each other. I don't know that it
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by tombert 7mo ago
My current job was done via a connection, but every previous job has been through spamming my resume to every job I'm even remotely qualified for and/or I find interesting. I have a degree now, but I dropped out of college the fir
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by tombert 7mo ago
Oh I only use distros that are declarative like NixOS. I've run Arch in the past and I liked it just fine, but they are ultimately different than how I like running my computer.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've been running NixOS for awhile, which is very firmly integrated with systemd. I wonder if it's time to try something like sixos or Guix SD.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, that's the thing; once you have a billion dollars, you are set for many lifetimes of extremely comfortable living. Allowing a single person to suffer while you have more wealth than you can spend in a dozen (or more) lifetimes
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by tombert 7mo ago
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Interesting. I submitted mine.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Often I'm not even entirely convinced they know a lot about their own business either. It seems like the ones who make the cartoonishly large amounts of money are the ones who got lucky to hire decent people early on.
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by tombert 7mo ago
It says a lot that he thinks that empathy is the greatest human weakness. One of many, many, many stupid things he's said.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I was allowed to use calculators when I started algebra in seventh grade. I found that calculators didn't help all that much once you got into symbolic stuff. They were useful for the final reductions, obviously, but for algebra the l
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by tombert 7mo ago
It's the typical Microsoft playbook, where they release a product and convince everyone that it has to be used everywhere, and by the time people realize how unbelievably terrible the product is it's too late and it has entrenched
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by tombert 7mo ago
I have trouble trusting anything run by Microsoft, and in particular anything run by LinkedIn considering it is the absolute worst site that I have to use. Microsoft has lied in the past about what information that they do and don't st
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by tombert 7mo ago
There was a time that Eclipse was my preferred editor. It was free and it gave cool sexy features that all the cool kids who could afford Visual Studio had, and it worked on Linux! Nowadays I'm basically a Neovim purist, but I have po

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